February 26th, 2001
Oddly enough I'm starting to panic about reef supplements,
Calcium and strontium, Iodide and trace elements. Ordered a whole
slew of them from Pet Warehouse. Should arrive this week. Also
ordered a crap load of fish from my wish list: 2 bubble anemones, a yellow
tang, a blue tang, a flame angel, a banggai cardinal, a maxima clam, 3
red crabs and 3 blue crabs. Might be here tomorrow or Wednesday.
February 21st, 2001
Got 3 Turbo snails from Pets & Aquarium on Wilshire.
They are huge and fast.
February 18th, 2001
Picked up another rock at Apex. This one has Christmas
Tree Worm Fans attached to it. Very, very cool although they apparently
don't have a huge captive life span.
February 9th, 2001
After sitting around poking and prodding the freaking
Sebea anemone for 2 days I couldn't stand it anymore. I bagged it
in a ziplock and let it sit for 2 hours to see if it would give any sort
of a reaction. Nothing. Nada. Dead. Looking into
researching, I now realized that Clownfish and their Anemones are as simple
as fish and tentacle thing. Sebeas are apparently the most difficult
to keep. Ocellaris don't like sebeas. The Sebea that I had
was probably on its last leg anyways I should have been checking for feet
that are attached to something, stickiness of tentacles and some sort of
physical reaction when it was fist touched by the aquarist.
February 5th, 2001
The damsel was hiding for the past 2 days and its dead
and sitting on the bottom of the tank. My first kill.
February 4th, 2001
Now that I have the clown I have to get the anemone.
Saw a cool one at the LA Aquarium Store on Pico. Its a Purple
tipped Sebea. The clown fish wants nothing to do with it. It
loves the hammer coral though.
February 3rd, 2001
Apex had a huge sale this weekend. One of the guys
mentioned last week that live rock was going to be going for $2.50/lb this
weekend. Little did I know that that meant there would be a sale
with hundreds of people pushing and shoving in the store, a 40 minute wait
at the register and no one willing to wait on you. Anyways.
I picked up an anchor/hammer coral, a yellow tipped blue damsel and 2 ocellaris
clown fish and 35lbs of live rock.
January 17th, 2001
Tank has been running fine for a week. Now comes
the live and dead sand. I'm getting 2 twenty pound bags of live sand,
microbes and biopia included and 1 ten pound bag of larger grain sand.
January 13th, 2001
Tank is scrubbed and ready. I started toting 60
gallons of sea water from Apex to my tank. It took 6 trips.
What a pain in the ass. Needed to install another drain tube because
the main pump was pumping faster than the tubes could return it.
Seems to be in some sort of equalibrium.