Meet our newest "child"!

NeedBiggerTank

NeedBiggerTank

Not Likely 2 Ever Grow Up
This is the latest addition to our tank - a juvenile Atlantic Blue Tang.

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We have named him "Sparkie". Fellow geeks/dweebs/sci-fi efficianadoas will remember Sparkie as the nickname John Criton gave to Dominar Rygel XVI in the show FarScape.

This tiny tang (a whopping inch and a half, nose to tip of tail), swam around after aclimation, meeting all the residents. He swam up to the copperband butterfly and they were just hovering facing each other, when all of a sudden, the tang bit the butterfly on the nose!!! The CBB just sat there looking kinda dumbfounded, and the tang swam off... The CBB is a good 4", easily dwarfing the tiny tang. I was laughing so hard, I though I was going to wet my pants. BTW, the CBB wan't posturing - he didn't have his dorsal spines raised or anything.

Thankfully, this behavior hasn't been repeated.
 
Awwwww I like Sparkie.......I was just wondering how many other people try to come up with cool names for their fish friends. My clowns are Mike and Molly, Leroy the Powder Brown(he's he baddest powder brown around y'know), dozer my pistol shrimp, randy the randall goby, Candy my coral banded, etc etc.
 
Well my Perc was named Molly when I got her. I then bought the larger tank and a black and white ocellaris came with it........I let the boys name him.......for awhile he named El Milagro.
 
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