A couple of new additions to the cube

Sugar Magnolia

Sugar Magnolia

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I posted this over at CF and RC so I thought I'd share with you guys too.

I picked up a couple of new critters to put in the cube. This little true perc caught my eye while I was at the Marine Scene over the weekend, and when I went back today to pick up an item I had forgotten it was still there, so I bought her.



Cool spots on either side of her body. More than likely, they'll fill in as she gets older, but I thought it was pretty unique looking. I'm hoping she finds the small xenia colony and takes to that. My bicolor blenny nipped at her a few times, then quickly lost interest and my neon goby tagged along near her for a while checking for parasites, but didn't find any. The watchman goby peered out of his cave to check out the newcomer and my royal gramma, who I expected trouble from, swam out of the rockwork to check it out, them swam behind the rocks again. She seems to be settling in nicely.

I also picked up a mithrax crab to take care of a bit of bubble algae for me. I dropped her in the spot near the rock that is sprouting it and it floated down and started in on the rock. Cool!



For some reason, I can't seem to keep a mithrax crab alive for more than a couple months, so we'll see how this one does.
 
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incysor

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Very cool....Looks much like the pair that's in my 6g. I think they're occelaris though, not true percs.

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Kris

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Oh wow. Your tank has a whole bunch of googly goodness! I love the clown and the shrimp. Hell, I love it all. That clown is amazing.

Tells us more about this stuff please :)
 
Sugar Magnolia

Sugar Magnolia

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Hey B...I was told by someone over in the clown/anemone forum at RC that the clown will probably keep it's misbar pattern. He said that at this age, the bar formation is pretty much complete. I sure hope it does. I really like the spots.

Kris, I really do need to split those things up. The oranges started with two on the rock, there's now four and the blues that were only one are 3 or 4 along with some blue zoos. I'll let you know whenever I get around to doing it. I've got someone else who wants some too.
 
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incysor

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SM, I pretty much expected the misbar pattern to remain to some extent, it was just such an extreme misbar on them that I couldn't see them growing into 'normal' patterning. When I got them the spot was distinctly separated from the stripe on the right side. With the larger of the two I have, the pattern has changed a bit as you can see from the pics where the stripe has elongated enough to touch the 'spot', but that's all that's changed. The smaller one's stripe hasn't managed to touch the spot yet. Neither has grown a full stripe on the left side yet either.

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Kris

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Sugar Magnolia said:
Hey B...I was told by someone over in the clown/anemone forum at RC that the clown will probably keep it's misbar pattern. He said that at this age, the bar formation is pretty much complete. I sure hope it does. I really like the spots.

Kris, I really do need to split those things up. The oranges started with two on the rock, there's now four and the blues that were only one are 3 or 4 along with some blue zoos. I'll let you know whenever I get around to doing it. I've got someone else who wants some too.
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Sounds good. Im not looking for alot, just a few different colors here and there of each, nothing fancy.
 
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