Aquaritastic!
At the constant prodding of Zenified, I have finally taken pictures of my aquarium. Now let's see if I am capable of making them show up here :-p Erm, under a cut, even? Could I be so clever?
Purple mushrooms. Very rare coloration. They are my newest indulgence!
A partial tank view. Those blue/green blurs in the top left are the only picture I've managed to get so far of my Green Chromis school; right now there's five of them. When I can find decent-sized specimins, there will be a dozen of them. They school very tight, so it's like a pretty blue-green cloud dashing about the tank.
A too-dark picture of one of my three Pajama Cardinals, all named "PJ." I am so creative. How do you stand it?
Yet another too-dark picture of a mandarin goby. Yes, his eyeballs have stripes.
Some Kenyan Tree Coral. I didn't buy this. It sprouted (much to my surprise) all by itself from a piece of live rock. Now there is a second baby one sprouting beside it. Huzzah!
Krusty the Clown Fish swimming amongst some Candycane Coral (aka Trumpet Coral) that he calls home. He's only 1.5 inches long, but he will defend his turf.
This is an adult snail on the left and a baby snail on the right. They're hard to see, so I circled them both with my expert Photoshop skills. I woke up one morning and had about a hundred baby snails in the tank. That little guy is about three months old, and easily four times as big as he was when he was born. To give you an idea of scale. the big snail's foot is a little over an inch long. I think the baby snails are about a tenth of an inch.
A blurry picture of my Coral Banded Shrimp. I couldn't get a better one because he kept trying to attack the camera through the tank.
Another PJ pic with some button polyps below him (lord, they grow like weeds!) and a green chromis and a square anthias swimming off frame right.
My yellow tang, Yasser. Couldn't get a good pic of him either. Will try later.
My male square anthias, Boxy 2. Rest in peace, Boxy 1 . . .
One of the prettier corners of my tank. Top left is some eyelash polyps, top right is a yellow cup coral, middle left is a pink tooth coral, middle right is a bubble coral, bottom left is a freaky mushroom that sprang up out of nowhere over the past year, and bottom right is a piece of cabbage leather.
My cleaner shrimp, Cleanworth. Go on . . . guess how old I am ;-p
Cleanworth hanging upside down, as per usual, with a little yellow Damsel (as yet unnamed) stopping by to be cleaned. In nature, cleaner shrimps set up stations that all the reef fish know about, and when a reef fish gets a growth or a parasite or some other itchy thing on its skin, it swims over to the cleaner shrimp. The cleaner shrimp will actually jump onto the fish (who holds still and lets it) and eat the itchy stuff right off. In aquariums, they do the same thing. It's really neat to watch. Some button polyps to Cleanworth's left, those pretty purple mushrooms again above him, and a gigantic ricordia mushroom polyp to his right (it's about 8 inches across; most mushrooms don't get more than a couple inches across before the split off into two mushrooms). Next to the ricordia is a little colony of some mystery mushrooms that are orange with very pretty bright green stripes.
Sorta hard to tell, but that's an emerald crab about two inches long, hiding in a colony of mushrooms. He lives there; unless he's out eating, we always know where to find him.
Some finger coral. Recently, a finger broke off of it, planted itself in the sand, and started growing a whole new finger coral. Neat!
Purple mushrooms. Very rare coloration. They are my newest indulgence!
A partial tank view. Those blue/green blurs in the top left are the only picture I've managed to get so far of my Green Chromis school; right now there's five of them. When I can find decent-sized specimins, there will be a dozen of them. They school very tight, so it's like a pretty blue-green cloud dashing about the tank.
A too-dark picture of one of my three Pajama Cardinals, all named "PJ." I am so creative. How do you stand it?
Yet another too-dark picture of a mandarin goby. Yes, his eyeballs have stripes.
Some Kenyan Tree Coral. I didn't buy this. It sprouted (much to my surprise) all by itself from a piece of live rock. Now there is a second baby one sprouting beside it. Huzzah!
Krusty the Clown Fish swimming amongst some Candycane Coral (aka Trumpet Coral) that he calls home. He's only 1.5 inches long, but he will defend his turf.
This is an adult snail on the left and a baby snail on the right. They're hard to see, so I circled them both with my expert Photoshop skills. I woke up one morning and had about a hundred baby snails in the tank. That little guy is about three months old, and easily four times as big as he was when he was born. To give you an idea of scale. the big snail's foot is a little over an inch long. I think the baby snails are about a tenth of an inch.
A blurry picture of my Coral Banded Shrimp. I couldn't get a better one because he kept trying to attack the camera through the tank.
Another PJ pic with some button polyps below him (lord, they grow like weeds!) and a green chromis and a square anthias swimming off frame right.
My yellow tang, Yasser. Couldn't get a good pic of him either. Will try later.
My male square anthias, Boxy 2. Rest in peace, Boxy 1 . . .
One of the prettier corners of my tank. Top left is some eyelash polyps, top right is a yellow cup coral, middle left is a pink tooth coral, middle right is a bubble coral, bottom left is a freaky mushroom that sprang up out of nowhere over the past year, and bottom right is a piece of cabbage leather.
My cleaner shrimp, Cleanworth. Go on . . . guess how old I am ;-p
Cleanworth hanging upside down, as per usual, with a little yellow Damsel (as yet unnamed) stopping by to be cleaned. In nature, cleaner shrimps set up stations that all the reef fish know about, and when a reef fish gets a growth or a parasite or some other itchy thing on its skin, it swims over to the cleaner shrimp. The cleaner shrimp will actually jump onto the fish (who holds still and lets it) and eat the itchy stuff right off. In aquariums, they do the same thing. It's really neat to watch. Some button polyps to Cleanworth's left, those pretty purple mushrooms again above him, and a gigantic ricordia mushroom polyp to his right (it's about 8 inches across; most mushrooms don't get more than a couple inches across before the split off into two mushrooms). Next to the ricordia is a little colony of some mystery mushrooms that are orange with very pretty bright green stripes.
Sorta hard to tell, but that's an emerald crab about two inches long, hiding in a colony of mushrooms. He lives there; unless he's out eating, we always know where to find him.
Some finger coral. Recently, a finger broke off of it, planted itself in the sand, and started growing a whole new finger coral. Neat!