We headed up to Fredericton to meet up with Kirk for 1 O'clock. We were waiting in the parking lot of this little mall and it all looked a lot like a drug deal because we weren't the only one getting frags from him. He arrives and I trade him my big baggy with the fish in it for a bunch of little tupperware containers of coral frags. Then a couple other guys show up with cash in hand for their containers, like I say it looked like a drug deal or something. We headed home and popped the new aquitistions into the tank and I toddled off to teach my class. We were expecting the Hagen Order to arrive at Village Pets with our new 130 gallon tank in it, but it hasn't arrived yet, so when I got home just after 7 Darrell decides we need to go back up to Sussex. We pretty much cleaned out the big corals and we got a filter for our new tank when it comes, plus a Reverse Osmosis unit for purifying our tap water (our water's pretty good anyway because we're on a nice deep well, but the price of the unit was too good to pass up). He still has some stuff up there that we want, but some of it has to wait until he's taken the rest of the stuff out of his tank so we won't be rushing back up to Sussex right away. At least I don't think so....but it could happen.... we are officially addicted!!
Unfortunately we bungled a little bit by putting all those big corals in all at once, and the stress caused one or two of them to let off some toxins in the water, that did in our little flame angel fish. He may have been alright if we had just left him to recover but we paniced and moved him over to the quarantine tank right away, and I think the extra stress was just too much for him. The toxins also effected our yellow tang and he was all dopey and lethargic, so a crab took advantage of it in the middle of the night and nipped a chunk of his dorsal fin. We moved him over to the quarantine tank and he is doing much better now. That was Saturday morning and in the process of all that we completely took everything out of the tank and rearranged all the rock work and the corals and this is what we came up with:
The rest of Saturday was spent fussing around with the tank and the fish and then we watched Finding Nemo on Disney.
Sunday we attended a get together at Rogers for volunteer apreciation. I haven't actually volunteered there in a while, but it was nice to see everyone. Then we were off to Brian and Helen's for a BBQ. Chad & Nancey, and Bertis were also there, and we brought along our blender, some frozen juice, a couple bags of ice, and vodka to make vodka Slushies. It was a lot of fun, but we all called it an early night. When we got home we watched a beautiful feature on the Nature of Things all about coral reefs and shipwrecks.
2 comments:
It looks lovely!
I really liek it now. There's lots of great caves and swimways for the fish so they're happy.
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