Monday, December 26, 2005

Clownfish aren't really that picky

So after the male breeding pair clownfish died, the female one seems to mourn it for a few days.... well, until I moved my green bta hosting anemone from my 20G tank down to the 120G. They were fighting a bit here and there, the small one even wanted to take over the breeding female's rose bta, however the female blow it away. ... then they fight a bit.....

Next day when I woke up and took a look (make sure one did not kill the other), they were already both hosting in the green bta that the small one used to host. Seems like nowadays they are hosting together in that one bubble tip anemone, so there are actually two rose bubble tip empty without clowns :D Maybe I can get some black& white percual to host those.... if I can ever find some.

Pre-boxing day cleanup

As boxing day is getting near and I have blew too much $ already, today we decided to spend some time at home doing some maintainence.

20G Kitchen tank
  • 50% water change
  • Rocks with dark algae is treated with Mauric acid to descale: one xenia rock, one zoo rock & the big platform rock
  • The new sun corals are doing better. Jony's Orange sun coral is starting to open up, the NAFB yellow sun coral is opening up and eating fine
  • pH 7.9

120G Tank

  • Cleaned the hood for moonlighting
  • The clove polyps are half open, so are the new green & blue/red zoo colony but they should be doing better. Next time might want to avoid non-opening speciments.
  • Found out torch coral actually will eat like anemones, so will feed them too
  • Still no sights of Nassarius snails that I put in anywhere, maybe the substrate is still poisonious from the dead flatworm or medicine.... hmmm....

Monday, December 19, 2005

Sad day - breeding pair male gone

... to our disappointment, mom announced the bad news that the male clown fish of my breeding pair is dead.... somehow got suck into the powerhead but I think it's dead before it got suck in because that powerhead is not that strong to kill a fish. Oh well, the female one seems to wander around all tank to try to find her mate, they lived together for 5 years, it is in deed a sad day for her. Poor girl.