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Current Reef Denizens


Common/Scientific Name

Indigenous to...
Obtained from...
Comments

Royal Gramma/Gramma loreto
Caribbean
Reefs2go.com, 7/15/10
Hid for a week before magically appearing from a nice rock cave looking hungry. Now is a model reef citizen and getting nice and fat.

Ocellaris Clownfish/Amphiprion ocellaris
Indo-Pacific
The Aquarium Shop of Royal Oak, 7/31/10
Bought a nice fat mated pair, and they're doing great in the tank!

Blue Tang/Paracanthurus hepatus
Indo-Pacific
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, 8/5/10
Great reef addition, and eats anything I put in the tank. He is by far the biggest pig I have (next closest would be the skunk cleaner shrimp). Had a short bout of ich, which I think was cured by feeding garlic soaked food, which I'm still doing.

Yellow Tang/Zebrasoma flavescens
Hawaii
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, 8/5/10
The undisputed bully of the tank. Even his best buddies (blue tang and flame angel) sometimes feel his wrath when he's in a bad mood...must be a she...

Green Chromis/Chromis viridis
Indo-Pacific
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, 8/5/10
Originally got 2 for free from Atlantis, and one has disappeared!

Pink-Spot Goby/Cryptocentrus leptocephalus
Indo-Pacific
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, 8/?/10
Awesome citizen, comes out of his cave in the right/rear of the tank for feeding time.

Flame Angelfish/Centropyge loriculus
Cebu, Christmas Island, Marshall Islands, Tahiti, Vanuatu
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, 8/21/10
Initially was bullied by the yellow tang, but now is a happy reef citizen, and leaves my coral completely alone...so far!

Past Reef Denizens


Common/Scientific Name
Indigenous to...
Obtained from...
Comments

Copperband Butterflyfish/Chelmon rostratus
Indo-Pacific
Atlantis Fish Shoppe, ~10/29/10
Before I bought this notoriously finicky fish, I asked the folks at the fish store to feed him for me, and I personally witnessed him gobbling down some frozen mysis. Put him in my tank, and he swam up and down along one side of the tank for 20 days or so, and then died. He never ate a bite, never was bullied, and never stopped swimming up and down. Brain damaged!







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