SC#2: Most amusing beast in your tank

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Allright, it's time for one from the suggestion box.

What critter in your marine tank entertains you the most? The clown trying to nestle with a powerhead? The urchin that covers itself with junk? Let's hear about it.

The suggestion box is sitting there, and has lots of room for good ideas!
 
Hmmm...I think it would have to be the angler. To make prevent his tankmates from eating his food, we use a riser tube to drop the food right in front of him. So now, he thinks that anytime we pick up the riser tube, he's going to be fed. He zips over to one of 2 'feeding perches', and starts luring away. If we don't feed him within a few minutes, he gives us this sad look, and slowly creeps back to a hiding spot.
 
This week it has to be my Royal Gramma. Win I introduced it to the tank my Blue Damsel was strutting and sniffing like a dog, Gramm snarled at him like a pisted off cat (I was amazed at the size of his mouth). The Damsel hasn’t bothered him or her sense.
 
Thats a toss up between the cleaner shrimp that likes to try to walk across the top of the water upside down, and the blue chromis that thinks he's in love with our False Percula and constantly wants to cuddle.


mogurnda said:
The clown trying to nestle with a powerhead?
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So ours isn't the only that thinks the powerhead is mate material ;)
 
I would have to say mine is my Prickly Leatherjacket (File Fish). He/she sort of hovers around the tank and looks like a helicopter or something from the cartoon The Jetsons. For some reason it likes to sleep by my magnetic cleaner or my powerhead at night.
I guess it could be my banana wrasse too. Every night like clockwork around 10pm he finds his hole under a big piece of liverock and goes to sleep. :look: If we ever lose power I will know what time it is by him hiding at night.
 
I would have to say my little Teira Batfish (Platax teira). He has a lot of dog like qualities, as soon as I walk up to the tank he comes charging and starts quickly going back and forth like a dog wagging its tail! Personality plus fish! Look foward to getting some new bats at some point!
 
A7ESF said:
Yup, one of the two. We were originally told that they were both True Perculas but as they get bigger I'm thinking the other one (the one not in the avatar) is a False Perc. :(
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My guys always get mad when I call them false percs. They are lobbying for a switch to call percs "false ocellaris." Have you got a photo pf your faker?
 
Oh, just thought of another candidate! A few months back, we were 'weeding' the xenia--removing the frag rocks, and peeling them off the back wall and glueing them to a chunk of rock. We missed a strand, and it floated all over the tank--we kept hoping to grab it before it settled somewhere unwanted. Finally lost it, and figured it would crop up someplace weird in a few days. When we next saw it, it had gotten caught in some tubeworms--that were growing on a snail. It attached, and has been struggling along on the snail ever since. It hates when the snails decides to clean the glass right in front of the powerheads, but otherwise seems fine. It helps the snail--if it gets knocked off the glass, the xenia acts like a parachute, and the snail always lands upright. Just looks goofy!
 
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