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I've been absent for the past week or so because my family was in town. Now that things are back to normal, I thought I'd share a few images and update on how the 400g is progressing.

First off, I have to report a couple of losses. The Gudgeon Goby that I've had for the past 3 years was seen blowing around the tank last week. I don't know why it died. And Dyson, the Mimic Filefish was last seen sucking up food like spaghetti last Saturday night, and then vanished. I finally found ...

Well I posted pictures of the pregnant banded coral shrimp yesterday and she popped last night at about 11pm. I saw some babies alive and kicking in my corner overflow and in the refugium this morning. I think any babies in the display take will become Mandarin food.

Evidence suggests that my Banded Coral Shrimp seem to be enjoying themselves.

She's got a lot of eggs on her underside.

The proud father

For a frag system is a baffle really necessary? Other then looks in main display do bubbles harm the system or cause any issues I am not aware of?

Thanks

Craig

i was worried that my new green mandarin was going to starve after it ate all the copepods off the glass and the rocks. so i came up with an idea to use an 3 way breeder left over from my freshwater days as a mini refugium in my 40g tank. i stuffed it with cheato and let it float, it worked pretty good im a tank my size. the copepods reproduce and spread throughout the tank and when i think the cheato is "low" on copepods, i switch it out with "fresh" cheato from my refugium. ...

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