Not good news...

Well, New Penny died. It wasn't eating at all since being placed in the DT. I'm 99% sure that's what killed it. I had been having some trouble getting it to eat while in the QT, but the glass-breaking problem caused me to rush putting New Penny into the DT. It's not how I wanted it to happen, but realistically, with it not eating in the QT, either, it was probably on borrowed time, anyhow. That's the last time I'm going to try to get a copperband for at least a long while. Maybe when I'm more of an advanced aquarist. For now, it seems I'm not able to get them to eat properly.

I'm working on a deal with a guy for some of his stuff, which may include a fish or two. More on that as it develops.

Photos

Some long overdue photos:

FTS - Aug. 8, 2009

View from Left Side of Tank

View from Right Side of Tank

New rock with green and red mushrooms

New Penny in its new home - the DT

New rock full of Red Mushrooms

Feather Duster with new rock behind it

Colt Coral - looks more white than the picture really shows.

One of the orange ricordias moved down to the sandbed.

Pink Zoot Suit Zoas kind of closed up.

New Penny. Great shot.

New Penny enjoying the new atmosphere.

Acan LPS coral.

New rock with green and red mushrooms.

Top-Down of Elizabeth and the red mushroom corals.

Top-Down Shot of Green Candy Cane Coral. The polyps are kind of retracted in the shot.

Top-Down of new Green Mushroom Corals.

New rock with green mushroom corals.

Candy Cane LPS.

Feather Duster and new red mushrooms.

The sort of Left Side of the tank.

Orange Ricordia and Pink Zoot Suit Zoas.

Colt Coral.

Been a while...

Between working waaay too much and the holiday weekend, I have not been able to find time to post. Well, since Penny died, I decided to try a healthy Penny, but this one I had to pay for. This Penny has been in quarantine for about a week and a half now. Earlier this evening, I was working on the tank, and decided enough time had passed and I needed to get some photos of the new Penny. Well, things did not exactly go according to plan. I decided to clean the glass so that I could get nice photos. As I was scraping some algae, I accidentally hit the glass thermometer and broke it. This poses two problems - 1. the liquid (not mercury) leaked into the tank, and I'm not sure what affect it will have, and 2. there is now clear, broken glass in the tank that I can't find. So, while I was planning to go slow with this Penny and keep it in quarantine for a while, it gets to graduate to the big tank tonight! It is currently acclimating to the new tank, and should be going in there in about 45 minutes. In the meantime, I have to empty out the QT, make sure it is completely devoid of broken glass, and start it up again. Considering I have family visiting this weekend, it doesn't look like that will happen any time soon. So, for now, the photos of new Penny will have to wait. I also picked up a few new corals that I have to get some snaps of in the near future. All those lovely pics will come in the near future, I prom---errr--- hope. :)

Until then...