this is the cough that never ends
Oct. 21st, 2002 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joflasherit just goes on and on, my friends...
one of these days, it will go away and I'm hoping its before spring. Dumb cold.
So I finally got the big ass fish tank I bought off of Ahn almost a year ago out and started to set it up. Along the way, the Boy piped in with "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we made it into a salt water tank?" Many many dollars later, we have a lovely salt water tank with 10 lbs of live rock in it and two itty bitty blue damsels. Now we get to wait 4 - 6 weeks will the proper bacteria grows and the nitrate/nitrite cycle sorts itself out. The live rock is supposed to help work this out faster.
Live rock rocks. No, really. Its this pretty icky looking coral/rock stuff that has all sorts of algae and sponges and tube worms and stuff on it. The first night I put it in there, I left the tank in the dark for about 1/2 an hour and then turned on the light. All these little crabs and skittering things went zooming everywhere, going back into the coral holes all through the rock. The one tube worm is about 1/2 inch long and is pretty cool to watch. Its shy, though, and hides if the light is on very long.
The blue damsels are pretty cool. We have 15 gallons of water per inch of fish and they still argue over who gets to be in the one cave. And its not like that's the only cave, either. I made caves all through the tank. They also eat brine shrimp, which is much more interesting to feed than flake food. I've been throwing the extra in with my neons in the freshwater tank. The neons are thrilled. I also got some of Ahn's extra plants from her tank and put in with the neons to give them a more natural environment. I'm not sure if the plants will make it, since the neons are intent on eating the roots.
Boy and I are hoping to get either some soft coral (looks like an anemone) or an actual anemone. Bad thing is we have to plan all the fish out in advanced depending on which we get. We also have to plan out the exact order they go into the aquarium, since some are territoral and will claim the entire tank if they get put in first. Alot more planning involved for this than with a freshwater tank.
Okay, enough about fish.
one of these days, it will go away and I'm hoping its before spring. Dumb cold.
So I finally got the big ass fish tank I bought off of Ahn almost a year ago out and started to set it up. Along the way, the Boy piped in with "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we made it into a salt water tank?" Many many dollars later, we have a lovely salt water tank with 10 lbs of live rock in it and two itty bitty blue damsels. Now we get to wait 4 - 6 weeks will the proper bacteria grows and the nitrate/nitrite cycle sorts itself out. The live rock is supposed to help work this out faster.
Live rock rocks. No, really. Its this pretty icky looking coral/rock stuff that has all sorts of algae and sponges and tube worms and stuff on it. The first night I put it in there, I left the tank in the dark for about 1/2 an hour and then turned on the light. All these little crabs and skittering things went zooming everywhere, going back into the coral holes all through the rock. The one tube worm is about 1/2 inch long and is pretty cool to watch. Its shy, though, and hides if the light is on very long.
The blue damsels are pretty cool. We have 15 gallons of water per inch of fish and they still argue over who gets to be in the one cave. And its not like that's the only cave, either. I made caves all through the tank. They also eat brine shrimp, which is much more interesting to feed than flake food. I've been throwing the extra in with my neons in the freshwater tank. The neons are thrilled. I also got some of Ahn's extra plants from her tank and put in with the neons to give them a more natural environment. I'm not sure if the plants will make it, since the neons are intent on eating the roots.
Boy and I are hoping to get either some soft coral (looks like an anemone) or an actual anemone. Bad thing is we have to plan all the fish out in advanced depending on which we get. We also have to plan out the exact order they go into the aquarium, since some are territoral and will claim the entire tank if they get put in first. Alot more planning involved for this than with a freshwater tank.
Okay, enough about fish.
