Our tank has been overwhelmed by green hair algae. It is not the prettiest thing to have take over your saltwater tank. Brady brought over a temporary visitor that is named Sluggo. I keep referring to him as “the slug” although he is technically a nudibranch.
 Sluggo is going to live at our house for a [...]
There are cleaner shrimp… coral banded shrimp… shrimp gumbo… and fire shrimp… Ok, I may not be Forrest Gump, but the variety of shrimp that you can get for your reef tank is pretty wide it seems. Although I am officially against anymore coral banded shrimp in our fish tank, Mike did talk me into [...]
I was reading the about.com top saltwater aquarium myths, and it said:
6. Coral Banded Shrimp kill fish.
MYTH:
Coral Banded Shrimp kill fish.
FACT:
The Coral Banded Shrimp is a scavenger as well as a parasite picker, and may attack other shrimp, but will not normally attack fish. Many people who find their Coral Banded Shrimp consuming a dead [...]
So we have a lot of new coral polyps that we used gel glue to stick onto the live rock throughout the tank… and they keep falling down. Everyday when we wake up we find something new knocked over or moved. We have 3 snails that are about 2-3 inches that seem to be the [...]
We just added our first anemone today. I have been waiting and waiting to get an anomone, and the guys said “it is probably ok to put one in now.” Which to me means “buy one!”
Brady grabbed us this bubble tip anomone. I am working on how to photograph the tank and get brighter colors [...]
I was on vacation all of last week (we made it to Key West but we did not get a chance to go scuba diving or snorkeling unfortunately). I returned on Sunday, said hi to my fishies, and ran off to Seattle for a conference.
So I am going to play a little catch up on [...]