How ironic!

[Europhyllia]

My rocks... I know you all must be sick of hearing me talk about my rocks!
I was tired of it myself and decided to just replace them all.
Ordered tons of new rock to arrive Tuesday so I can start cycling it for the big move...

Maybe I should have not been so tang resistant. Individual tang testing proved that all tangs except one actually liked to eat my kind of caulerpa fairly well.
The one that could not be observed eating it still ended up with empty algae clips so maybe he just ate it when nobody was looking.

But I read Jawfish don't like to be kept with fast fish and tangs were specifically mentioned so I decided to invest into new rocks for my jawfish's happiness and forgo the silver bullet tangs... :blushing:

Was working all morning on extracting my lovely corals from the rock (many of them encrusting it quite a bit) and placing the worst rocks into the sump.
Found out a little while later one of the new urchins (purchased in hopes they'd eat caulerpa but none of them seemed interested) had hitchhiked on a caulerpa rock into the sump so I retrieved it and placed it back into the display.

Somehow that must have woken it up or something because suddenly it seemed hungry.
Check this out:
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It's just not right! I put so much effort into keeping all of my critters happy and they mock me like that! Could they have started munching on this maybe a day or two ago?!?!:bareteeth:

[txg8gxp]

hahaha thats funny, had to wait till you ordered new rock.

[txav8r]

Lol! That sounds exactly like my luck!
Well at least they are eatint the stuff. Better late than never I guess.

[Mr Cob]

MAN! Well, it's good news anyways, just a little late that's all. Now you don't have to worry about it creeping back up on you.

[Europhyllia]

Oh but my current liverock was gorgeous! So porous. Such unique shapes and easy to stack because of all that fossilized coral. So coraline encrusted with tons of life, interesting sponges, feather dusters, etc. I've never seen rock I liked better than mine in anybody's tank.
I am hoping somebody with plans to keep a tang will be willing to buy my beautiful liverock (cheap) so I don't have to kill off all the cool stuff cycling it.

Stupid urchins though. I've watched them daily doing absolutely NOTHING! I only placed the new order yesterday...

[BIGBIRD123]

Karin, the same thing happened to me, not with urchins but with Copperband. He never touched my aptasia but I traded him and that's the first thing the new owner said...man, her sure like the aptasia...lol

[Mr Cob]

Oh but my current liverock was gorgeous! So porous. Such unique shapes and easy to stack because of all that fossilized coral. So coraline encrusted with tons of life, interesting sponges, feather dusters, etc. I've never seen rock I liked better than mine in anybody's tank.
I am hoping somebody with plans to keep a tang will be willing to buy my beautiful liverock (cheap) so I don't have to kill off all the cool stuff cycling it.

Stupid urchins though. I've watched them daily doing absolutely NOTHING! I only placed the new order yesterday...

Well, now that the urchins are eating the stuff you could still keep the best pieces...?

[StevenSeas]

thats what I was thinking, either that or borrow someones tang for a while in your sump, or give them the rock to put in with their tangs

[alton]

Last time I checked Tangs can not dig so you should be fine. My Chevron darts after my PJ once in a while, then he looks into the hole like "where did ya go?" Yesterday PJ had a second hole so when the Chevron was checking out one, PJ was looking at the Chevron from the other. My tank would be boring here at work with out a jawfish.

[allan]

my biggest culerpra eater was a rabbit fish. Loved the stuff... and really liked zoas too. :)

[Europhyllia]

See that's why I tried to hard to stay away from them. The rabbit fish didn't seem to be reef safe long term. Some of the zebrasoma tangs nip clams and LPS. I am really happy the pincushion urchins worked out. I wish I would have found out about them earlier. It did some more work already.