Allie the spotted mandarinfish (Synchiropus picturatus) and Giovanni the green mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) have been thriving on their diet of deshelled brine shrimp eggs, cyclops-eeze, and mysis shrimp. Unfortunately, Allie has grown more aggressive and has been taking advantage of her larger and more chill cousin. After seeing this go on for a few weeks, I captured the bully and placed her in a large Nantucket Nectars bottle, with a piece of live rock blocking the entrance. There is a gap large enough for food and water to get in, but not wide enough to let her out. I hope this is a temporary intervention until she's learned her lesson.
I did, however, get some great shots of Allie with a fish-in-a-bottle theme--
