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IWishIWasAFish

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We got him for our 45 gallon classroom aquarium, which was completely overrun with aiptasia and meijano anemones. The kids lost count of anemones around 500. He ate all of them in the last few months. As a sort of bonus, he also ate all the polychaete worms that used to sting me. He turned a lovely green color to match all my pretty macro algae, which he loves to hide among. He doesn't bother our soft coral - xenia & kenya tree & toadstool & cabbage, or the one sort of like an acan that we have. Our zoanthids have disappeared, but I don't know if that was him or the massive macro algae overgrowth. Or miniature feather duster worms are still living peacefully. He's peaceful with our clowns, their anemone, our azure damsel, and our neon dottyback. The hermit crabs are also still alive.

Now that he's eaten several thousand aiptasia and a few hundred bristle worms, he's twice as wide as he was when we bought him and he's clearly bored, and spends too much time swimming up and down against the glass. He needs a larger tank.

Love to get a frag of a durable montipora, frogspawn, or hammerhead or something else tough in return, but mostly need to see him in a happy place. We need a photo of him in his happy new home to show the kids after please. :)

Pick up is pretty flexible. I think I can net him pretty easily. I'll do it before you make the trip.
 

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I have a 120 acrylic with a thousand aptasia he could work on for a while so I can rescue all of my mushroom's and palys! In Bellingham though.
 

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