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Good luck! I've always liked wrasses.

I kind of put it there for ease of feeding...yes I am somewhat lazy. I usually just squirt mysis at it. Is it ok if not all the polyps get mysis everytime I feed them?

Got some new corals, and update pics: The wrasse took forever to get a picture of...

It seems like you're stocking the tank really quickly if it's only 1 month old.

I'm not sure if they're Astrea, but you shouldn't have a problem with the 6 line. I had baby snails (Stomatella I think) and the 6 line generally left them alone.

I would probably think because the water change water has more ammonia than the tank. Ammonia gets converted to nitrate.

Could be either. I read something about how sometimes they will leave their tubes and aren't able to make another one/aren't able to find their way back. I know some wrasses eat them, not so sure about things like crabs and such though.

Thanks, that's definitely reassuring. He looks a lot better now than he did last night.

He kind of lies on the bottom, so I'm not sure if that means he's really looking for sand. They both just ate, with the wrasse actually eating more ravenously than the gramma. He's kind of swimming around some, but he still has the somewhat flecked scales and goes back onto the bottom once he's done swimming.

If this is the place I'm thinking of their florida aquacultured rock isn't too bad, but I got most of my live rock from Marine Scene and it was really nice rock.

Thanks, good thing I got a cover on the QT. I acclimated him slower than normal if anything. I run a hyposalinity QT out of habit so it might be closeish to the store's. I didn't know flasher wrasses buried themselves in the sand. Does it matter what kind of sand?

Yeah he's in a QT that I keep running just in case anything happens. I checked the parameters a day or two ago and everything was fine. It's a 10 gallon, and theres also a royal gramma in there that I also bought today that seems to be doing fine.

So I got this guy today and he looked perfectly fine in the store. He was in a medium sized tank with two other fish that looked perfectly fine. He was a little slow in the acclimation bucket but was lively when i was putting him in the tank. But now I'm worried. His scales are all flecked and pale, he's been pretty sluggish, and it looks like he was vomiting(if that's even possible). I'll try to get a picture up but he's hiding in a piece of PVC scrap right now so that may not be too easy.

Flamefish and Redstriped Cardinalfish are both pretty and friendly cardinalfish.

They're good scavengers and won't really do any damage, but boy are they ugly little critters.

I think they have that screening in black at home depot.

Yeah, it's at the bottom of the tank. It has a weird frag plug so I'm having issues putting it somewhere. There's no brown slime so I dont think it's the brown jelly disease...

Well, here's part two of my coral woes. I think something's eating the frogspawn. All there is in the tank is two clowns, two neon gobies, a six line, peppermint shrimp, hermits and snails. What could eat a frogspawn?

I dont know, but if you didn't recognize the crab molt, maybe a reef crab is eating the coral. I think theyre called Xanthids.