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Looking forward to watching this transformation.
![]() If you have read the introduction to my site you will see that I set up my reef tank with keeping wrasse in mind. I have now decided that apart from a goby or blenny the only fish I will keep are going to be wrasse. Hence my latest acquisition, a lovely juvenile Halichoeres melanurus sometimes called Hoeven's Wrasse. At the moment she is only a couple of inches long but will grow to five or more inches and change colour and possibly sex as she matures. Looking forward to watching this transformation.
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Much as I liked my pair of Tomato Clowns it is fascinating to see the changes in my tank after just one week since they have been gone. All three shrimp, my two cleaner and one boxing shrimp, are much more active around the tank. But the most interesting change is in my three remaining wrasse. The Halichoeres timorensis is becoming the dominant fish in my little reef but the Paracheilinus mccoskeri (flasher wrasse) is also displaying more often.
![]() Was in one of the LFS today looking at zoa frags to add a little more interest to my reef. £15 to £20for a small frag with perhaps 3 or 4 heads. Similar prices as on the old interweb. But large rock covered in two different coloured zoas at £40. Decided to go for it. I thought this would be much better value for money if I could get around 6 decent frags. Obviously this would need a deal of careful and delicate work so I went to my tools box and got out the hammer and chisel. Always do my best DIY with a big hammer! And hey presto! My first attempts at underwater photography on the Great Barrier Reef. Not brilliant I know but I am pleased with them.
After coming back to my tank after a month away I decided to bite the bullet and make a few changes.
First of all the Tomato Clowns had to go! Secondly remove a fair bit of the rock work and clean. Remove as much hair algae as possible. It had grown over the month. A bit of an understatement here! Remove more palyzoas. 50% water change. Dead easy, yes? No! Even with a lot of the rock and corals out it took 2 hours to get the clowns out! Not just waiting to see how everything settles down. |
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