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Would have been a nice center piece?

Def worth trying to get one under a microscope.

Quite the haul…

Hmm -contagious?

Ha ha - it’s actually white -fluffy? Idk

So far there are only two and not assholes yet. If they stick around long enough we will see. I haven’t had anthias in a long time and I can’t recall how long the last ones stayed around for. If these go belly up then I will prob give up on them.

Can anyone identify what this might be on the anthia ? Fluke maybe -looks like an “open sore” -sorry for the lousy pic Fish seems to be doing ok though..

Ok @Thales I have your next project- https://apple.news/APtGMIRzMSQK-rL0RdRJetw

In terms of “water clarity” what is it testing?

ChatGPT says leopard wrasses eats them. That was news to me too. As to the type-not sure- I think it’s an ornate that I have This google search says that some wrasse do eat them. Possible yours does not, or it eats a few and keeps the population down but not entirely extinct

Ok -I guess leopard wrasse eat them too- and I have one..

Well I don’t have any of those..and no stars anymore which is ok

Not to hijack the thread here but curious -use to have a bunch and now they are all gone. Can’t recall when they disappeared but they did…. What would cause them to vanish?

Very cool.

Dwarf angel for sure-they look pretty neat and do a great job on algae.

How do you manage a .1 in PO4 & 76 in NO3 -that’s impressive -

Hmm -maybe I missed the white film. Dose TM bacto balance which is essentially 25% ethanol alcohol. Working but def kicks the PH in the shins. Hope to get some macro algae back in sump to get PH back up & reduce the carbon dosing a tad.

How can you tell when the culture gets going though?

Carbon dosing does work - I do it with tropic Marin’s bacto balance -just know it really does suck up nitrates pretty fast. In fact I need to dose nitrate to keep it back at 5-6 I am doing for PO4 reduction.. your phosphates will also reduce but not as much as nitrates

I have seen filefish go to task- amazing! Also the biota Molly miller blenny works too. However it takes awhile for it to get big enough to mow down the bigger aiptasia.