March 2007
Predator Tank - Food Issues
Submitted by pwnell on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 19:38I purchased a small Bamboo Shark a couple of days ago. He was eating at the LFS but not in my tank. Experience told me that sometimes these animals don’t eat not because they are not hungry, but rather because they do not like what you are offering. Take my ribbon eel - refuses anything but LM prawns. My shark - eats scallops, LM prawns and once in a while a piece of line fish. My snowflake eel eats anything - squid, LM prawns, lance fish, krill, linefish, etc. My zebra eel only eats LM prawns and krill. Will take one piece of lance fish but refuse any more.
Reef Aquarium Galleries
Submitted by pwnell on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 12:34Check out my new Reef Aquarium Galleries. I will be regularly updating these galleries so be sure to visit regularly. Comment here if you have any opinions/suggestions. To access the galleries, you can always use the link at the top right of this blog.
Death
Submitted by pwnell on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 14:12My new bamboo shark died yesterday night. So too did my hawk fish that I sucked up when I siphoned my tank for the hypo treatment. This is very depressing. The whole reason I ordered the bigger tank was for the shark. To help keep the nitrates down. I guess we learn the hard way. Just because your aquarium is 6 months+ old does not mean you can add fish more quickly.
Photomicrography - Algae
Submitted by pwnell on Sat, 03/17/2007 - 00:57I have been playing a bit with my microscope and under 4x, 10x and 40x objectives I managed to capture these pictures of various macro algae. Try to identify them... (PS Go to my reef gallery for the answers)
Algae A
Algae B
Why one should listen...
Submitted by pwnell on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 20:04I have two brilliant little books on Marine Invertebrates and Marine Fish - one by Shimek, the other by Scott W. Michael. Now usually advise is something you take with a grain of salt since in the reef hobby, the only two certainties are
"The faster you go the worse things will get"
and
"Nothing else is certain"
However, those two books have never been wrong. So many times I thought I needed my cup of salt, but today I realised I need to start listen to what is written in there.
