Anyone ever heard cryptobenthic fish are important for a healthy reef?

[Ckletter]

The tiniest fish are the most important for healthy coral reefs

It turns out that tiny fish are crucial to supporting larger animals on and around a healthy coral reef

www.newscientist.com

 

[Flagg37]

I don’t recall ever seeing them in a fish store. I wonder if we never see them because they don’t ship well. You’d probably need a bunch to get started and then you’d be set. I started out with a dozen cerith snails and soon had literally thousands.

 

[svreef]

I don’t recall ever seeing them in a fish store. I wonder if we never see them because they don’t ship well. You’d probably need a bunch to get started and then you’d be set. I started out with a dozen cerith snails and soon had literally thousands.

You don’t see them because they’re tiny...

 

[max_nano]

You don’t see them because they’re tiny...

Neptune had some specialty gobies that were smaller than those little freshwater shrimps.

I watched a few of the reef builders tank tour videos recently and a few of the big successful tanks had mentioned having a lot of nano fish that wouldn’t be seen.