..chazz-66 today! Got a little handfull of creatures from his tank.
They all seem to be acclimating well, everyone who had closed up has re-opened, and the bigger
coral frag seems to be opening up again as well.
chazz-66 has a very lovely tank, and a really neat freshwater tank as well.
My husband was terribly enthralled. He probably could have stayed there all day just looking at everything.
Heee, personally, the brittle star and that odd crab with the fan appendages have to be my two favorites.
Once your baby swords grow up and leave the weed mess, if you want to get rid of some of the weed mess, let me know; cichlids may be able to eat it (which is okay by me), but the can't dig it up which means less tank destruction over here.
So yes, in other tank news, I found an old little fluval submersible filter that I used to use on a betta tank that is long gone (sprung a leak. big mess. ouch.). I didn't have any filter media for it, so I improvised; peeled off the foam from an Penguin cartridge (we don't have that filter anymore), took the carbon, rolled it up nicely, and it fit in quite well.
Got that situated close to the bottom of the saltwater tank to add some extra flow. The powerhead we have already isn't really strong enough to get down deep. It's made for a smaller tank; works nice for circulating mid-upper level water, but we have nothing built up that far just yet so...
I'm glad we didn't throw that little fluval away!
Lori, the coral I got from you seems to be doing a bit better in the stronger current; it's very near to where the fluval is sitting and has opened up a little bit more since I got the pump going.
...and if anybody locally has snails they'd like to sell or just plain get rid of due to overpopulation, let me know. I only have one or two and could use a few more.
I hope the corals do well.
