Dark Side Progression...

[Yuki Rihwa]

Well, I guess I should make my own dark side progression and see how deep I wander into the dark side before seeking out the light...hehehe.
I'll re-post my overall tank picture again.

I got the second Zebra in the tank but it's not work out at all, the old zebra constant harass the new one to the point it wanted to jump out of my tank so I took it out and traded for 2x Fire Shrimps, I bought another 2x Skunk Cleaner Shrimps and my Zebra left them alone, I was worried my zebra will eat them cause I got mixed feedback 50/50 change from online research that my zebra will eat them, I even saw my shrimp went after the zebra and tried to grab food from the zebra mouth. So far so good with these shrimps and my zebra, I hope there won't be any harms done to these shrimps down the road.
Anyway, I ordered a new light setup for this tank (Current Orbit Marine LED), it will arrive sometime next week. I also picked up a Sebae Anemone (White color with blue tips)

Well, I was mistaken it ID at first, I thought its a Bubble Tip and the LFS was labeled it wrong too! (No surprised? I know Right?), so I do some research about this Sebae Anemone and found out it's a bit harder to keep than Bubble Tip Anemones. Oh well, I'll see how it turn out next week, I'll look around for a pair baby clownfish tomorrow

 

[tlindsey]

That is great looking live rock . How big is your zebra moray?

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

That is great looking live rock . How big is your zebra moray?

The first zebra is around 18 inches and the new one a bit smaller I would say 17 inches, the body mass is a huge different between them since the old zebra is well fed and fat while the new zebra quite skinny.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

My Sebae Anemone decided to anchored very close to the place I first placed it and fully open and ate a piece of cut market shrimp. I did more research about these sabae and found out they are often, most likely all got "bleached" = white color, probably the whole seller wanted them to be in fake white color for eye catching easy sell (like folks got cheated with white tank treatment in freshwater). I'll try my best get it back to it normal health. The sad part Its might only live for a week or so due to the bleached process, I can only keep my water in perfect condition and hope and wait for now!

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Light came up so I took another picture

It doesn't move from this spot more than 10 hours so I hope it will stay there for good, the spot has pretty good flow, it can be a center piece if it stay there. I'm going out and search for baby clownfish

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

So I got 2x captive breed (tank rise) babies ocellaris clownfish, and a pair of diamond gobies, these 2 were digged same hole under the rock and stay together same cave same tank so I hoping it's a true pair since I don't want to break them a part. Also, friend of mine gave me back a jumbo skunk cleaner shrimp, i gave him 2x few months ago but he want to keep 1 in his nano tank, I'm slowly acclimating them now.
Gobies and clownfish:

Skunk Cleaner shrimp

The most handsome cleaner shrimp compare to all LFS shrimps available in my area hehehe
*1 of mine fire shrimp finished it molt phase, it look darn good with all long new antennas, a few got damage back from LFS tank.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

After 4 hours acclimation all water parameters are matched.
*Skunk Cleaner explore new area
Clownfish
And its found the Anemone /cheer
more
and more I'm happy LOL
and here are Fire Shrimp, the one stay on sand just finished it molting

The Diamond Gobies disappeared somewhere behind rock work.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Now, this clown fish pretty much stay close to the anemone, I hardly see it wander far away from it, it will leave the anemone to join other clown like it inviting the other to the anemone but somehow the other clown followed but not for long, it's got damage on some fins so I guess it couldn't handle the current at the anemone, here is a short video, enjoy! Oh, I think the anemone feel more comfy with the clown fish around it too, it's open even bigger than before.

The goby pair dug up a hole behind the rock hard to take picture of them or video them though.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

After a night the clown fish look bonded to the anemone but the other clown seem not interest to join the anemone, it's came and stay in anemone for a bit with other clown then just chill out on some rocks in different area, some experienced reefer told me that some clown fish just ignore the anemone and happen more often with captive breed clown fish species. Anyway, I'm enjoy watching the other clown rubbing the anemone happily, and I was told that my anemone has better change to survive if its hosting a clown fish Now, it's up to me to keep my water condition as good stage to keep it alive and growing, I'm thinking to up my water change 3x times a week @ 10% rate each time, it does sound a lot of work right? LOL Nah, my tank is 48G bare tank so with all the sand and rock I would say the water volume down around 40G so 10% is 4 gallons each time but I just do 5G for easier measure.

 

[tlindsey]

After a night the clown fish look bonded to the anemone but the other clown seem not interest to join the anemone, it's came and stay in anemone for a bit with other clown then just chill out on some rocks in different area, some experienced reefer told me that some clown fish just ignore the anemone and happen more often with captive breed clown fish species. Anyway, I'm enjoy watching the other clown rubbing the anemone happily, and I was told that my anemone has better change to survive if its hosting a clown fish Now, it's up to me to keep my water condition as good stage to keep it alive and growing, I'm thinking to up my water change 3x times a week @ 10% rate each time, it does sound a lot of work right? LOL Nah, my tank is 48G bare tank so with all the sand and rock I would say the water volume down around 40G so 10% is 4 gallons each time but I just do 5G for easier measure.

Happy to hear about the Clown and Anemone.