Current Inhabitants Updated 7/3/02

I am still working on this page. I will eventually link all of the animal names to their pictures or eliminate this page and just have the pics page.

Main Tank

Fish
(1) Blue (Hippo) Tang
(1) Yellow Tail Damsel
(1) Black Tail Humbug (4-Stripe)
(4) Blue-Green Damsels (Green Chromis?)
(1) Mated Pair Osellaris (False Percula) Clowns (Mated to the Anemone)
(1) Large Purple Tang (4/10/02)

Note:
I had to remove Domino - he was getting too aggressive and tormenting the Green Chromis. Catching him was tricky (lucky for me he was too arrogant to hide from the net). I took him to a local pet shop where he sold about 3 days later. My girls will never forgive me.

Shrimp
(1) Coral Banded Prawn
(4) Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
(1) Blood-Red Fire Shrimp
(3) Peppermint Shrimp

Clean-up Crew
(About 35) Red-Leg (Cortez) Hermit Crabs
(2) Emerald Mithrax Crabs
(1) Small Serpent Starfish (Growing Fast)
(1) Large Brittle Starfish
(About 40) Margarita Snails
(10) Mexican Turbo Snails
(1) Sally Light-Foot Crab

Corals
(1) Green Star Polyp (not doing well since lighting change in May)
(1) HUGE Green Torch
(1) VERY HUGE Lime-Green Frog Spawn (doing VERY well)
(1) Green Striped Mushroom Rock (about 10 Mushrooms)
(1) Small Whitish-Pink Goniopora (I actually thought it was red when I mail-ordered it - Oh well!)
(1) Large Colt Coral (4/11/02 - Growing like weed - HELP!!)
(Bunch) Metalic Green Mushrooms on Branch (4/11/02)
(Bunch) Variety of Red Mushrooms (5/02)

Other Things
(0) 3" Blue Maxima Clam - Died in May :-(
(4) Feather Dusters (tube worms)
(1) Small Long-Tentacle Anemone (Grows about 2" per month!)
(A Bunch) Various strange things growing out of the live rock

Quarantine Tank   

I buy a lot of animals mail-order because it is hard to find everything I want locally. I have actually had very good success with this. The quarantine tank is a 10 Gallon tank (perhaps a little small) that I have set up to make sure that new fish are healthy and over the stress of shipping. I acclimate the fish to this tank and leave them in it for a week or two depending on the hardiness of the species. As I change the water in the main tank, I pump the waste water into the quarantine tank so the two tanks are chemically identical when it comes time to transfer the fish to their new home. Normally, when I have fish in this tank, I set the WebCam to look at it. This allows me to check in on the animals during break-time at work.

Nothing in the Q-Tank right now. The system is finished reciving fish for a little while.