March 2006
Posted on Wednesday, 29 March, 2006 at 1:48 PM by miskairal
Well not a lot to tell about the tank for the first 4 months. I managed to get 5 smallish hermit crabs in February 2006.
In March 2006 I bought yet another 2nd hand tank, I call it the Peregian tank or the 4 footer. This one is 120x35x40cm drilled in the bottom and has a small sump so that total water volume is nearing 200 litres. The tank had lots come with it but had been left to get too warm the previous summer and much was in trouble.
- 1 anemone bleached totally white
- Approx 8 fluffly mushrooms totally white (quite pretty actually)
- 1 small leather coral
- 1 juvenile sailfin tang that was quite skinny
- 1 large red crab
- 1 very large hermit crab
- I broken little piece of heliofungia
- 1 duncanopsammia
- Pods! I had no pods that I ever found with my first 6 footer but now I finally had heaps
- 3 zoanthids which have not multiplied
- Mojano which has multiplied
- An unknown growth which I finally have a decent picture of and am trying to ID
The fluffy mushrooms coloured up quickly and have multiplied to more than double their number. The anemone has slowly divided into 6 that I know of and just recently 3 of those show signs of colouring (more than a year after bleaching). They have received mostly prawn and whiting in that time. The tang has grown heaps and has pretty much got his adult colouring from what I can read and see. He's got a beer belly and eats out of my hand. He/she doesn't like a T-shirt I was given that is black with orange and white south park figures on it. He also doesn't like a singlet top I have that is orange and green horizontal stripes. If I wear either of those items when I go to feed the fish the tang goes into a spack attack and shakes in a corner of the tank and "runs" from me.
The leather coral thrived and grew well for about 2 months when it suddenly got a yellow spot in the centre and within days was dead. That was a bit of a shock.
The duncan has thrived to the point I can no longer count it's polyps and the helio has mostly thrived although it seems to have "off" days particularly after feeding. Both have been fed much the same as the anemone - pieces of prawn and whiting that were blended in the blender and frozen. The pods I'm happy to say have multiplied very well especially during the many times the tank has had no fish in it. There seems to be both amphipods and copepods.
Edited on: Tuesday, 01 May, 2007 4:07 PMPosted in Corals (RSS), Fish (RSS), Other Critters (RSS), Tank in general (RSS)