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The coral beauty and clown are interacting peacefully

Sea squirt?

No. He is still thin, but I managed to get him to eat

Well, the watchman goby is hiding under the rock again with the tiger pistol shrimp

I have an ocellaris clown in my tank that is well established and has a territory, but I also have a yellow watchman goby that came out of his burrow to explore and was playing in my wave maker, when my ocellaris clown suddenly darted after it and chased it down to the point where it was nearly...

On the coral?! Oh no!! There are 2 varieties of asterina, one algae eating and one coral eating. Remove the one on the coral immediately.

Ok. Thanks.

The fish also aren’t sick

Well, we just moved the tank to a new house and rearranged the rockwork and replaced the sand, so stress and new parameters is to be expected while the nitrogen cycle restarts, and we are dosing beneficial bacteria

That’s asterina... you can keep it without risk if you don’t have coral

I have a tiger pistol shrimp and a yellow watchman goby pair that are hiding under a rock and the watchman goby is extremely thin, maybe around 7mm thick, so I am wondering how to feed it, since my other fish try and gobble down anything that looks edible. The lady at my LFS gave me “sinking...

I was looking at my war coral colony and I saw a bivalve of some sort poking out of a hole in the rock. Does anyone know what this is?

I’m gonna do a water test soon and post the results

Ok, we are moving the tank and we just finished, so the nitrates will be higher, but there is plenty of algae growth and the occasional uneaten food

I have 4 hermit crabs in a 29 gallon biocube with good water parameters ( I don’t know them currently but my zoas sprouted a new head) but one of my hermit crabs is sitting in the front of the tank not moving, but there are small movements, like wiggling the antennae and extending/ retracting...