Bought six Blue/Green Chromis from Petco (I know, I know) last night; MrsX has wanted some for a while so I grabbed them.
Got home, acclimated them, and into the QT they went. Unfortunately now we're down to four. One was a goner when I checked them this morning... looked like it got beat up. Later when I went to feed them again another was looking pretty poorly. I'd just checked the QT parameters the other day and everything was spot on, so I've no clue what happened.
Anyhow, I grabbed the five that were left and moved them up to the DT. The struggling one didn't last an hour. The surviving four seem to be enjoying their new home in the DT; eating well and swimming around. MrsX says 'at least these fish swim and do stuff and don't just hide.'
In other news, my Halloween Urchin is a stunt-urchin!
I watched it get launched off a powerhead earlier today and land right in the Rose anemone.
I was at my desk and looked over into the DT and saw the urchin on the front of the right-side powerhead, which was off, munching on coraline/algae. For a minute I wondered what would happen if the powerhead turned on; would the urchin be 'sticky' enough to hold on and just move away from the stream? I looked at the clock, it was just before 3pm, no problem I thought, my powerheads alternate every six hours (and thus, wouldn't turn on until 6pm).
A few minutes later I hear the left powerhead click and turn off. Oh yeah, I had changed to a 3-hour alternating cycle.
I look over just in time to see the urchin launched about a foot to a foot and a half across the tank and land smack-dab in the middle of my rose nem. It kinda rolled off and fell out of them nem, landing upside down between the new and a coral/rock. It seemed to sit there for a minute and then pulled itself right-side up and moved off. The clowns were looking at the urchin like 'WTF dude!?!?'
Neither seems any worse for the excitement.
Wish I'd had a camera running to capture it.