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Centreville aquarium Blue Ribbon Koi Capital Aquarium Reef escape - though I don't know if they have much frozen food other than Rods.

Here's some info from R2R on reserach to show vets: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/chloroquine-phosphate.192309/#post-2204135

I told her to stop interrupting...

Added a juvenile goldflake angel: Ms. Freckles got jealous of the attention the new guy was getting and decided to photobomb: The semilarvatus are hanging out together more often now:

Thanks! And that's just a little over one year's growth (look back at my post from April 2017). Must really like the high nutrients in my tank It's starting to bother the yellow tipped torch behind it.

I've had 2 different valentinis (and a blue spot puffer) in my reef tank and I never saw them nip at any corals. I don't have great PE on my SPS, but I have other non-reef safe fish in there who are the more likely culprits (bicolor angel or burgessi butteflyfish).

Acros: Tricolor bonsai: True Garf Bonsai (my favorite, but I think it's STN'ing ): These were brown sticks for the longest time and only recently started to color up: PC Rainbow (I think): I think this was epleeds' wild unknown acro:

Montis: I forgot about this purple rim green monti as it was a tiny little frag that was unmounted and fell behind my rockwork. Look at it now: Rainbow monti:

This leather was a tiny little guy for over a year, then all of a sudden got a growth spurt: Torch is out control and I need to frag it: Yellow torch/frogspawn:

Fish: Added a male bartlett's anthias: My valentini puffer (my first tank inhabitant) started losing his eyesight and therefore had difficulty eating. It started to waste away I was able to seamlessly replace him and none of the other fish even noticed.

Sorry, haven't updated this in a while. Here's the latest FTS:

Thanks. I may have to try that out.

Yeah, I have the Two Little Fishies Pouch Feeder, which has smaller holes than the IM Gourmet Grazer and the fish are still able to grab the nori and yank it through the holes.

I've given up on nori clips, pouch feeders, rubber banding nori to rocks, etc. There's no way there is going to be all-day grazing on nori in this tank. I just hand feed it now. Here is a 4x4 nori sheet (folded up) gone in 60 seconds: BTW, who knew cowfish loved nori this much?

Thanks! I got the interrupta from Pacific Island Aquatics.

Centropyge interrupta, my ultimate dream fish. She is at 4-5 inches and quickly dethroned the moorish idol as #2 in the tank (the regal is still the boss). Although not a "perfect" male specimen, I think I actually prefer the female coloration. This may be a bit of a stretch in terms of the yellow theme, but the caudal and pectoral fins are yellow.

Did I read that correctly? $400 for the tank, cabinet, and canopy? Wow, what a steal!

Dutchman's reef has been temporarily closed the last few months. Supposed to be reopening soon. Better call/text before heading over. They don't really carry dry goods/frozen food anyways. They specialize in rare fish that most other LFSes do not normally stock and most of the store is in the back, which you can't see from the front door. Last time I was at reefescape (which admittedly was a while ago), the only frozen food they carried was Rod's food. Blue Ribbon Koi and Centreville aquarium carry more of a variety of frozen food (LRS, PE mysis, etc.)

Added a small semilarvatus to try to pair with the other larger one. Not sure if they are paired up. Definitely no aggression towards each other. They mostly keep to themselves and do their own thing, but they do swim together and hang out together periodically. The little guy is a bit paler than the bigger one, but hopefully with time will color up more. Pardon the dirty tank. Going through a dino outbreak right now Love my butterflyfish "pairs":

Nice! Following.

Try Quantum Reefs in Springfield.

Congressional Aquarium in Rockville and Tropical Lagoon in Silver Spring usually have them in stock. Centreville Aquarium gets them in regularly but they sell out quickly.

Nori feeding time. Pardon the dirty tank. Despite using the Two Little Fishies Pouch Feeder and folding the nori multiple times over each other, the idol and tinkeris yank the nori out of the pouch in no time. Then it's a free for all between the fish, each taking turns yanking the nori out of each others' mouths.

Pellet feeding time: I like how the regal is like, I'll let you guys duke it out at the surface while I eat the pellets down here. These guys act like they are starving but get NLS pellets 2x day, frozen (mysis or reef frenzy) 1x day, nori 1x day, and live blackworms 1x day.

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