Sunday, January 21, 2007
First off, I apologise for the poor photo quality - I had little time to spare for photography, and had a smudgy fish tank glass as well.
See anything erm .. different?
A closer look:
And even closer - these fish are odd eh? Razor fish, they are called. They swim upside down, amongst the spines of sea urchins as camouflage.
A couple of cheap-o leather corals I bought - cheap, but so pretty!
And finally, for Monty - this might interest you:
Very erm ... risky purchases today, if you didn't know me better, you'd think I was a reef noobie. But Yx liked both of them, and I figured I might as well give them a try - mandarin fish are just as notorious, often starving to death in the aquarium, but mine's eating frozen mysis shrimp and has been with me since forever. (touch a hell lot of wood) Razorfish supposedly take only live, microscopic food but I'm hopeful - they not only pick stuff off the clumps of seaweed in the tank, but they take frozen cyclops as well!
The crinoid is another matter altogether. Hmmmmmmmm. I'm now periodically adding frozen oyster eggs as zooplankton, hopefully the feather star filters that out and eats them. (Yes, the freezer is full of surprising horrors - frozen worms, oyster eggs, shrump, minced fish, lobster eggs, to name a selection. It's a wonder my parents haven't thrown me out by now. I won't even start describing the fridge...) Monty, have you any idea about what crinoids eat? The feather star's been crawling all over the tank and found a nice spot at the bottom where it seems to like. Hope it survives, it's so pretty.
Wenky
12:18 AM
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