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Since I don't have any other place to put it just now (pond pages still on the drawing board), there is now a pond cam available from this page, although since it can pan/zoom, there's no guarantee that it's really aiming at the pond at any given time...

Fish News

3/22/04 - Yikes, those herbivores are voracious. All my lushly planted caulerpa, that I was hoping would provide a sustainable environment, has been eaten in a week. I guess that shows how much vegetation is required to support herbivores. Oh well, nori-on-a-clip it is.
3/15/04 - Well, yesterday was quite a day for the fishtank. Julia and I made the 3 hour drive to Damascus, Maryland, to help provide a new home for some about-to-be-displaced fish and corals from the (very nice) tank of Susie and Andy Kagel, who are in the process of moving cross-country. To make a very long story only moderately long, we were eventually able to catch the fish, using two people and up to three nets, despite all the rockwork. We loaded fish (A foxface, percula clown, and firefish), inverts (a pencil urchin and banded serpent star), coral (unidenfied large polyp coral), and mushroom rock in bags, empty salt mix containers, and buckets, and proceeded to carefully drive home. Along the way, we had a little scare when we checked on the fish at a rest stop halfway through the trip home and found that one of the bags was leaking (lesson learned: always double bag...). We didn't have another empty bag large enough, so we ended up shuffling all the fish between bags and redistributing water to ensure everybody had enough room. All at the Maryland House parking lot in freezing weather, no less. After acclimating everything and getting them in the tank, the urchin started spewing forth large quantities of milky white "stuff". After a brief heart attack and a mad dash to get him out of the display tank and into the spare (luckily just set up that morning), a quick google search revealed that everything was okay. Whew. Well, it's now a day later and I'm happy to report that all the fish appear healthy, have started eating, and are generally settling in. The foxface has decided that the yellow tang is close enough in color for him to school with (and the yellow tang has decided that the foxface is different enough not to mind). The mushrooms and coral polyps have opened up. And even the percula has, just in the last hour, stopped swimming madly around the tank and decided on a mushroom that he seems to want to call home.
3/12/04 - Yay! The yellow tang and the royal gramma arrived unscathed, and both seem to be adjusting well to my tank. In fact, both seemed at home later the same night after being acclimated and released in the tank, and now have completely settled in. The royal gramma has already started building a nest in one of the "caves" in the live rock using macroalgae. It's fun watching him steal it and put it to line the cave...very birdlike behavior. And the yellow tang is just enjoying being yellow...really REALLY yellow.
3/10/04 - Well, the first fish did not exactly lead me off to an auspicious start. The poor thing spent the night, upside down (which I'm told, for gramma's, is actually normal), behind the overflow box. Next morning, he seemed to be swimming around fine, but that was the last time I saw him alive. I don't know what happened, or exactly when he died, but he didn't last long. I guess transportation stress?? Well, I now have 3 green chromii, 2 neon gobies, a banggai cardinal, some nassarius snails, and I got more turbo snails and blue-legged hermit crabs. Everything else seems to be doing just fine. Nitrates are still low, and ammonia/nitrites are still 0. Another shipment of fish is (hopefully) coming tomorrow, and I'll try and get some pictures of everything on the site this weekend.
2/27/04 - My first fish, a royal gramma, is currently hiding behind my overflow box. Hopefully he'll calm down overnight and start coming out and about tomorrow. I also bought and added 4 turbo snails, 5 blue-leg hermit crabs, and a peppermint shrimp. Just a few denizens to help keep things clean, hopefully. Also, I'm declaring the web cam open for business. I upgraded from my old (sun-damaged) QuickCam Pro to a new QuickCam 4000. Better picture quality, and better low-light handling (it can even resolve, albeit poorly, a picture using only the moonlights).
2/24/04 - Nitrite levels have bottomed out. The tank is officially cycled. Well, at least, I'm too impatient to wait any longer. Time to order some livestock. At least a little.
2/22/04 - Ammonia levels are 0 and nitrite levels are low already. I stopped in a fish store by my parents when I was visiting them, and (after a good discussion about DIY canopies...coming soon, hopefully) I bought some more macroalgae, and an arrow crab. My first (intentional) animal purchase...he's quite cool.
2/13/04 - Got my second shipment of live rock today (straight from Fiji). There was a little mishap with the truck delivering it to my door, despite the cold weather and the instructions that were supposed to have been given to tell them to hold it at FedEx for me. Oh well, it only sat outside for 5 minutes, I think things will be okay.
2/8/04 - Hey, would you look at that! After much toil and effort and money (and procrastination), the new aquarium is up and running. Check out the static picture above. Right now the coolness factor is kind of low, as there is only a half-load of live rock, and no fish, but never fear, with a little patience, this just might start looking good soon. More information on the tank and its construction, as well as a better gallery of pictures, to come. Hopefully soon.

By the way, in case you're looking for info on my old cichlid tank, that page is archived here: Cichlid Aquarium

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