Fish tales (or should I say tails lol)

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So I've gotten quite a few new fish in the last few weeks, so I thought I should share some pic.'s, give an update & some background info. I also was able to catch (thanks to Bob's aka The Codfather's fish trap) and move my bluefin/black damsel over to the fowlr tank WHOOOOHOOOO! More on that later but 1st some pic.'s & info on the newbies.

I'll start with the reef tank

The first fish I brought home just over 2 weeks ago is my clown tang. I have been wanting another once since I lost my last one to marine velvet. However I had some reservations about mixing my sohal with another clown tang. My old clown tang and sohal got along great but the clown was in the tank 1st. I've been very lucky and my sohal is rarely aggressive so I had been pondering the idea for quite some time. Then Blue World had one but I was going on holidays at the time and didn't want to add a new fish just before I left plus I still wasn't sure if I should take the risk of adding one or not. However when I got back from Mexico and the clown tang was still at BW but with someone else's name on hold for it, it made me very sad. I knew then I wanted one and that wasn't going to change, so when I found one at Marine aquaria a few weeks ago (I hummed and hawed a bit for 4 days) then went back and bought it. For 2 days my sohal let the clown tang know who's boss but after that he left him alone. Now they get along ok with each other.





Another fav of mine that died from MV was my red coris wrasse. BW had one in for a couple of weeks and the day after I bought the clown tang I was at BW and there the red coris was following me around at the front of the glass, looking up at me with his big cute eyes saying please give me a good home. Well who could say no to that...not I



Then last weekend was the garage sale at AI and because he was such a good deal and so cute I got a starry blenny. Ironically my black sailfin blenny chases my starry around more then my sohal and clown tang! Thankfully he doesn't hurt him, he just like to chase him once in awhile.



I'm just another zoa, you can't see me!


And finally yesterday I was at BW and saw these cool looking blackbar chromis. My boyfriend really likes chromis and has been wanting another group of them but I don't care for the plain blue ones, however these guys are cool so I got I group of them.

Big Blue (as I like to call my bluefin/black damsel) got a few nips in before he got evicted, but overall they seem to be ok and I hope they do well.


So that brings everyone up to date on my reef tank. A friend of mine has a purple tang that I plan on getting from him and I have a weakness for wrasses/blennies/gobies (I really like mystery wrasse's) but other then that there will be no more fish for this tank.