He is a real cutie! Loads of personality with those eyes of his :) At night he gets his camo markings out and he has mottled white patches. It works - I can hardly find him when he is like that :)
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Monday, 16 February 2009
The tank is full!
Yestderday we made a home for the last soul in the tank - meet Pepe the Tailspot Blenny :)
Last week when I was picking up Pedro I had asked my fish guy to see if he could get one of these little guys - we have pretty much decided that O is going to be a single clownfish. When I went into the shop on Sunday to collect the weekly water there was one in one of the display tanks! It was really cute, too. Three had arrived but this one was the most well adjusted - lounging on the rock, eating, swimming around...a happy fish :) Since it was Sunday and I had plenty of time to acclimatize him I decided to get him and not wait (who knows what my week was going to be like). So I spent a couple of hours keeping him warm and slowing putting my tank water into the bucket....if it was acclimatization that contributed to Antigone's demise then I was going to be ultra careful! So I plopped him in the tank and he promptly disappeared. I would have to wait for him to poke his head out - these guys live in the rock.
So off I went to the grocery store while A made her way home from the British Museum and when I got back she said she had spotted him and he was so cute! And he was swimming around!!!! Wow, that was fast. He was out playing with O :)
This morning though, we couldn't find him! Troy (the Trochus snail) was parked in the doorway to Pepe's last seen location when we shut the lights out the night before. Stress! You can imagine, I do not want to lose another life in my tank! Pepe had been in great spirits the night before- out, eating, happy, etc. No idea what happened to him. I found him vertical, hiding behind the algae scrubber with his white stress markings out and vibrant! I kicked Troy off his hole and he swam back to the rock and just sat there, breathing heavy. I fed some cyclops and put a piece of nori in the tank and just let him rest. In a half hour or so he was moving a bit more, snatching at food that floated by, and by the time I went to work he was out and swimming a little. A's reports from home today (she is fighting a cold and working on her latest essay) are very good - Pepe is out and about and showing O how to eat algae off the back wall and he has made a visit to Pedro to get himself cleaned up :)
Let's hope everyone is happy now - Otello has new friends and he is a much happier guy (swimming like th epuppy he is :) and Pedro is keeping Minty in his place and Pepe is looking pretty happy, too :)
Later!
Yestderday we made a home for the last soul in the tank - meet Pepe the Tailspot Blenny :)
Last week when I was picking up Pedro I had asked my fish guy to see if he could get one of these little guys - we have pretty much decided that O is going to be a single clownfish. When I went into the shop on Sunday to collect the weekly water there was one in one of the display tanks! It was really cute, too. Three had arrived but this one was the most well adjusted - lounging on the rock, eating, swimming around...a happy fish :) Since it was Sunday and I had plenty of time to acclimatize him I decided to get him and not wait (who knows what my week was going to be like). So I spent a couple of hours keeping him warm and slowing putting my tank water into the bucket....if it was acclimatization that contributed to Antigone's demise then I was going to be ultra careful! So I plopped him in the tank and he promptly disappeared. I would have to wait for him to poke his head out - these guys live in the rock.
So off I went to the grocery store while A made her way home from the British Museum and when I got back she said she had spotted him and he was so cute! And he was swimming around!!!! Wow, that was fast. He was out playing with O :)
This morning though, we couldn't find him! Troy (the Trochus snail) was parked in the doorway to Pepe's last seen location when we shut the lights out the night before. Stress! You can imagine, I do not want to lose another life in my tank! Pepe had been in great spirits the night before- out, eating, happy, etc. No idea what happened to him. I found him vertical, hiding behind the algae scrubber with his white stress markings out and vibrant! I kicked Troy off his hole and he swam back to the rock and just sat there, breathing heavy. I fed some cyclops and put a piece of nori in the tank and just let him rest. In a half hour or so he was moving a bit more, snatching at food that floated by, and by the time I went to work he was out and swimming a little. A's reports from home today (she is fighting a cold and working on her latest essay) are very good - Pepe is out and about and showing O how to eat algae off the back wall and he has made a visit to Pedro to get himself cleaned up :)
Let's hope everyone is happy now - Otello has new friends and he is a much happier guy (swimming like th epuppy he is :) and Pedro is keeping Minty in his place and Pepe is looking pretty happy, too :)
Later!
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Pedro has arrived!!!!!
Last night we introduced a new cleaner shrimp to the tank. Hopefully more successfully than introducing a new clownfish :( Pedro survived the acclimatization and the night and seems to be pretty happy. Otello is very happy that there is again someone that wants to tickle his tummy - you can see the change in his behaviour :) I think that Otello misses Jack more than he misses Penelope. Jack was a real character and I hope Pedro grows into his own - he is pretty small and his antennae are not as long as Jack's, but then Jack was pretty small when I got him and he had to grow, too.
Say hello to Pedro:
Here is another pic of the illustrious Bonita making a pig of herself :)
And this is my desktop at work...it's cold and I am thinking of penguins :)
Catch you later!
-K
Last night we introduced a new cleaner shrimp to the tank. Hopefully more successfully than introducing a new clownfish :( Pedro survived the acclimatization and the night and seems to be pretty happy. Otello is very happy that there is again someone that wants to tickle his tummy - you can see the change in his behaviour :) I think that Otello misses Jack more than he misses Penelope. Jack was a real character and I hope Pedro grows into his own - he is pretty small and his antennae are not as long as Jack's, but then Jack was pretty small when I got him and he had to grow, too.
Say hello to Pedro:
Here is another pic of the illustrious Bonita making a pig of herself :)
And this is my desktop at work...it's cold and I am thinking of penguins :)
Catch you later!
-K
Friday, 6 February 2009
Sad news....RIP Antigone.
She developed some buoyancy problems yesterday and though she was doing ok at 3am she didn't see the sunrise. She was looking good for the first couple of days. Maybe a little stressed, but then Otello was a bit on the pushy side.....who knows. Otello is still good as ever :) And the tank looks lovely! Maybe it's best to just have the one fish... I still love my reef and Otello is a great fish :)
Soon we will get a new cleaner shrimp to replace Jack - the new one will be Pedro :) They just got a shipment of them in to the shop and the tank parameters are looking very good (with my daily or every other day water changes) so I think he will be fine. Diana is eating well now that I didn't just try to tempt her with brine shrimp (she loves the cyclopeze :) and she is small, so there is not too much food in the tank.
It's all good :)
Later!
-K
She developed some buoyancy problems yesterday and though she was doing ok at 3am she didn't see the sunrise. She was looking good for the first couple of days. Maybe a little stressed, but then Otello was a bit on the pushy side.....who knows. Otello is still good as ever :) And the tank looks lovely! Maybe it's best to just have the one fish... I still love my reef and Otello is a great fish :)
Soon we will get a new cleaner shrimp to replace Jack - the new one will be Pedro :) They just got a shipment of them in to the shop and the tank parameters are looking very good (with my daily or every other day water changes) so I think he will be fine. Diana is eating well now that I didn't just try to tempt her with brine shrimp (she loves the cyclopeze :) and she is small, so there is not too much food in the tank.
It's all good :)
Later!
-K
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
And let's have a warm welcome for Antigone!!!!
Last night I collected her from the LFS, wrapped her in my fleece jacket (it's very cold here) and pedalled home - her ride was smoother than smooth peanut butter! We acclimatized her to the temp and water and then introduced her to Otello and sat back to watch them get to know each other. Antigone was hyper!
It was tense for us. We begged Otello to be gentle and nice but they do have to establish a pecking order and that is never pretty. They started to mellow out a couple of hours later and we were ready to head to bed but when we shut the lights in the flat off it got really dark (the lights were off in the tank from the introduction) and Otello became really pushy - we were worried for Antigone with so much stress for her. A had the brilliant idea to put the moon lights on and the blue glow calmed them down immediately so we left it on and went to bed.
I woke up and checked on them at about 1am and they were both swimming together in the corner where Otello usually sleeps - they looked very happy :) I shut the blue light off and watched them in the dark for a little while to make sure that they were getting along and then I went back to bed. A woke up 5ish and checked on them and they were still together in the sleeping corner - excellent!
When I got up I turned the low light on in the tank and checked Antigone for damage...she was looking fine :) And they were swimming together happily and Otello was not being a bully. Antigone does do the shake for Otello, so they have established their order. Woohoo! We thought it would be ok - Antigone is about a quarter to a third the mass of Otello - she looks tiny compared to Otello.
Here is your first look at her - she is a black clownfish and her face is a bit more orange than Otello's.
Here they are together (Otello in the front and Antigone in the back - you can tell by the orange faces, if not the size):
Last night I collected her from the LFS, wrapped her in my fleece jacket (it's very cold here) and pedalled home - her ride was smoother than smooth peanut butter! We acclimatized her to the temp and water and then introduced her to Otello and sat back to watch them get to know each other. Antigone was hyper!
It was tense for us. We begged Otello to be gentle and nice but they do have to establish a pecking order and that is never pretty. They started to mellow out a couple of hours later and we were ready to head to bed but when we shut the lights in the flat off it got really dark (the lights were off in the tank from the introduction) and Otello became really pushy - we were worried for Antigone with so much stress for her. A had the brilliant idea to put the moon lights on and the blue glow calmed them down immediately so we left it on and went to bed.
I woke up and checked on them at about 1am and they were both swimming together in the corner where Otello usually sleeps - they looked very happy :) I shut the blue light off and watched them in the dark for a little while to make sure that they were getting along and then I went back to bed. A woke up 5ish and checked on them and they were still together in the sleeping corner - excellent!
When I got up I turned the low light on in the tank and checked Antigone for damage...she was looking fine :) And they were swimming together happily and Otello was not being a bully. Antigone does do the shake for Otello, so they have established their order. Woohoo! We thought it would be ok - Antigone is about a quarter to a third the mass of Otello - she looks tiny compared to Otello.
Here is your first look at her - she is a black clownfish and her face is a bit more orange than Otello's.
Here they are together (Otello in the front and Antigone in the back - you can tell by the orange faces, if not the size):
Monday, 2 February 2009
Woohoo! We have snow in London!!!
Fabulous! It started snowing a little bit yesterday afternoon as I left the house to collect A from work and go visit the fish shop to check out some new clownfish (Otello needs a new mate). My fish guy was suggesting that we swap Otello for a mated pair of a different type of clownfish - still black and white striped but they have yellow side fins. Well...neither A nor I want to lose Otello, so even though they are a lovely pair we will go through th eprocess of getting Otello hooked up with a suitable mate - we have been through so much!
I spent much of the day yesterday playing the video game Hitman. It was a nice distraction, I didn't even notice the snow :) A was getting excited when we had a few inches outside before we went to bed. When we woke up this morning it was really snowing and there was 5 inches of snow on the car outside! We decided to change the tyres on the bikes to something knobbier and then ride in :). Wow, what an opportunity! It was a total shock when we checked the TFL site and they said all London buses were not running.....the wusses :) We are always up for a bit of adventure and it was definitely that :)
Check out Ronalds Road:
This was the ride in:
And just because it's hilarious - here is Bonita baby with her carrot pinned up against the glass being nibbled like she hasn't eaten in weeks :) I think the orange spots on her "nose" are from the carotene :)
Have a great day! We are :)
Fabulous! It started snowing a little bit yesterday afternoon as I left the house to collect A from work and go visit the fish shop to check out some new clownfish (Otello needs a new mate). My fish guy was suggesting that we swap Otello for a mated pair of a different type of clownfish - still black and white striped but they have yellow side fins. Well...neither A nor I want to lose Otello, so even though they are a lovely pair we will go through th eprocess of getting Otello hooked up with a suitable mate - we have been through so much!
I spent much of the day yesterday playing the video game Hitman. It was a nice distraction, I didn't even notice the snow :) A was getting excited when we had a few inches outside before we went to bed. When we woke up this morning it was really snowing and there was 5 inches of snow on the car outside! We decided to change the tyres on the bikes to something knobbier and then ride in :). Wow, what an opportunity! It was a total shock when we checked the TFL site and they said all London buses were not running.....the wusses :) We are always up for a bit of adventure and it was definitely that :)
Check out Ronalds Road:
This was the ride in:
And just because it's hilarious - here is Bonita baby with her carrot pinned up against the glass being nibbled like she hasn't eaten in weeks :) I think the orange spots on her "nose" are from the carotene :)
Have a great day! We are :)
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Quick update...
Surya is back at the LFS. I will feed Diana tonight, but just enough to keep her from starving. Otello is hanging in there. I will thaw and drain the brine shrimp and then soak them in vitamins so that the leftovers that Otello gets will be good an healthy :) I did give the tank a bit of phyto this morning after the small water change - they must all be starving since I have fed almost nothing since Saturday (just a few pellets to keep Otello going).
Later!
Surya is back at the LFS. I will feed Diana tonight, but just enough to keep her from starving. Otello is hanging in there. I will thaw and drain the brine shrimp and then soak them in vitamins so that the leftovers that Otello gets will be good an healthy :) I did give the tank a bit of phyto this morning after the small water change - they must all be starving since I have fed almost nothing since Saturday (just a few pellets to keep Otello going).
Later!
I am disgusted!
Yesterday I was opening my post - I bought a bunch of old school video games off eBay and they had arrived :) - and there is yet another envelope of dead trees from Barclays. What is it going to be this time? More loan offers? No. It's a targeted mailing. I am female so they want to sell me female cancer insurance!!!!!
I live with the cancer thing every day - my Mom and one of my best friends are both cancer survivors. I follow Lance Armstrong pretty religiously (he's on Twitter :). I do my annual screenings. Ugh. It just turned my stomach to see it there in the post. They are trading off women's fears! Barclays is a bank, they do not need to encroach into my life in any other way. I know I need to tell Barclays to take me off their mailing lists and this is the spur that will get me to act!
Here is Barclays Wellwoman plan.
-K
Yesterday I was opening my post - I bought a bunch of old school video games off eBay and they had arrived :) - and there is yet another envelope of dead trees from Barclays. What is it going to be this time? More loan offers? No. It's a targeted mailing. I am female so they want to sell me female cancer insurance!!!!!
I live with the cancer thing every day - my Mom and one of my best friends are both cancer survivors. I follow Lance Armstrong pretty religiously (he's on Twitter :). I do my annual screenings. Ugh. It just turned my stomach to see it there in the post. They are trading off women's fears! Barclays is a bank, they do not need to encroach into my life in any other way. I know I need to tell Barclays to take me off their mailing lists and this is the spur that will get me to act!
Here is Barclays Wellwoman plan.
-K
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Disaster in the reef tank....
It was not a pretty Sunday :(. I woke to a grey Otello, Jack flat on his back, twitching, and no sign of Penelope.
I had fed the sun coral sisters (Surya and Diana) the previous night and when I checked on them at 5am they looked very happy. They looked happy at 8am, too...they are happy girls :). Too much food, the food was off (it wasn't staying frozen in our little fridge, it was a bit soft the night before), too many babies in my tank, all of of these combined...something caused a problem with the chemistry. All the corals looked pretty happy and Minty was looking good, as were the snails (Trotsky, Troy, Tippity and Tappity) and the crabs (Jesus and Jose)...it was just the clownfish and Jack that were hurting.
Penelope was already having a few problems as I hadn't made sure she had enough food while I was away skiing (I was more concerned about the corals, DOH! I thought it would be enough - Otello was plenty fat) and she was a bit emaciated when we got back. We were hoping she was on the road to recovery as we were feeding her very well. Jack is a cleaner shrimp and they are very sensitive to chemical changes. The nitrite problem pushed them over the edge. When I got Jack out of the tank we found Penelope up against the wall in Shell Alley - she was a goner - so I got her out, too. :(:(:(
We are very sad. Otello is pretty sad too, with the loss of Penelope, but we think he is going to make it. I did 4 2-gallon water changes in 24 hours to get the bad stuff out and Otello was definitely responding when the fresh water was going in. After the first one he returned to being black, though still with some white spots on his tail. The second water change got rid of the spots and he was looking quite normal. He is eating, though he looks less energetic than he usually is....now that he doesn't have Penelope to bull out of the way to get to the food :) Poor guy, he will be missing her.
On the recommendation of my fish guy, I will continue doing small water changes every morning for the rest of the week. In a few weeks we will get a new Penelope and a new Pedro the cleaner shrimp (we can never replace Jack!). I am also going to reduce the bioload a bit and Surya is going to have go back to the LFS to find a bigger tank with someone else to feed her. Diana is small and it more suited to the tank size that I have. I will prune out some of the Xenia, too and there is a piece of the purple dendro that has separated, so I will return that as well.
On top of all that, does Miss Bonita Applebum have to cause more stress by going walkabout this morning? Obviously :). We awoke this morning to snail slime on the kitchen table place mats and there she was, lying on the table with her back door closed. We popped her back in the tank and she was cruising around the tank in 15 minutes. All the little fish were out and darting around - they must have missed her :). A is putting some slices of carrot and cucumber in the tank to keep her entertained :)
Later!!!!
It was not a pretty Sunday :(. I woke to a grey Otello, Jack flat on his back, twitching, and no sign of Penelope.
I had fed the sun coral sisters (Surya and Diana) the previous night and when I checked on them at 5am they looked very happy. They looked happy at 8am, too...they are happy girls :). Too much food, the food was off (it wasn't staying frozen in our little fridge, it was a bit soft the night before), too many babies in my tank, all of of these combined...something caused a problem with the chemistry. All the corals looked pretty happy and Minty was looking good, as were the snails (Trotsky, Troy, Tippity and Tappity) and the crabs (Jesus and Jose)...it was just the clownfish and Jack that were hurting.
Penelope was already having a few problems as I hadn't made sure she had enough food while I was away skiing (I was more concerned about the corals, DOH! I thought it would be enough - Otello was plenty fat) and she was a bit emaciated when we got back. We were hoping she was on the road to recovery as we were feeding her very well. Jack is a cleaner shrimp and they are very sensitive to chemical changes. The nitrite problem pushed them over the edge. When I got Jack out of the tank we found Penelope up against the wall in Shell Alley - she was a goner - so I got her out, too. :(:(:(
We are very sad. Otello is pretty sad too, with the loss of Penelope, but we think he is going to make it. I did 4 2-gallon water changes in 24 hours to get the bad stuff out and Otello was definitely responding when the fresh water was going in. After the first one he returned to being black, though still with some white spots on his tail. The second water change got rid of the spots and he was looking quite normal. He is eating, though he looks less energetic than he usually is....now that he doesn't have Penelope to bull out of the way to get to the food :) Poor guy, he will be missing her.
On the recommendation of my fish guy, I will continue doing small water changes every morning for the rest of the week. In a few weeks we will get a new Penelope and a new Pedro the cleaner shrimp (we can never replace Jack!). I am also going to reduce the bioload a bit and Surya is going to have go back to the LFS to find a bigger tank with someone else to feed her. Diana is small and it more suited to the tank size that I have. I will prune out some of the Xenia, too and there is a piece of the purple dendro that has separated, so I will return that as well.
On top of all that, does Miss Bonita Applebum have to cause more stress by going walkabout this morning? Obviously :). We awoke this morning to snail slime on the kitchen table place mats and there she was, lying on the table with her back door closed. We popped her back in the tank and she was cruising around the tank in 15 minutes. All the little fish were out and darting around - they must have missed her :). A is putting some slices of carrot and cucumber in the tank to keep her entertained :)
Later!!!!
Friday, 9 January 2009
I think it's time for a bit of a rant!!!! I have a couple of things I just need to get out :)
The first is some serious anger towards the Israelis. If they know that the Hamas are using human shields (*we* know, the media keeps telling us) then why are they KNOWINGLY killing civilians by continually lobbing bombs willy nilly at Gaza? The numbers that we are getting in the media imply that the Israelis have killed more women and children than Hamas fighters. That doesn't sound good. Wouldn't it be far more intelligent (and humane) to find a better way to fight the Hamas and attack in a more granular way? Is it because they spent all that money on a bunch of bombs and they are damn well going to use them? Or perhaps because they are too dumb to find a better, more surgical, solution? (I can't believe that is true) Is it just too expensive? Aren't lives worth the cost? Or maybe it's because they really couldn't care less. Furthermore, if the Israelis don't want to appear like total idiots they should pass on the intel to the spokespeople (or get better intel) so that their comments are not all "we don't know anything about that" and "I don't think we hit that truck, you know the Hamas like to attack supply trucks, perhaps it was them....". The Israelis are not doing themselves any favors here.
The second is the cancer free baby: 'Cancer-free' baby born in London. What a load of crock. There are THOUSANDS of cancers and this baby is been checked for BRCA-1: breast cancer 1, early onset. On top of that, BRCA-1 doesn't *give* you cancer it just means that if you get breast cancer your body doesn't have a way to kill it (repair the damaged DNA) - you still have to get the cancer. And it's only one way to get breast cancer - it's not like if you don't have that gene you don't get breast cancer. These reporters don't have a clue about what they are talking about, they are only interested in amping people up. It's a good thing, but it's not the end of cancer.
end rant
Ah, I feel much better now :)
I'm off for a week of skiing and snowboarding in the Alps, my fish tanks are being cared for while I'm away by....a very caring person :)
The first is some serious anger towards the Israelis. If they know that the Hamas are using human shields (*we* know, the media keeps telling us) then why are they KNOWINGLY killing civilians by continually lobbing bombs willy nilly at Gaza? The numbers that we are getting in the media imply that the Israelis have killed more women and children than Hamas fighters. That doesn't sound good. Wouldn't it be far more intelligent (and humane) to find a better way to fight the Hamas and attack in a more granular way? Is it because they spent all that money on a bunch of bombs and they are damn well going to use them? Or perhaps because they are too dumb to find a better, more surgical, solution? (I can't believe that is true) Is it just too expensive? Aren't lives worth the cost? Or maybe it's because they really couldn't care less. Furthermore, if the Israelis don't want to appear like total idiots they should pass on the intel to the spokespeople (or get better intel) so that their comments are not all "we don't know anything about that" and "I don't think we hit that truck, you know the Hamas like to attack supply trucks, perhaps it was them....". The Israelis are not doing themselves any favors here.
The second is the cancer free baby: 'Cancer-free' baby born in London. What a load of crock. There are THOUSANDS of cancers and this baby is been checked for BRCA-1: breast cancer 1, early onset. On top of that, BRCA-1 doesn't *give* you cancer it just means that if you get breast cancer your body doesn't have a way to kill it (repair the damaged DNA) - you still have to get the cancer. And it's only one way to get breast cancer - it's not like if you don't have that gene you don't get breast cancer. These reporters don't have a clue about what they are talking about, they are only interested in amping people up. It's a good thing, but it's not the end of cancer.
end rant
Ah, I feel much better now :)
I'm off for a week of skiing and snowboarding in the Alps, my fish tanks are being cared for while I'm away by....a very caring person :)
Monday, 5 January 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
I have a strong feeling 2009 is going to be a good year!
We are off skiing next week and my sciatica is flaring up - nothing can dampen the new year mood, though :) With Surya needing to be fed the tank needs more biological filter, so I have replaced the filter media with crushed live rock and hopefully that will help. With the new rock I am sure there are a few bristleworms and I know we got a new serpent star :) I also decided to get another bit of sun coral, I just couldn't help myself, they are so beautiful! And since I'm feeding one a new little one should be bad :) Meet Diana:
She is more orange than Surya, who is definitely yellow! I have moved a few things around in the tank...
Things want to fall off so they are now on the sand:
* The zoanthids fell on their faces twice in three days so they now live on the sand where they can't fall anywhere. After the disaster with Chihiro I think it's best that they can't fall off and hurt themselves or anyone else :)
* I moved the little yellow denro up off the sand bed but she fell off (was pushed!!!!) three times in one night, so she is back on the sand, too.
I have returned a couple of chunks of Lottie and 3 bits of xenia to the LFS as they are both growing a bit out of control for my little tank.
* Lottie was not happy that I hacked off two bits with a scalpel but she is doing ok and she will be fine in a few weeks.
* I actually have three kinds of xenia - I thought Xara was just one type, but there are 2 variations on the rock, so the white is still Xara and the blue I will call Xade :)
* There were 2 bits of Xena on her rock and I have taken the smaller one and moved it to the other side of the rock.
The mushroom collection is doing well, too. They have been moved around a bit but they are all pretty happy bunnies.
For the new year both tanks got fresh water and I got a new flake food for the fish, so they don't get bored :)
I think the reason that it's such a good year is that it started with us going to see SquarePusher at the Wang party on NYE. It was AWESOME. Ah, we are so lucky!!!! :) We are also thinking about where we want to go next and we are thinking South East Asia. We watched the Top Gear where they went to Vietnam and traversed the country on motorbikes (it was hilarious!) and we have been reading P&J Adventures and they have been travelling around there for the last few months. If you remember, we hooked up with them in Kodai, in India. It's going to be motorbikes or bicycles for us as we love two wheels!!!!! Not anytime soon, of course, as A is in the middle of her studies, but you have to plan....and I *love* to plan :)
Later!
-K
I have a strong feeling 2009 is going to be a good year!
We are off skiing next week and my sciatica is flaring up - nothing can dampen the new year mood, though :) With Surya needing to be fed the tank needs more biological filter, so I have replaced the filter media with crushed live rock and hopefully that will help. With the new rock I am sure there are a few bristleworms and I know we got a new serpent star :) I also decided to get another bit of sun coral, I just couldn't help myself, they are so beautiful! And since I'm feeding one a new little one should be bad :) Meet Diana:
She is more orange than Surya, who is definitely yellow! I have moved a few things around in the tank...
Things want to fall off so they are now on the sand:
* The zoanthids fell on their faces twice in three days so they now live on the sand where they can't fall anywhere. After the disaster with Chihiro I think it's best that they can't fall off and hurt themselves or anyone else :)
* I moved the little yellow denro up off the sand bed but she fell off (was pushed!!!!) three times in one night, so she is back on the sand, too.
I have returned a couple of chunks of Lottie and 3 bits of xenia to the LFS as they are both growing a bit out of control for my little tank.
* Lottie was not happy that I hacked off two bits with a scalpel but she is doing ok and she will be fine in a few weeks.
* I actually have three kinds of xenia - I thought Xara was just one type, but there are 2 variations on the rock, so the white is still Xara and the blue I will call Xade :)
* There were 2 bits of Xena on her rock and I have taken the smaller one and moved it to the other side of the rock.
The mushroom collection is doing well, too. They have been moved around a bit but they are all pretty happy bunnies.
For the new year both tanks got fresh water and I got a new flake food for the fish, so they don't get bored :)
I think the reason that it's such a good year is that it started with us going to see SquarePusher at the Wang party on NYE. It was AWESOME. Ah, we are so lucky!!!! :) We are also thinking about where we want to go next and we are thinking South East Asia. We watched the Top Gear where they went to Vietnam and traversed the country on motorbikes (it was hilarious!) and we have been reading P&J Adventures and they have been travelling around there for the last few months. If you remember, we hooked up with them in Kodai, in India. It's going to be motorbikes or bicycles for us as we love two wheels!!!!! Not anytime soon, of course, as A is in the middle of her studies, but you have to plan....and I *love* to plan :)
Later!
-K
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