Stolen spotlight: Do you ever find that you are surprised by something you didn’t notice in your tank?

Do you ever find that you are surprised by something you didn’t notice in your tank?

  • Regularly

    Votes: 31 19.6%
  • Sometimes

    Votes: 89 56.3%
  • Rarely

    Votes: 29 18.4%
  • Never

    Votes: 2 1.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I find that…*squirrel*

    Votes: 7 4.4%

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Stolen spotlight: Do you ever find that you are surprised by something you didn’t notice in your tank?

Sometimes it seems like my attention with my reef can get surprised, almost like another issue just photobombs my attention. What I mean is that I can get focused on a certain fish or coral that I can overlook other things that are happening in my tank until these issues jump in front of where I am looking. Please let us know if this ever happens to you where another issue in your tank catches your attention when you were working on or watching something else in your tank.

Pro Tip: It is easy to get pulled away from our reef or to get caught up in one aspect of our reef. Whatever is going on in our reef tanks or in our whirlwind lives, it is helpful to step up and “touch” our tanks regularly, and it is also helpful to step back and look at our reef as a whole.

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Photo by Jason Marks, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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I observe/scope tank in morning and evening and rarely if ever find a surprise
 

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Wish I could capture them in a pic. About 3 months ago I started discovering all of these colorful what I assume to be sponges everywhere. Who knows how long they've been there before I noticed? Yellow, pink, green etc!
I agree, it's easy to focus on the big things and forget that we are creating little ecosystems of our own!
 

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Found this guy in my DT about a year ago. He was a bit smaller then.
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Assume he came in on a cuc shell unnoticed. He made his way to the sump through plumbing.
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Tried putting it back in display a couple times, but it always finds its way back to the sump.


So, if he's happy I'm happy. The sump is his.
 

Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles: Do you keep bubble-like corals in your reef?

  • I currently have bubble-like corals in my reef.

    Votes: 50 40.7%
  • I don’t currently have bubble-like corals in my reef, but I have in the past.

    Votes: 15 12.2%
  • I don’t currently have bubble-like corals in my reef, but I plan to in the future.

    Votes: 33 26.8%
  • I don’t currently have bubble-like corals in my reef and have no plans to in the future.

    Votes: 23 18.7%
  • Other.

    Votes: 2 1.6%
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