Day 17

There are some living things in there!!



In our beautiful aquarium there are now a number of living things: Polyps, Mullusks, Coraline Algae (the red, green, purple, white, and blue stuff on the rocks), other algae, an Emerald Crab, three Hermit Crabs, Baby Corals, 2 Snails, some sort of a clam?, and a fish named Danny. (If the rest of our long lost family doesn't return soon, we will name the snails after you. Ryan and Amy have already been considered as snail names.)

Be sure to click on this picture to enlarge it. You can see the beautiful coraline algae growing all the rock in front with a snail playing king of the hill. Also if you look really close this rock houses our mullusk (recent discovery), and at least 4 polyps, although only one is visible from this angle.

Here is a side angle of our tank. You notice the rock in the background is covered with an orange algae. We want to get rid of this type since it can over run the tank, and even kill corals. It is a sign of too many nutrients in the water such as nitrate and phosphate. Today I added a bag of PhosGuard to remove phosphate in an attempt to control our algae build up. The colorful algae in the foreground is really healthy for a tank.

And here is Danny. We named him Danny to replace our long lost brother. He seems to like his new home although at first we were worried his little fins couldn't handle the strong current in our tank. Isn't he cute.