11/5/07 - Looking Good

Less then a month, and looking much better!!

I like this full tank shot. Let me know what you think of the aquascape.


Here is the remaining clownfish with our new flowerpot coral. This guy decided he didn't like the other clown and started chasing and nipping him a lot, so we took the other back to the store. The clown thinks this flowerpot is an anenome and is hosting it. Bad news for the coral. We are debating getting an anenome for the clown to entice him away from the coral, but don't know that that might be worse for the tank.

It could be a non-issue if these black dots on the clown keep multiplying. Any ideas as to what they are?

Man this guy is blue. He is our yellow tailed blue damsel. Damsels are known to be bullies to other fish, so we will watch this guy, but so far so good. The clown is definitely the boss here.

Our zooanthid colony is doing great! It has increased from 5 polyps to 12+. I am excited for it to form a mat around this interesting rock. I think it will look very cool. I have debated putting different colored zoas on the two sides to make it more interesting, but the local pet store doesn't seem to get other types in. May order online somewhere.

Here is our Blue Tort Acropora. You can see it has lost some of its color, but is still cool although not very blue. The different lighting could have done this, or possibly it is slowly dieing since our water parameters are not as constant as those at the pet store. Time will tell. However each of those knobs has a little polyp that comes out, and we still regularly see those, so it is at least alive for now.

Here is our newest addition. It is a Hawaiian Feather Duster. It lives in a tube and very quickly (like really extremely quickly) can suck itself into the tube when scared. It's little feathers catch microscopic creatures in the water and shovel them into its mouth. On the top left corner of the picture you can see a very small red version of this same guy.

Here is a side view overlooking our flower pot coral. I think it looks cool from here.

This Blue-legged hermit crab is the oldest tank inhabitant. It was one of the very first creatures we bought, and the only survivor of the move. It seems to constantly piggy-back on other much smaller things to get a look around. If he isn't piggy-backing he is walking around on tippy-toes with its shell high in the air against the glass. No idea why he does this. This is a newer shell for him, as he used to have a pretty shell covered in coraline algae, and before that numerous other small shells. He seems to like this one though.

His weight was too much! Down they tumble

Hickhikers -

This is a particularly large version of a bristleworm for our tank. We say about 2 1/2 inches of him when we took this picture. Lots of opinions if these are bad or good. We have lots of these ranging from very small little white ones to this large one, and so far our tanks doesn't show any signs of damage.

Our little red coral. This may be just some sort of macroalgea or something, but it came in on this rock fairly dull and has since turned a rose colored red, and probably grown 50%. It is soft and fluffy and we like it.

Here is the front view of it.

Along with these we have found numerous little creatures in our tank. Two very beautiful snails snuck in some how. One was (now dead :[... ) brilliantly white fleshed, and was just kind of stuck to the bottom of its oddly shaped shell (kind of the shape of half a shallow bowl). The other is still living and is truely gorgeous, although we don't get to see it well. Its flesh is a deep dark blue, but it is always deep in the cracks so we haven't been able to get a picture (or a good look for that matter!) Also we have a hermit crab in there that we didn't buy. It has red antenae and green legs. Probably was mistaken for another hermit when we bought the others. but it could have come in on the rocks.