Sharkbait’s 40 Breeder Upgrade

How is the Flameback Angel doing in the tank?
Flameback’s doing well! Much more tame than my coral beauty, though that could be due to its small size. It sometimes nips at the clownfish and royal gramma, but isn’t persistent.
 
Some of the corals are slowly coming back to life. The psammocora is showing plenty of color again, and the dead leptoseris skeleton is budding!
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Well, when one thing goes right, something else has to go wrong.
My poor little goby was randomly dead this morning. He was eating, swimming, and defending his territory yesterday. What gives??
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My local fish store is closing, so I decided to go there and get some more corals. I also got a new yellow watchman goby, but he’s so small that getting a picture will be tough.
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That sucks. I hate to see local brick and mortar stores shut down. It is so nice to be able to go physically shop for corals and not have to rely on often heavily edited online photos plus have to pay shipping for online orders.

Ps. You should get a lense kit to help get truento life color pics of your corals! I use the orphek kit and have been very happy with it.
 
That sucks. I hate to see local brick and mortar stores shut down. It is so nice to be able to go physically shop for corals and not have to rely on often heavily edited online photos plus have to pay shipping for online orders.

Ps. You should get a lense kit to help get truento life color pics of your corals! I use the orphek kit and have been very happy with it.
I’m hoping they come back eventually (they’ve switched to tank maintenance services and limited online sales). It may be a couple of years though, and at that point who knows what availability in the hobby is looking like.
I’m lucky to have another coral vendor nearby where I can see things in person. I’ve seen enough horror stories about online coral to not want to buy anything expensive.
I should get a lens, but am often too cheap to pay for anything that isn’t living…
 
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I’m hoping they come back eventually. It may be a couple of years though, and at that point who knows what availability in the hobby is looking like.
I’m lucky to have another coral vendor nearby where I can see things in person. I’ve seen enough horror stories about online coral to not want to buy anything expensive.
I should get a lens, just to cheap to pay for anything that isn’t living…
My favorite coral shop closed about a decade ago. The owner was going through a pretty nasty divorce and his ex wouldn't play nice with the business so he had to shut it down. He swore he'd be back, but never followed through. Man, I miss their $5 frag section.
 
It’s been a while since the last update! So ever since the goby swam back into the acclimation box, I kept him there. That is until today when I decided it was time to give it another go! As luck would have it, this time the goby went right into the pistol shrimp’s burrow, and the two seemingly paired immediately! It looks a little funny because the shrimp is way larger than the goby right now!!
 
It’s been a while since the last update! So ever since the goby swam back into the acclimation box, I kept him there. That is until today when I decided it was time to give it another go! As luck would have it, this time the goby went right into the pistol shrimp’s burrow, and the two seemingly paired immediately! It looks a little funny because the shrimp is way larger than the goby right now!!
Awesome! I am glad they paired up for you!
 

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