Alas, even the best laid plans go awry. I set up my quarantine tank and my main tank at the same time, pretested with fresh water, filled with salt water, got a great deal on live sand and got 100 pounds of lalo live rock from the 2 docs, let that cycle until I got 3 weeks of consistent readings in the appropriate ranges and I was off the the store for my first fish. I HAD intended on getting my first false percula (all the rage these days I know, but they are nice) but that's not what happened.
I was peering through the tanks, mainly out of curiousity, when I spied a fish that I had previously heard of, but had only seen in photos. Short, squat, rather ugly, yet cute in it's own way. Jet black with small white dots (at first I thought to be a disease) and a large "head" with a big mouth, four stubby finny "legs" and a wonderful waving fishing lure right between it's eyes. I was immediately smitten with the frogfish. I am not sure how much info the person I was talking to new about these guys, He assured me it was a species that only grew to four inches (I am still not positive on it's ID, it's about the size of my thumb at the moment), but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is a larger variety.
I know and understand all about it's carnivorous tendancies, and know that it is going to be the only fish in my tank, and that it is going to cause a lot of problems for almost all my invertebrate options, but to be honest, I love it. Still planning on going with Tridacnids, and lps and sps (actually have a couple of mushroom corals that came in with the live rock, and made it through the curing, hoping they can make it while the tank continues to mature) and still wanting an anenome, but I think the tank will be fully stocked fishwise with this one guy.
