Monday, October 6, 2008

More fish tank stuff

Today we did some reorganizing of the tank. We put in 3 new pieces of live rock and moved some corals around that we recently added. We also put in a new coral we bought at the store (it was only $5!). Here's one Han took of me positioning things:



Here's another of me trying to glue something down underwater. It's pretty annoying because I have to use forceps to hold a very small shell (like the size of a pencil tip), use an applicator to put glue on it, but then not get glue on the forceps or else I instantly bond the shell to the forceps.

I don't know how much you remember the layout of the tank before but it was more of a pyramid-type shape. Now it's more of a solid rectangle with crevices and tunnels throughout. Here's a picture of it now:

Ever since out power outage back in the middle of August, we've had a type of algae that we don't want. We bought a nudibranch, sometimes called sea lettuce, to eat it up. Here's a picture of him (he hasn't eaten much of the algae so far, though):

Finally, here's the coral frag we bought today. It's the tree in the near picture, with two hermit crabs nearby, a new yellow zoanthus in the background, and in the far back (on the right, the lumpy thing highest up on the rock) our leather:

That's all for now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice pictures. Nice hobby.
Dad H