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Speaking of anampses... I saw a tiny 1" juvi caeruleopunctatus at my LFS last night. I wanted to take her home sooo bad. They also had a nice female choati and some beautiful 8 line flashers. I resisted all temptation and my wallet thanked me.
Dang… Maybe choati are going to come back around here soon, hopefully over here we get another shipment of Aussie fish.
 

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Hi All!

I've been on here for awhile and decided it's finally time to create a tank thread. I won't bore you with a back story on how I got into the hobby or when I setup my first tank yada, yada so I'll just skip right to my current tank. I have a RSR 425XL that's been running for almost 2 years. l started the tank with 60Ibs of cherry primo live rock from Live Rock n Reef and 20lbs or so of CaribSea life rock arches. I planned on having wrasses that bury so my sand is a nice mix of Fiji pink and Special grade.

Here are a few pics of its humble beginnings....

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Several different macro algae popped up all over the live rock within a few weeks. One of my favorite things about setting up a reef tank is watching your live rock come to life!

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Every time I get gulf live rock I get some cirolanid isopod hitchhickers. This time was no exception, but I was able to remove most of them daily in my filter socks. However, about 4 months in I had a large isopod attach itself to my H. chrysus (aka yellow wrasse) but I was able to manually remove the isopod from her. I never saw another one after that, thankfully! This guy was also a hitchhiker that came in as a tiny fella but quickly grew and had a taste for ricordea. His name is Sump Crab.
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The ugly phase.... Around this time I got tired of the macro algae invasion so I picked up a Kole tang.

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Despite the Kole tang's best efforts, all he managed to do was rip the algae into pieces which clogged up my MP40s and spread the algae throughout the tank. I ended up removing the Kole tang. The pink macro in this pic was really pretty and it loved being in the flow of my MP40.
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After the Kole tang was gone I picked up a Copperband. Even though she had a voracious appetite she kept losing weight to what I suspect was internal parasites. I pulled her into QT a few times and tried oral metronidazole in her food (I must've had the dose right bc she wouldn't eat it) and 4 rounds of prazi, but sadly she eventually withered away :(

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And of course here are a few early pics of some of my wrasses!

P. attenuatus (aka diamond tail flasher), C. jordani (aka flame wrasse), C. exquisitus (aka exquisite wrasse), H. biocellatus (aka red-lined wrasse) and M. negrosensis (aka black leopard)

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My tank no longer has all of this macro algae. I ended up adding 3 mexican turbo snails - Larry, Curly and Moe. They ate all of it.

Thanks for looking! More to come....
Love sump crab he is very cool looking
 
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Chrysus love! Found a pic of one of mine from a previous tank. He was always trying to eat clown eggs, he's lucky he only got that small chunk taken out of his dorsal lol

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Because they're white like porcelain china not the country.
I never made that connection! Can you explain Freedom wrasse?
 

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Why do you call it china wrasse?
It’s technically not wrong… they are sometimes found off the shore from China and there’s a population in Taiwan, the Philippines and Fiji. Although the main population seems to be From the GBR to New Caledonia.
 
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Whilst we’re on about common names… Guess the common name of this guy! (I’d love a cold water tank that I could fill with our native species… We have a couple cool wrasses round our waters).
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I wish I got a photo of the male I caught when crabbing, he was gorgeous. And then we got mugged by a lobster…
 
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Whilst we’re on about common names… Guess the common name of this guy! (I’d love a cold water tank that I could fill with our native species… We have a couple cool wrasses round our waters).
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I wish I got a photo of the male I caught when crabbing, he was gorgeous. And then we got mugged by a lobster…
Cuckoo wrasse!
 

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Whilst we’re on about common names… Guess the common name of this guy! (I’d love a cold water tank that I could fill with our native species… We have a couple cool wrasses round our waters).
E4EB4900-6A1B-42C1-8E6C-49426F4A58A3.jpeg


I wish I got a photo of the male I caught when crabbing, he was gorgeous. And then we got mugged by a lobster…

My dad is a English fisherman and he suggests:
The peacock wrasse
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Or the Ballan
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