Salt Water Aquarium
No web-cam yet, but we do have some great photos, so please take a peek at how the
aquarium is shaping up! Click on pictures for a full-size photo.
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An overall view of our aquarium, from the front. You can actually see at least
one of every critter, and get a look at the overall layout of the tank. At this point
we have a large fan of inactive coral (decorative) in the back, and the rest is
living rock (Marshall Island). This is a Dutch Aquarium Systems tank, with a mildly
modified filter system that's pumping away happily at this point.
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| Here's a view through one end of the tank, where you can see our
largest snail (since sadly deceased and consumed by the starfish) cleaning the glass,
plus some percula clowns and blue damsels.
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A close-up of some of the clowns. The one on the far left is Fang,
who sports a rather fetching overbite.
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| Another view of the clowns |
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One of the yellow-tailed blue damsels, swimming around the rock that
at that time was festooned with tons of bubble algae. Tina took care of that within
a week, the pig-fish!
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| Another view of a damsel. These are really interesting fish.
When they are sleeping or dormant, they frequently lose some color, or become rather
splotchy. These were our first fish -- we initially had four -- and when the one
original fish died, instantly all the color left and the little carcass was just a
black limp thing; the vibrant blue color is just present when they're active and alive.
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The large snail is cleaning the front of the tank. This one died
about three weeks after this was taken, unfortunately. She had been cleaning one
of the branch rocks, and it appears that she got overweighted and fell to the bottom of the
tank on her back, and couldn't ever right herself. By the time we found her, she was
pretty weakened already.
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