The amount of little critters that crawl all of over the rock and glass. My bigger tank has been running for awhile with mature rock, I only recently added one fish, so the "buggies" have been reproducing to epic proportions. I need to figure out a lid situation before I add the wrasse and mandarin on my list. :::wink wink nod nod:::: Cant wait to watch them go to town and get big fat bellies.
Some people would disagree about it being "cool" but the other day I looked in my tank and saw the first Asterina starfish in this tank. Ok, so nothing new there, pretty much everyone ends up with them eventually, right? The cool part was the wiR of this guy! He was over an inch across.
Tag #1: @tbrown could use these for the new tank he just won. with his luck, he'll probably win these, too. Hahahaha
This is a tough one, but I'd have to say that, in recent memory, it would be a large feather duster reproducing asexually in my fuge and splitting into two.
It wasn't terribly expensive, but it was heartbreaking, none-the-less. I had a melanarus wrasse jump through the feeding port of my old mesh lid. He subsequently landed on the netting and cooked under the lights.
When i first converted my freshwater monster tank over to a reef the malaysian trumpet snails i had (a freshwater pest snail), all started breeding and surviving in the saltwater until i added some fish!
Top Lids seems to have everything one would need that goes with a lid; not to mention the variety of custom work they do. Just saw on their Insta they did cutouts for mangrove branches on a customer’s tank! So my little brain can’t imagine what else. LoL
It was in my first tank 3 yrs ago. I had purchased some CUC snails, including Nassarius. It was a day or two in and I went to feed the fish their pellets and lo and behold, these magnificent creatures burst out of the sand like a submarine surfacing and proceeded to glide with incredible speed across the sand looking for tidbits. I was fascinated with the fact that they could smell the food within seconds and every day I fed, and they surfaced, I continually was delighted.
Great photo to get all 3 posing for the cameraPrompt #1 Bonus:
Here's a pic of my Ornate Leopard ("The Wrassetafarian") hanging out with my Convict ("Pootie Tang").
The coolest surprise was finding a nearly inch long stomatella snail in my SPS tank. Unfortunately he was the only one and seems to have died. To counteract that I think the same load of coral had a frag with one aiptasia nem on it. I tried and tried to kill it but it spread and now they are everywhere. I'm thinking of getting a filefish since neither the berghia nor the peppermint shrimp I've added seem to have survived.
Wrasse!
