03-20-2005
The anemone has not split yet. The small hole beside the mouth I saw earlier in the week is gone. I'm beginning to wonder if this is one of the mythical non-splitting BTA's that are sposed to exist. I did manage to get it fed yesterday, which was tougher than expected. The cleaner wrasse is very brave and has no qualms about getting food out of the anemone. I finally just took a quarter of a cube of Formula 1 and placed in it the anemone's tentacles, causing it to contract around the food. I also fed it a small silverside. Both were gone quickly. A friend of mine has made a trip to Chicago today to check out some captive bred Onyx Percula clowns. These are reported to be True Onyx percs, and I expect she'll be buying two juveniles for her tank. If thee percs look good, I could see making a trip up myself for two juveniles in a month or two. I still want to wait a bit and let the anemone adjust and get acclimated some more before I add some clowns to the mix and stress it out any.
Here is a shot of the RBTA again.
I've noticed encrusting growth on just about all my corals including the Peach Table frags which I had some initial worries about. Its tough to see if the Green Table frags have any encrusting growth, or new growth in the areas that RTN'd, but I'm hopeful. I havent noticed any more tissue loss on those frags that were RTN-ing and thats a good sign. Polyps are all still extending on the Green Table frags, so I am getting more confidant they will make it.
I got my buddy to download the shots I took using his digital rebel. Here are a few of them. Getting them Re-sized was a complete PITA. I used Irfanview and cropped abunch of pics, but they still had to be re-sized to a much smaller image. I apologize about that. I shot all of these images in Fine JPEG mode...would I not have had to resize them so much if I shot in JPEG normal mode, (or whatever the hell isnt Fine mode)?
Here is a shot of the Maze Brain.
While playing around with Irfanview, I found a way to make it a negative of the image....thought it looked kinda cool...
I got a decent shot of the Peach Tipped acro, (different than the peach table that had to be fragged). Can you spot the little bandit acro crab hiding among the branches? (hint, bottom left-ish)
Here is a shot of the Blue Tipped Table acro...finally got a decent one that represents its delicate blue color accurately.
Here is a top down photo of a brown table acro that came in on the same shipment of corals with all the rest. This one sat in the store for a week and showed no signs of RTN so I bought it. I intially put it on the bottom of the tank near the Purple tipped acro on the right side of my tank, while waiting for some epoxy to mount the coral. A snail came by and knocked it over during the night. The acro crab that came with the brown table, (one of the reddish ones), moved to the purple tipped acro, and the bandit acro crab originally in the purple tipped acro moved to this one. The only thing I can think of is the Red acro crab chased the bandit out and he went to the nearest available coral.
Nick
