just a couple of observations

[dbacksrat]

I haven't really been paying much attention to my "reef" lately for a number of reasons (work, sleep, laziness, etc)....so after being reinspired at the lfs, I decided to observe my dark tank (a favorite pastime) and noticed a couple of new things--this is the point where half of you will stop reading the post

1) two small white snails with faint tan/brown spots on their shell were spotted grazing (these guys are new...must have been hiding for 3 months)
2) a bristleworm--i had caught a glimpse of this guy a month ago...this is the only one i've ever seen in my tank
3) some sort of brown polyp-like organism (hydroid? anemonia?) feeding in a dark hole in my LR
4) two aiptasia have appeared out of nowhere (can't wait to Joe's Juice em)
5) the macro organism population has crashed (had some nice worms, mysid shrimp, pods, etc) probably because of the addition of my evil but oh-so-cute sixline wrasse
6) my precious emerald crab is MIA (probably because of the sixline)
7) there are more hermit crabs alive than I thought--I guess my wrasse didn't kill em all off
8) cerith snails!!! they live!!! it was assumed that my sixline slaughtered all of them...but I am beginning to see them reappear ever so slowly

I think I have some sort of obsession with micro organisms.....good times over here
my reef is still looking pretty bare--coralline is growing only in certain areas...and the hair algae is surging back

 

[OCCFan023]

Sounds as if that six-line is one evil fish if hes not destorying a pod population hes mutalating a crab or hermit aha. Has your six line ever gone after your cleaner?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

 

[jammerz]

ha haha thats a great pic.....him and the sniper kitty need to duel....

 

[KahluaZzZ]

yeah but posted like this, the kitten is aiming at the wrasse's back. Not fair ;-)

 

[dbacksrat]

nice--I wish I had photoshop

that pic is pretty accurate....OCC, when I was on vacation, the sixline slaughtered both of my cleaner shrimps

anybody know any good sushi recipes?

 

[Henry22]

haha, someone remind not to get a sixline wrasse, sounds like a carnivore. Might be a cool fish, although not for me because i like cleaners.

 

[Chuck Nasty]

Talking about things in your tank that comes out when u turn the lights off.Well the things i see are some red looking worms that come out of my live rock,some little bugs that look like sea roaches but thay are real small.Last night we say a little white work swimming in the water and thats one thing i have never seen.I just dont know what is good and what is bad.

 

[Henry22]

i also have those red worms and the guy at hte bet store gave me sand to seed my tank and i though i got a 3/4 inch longs snail but all it does is wave this tentacles around and then i though i have a red legged hermit with a cracked shell because its in a hole and i can see a red leg but it hasnt move for three days??

 

[Henry22]

I just found a small claw in my sand? LR is always full of suprises. Can't wait till i get more. The fiji and base rock i got the girl dusted off the snails and hermits but i got one piece of carribean out of the marhsall island show tank and it gave me a small starfish and a snail and that weird red legged thingy

 

[OCCFan023]

nice--I wish I had photoshop

OCC, when I was on vacation, the sixline slaughtered both of my cleaner shrimps

damn both of em, if that six line was in my tank and took out two cleaners hed be gone pretty damn fast lol, but thats just me. Is the cleaner in your avatar one that he went crazy on or is that a new one?

 

[Henry22]

samw with me occ

 

[dbacksrat]

yeah the shrimp in my avatar was assasinated...I don't know if I can bear to spend $20 a piece on more shrimp....

 

[KahluaZzZ]

removing a speedy fish in a reef is hard

 

[dbacksrat]

i had a hard time removing him from the 5 gallon bucket after acclimation...its gonna be fun catching this bad boy

 

[Henry22]

Hope you dont hurt your corals. Where is he going after this?

 

[DustinKeating]

I love sixlines, we have one at the lfs i work at (in a reef, as luck would have it) and everyone likes it because it's a small small baby. We can never catch it, so it stays. They're really curious and always swim around the caves and stuff. If i didn't have 2 clowns, i'd get one.

 

[dbacksrat]

if i can catch him, I'll trade him in to the lfs for minimal credit (if i'm lucky)...this would be a great fish for a larger reef or fowlr

 

[wayne]

My old sixline has killed a few blennies, damsels and now my male clarkii clown. He's now camped in my nano.
He is pretty though, and has never had a health issue in the time I've had him. he's no worse than most dottybacks