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