[fishytime]

little bit of news......a couple of dwarf angels from a canreefer ended up at the shop....a potters and a flameback......I have always wanted a potters and being that this one was from someone's tank made him very attractive......I pmed the guy to see why it was the fish needed a new home, thinking perhaps it was doing some coral sampling.....he got back to me saying that the angels just didnt fit in with the stocking plans for the new tank.....this got me humming and hawing...........problem is I already have a DW coral beauty and the potters is similar in color and size.....I was sure that my CB would jump in the new angel, the question was how bad would the initiation be...I debated for over a week and when I went back to the shop last w/e they were both still there.....I briefly had the stupid idea to take both the potters and the flameback to disperse the aggression that was sure to happen......but I was too chicken to try that......in the end I decided to take the flameback instead.......he got jumped in hard.....and I mean hard, by my CB and my powder blue.....so hard that I had to divide my tank in two with nets to give the poor little guy a couple hours to at least catch his breath from being moved.....I left the nets in until the lights went out and went to work the next day fully expecting to come home to either a thoroughly beat up fish, a floating fish, or a CCC(crispy carpet critter) ......I got home to a flameback out and about, swimming around like he had been in the tank for monthes, with just a couple marks (nothing major) and a CB with a few marks.....I couldnt believe that the little flameback(half the CBs size) took a piece out of the CB......full of pi$$ and vinegar the little guy is, which is probably a good thing all things considered......he's been in the tank for a week now and while there is still some tension between the two angels I think its safe to say that the two should be able to tolerate each others existence.....at least for the time being.....








I liked the dendros that Im babysitting so much that I decided to try my first ever duncan




panda goby.....not the best pic but.....



and one of my porcelain crabs wearing his grand poobah/ marching band conductor type hat