At times, like today, I realize that building a saltwater reef tank is not the cheapest hobby in the world. We have been putting off adding a protein skimmer to the tank. We finally grabbed one today, it was $149.00. We do need it for the survival of the coral, and so that we can [...]
We have had some adventures with the tank the last few days. It seemed to start when out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw the shrimp cleaning the lawnmower blenny. I looked closer and found that the shrimp was in fact eating the blenny!!!
Mike cleaned out the body, I was near [...]
Veruca Salt is our Yellowtail Damsel. She was the first fish to join our saltwater tank. She was placed in the tank the same day that we switched to saltwater (she was the poor test fish to make sure that the conditions were ok for other fishies). Damsels are hearty fish that are usually really [...]
Mike and I have been putting off buying the new fancy lights necessary to run a successful reef tank (we have a vacation coming up, and wanted to save money).
Brady decided that the tank will have light, and he created night and day (I guess one light acts like “twilight” and it makes the tank [...]
Once upon the time there was a fish named Buttface. The latin origin of his name is “butt” meaning behind, and “face” meaning the front. (ok, I made that up, but he has a definite behind and front). I actually named our Royal Gramma Buttface because he was mean to the other saltwater fish when [...]
Our Clownfish named Nemo passed away today due to an unfortunate incident involving the filtration. He was a unique clownfish that liked to swim around with his friend Veruca Salt (the Yellowtail Damsel). He especially loved to swim around the arms of anyone who happened to have an arm in the tank (the first time [...]
In the beginning there was an empty 50 gallon fish tank that did not match the living room, and Mandi painted it black. There was much rejoicing.
On the 2nd day Mike added freshwater and mollies.
On the 3rd day, the mollies had many babies.
On the 4th through the next year the tank had much algae, and [...]