WitsNWrasse
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I work at the University of San Diego as a lab tech, and we set up two salt water tanks about three months ago for use with one of the professor's animal behavior classes. we've been waiting for the tank to be stable enough to get sea horses (patience is sooo difficult). Well, we finally got two little babies in the tank at the beginning of the week, and some *insert vulgar names here* person decided to take a baseball bat or something of that nature in the middle of the night on thursday and shatter our tank.
i come in at 730 am on friday and find about 4 inches of water left in the tank. we had a pajama cardinal (ramon) in the tank, but he is a pig and eats all the food before the sea horses have a chance, so we moved him to the tank in kayla's office, and the wrasse in her tank was ha-wrassing the the goby so we moved the goby into the sea horse tank. we also decided on wednesday that we would move ALL the coral from kayla's tank into the lounge tank (the one that was shattered) because the hair algae was attacking them.
heres our lovely peppermint shrimp being happy as can be cleaning my fingers.
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8087_zps45041e00.jpg">
our new sea horses getting acclimated, and checking out their new companion !
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8224_zps635d2e12.jpg">
one of our sea horses feeling at home
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8291_zpsd9ee1cac.jpg">
AND THEN TRAGEDY STRIKES.
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8283_zps47990a17.jpg">
somehow the sea horses survived. i was positive they would be dead. but they were spared.
and since the wrasse and Ramon cant be in the tank with the sea horses, we put them aside for a little while while we moved all the creatures from the shattered tank into kayla's tank. and now the wrasse is in shock and we are hoping he pulls through. so ironic that by shattering one tank the fish that werent even in that tank are dying. we are missing a shrimp, have not found a body yet....
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8286_zpsea91c2c0.jpg">
and obviously all the coral that we just moved into that tank was out of water for 5+ hours.
however, in other news, there is an acan that hitchhiked on our live rock when we bought it, literally didnt see it until it fell off, it looked completely dead, and somehow came back to life when we set up the tank. that acan is at the very top of our rock, thus out the longest, and looks like nothing happened to it. it doesnt die. we now call it the fake-an, because it clearly cant be real.
so, i thought i would share as we are both absolutely livid.
i come in at 730 am on friday and find about 4 inches of water left in the tank. we had a pajama cardinal (ramon) in the tank, but he is a pig and eats all the food before the sea horses have a chance, so we moved him to the tank in kayla's office, and the wrasse in her tank was ha-wrassing the the goby so we moved the goby into the sea horse tank. we also decided on wednesday that we would move ALL the coral from kayla's tank into the lounge tank (the one that was shattered) because the hair algae was attacking them.
heres our lovely peppermint shrimp being happy as can be cleaning my fingers.
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8087_zps45041e00.jpg">
our new sea horses getting acclimated, and checking out their new companion !
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8224_zps635d2e12.jpg">
one of our sea horses feeling at home
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8291_zpsd9ee1cac.jpg">
AND THEN TRAGEDY STRIKES.
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8283_zps47990a17.jpg">
somehow the sea horses survived. i was positive they would be dead. but they were spared.
and since the wrasse and Ramon cant be in the tank with the sea horses, we put them aside for a little while while we moved all the creatures from the shattered tank into kayla's tank. and now the wrasse is in shock and we are hoping he pulls through. so ironic that by shattering one tank the fish that werent even in that tank are dying. we are missing a shrimp, have not found a body yet....
<img src="http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/vanessaraejohnson/IMG_8286_zpsea91c2c0.jpg">
and obviously all the coral that we just moved into that tank was out of water for 5+ hours.
however, in other news, there is an acan that hitchhiked on our live rock when we bought it, literally didnt see it until it fell off, it looked completely dead, and somehow came back to life when we set up the tank. that acan is at the very top of our rock, thus out the longest, and looks like nothing happened to it. it doesnt die. we now call it the fake-an, because it clearly cant be real.
so, i thought i would share as we are both absolutely livid.
