Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Freshwater and Saltwater this week, it was a big order.

Salt first...
-Solarensis, Carpenter, and Red Fin Fairy Wrasses
-Powder Blue Tang & others
-Scarlet Hermit Crabs!
-Green & Pink Cucumbers
-Dwarf & Volitan Lions, several Puffers, Triggers, etc
-B&W Heniochus Butterflies
-Anthias, awesome color on this group
-Keyhole/Melas, Eibl's, and Coral Beauty Angels
-Yasha Hase & Yellow Rose Shrimp Gobies
-Coral
&more

Freshwater...
-As requested, Baby Arowanas
-Big Red Cap Orandas & Ryukins
-Huge Plecos
-Blue Rams
-Farlowella Cats
-Spotted Rubber Plecos
-Electric Blue Crayfish
-GloFish Danios... we're totally restocked on these hot movers!
-Rummynose and Congo Tetras
Plus a whole bunch more

Adding a couple photos from this shipment. BTW the McCosker's wrasse is sold (Sue)... before anyone asks.

Congratulations Sue! You got your wrasse!!!!!!!

Ooh, and he's a good lookin' fella.

DrHank wrote: Congratulations Sue! You got your wrasse!!!!!!!

From the sounds of it I got the other wrasse she was looking at. Depending how things turn out here in the next month she just might get a chance to have him.

Hi Michelle;

Do you still have the Heniochus? If you do, do you know if they are Heniochus acuminatus (coral eaters) or Heniochus diphreutes (planktovores)?

James

Look like H. acuminatus from the pics, but it's hard to tell without seeing them in person.

They are still young yet but look more like Heniochus diphreutes. I have several customers with these in reefs with no problems (mind you these are tanks with lps/softies & no sps. With any butterfly you take a slight chance, but I've personally never seen these graze on corals, and I carry them all the time. They are currently still in stock. See differences below, these are not "rounded" like the H. acuminatus.

I know the difference, but it was hard to tell from the pic. I guess if no one has had trouble, it would pretty much have to be H. diphreutes, since H. acuminatus will make short work of corals. Those in the picture just didn't seem to have a deep a thoracic region as H. diphreutes does. But as you said, they are young, so I guess that would mask it a bit.