Thursday, February 28, 2008
A new arrival
Then on the next day 6 more arrived. On the following morning (13th) the male surprised me with 18 more fry, making the total to 25!
I moved the male to the other side of the tank divider I installed, leaving babies behind with the sitter. With all the commotion I made trying to catch the male, the sitter ran away leaving all the babies behind. Bewildered babies were all huddled together in a corner of the tank. It took me a few tries, but I managed to get the sitter back to the babies. Then I fed the babies with baby brine shrimp (bbs). Again the sitter tried to ran away when I showered it with bbs. So the chase started all over again. I am beginning to wonder about the value of having a live sea urchin for a sitter. Not only does it try to leave but it poops a lot, too.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Baby dillema
I have read that Banggaii cardinal males incubate eggs and hold fries in their mouth for 26 days on the average. So his babies are almost over due now. I am wondering if I have to play a midwife here soon.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Bangaii cardinalfish
The expectant father in the center
The future babysitter
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Frags from Nashville Frag Swap on a frag tray in the display tank
They stayed on the tray until I finally found spots in my already crowded tank this past Sunday. One acropora STN'd this morning. The rest of the frags are all doing very well.
My make-shift quarantine tank
Here are some pictures of my trade/purchases at Nashville Frag Swap.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Nashville Frag Swap
Here are some pictures from the swap. I don't know how many people attended the meeting, but it was rather crowded as you can tell from the picture.
Here's Harry from NARC with a bunch of frags for sale.
People were busy checking out the frags for sale.
I had a number of them for sale as well. Next to me is Reilly, and next to him is another NARC member Steve (Mariner.)
There were a lot of nice raffle prizes and door prizes, including some yet-to-be-released ORA corals, some high end reef equipment and a complete Red Sea Max set up.
I was lucky enough to win Baensch's Marine Atlas, $10 gift certificate from a reef store in Nashville area, and a very nice colony of green Ricordia yuma this time.
I also attended the lecture by Dr. Ron Shimek on the state of world's coral reef. He took us through the evolution process of corals and talked to us about what we hobbyists can do to help preserve them. It was a great presentation. Unfortunately something else started just as his Q&A session started and I had to leave the lecture to attend the next event.
Later in the fragging workshop MTRC members fragged a large leather and a lime green table acropora colony. I was very happy to receive a very nice frag of the table acropora since I wanted to try my hand at a table acropora ever since I saw the pictures of beautiful table acropora colonies growing in a few Japanese reef enthusiasts tanks.
All in all, it was a fun-filled wonderful day. I believe everyone had a great time. I hope the next one in June in Knoxville, TN will be as good as this one.