Sunday, June 17, 2007
Went nuts over doing up the tank today, and I went with Option 3!! Yes, it's all very exciting. But when I say nuts, I really mean it - I now have 2 sharks in my house. Don't get excited yet.
Kicked off the day spectacularly by doing an 80% water change. This alone should be good evidence of the state of the tank before this. Nitrates were sky-high, and I didn't even dare to measure phosphate. So that was 3 hours of back-breaking work, transferring a total of almost 700 litres of water pail by pail. Freaking sick.
Finally with that done, it was time for the fun part. Rearranged the rockwork somewhat - it used to be 2 islands of rocks, but now I've filled in the middle portion so it's more or less a continuous wall instead. And went shopping for stuff to fill it up with. I came home with 4 different kinds of seaweed, 2 soft corals (1 of which was a bloody steal!!), 3 cuttlefish and 2 banded shark eggs. The developing sharks can be seen through the eggs, it's pretty cool actually. A really, really good excuse for me to get a bigger tank once they start growing a little! The cuttlefish are really something, the colour changing is worth an entire afternoon's watching. But one of them died for unknown reasons, I'm hoping the other 2 survive. Having some trouble thinking of what to feed them - I could do freshwater feeder guppies which they may or may not eat, or I could somehow go beachcombing and catch those crabs that hide under rocks.
Too tired to post up pics tonight, I'll update again in the morning.
The things I do to fill up voids in life.
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Wenky
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