October 3, 2009

Some updated shots of fish. At the bottom, you will see a shot of my two angel fish. I know folks say not to combine angels in a tank. So I thought, well, I've got the 75 gallon, and they are dwarfs. Lets give it a shot. I would not recommend putting these two fish together in a tank smaller than 75 gallons. Nor would I recommend putting them in a tank that doesn't have a ton of rock work and caves. Probably 1/3 of my main display is rock work which keeps my fishies very happy.

The Sand Sifting Goby. He is the reason the shots have sand and other particles in them. The corals don't seem to mind though.

The yellow Wrasse. I love this fish. Have to say he is very cheeky and seems to want to show off for me. Always at the front of the tank saying 'Here I am! Here I am!'

Zoa Colony

Button Polyps

The 6 Line Wrasse. One of these days, I am going to get a better shot of this little fellow. I've had him since the beginning of my salt water adventures and he has always been one very active fishy:)

The Maroon. Had to turn on the flash to snap a shot of her. She stays in her cave unless it is feeding time...lol

The Potter's Angel.

Another angle of the Potter.

Cherub Angel picking a snail or other small creature off the glass.

Cherub Angel.

Long Over Due Post

Yes, it has been a while since I have updated this blog, so here goes............

This summer, I had several of my corals just up and die. The first to go was the Open Brain. I was very disappointed about this one as it was the first coral I bought for my tank. I think the problem that I had with it was that against my better judgement, I listened to the 'experienced' people and took my brain off of a rock and placed it on the sand. The results were horrid. The brain completely detached from it's skeleton. The other death was the second coral I bought for the tank a hydnophora. I had these corals from the first tank which was a 29 gallon and am so disappointed at their loss:(

Outside of that, the branching hammer is going wild and is now branching into 8 heads. This is also one of my first corals and the original piece had only 2 heads.

The newest member of my crew is a sand sifting goby. I added him 10/24/09 and must say that I am 1. Very impressed with his ability to clean sand and 2. Aggravated that he stirs up the sand so much...lol I really can not complain too much though, because I bought him in the hopes he could help me with a diatom bloom that would not go away. In one weeks time, I have to say, this little fish has done a most excellent job turning my sand back to sugary white!

I still need to catch my old maroon clown as I am really wanting a pair of clowns. Luck would have it there was a shipment of baby ORAs at the LFS, so I picked the largest and the smallest of the group. They have been getting along very well in QT for quite some time now and I look forward to the day that I can catch the current monster.

Here are a few pics to tied you over until the next post.

Two Baby Ora Maroons in QT.

Mushroom Eating a pellet.

Brain(RIP) and Firefish

Branching Hammer.

Zoas and you can see that the Ricordias have regained their color:)~

Long time resident, the Scopas Tang and star polyps

Added in spring of 2009 RBTA.

Cleaner Shrimp and Button Polyps (cinnamon I think?).

Hydnophora RIP I really miss this coral:(

Open Brain Coral

Here is a shot of my open brain:



Favorite foods are: mysis shrimp and pellet food.

Mystery Snails

Mom was in Florida and came across a big group of these snails. Needless to day they came back with her today in the little sand castle bucket...lol Trying to find out if they are reef safe or not before I admit them to the depths of the 75.

A Fishing We Will Go!

Here are some shots of my 75 gallon inhabitants:

Baby Sun Coral

Sun coral

Powder Blue Tang

Ricordia (not sure of type)

Seahare

Skunk 'cleaner' Shrimp

Nassariun Snail laying eggs

Open Brain

Potters Angel being cleaned by the Skunk Shrimp