clorox
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This tank started from humble beginnings.
Last year around June I found a frag tank bargain on craigslist for $50.
It's a 24x12x12 All in one.
My primary use was for keeping live rock for whenever I needed to add to my DT.
Eventually, I figured I could use it to keep a gig....but as some of us know all too well, one is never enough :crazy1:
Several months later (and one disaster in between) I feel I reached my goal of keeping 4 beautiful specimens and 2 pairs of skunk clowns:
1 neon green lime (approx 10")
1 baby purple (pre disaster was almost 5", now, approx 3" and recovering)
1 spectacular purple-blue-green multicolor (about 10")
1 ginourmous purple (about 18"-20")
2 A.Perideraion
2 A.Sandaracinos
2 Lysmata amboinensis (cleaner shrimps)
2 Lysmata wurdemanni (peppermint shrimps)
2 Neopetrolisthes ohshimai (anemone crabs)
This past weekend I decided it was time to take some quick pics.
The clowns don't bother each other, after all they have 1 gig each
In practice, the Sandaracinos hover between the green and the XXL purple, while the Perideraions like the small purple and the Multicolor.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to reproduce the amazing hues of the multicolor, it is purple on the edges then transitions from purple to blue and green closer to the mouth.
The XXL purple, literally sprawls in the background and takes a bit more than 2/3 of the full tank width.
The lime green and the multicolor are my favorite.
The sandaracinos pair. One of them is a tiny juvenile I found at petco.
The baby gig used to be 2", then grew to about 5", however during the Xmas holidays I was gone for a few weeks and I had a major disaster happen during my absence (a bleached large purple died while I was gone, due to a pH imbalance caused by a power outage). Upon my return, the baby gig was on the brink of death. Managed to rescue it (cipro) and it is slowly recovering color and size.
Last year around June I found a frag tank bargain on craigslist for $50.
It's a 24x12x12 All in one.
My primary use was for keeping live rock for whenever I needed to add to my DT.
Eventually, I figured I could use it to keep a gig....but as some of us know all too well, one is never enough :crazy1:
Several months later (and one disaster in between) I feel I reached my goal of keeping 4 beautiful specimens and 2 pairs of skunk clowns:
1 neon green lime (approx 10")
1 baby purple (pre disaster was almost 5", now, approx 3" and recovering)
1 spectacular purple-blue-green multicolor (about 10")
1 ginourmous purple (about 18"-20")
2 A.Perideraion
2 A.Sandaracinos
2 Lysmata amboinensis (cleaner shrimps)
2 Lysmata wurdemanni (peppermint shrimps)
2 Neopetrolisthes ohshimai (anemone crabs)
This past weekend I decided it was time to take some quick pics.
The clowns don't bother each other, after all they have 1 gig each
In practice, the Sandaracinos hover between the green and the XXL purple, while the Perideraions like the small purple and the Multicolor.Unfortunately it is very difficult to reproduce the amazing hues of the multicolor, it is purple on the edges then transitions from purple to blue and green closer to the mouth.
The XXL purple, literally sprawls in the background and takes a bit more than 2/3 of the full tank width.
The lime green and the multicolor are my favorite.
The sandaracinos pair. One of them is a tiny juvenile I found at petco.
The baby gig used to be 2", then grew to about 5", however during the Xmas holidays I was gone for a few weeks and I had a major disaster happen during my absence (a bleached large purple died while I was gone, due to a pH imbalance caused by a power outage). Upon my return, the baby gig was on the brink of death. Managed to rescue it (cipro) and it is slowly recovering color and size.
