Caught a couple of my Anthias making out!
Actually Al says:
Your 4 Lyretail Anthias (3 females & 1 male) commonly display "kissing" - mouth-to-mouth contact or jaw-locking — as a form of establishing dominance or hierarchy, not courtship or spawning.
Reef hobbyists frequently describe this exact behavior in anthias groups as non-harmful sparring to assert social order, especially among females or when a dominant individual "keeps others in line."
Farewell destructo, job well done... traded him in today for a few nassarius snails and an electric blue hermit. Such a pretty urchin but he's dragged too many corals into unwanted battle. He won the old war on the red turf algae now he can cause havoc in the shops 500g display for the rest of his days.
The diamond goby got a hold of some Nori and refuses to share with the yellow tang or the cleaner wrasse!
The culprit is in custody and headed to a buddies tank. White ribbon eel grown from a 6 inch little guy.
Caught a couple of my Anthias making out!
Actually Al says:
Your 4 Lyretail Anthias (3 females & 1 male) commonly display "kissing" - mouth-to-mouth contact or jaw-locking — as a form of establishing dominance or hierarchy, not courtship or spawning.
Reef hobbyists frequently describe this exact behavior in anthias groups as non-harmful sparring to assert social order, especially among females or when a dominant individual "keeps others in line."
Managed to get this big guy didn’t want it to eat the maxima 😅
He was an angry little whippersnapper in the 1 gallon lol, been much calmer since moved into the 20.
Added this awesome little helfrichi to my tank! I heard firefish are aggressive with each other but there’s now this guy plus an exquisite purple in here too, so far so good.
So proud of my big guy Zeus (Sailfin) he’s Boss Man in the tank. Added a brown powder a few days back and he was very unhappy the first day, chasing her around. He finally let her out of “jail” on day 4 of her being added and hasn’t messed with her since. Then we added a Midas blenny with no concern from Zeus. Then a helfrichi fire fire. No issues. Then last night I was very nervous when my kiddos insisted on adding our last two fish to add, the BABY yellow tang and the whitetail bristletooth. Zeus is doing VERY good! Minimal displays of dominance yesterday. The bristletooth is a little on the skinny side and has been so preoccupied with cleaning up the algae on the tank that Zeus has really left her and the baby yellow tang alone!
All clown aggression has calmed down, thankfully! Just normal dominance/submission posturing from these two. She still doesn't want to cuddle at night which makes the poor guy very sad lol. I'm hoping once I *finally* figure out where my wave pump should go and get to adding more coral they'll find a permanent hosting spot and settle in!
I thought my sweet 🐶 ate his food super fast… these two clowns are like a shark feeding frenzy at feeding time. The pellets don’t even have a chance to start sinking and they are all gone im under a minute.
Released my female clownfish from her week in breeder box jail today! She is doing much better with our new clown this time around except for when I tried to take a picture of them together and she thought I was about to feed her. She's an absolute turd.
Blurry action shot: our new black and white clown shimmying for the love of his life, our mean orange storm clown, as she tries to nip him. Pajama cardinal watches with concern. (Also pictured, our tuxedo urchin in a construction hat).
This is Scar, my volitan Lionfish, currently feeding baby balloon mollies and guppies as live and mysis shrimp and brine as frozen. I keep him on a strict feeding schedule to try and reduce the chances he goes after other fish once he becomes big enough to be able to eat them