So I haven't talked about my nanos much, that I remember. I have 2 12 gallon nano reef tanks. One is 4 years old, but suffered a monumental crash a while back. The other is just over a year and is ruled by this tiny, cute little ocellaris clown named Napoleon (I just thought of that name.. I tell you, my naming abilities is a gift). I can't get him an anemone because he's so small that it would swallow him in a heartbeat. In the older nano the tank is completely at the mercy of an enormous bubble tip anemone and the maroon clown (which is nameless at this time but he's AWESOME) I had a beautiful feather duster in there for months, but I looked in the other day and LITERALLY like the cat that ate the canary, pulled the crown of the featherduster worm from the mouth of the anemone. Sans the worm part, sadly, but in every casualty there's a lesson. In this case, an anemone WILL eat a featherduster worm should it be foolish enough to leave it's tube and venture near the enormous black hole of the anemone's mouth and I'm pretty sure the maroon clown was an accessory...
Not good, but nature is cruel. That tank has 3 fish and each knows it's place and it's relatively peaceful. Napolean's tank is different because he's small but pugnacious. I don't want to lose him to another fish. I grabbed him the coolest tank mate last week. He's a diamond watchman goby named Cheeto
and he's landscaping and relandscaping the tank. My two chili corals have fallen into his collapsed tunnels twice. He is ALWAYS busy. His cave's are so amazing and he'll come out with a rock as big as his head to line the entrance. He's a groovy fish and he rules the sandbed of the tank and coexists peacefully with Napoleon. I hope all stays peaceful because I'd be a very sad panda if either of them died. AND due to the lack of an anemone the featherduster in there is gorgeous!
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