I'd sort of thought of adding one, and had a chance at a good one. Inserting one into the tank is always problematic, because they not only walk, a nem can puff up and fly, causing general mayhem, aiming their fragile tentacles for a downflow intake or sometimes a wavemaker intake, and dying with a flourish that includes most things in the tank.
So, yeah, careful here. I aimed it by hand until the last foot of descent. 36" depth on my tank, and I was reaching over a 10" rim. I let a go in the corner in a gentle area of current and down it went.
Atop a watermelon mushroom frag. Sigh. I got the reverse end of a cat toy 'fishing pole' and moved the frag, which, do it credit, the nem was trying to move off of, instead of planting its foot.
I let it alone, in a patch of shadow, next to a rock spire that will give it exposure to as much 'sun' as it wants---they climb like bandits.
With 15 minutes it had climbed to a tunnel in the rockwork, part of it in shadow, part in tank-bottom light, and clamped down. Best-behaved nem I've ever handled.
My clowns are, of course, ignoring it. Par for the course. There is a technique of setting the nem in a bucket and putting the clowns in with it alone, until they go through their bonding process (including wiggling in and out for a couple of days) ===but catching two clowns in my rockwork is too problematic and disturbing to the tank. So ---- we just wait. And expect they'll do like clowns, which is whatever they decide to do.
So, yeah, careful here. I aimed it by hand until the last foot of descent. 36" depth on my tank, and I was reaching over a 10" rim. I let a go in the corner in a gentle area of current and down it went.
Atop a watermelon mushroom frag. Sigh. I got the reverse end of a cat toy 'fishing pole' and moved the frag, which, do it credit, the nem was trying to move off of, instead of planting its foot.
I let it alone, in a patch of shadow, next to a rock spire that will give it exposure to as much 'sun' as it wants---they climb like bandits.
With 15 minutes it had climbed to a tunnel in the rockwork, part of it in shadow, part in tank-bottom light, and clamped down. Best-behaved nem I've ever handled.
My clowns are, of course, ignoring it. Par for the course. There is a technique of setting the nem in a bucket and putting the clowns in with it alone, until they go through their bonding process (including wiggling in and out for a couple of days) ===but catching two clowns in my rockwork is too problematic and disturbing to the tank. So ---- we just wait. And expect they'll do like clowns, which is whatever they decide to do.
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