55 Gallon (started 12.26.24)
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.... took this picture in the app, trying it out.
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So far everything is going great. Fish are fat. Originally had moved my breeding pair of Springeri damsels from the 20 gal reef tank to this tank at the beginning of build. I did this so that the bonded pair of clowns could have the 20 gal to themselves. The territorial egg protector managed to stress out a Niger trigger so bad the poor little fella didn't make it. Then when I added the only tang (2 spot bristletooth), I woke up to a hunk missing out of the top of his tail and a chuck of flesh missing from his side, which has taken two months to heal completely. But after the incident with the tang, I moved every rock and recaught those little damsels and put them back with the clowns. 20 gal tank is now happy as well as the 55. I also had gotten a 4 line red sea cleaner wrasse as a replacement for a loss from liveaquaria, I will not be ordering again. two consecutive losses from live aquaria. I really liked that fish and got him to last a week and eat a little. So only two fish losses and 9 currently thriving.
Fish
2 black & white misbar clowns (Amphiprion ocellaris)
two spot bristletooth tang (Ctenochaetus binotatus)
exquisite fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
Starry Blenny (Salarias ramosus)
Neon blue goby (Elactinus oceanops)
Kamohara blenny (Meiacanthus kamoharai)
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
Dragon wrasse (Novaculichthys taeniourus)
Multiple inverts
assorted Porcelain crabs
assorted hermit crabs
coral banded shrimp 2
fuzzy chiton - 1 hitchhiker
cerith snails - east african, stocky, cortez, dwarf
Nassarius vibex and tongan
Astrea snails
brittle stars and asterinas
variety of turbo snails
Bumblebee snails
zigzag snails
trochus snails
I'm sure after a year or two I will upgrade to something larger. The dragon is currently only 4 inches. He hunts and makes mountains and valleys all day. There is actually some GSP in this tank also that was on a rock that I moved.
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Sounds like it is coming along well! Love your wrasse.
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Soooo upset :loudly-crying-face: Just got home from work to find my starry blenny on the floor, dry. :loudly-crying-face: I must find better covering, my own fault, I only have cardboard over part of the tank.....upset
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So I just removed a bristleworm because it was so large I thought it was a bobbit worm. I'm kinda creeped out by it's size and being that this tank is under 4 months old, I think it came in on the rock. I don't think I grew it this large. Any thoughts?? Im posting pics too
Holy moly I knew they got big but hot dang!
This is in a bucket. It's at least 6 inches long. So creepy. Once i got it to drop out of the rock positive ID of bristleworm
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Have rehomed the dragon wrasse 
. He started bullying my other two larger fish. Replaced him with a one inch Aiptasia eating file fish, that has grown amazingly in a matter of 3 weeks
. He started bullying my other two larger fish. Replaced him with a one inch Aiptasia eating file fish, that has grown amazingly in a matter of 3 weeks
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