Hi Guys! I have not been on in a while!

[stevemc]

I am still here, just havent been on RC in a while. Our 2 tanks are doing fine. The big one has much growth. Way too many mushrooms, I will have to cut them off and bring some to the next meeting we can make, just prior to a water change. Brindled goby(Flow is her name-had her for 3 1/2 years) has been laying eggs on the glass since early spring, about every 4 days, she has her choice of 2 males, sometimes both are fertilizing. We got a clown fish, an A. ocelarus, in the small tank. We have had her for 4 months or so, and will get a little one so they grow up a pair. Have let go 3 of the 4 blennies that Lynn caught 4 years ago as little babies less than an inch long, in one scoop of a little net. They fought, one was a female, rest males, kept one male. They never bred. Female was too mean! Still have 5 or 6 types of blennies, some Hypsoblennius looking types, some Clinids. We caught one of the bright yellow ones out here and a couple of the white with black stripe and blue stripe, last year, and realized they are the same. When put in a tank with other blennies, they turn brown, blotched pattern, but if put in a tank without any blennies, or cant see any, they either turn bright yellow, or striped, or yellow with stripes. They act like typical blennies though, flicking their tail, as a domination thing in the sand, and eating like pigs. Havent had to clean either tanks glass forever, we have lots of good astrea snails. Will try to get on here more, and make a meeting, and get with Cory to help him with his boat, that I told him I would do. Have some new fish, some of the angels got too big for the small tank, and we traded/sold, but put in a little quarter sized grey angel, who is now about 2 1/2" long. Still have the pairs of neon gobies, and pairs of banded coral shrimps they all have been laying on and off all the time too. The twin spot cardinal that we had since a baby got about 2 1/2" and one night he disappeared.??? Lynn caught a big flame cardinal to replace him. Maybe we could do a rock making meeting some day? Or????? We have been doing lots of diving out here, and seeing all kinds of good stuff, but no room to put anything in. Have tried to catch Blue Gobies(fantastic looking fish!) and yellow head jawfish, but they both go into holes in the rubble and cant be captured. Anyone know how they are caught? I tried to dig them up by fanning the sand, but its branches of old coral all intertwined together, in the sand. Watched the 3 species of Chromis that live out here, all fantastic,one all purple, one half bright blue and half bright yellow on a diagonal, with a neon blue streak, and one white, yellow and blue, with a neon blue streak on its head. But they live at way greater than 100' and the thriving coral reefs that they inhabit are 60 or so miles out, in big schools over the coral and the time it would take to decompress them would be prohibitive. And now with the gas prices, we will probably never see them in the trade. See Ya all soon I hope,Steve