jnarowe - Thank you so much! Please send me a pm and let me know how I can repay you. Your generosity, as well as your interest and contributions to this thread, are most appreciated. I hope you don't mind if I allow the frags to shack up in Gabriel's tank for 4 weeks (if it's OK with GK), as I want my reef fallow of all acros for the full 10 week period.
John - I agree, no angel for my tank. I'm definitely open to suggestions.
That goes to everyone following this thread, as well.
staticx - I'll address your comments in turn. First, no, it is not a yellow tang. It is a juvenile mimic tang. The shape of this fish is quite different from the shape of yellow tangs. They're actually not even in the same genus. The mimic tang is in the genus
Acanthurus, while the yellow tang is of the genus
Zebrasoma. I'm going through the effort of documenting this for you since, as you have self-proclaimed in your signature line, you are quite new to reefing. And that's okay, we all were at one time or another. I, myself, still feel new to the hobby. Regarding my ability to learn from disasters, you can read quite clearly in this thread the research that went into remedying the problem that came about in my reef. You obviously have extensive knowledge regarding the detrimental effects of yellow tangs in 30g tanks - please do me the favor of outlining this here, so that others can benefit from your experience. Lastly, as Bax has mentioned, I'm not looking for pity, only to document the occurences of my reef so that I can reflect on past events and, hopefully, help others to learn in the process.
Bax - Thanks for watching my back!
