My pair is now a couple of weeks in the tank: they came in---at least one of them---about an inch long, and that one had a hard time with an air bubble after shipment---but fully recovered.
They have taken up residence in my front pod rubble pile, next to a big ball of green star polyps. The larger is the bolder, and has finally *gasp* swum the width of the tank after cyclopeeze. The smaller sticks close to the rubble pile, often under it. But the smaller has taken to sitting atop the gsp ball with the larger when food might be in the offing, and they eat like there was no tomorrow.
They stick together like glue. We call the larger one "Raspberry" and the little one "Teacake", after the Musgrave cartoon of the gargoyle "waiting for raspberry teacakes..." They're not strong swimmers: Teacake has a terrible problem with the strong current, and that is one reason he/she stays to the protected corner. Raspberry has grown strong enough to swim freely where he likes.
I heartily recommend these little jewels to anyone who has a tank both tranquil and amenable to them. They might do well in a nano. You have to watch intakes, again, because they are not strong swimmers, but they're getting very friendly, and have a manner a little like the watchman: interested in anything going on.
They have taken up residence in my front pod rubble pile, next to a big ball of green star polyps. The larger is the bolder, and has finally *gasp* swum the width of the tank after cyclopeeze. The smaller sticks close to the rubble pile, often under it. But the smaller has taken to sitting atop the gsp ball with the larger when food might be in the offing, and they eat like there was no tomorrow.
They stick together like glue. We call the larger one "Raspberry" and the little one "Teacake", after the Musgrave cartoon of the gargoyle "waiting for raspberry teacakes..." They're not strong swimmers: Teacake has a terrible problem with the strong current, and that is one reason he/she stays to the protected corner. Raspberry has grown strong enough to swim freely where he likes.
I heartily recommend these little jewels to anyone who has a tank both tranquil and amenable to them. They might do well in a nano. You have to watch intakes, again, because they are not strong swimmers, but they're getting very friendly, and have a manner a little like the watchman: interested in anything going on.
