Posted by Sarah on October 27, 2008
Our half black angelfish was dead Sunday morning – I kept asking Jeff “Did we really get it on Thursday?”
It seems longer ago than that, but it was really short – oh and this was a saltwater angelfish.
There were a few people who were confused since there are freshwater angelfish too.
I don’t think that taking care of a marine aquarium is what causes people so much trouble – it’s finding healthy fish that are actually going to survive.
I knew that Jeff didn’t want to do a quarantine tank – but we got the fish anyways, and we shouldn’t have, we should have waited.
We didn’t – and now we have a dead fish.
Jeff thinks that our fish – especially the yellow tang, might have been picking on the angelfish, but I don’t know what happened.
She was fine when we got her, so she obviously had a rapid decline.
Posted by Sarah on April 23, 2008
Here are our two Percula Clownfish! They live in our 55 gallon saltwater tank with our Yellow Tang (you saw her yesterday) and seem to be very happy.
Posted by Sarah on April 22, 2008
Here’s a picture of our yellow tang, Tang.
She came with our 55 gallon saltwater tank when we got it.
Tang loves her algae, and she loves our clownfish.
I think she’s trying to move out of her cave, and in with them, but the clownfish don’t like that very much!
Happy Earth Day! To celebrate I’ll be posting fish pictures all week.
After all,we need to keep the environment clean so that we can continue to enjoy fish in nature, as well as in our fish tanks.
Posted by Sarah on January 7, 2008
We took a trip to Grand Forks, ND yesterday to check out some pet stores, and buy some Turbo snails.
We ordered some turbo snails recently, but we ended up with astrea snails.
That’s the bad part about ordering stuff – you don’t always get what you want.
The astrea snails eat algae, but they also have a tendency to fall over and not be able to get back up – which leads to dead snails if you don’t find them fast enough, or if you aren’t able to reach them to pick them up.
The astrea snails have done ok at eathing the algae in the tank, but with 2 snails out of the 3 we bought left, we need some more algae eaters.
We decided to get two turbo snails, because I’m not sure how much they will eat, or how they will do in the tank.
Right now the turbo snails are about the size of my fist – and these aren’t even the biggest one we’ve seen.
I couldn’t find them at all this morning when I looked in the tank – I can’t imagine how 2 things that big can hide in the tank, but there are a lot of places we can’t see.
After I turned on the lights and waited a while I saw one of the turbo snails, and I’m sure the other one will show up.
What kind of snails do you have in your saltwater tank?
