Wall to wall carpet!

[Delphinus]

They weren't in the same tank until last weekend. I pulled the brown guy out of my 75 because it was taking over the entire left hand side. Now the fish have a tiny bit more space to swim in there, the corals aren't getting stung, and the clowns are acting like they're in heaven since their territory essentially doubled.

Bev, they seem to be touching without consequence. I had a suspicion they might be OK but I polled on RC to be sure and did find a few precedents where this species was kept with others of its own kind and seems to be OK.

There are BTA's in this tank as well at the moment and they do look a little sulky since the move. I will likely need to pull them out of there for the long run. I'll keep my eye on it, they seem to be getting better as the week goes on, but there was a definite reaction initially.

[MobyDick]

nice..I like the color.

[danny zubot]

I haven't seen shag like that since my parents place back in '82.

[Joe Reefer]

Does the CC star bother the anemones at all?

[Delphinus]

They don't seem to..

I have a bunch of hydroid-rocks in this tank and the intention was to see if they'll clean the rocks.

They do sort of clean the tank, I don't really have any snails in this tank other than maybe a few Stomatella. But they don't seem to go after the hydroids.

To be honest I'm not sure what they're eating. Occasionally I'll try to feed them some mysis by placing some under them but they don't seem to eat the ones I give them. Maybe I need to offer bigger pieces (shrimp or prawn?). I've had them at least 6-8 months now if not even longer and I've never really seen what they eat. I hope I'm not starving them..

I also have a cowry in this tank that I have suspected of munching on soft corals, zoos, etc. in the past. Since moving the cowry into this tank from the other, suddenly clove polyps, a few remaining single zoo polyps, that were just "hanging on" before, have started popping out of nowhere and growing. So this tank is I guess the home for all my "non reef tank suitable" creatures.. it will be the coral-less tank.

I put an urchin in there this morning, and it occured to me afterwards that I don't know if that will be a problem or not (with the CC stars). Hopefully not. If there is, hopefully I can move the urchin over to another tank in time.

[EmilyB]

I have found that not all chocolate chip stars are created equally, but mostly this is what my big boy does. And no worries about urchins.

[Delphinus]

Thanks for the tip! One of the CC stars was on the nori stick within 5 minutes of me putting one in that tank.