Archive for June, 2008

More than Fish Came Home From the Fish Store

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

It seems that the pet store is an overwhelming place. Varieties of exciting furry, scaly, cute and cuddly or wet and slippery pets. My husband and I adopted Zoey a miniature pinscher about 8 months ago when she was 4 years old. I promised that we would get Mike a big dog someday, and the [...]

The Murdering Shrimp Says Goodbye

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Brady and Mike have tried several times to catch the coral banded shrimp in our saltwater reef tank. We placed a jawfish and a new yellow watchman goby in the tank (I haven’t seen either of them come out of hiding yet… if they are just in hiding).
Shortly after we placed the jawfish in the [...]

Burial at Sea

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

We added a coral banded shrimp to the tank last week (he is kind of a big guy), and he is EVIL!!!! We saw him trying to catch the fish and thought maybe he was just trying to scare them off. Mike came home from work for lunch yesterday and saw something yellow wiggling in [...]

The Tank Raised Clownfish and the Anenome…

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

If wonders will never cease, today was a wonder. Mike got home from work and asked what I had done with the tank, I told him “nothing.” He tells me that the clownfish (Nemo the Second, the biting clownfish) was in the anemone. I jumped up to look, and in fact he was swimming in [...]

My First Anemone

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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 [...]

Six Line Wrasse and an Angry Royal Gramma

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

We added a six line wrasse to our tank last night, and the royal gramma (Buttface) was pissed! I haven’t names the wrasse yet, but I like to be a bit creative on naming the fishies. I kept trying to get a picture of the Royal Gramma chasing the wrasse with his mouth wide open, [...]

Snape - Our Serpent Starfish

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

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 [...]