[Melanie]

He he he Craig. I just love you!

Anyone hear of a CBS (coral banded shrimp) acting as a cleaner?

I have had a few days off work and have used that time to really observe my tank since I normally only get a few minutes a day. I've been sitting for hours just watching.

My new Kole Tang went over to the skunk cleaner shrimp who looked interested but hesitant. I guess he was too slow, so the Kole headed over to the CBS and lo and behold, the evil critter started cleaning the tang! It didn't last long, but it was enough to make me take pause.

As a few of you suggested, my Kole tang is not interested at all in the long outcrops of hair algae. He is quite content to suck the back glass and rocks that don't even look like they have any algae.

Updates: I replaced the 3rd of 4 bulbs the other day (my own reference since I use this as my tank journal); nobody has died - even when a rock fell on my yellow fiji leather and I found it smooshed in the morning; I still have hair algae but it doesn't look like it's spreading; my green star polyps are irritating my brain coral and causing it to recede in a small section; I have pineapple sponges; my Kole Tang chases my six line wrasse and my lawnmower blenny; and I sold all my excess LR in two hours from my first posting to pickup time.

I had originally, secretly, planned on getting a mandarin when my reef reached it's one-year anniversary. I've reconsidered because I haven't seen a pod in at least a month, maybe more. Perhaps the six line is scarfing them all down.