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Here is Fidel's movements at present. Fidel seems to be moving under the cover of darkness.

The green arrows are all Fidel. Yes he is a monster. The pink is the rbta.
 

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Do your Wave makers have nem guards just making sure?

You may have mentioned it but just thought I'd ask.

Bubble tips tend to move around. Some may stay put a year + until one day they don't.

You don't want them sucked in and nuking your tank.
 
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fidel, the Colorado sunburst decided to come out of from behind the rocks and moved towards the rbtas. It has wedged itself right below the rbtas. I am waiting for the lights to come on....
 

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It has been a while. I have quite a few new frags from the frag swap. That shall come later. First, I wanted to share a pic of the nexus nem that @tribbitt hooked me up with.

I thought I had lost him. He is so tiny that one has to literally look hard for him. Given that and his illustrious provenance, I have christened him - Look Xerox-walker
 

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It has been a while. I have quite a few new frags from the frag swap. That shall come later. First, I wanted to share a pic of the nexus nem that @tribbitt hooked me up with.

I thought I had lost him. He is so tiny that one has to literally look hard for him. Given that and his illustrious provenance, I have christened him - Look Xerox-walker
I'm definitely not superstitious, but I go out of my way not to name fish or declare a favorite coral. Lol had a Walt Disney i use to stare at daily. Now I glance at the replacement disney and the other nicer acros never pausing on a specific one to long. May the nem live long and make many clones of itself.

I do have favorite fish but they don't have names lmao it's worked so far jk.
 
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I'm definitely not superstitious, but I go out of my way not to name fish or declare a favorite coral. Lol had a Walt Disney i use to stare at daily. Now I glance at the replacement disney and the other nicer acros never pausing on a specific one to long. May the nem live long and make many clones of itself.

I do have favorite fish but they don't have names lmao it's worked so far jk.
well, the force is strong with this one!
 
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I'm definitely not superstitious, but I go out of my way not to name fish or declare a favorite coral. Lol had a Walt Disney i use to stare at daily. Now I glance at the replacement disney and the other nicer acros never pausing on a specific one to long. May the nem live long and make many clones of itself.

I do have favorite fish but they don't have names lmao it's worked so far jk.
All of our fish have names. I did not name them though.
 
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Naso Elegans name is Hot Lips Houlihan by the wife plus she named a couple more..I do have names for a few large happy cellar spiders I leave alone high up in corners which love mosquitos.
 
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my csb is floating between the glass and a rock after floating all around the tank. I think look xerox-walker might freaked it out.
 

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Fish with names die first…
However since the YTBLUE TANG gang population has grown here, I do assign their origin names to them
Yes I can tell them apart
My 20+ year old purple tang does not have a name….a possible source of its longevity
 
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fidel, my CSB has started to grown. For those of you who are not aware of what nem growth looks like, the nem introduces new tiny tentacles. Depending on how much you feed, those tiny tiny tentacles will grow to become as big as the other mature tentacles. See pic and you see a zone of smaller tentacles.
 

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as Fidel, el csb, has been growing, it has started moving all over the tank. It decided to ofc go hang out next to the wavemaker. After a few hours, it finally lost a teeny bit of a tentacle at which point I decided to intervene. I had to move the wavemaker. It is still hanging out there on the protein skimmer. The smaller tentacles are starting to look much bigger now.
 

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