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!