[kizanne]

Most of the corals are way up high where the fish don't really go up high except for the one of the small dragonface pipefish.

Despite the fact it is a big tank most the seahorses hang out in the fake tree stump. So do the blood shrimp and the catalina goby lives in the eye holes. The 3 tangaroa gobies, yasha and firefish all live in a small space on the left. 2 of pistol shrimp live in the yasha hole. I made a shelf on the right side of the tank and sunk a pvc pipe in front of it. You can see the cavern easily in the picture. They all that love that shelf / cavern.

I know catching the offspring are harder to catch this way but I love my tank. All the algae help keep the nutrients down and provides hiddng places so the amphipods can reproduce and the copepods have a little better time surviving. All the inhabitants are on frozen food. The only losses I've had are from hurricanes and I didn't quarantine a mandarin (I don't normally quarantine mandarins since they are resistant to disease and have finicky eaters but lost that dice toss) and I lost a firefish when these two decided 3 was too many. Beat up the third one.