Tuesday, March 06, 2007
On this new blog, anyway. Essay paper was mercifully OK, except for the strange question on what to do with a patient that has both rheumatoid arthritis and ischaemic heart disease. That, I totally bluffed my way through. But it was otherwise ok, and my wrist is feeling extremely sore right now, somewhat like post-econs paper.
Feeling slightly upset right now. I sneaked off for a snack of retail therapy today (meaning fish) and bought 2 GORGEOUS fish. One's a flying gurnard (YX, you're going to adore this guy!!) and the other - ALAS - a leopard blenny. I don't have pix right now, but here are some from the net:
Leopard blenny
Flying gurnard
I come home, search my trusty Reef Central and OMG. The leopard blenny eats exclusively small polyped corals!! I'm really shocked (and so were the people on RC actually), since blennies are mostly considered reef-safe and are in fact great at munching up nuisance algae. Fack. Now I have a coral-eating fish in my tank. He's still not out of the bag yet, I really should've asked about its diet first but I doubt I'd get a correct answer anyway. If it were Henry, then yes. But not where I bought these fish.
How?!? I only have one small polyped stony coral in my tank, and that's the beautiful yellow Porites that I love so much. There's no way I'm going to let that fish eat that coral, then die from starvation after he's killed it. =(
Plan now, is to put him in the sump I guess. Will try to acclimatize him to eating normal food like shrimp and teach him that there are tastier things to eat other than corals. This is bad. I'm going to stave off buying any more fish for now (not until something truly delightful pops up, anyway) - I'm very shaken by this coral-eating fish episode.
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Wenky
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