Say hello to my little friend

G-money · #1 09/07/2003, 10:15 PM

This is Butch. (and those are Caulastrea polyps!)

dc · #2 09/07/2003, 10:52 PM

LOL, Butch huh? Looks more like Snuggles!

Cute fish!

EdKruzel · #3 09/07/2003, 11:00 PM

Smallest Kole I've ever seen.
Nice Pic.

Ed

wizardgus® · #4 09/08/2003, 08:38 AM

Just a young-un. They are a neat fish. Congrats.

MarksReef · #5 09/08/2003, 08:46 AM

Congrats. HELLO Butch

Proxymoron · #6 09/08/2003, 10:02 AM

Congrats on your new Kole, Butch

!

The kole tang will be my next and final fish. Love those koles!

Dixie

MrClean · #7 09/08/2003, 10:17 AM

Hello, Little Friend.

Nice choice. Active and gregarious.

"proxymoron" I'm crying. Too funny.

bubbletip · #8 09/09/2003, 11:20 PM

That is a very cute kole. How small is he?

naesco · #9 09/09/2003, 11:46 PM

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Originally posted by bubbletip
That is a very cute kole. How small is he?

Zepplin · #10 09/10/2003, 02:54 AM

Nice Kole, and I can't help but say you've got some NICE filtration goin on in your sandbed.

Cool picture, beautiful little fish!

-Meg

G-money · #11 09/10/2003, 04:36 PM

bubbletip,

Butch is probably about the size of a golf ball. If you've ever seen typical full-grown Caulastrea polyps, that is what the 2 polyps in the upper left are. He is [u]small[/i]. Eats like a pig though....fat belly all the time. He was a little scared at first, but now he's got that perpetual "tang bounce" as he grazes.

Meg,

The tank is somewhat new (been up for a month), so I'm assuming it's catching up with the end of the initial new tank phase. There was no real cycle - all the rock was from my old 90. I did have diatoms though and I'm sure a little die-off occurred.

I decided on only a 2" sandbed as well (90% Southdown, 10% CC), but as you can see, there doesn't appear to be any significant compromise of Nitrogen processing without the official DSB. We'll see how it looks in a year, though...(fingers crossed).