They look great. I really liked that pair of spotbreast angels you had before in the Lagoon. Now all you need is Pinky lol.My wife knows just what to get me for our anniversary. This trio is settling in great and already eating the pellets from the auto-feeder.
Solid speculation there, you’re probably right.
Same experience I have had with the Aiptasia Eating File Fish. He mowed down every little on in my sandbed, and there were a lot, but it never even picks at the bigger ones on the rockwork.It's been a while since I posted a FTS and progress report. Still NO water changes on this tank since I set it up.
I had a weird phosphate spike to 0.13 which wiped out a few of my new Battlebox corals, but I've since brought it down to 0.06, aiming for 0.03. Nitrates are a little less than 1, but I'm dosing to keep them from bottoming out. Definitely feel like I've got a really good handle on the right blend of skimming, ats, and filter media rotation periods. SPS appears to be slowly bouncing back, but keeping my fingers crossed on a couple of them.
I guess I should also wrap up my reefdelete review. Overall I don't think it's really worth it. Even with my 3d printed 'trigger' to make it more comfortable to use, it's still a pain to hold it in place for 2-3 minutes. It works well on smaller aiptasia, but working well means that it still takes one 2-3 minute exposure a day for 2-4 days. On larger aiptasia, it really hasn't seemed capable of actually killing them. I've blasted a particularly big one for 5 minutes 5 days in a row, and it definitely wilted and looked dead, but about 8-9 days later it started re-inflating and was back to mostly normal in a few more days after that. I did notice that it seemed like the shriveled aiptasia were easier picking for the nudibranchs, which are still working steadily but slowly. I will probably end up keeping it, so that in my aiptasia free future I can nuke any small ones that may come in on frags, and it might have some utility in the future for keeping the zoas I have planned for the bottom away from the rocks.
For now though I've enlisted the help of this little alien looking guy. So far it appears that he too only likes to eat the small aiptasia, lol;
That’s very cool. I’m hoping to add a pair when I upgrade tank size in the next few months.The largest female has started turning male, and the smaller male is turning back female. It's been pretty cool to watch them slowly swap.
Here's when the stripes first started coming in;
And one week later
The gold stripe is coming in next, it's just barely visible from certain angles.
The smaller male's face markings are coming back, and its stripes starting to melt away. The process of going back to female seems to be significantly slower.
Is that a pair?New arrivals
2 pairs now? WowNew arrivals
