* Bryan wrote, On 10/21/2006 2:15 AM:
1st of all, that was a cool story of your crab. thanks for taking your
excitement to the newsgroup.

You're welcome. My kids roll their eyes and laugh at me, so I gotta tell
somebody who understands.

2nd, did you like that scooter blenny? I have a lawnmower blenny and we
love 'em. Scooters aren't really blennys
http://www.peteducation.com/article....articleid=1961, so I
wonered if they are compatible in a tank? Any ideas?

I don't know if those two would be compatible, but someone else probably will.
I love scooters. It's great to have several running around interacting -- they
look like they gossip about each other. I had three in a 50 for a long time.
Another thing I've noticed about that LFS, something all us newbies need to
watch out for -- the owner and the employees are clearly knowledgeable about
sal****er and reef tanks, though I'm sure they don't know everything anymore
than anyone else does. They answered *most* of my questions correctly, but if I
didn't ask SPECIFIC questions, they didn't volunteer the answer. For instance,
the guy who got me the scooter knew I was putting it in an 8-gal. tank, but he
didn't tell me the tank wouldn't be big enough to support it, even though I had
just asked about a Target Mandarin, which has the same requirements as the
scooter. A different person sold me the crab, and when I got the scooter I
didn't tell him I already had the crab, so that one was my fault.

I had one impulse buy (dead now), and a time where I helped out a friend and
just dumped his fish in my tank...(4 out of 5 I trapped and sent to pet
store, 5th is ok). It's tough. We all know to read first but sometimes the
pet stores just talk so good about a fish and you really really love the
looks of the animal. We all have done it somehow.

Yeah...I think I'll take the crab back. I like him, but I'd like to have more
than one thing to look at and I already have Macho Crab in his own little tank.

On a positive note, I put a stronger powerhead in the tank, and it's wiping out
the red slime.
It was really brought home to me how MUCH it helped when I turned it off to feed
and forgot to turn it back on until the next evening -- the cyanobacteria spread
and grew a million bubbles and long trailers, which almost disappeared again
within a day after turning the powerhead back on.

Cindy