SPSHolic's Blog

It's very exciting to read about some of the fish we may never see in the states again because they are illegal.  A Japanese reefer has 2 Centropyge Hotumatua's, both female and male.  His tank is very full of SPS corals and the only way he could catch him is by waiting until he sleeps. Then he places his hand in the tank and gets him out with no problem.  With these fish, he keeps his tank temperatures at 76 degrees fahrenheit.  He speaks about an incident where his chiller died and because of his LE livestock, he has a second chiller in place that will pick up if the other fails.  He also states that they are very agressive over any other fish in the tank.  His friend paired these guys up, but when he put them in the tank together, they did not like each other.  Fins were bitten off and so on.. anyhow, only one survived.   In his new tank, this fish no longer exists so I am assuming neither made it.