Stage five

march 15,2009

Look at that Stage 5 is the best so far and it keeps getting better as you see and is bursting with life. We went down to the pet store with the family and spent over 4 hundred dollars in coral and fish. The person helping us was all over the place trying so hard to keep up that he forgot some of the live stock we wanted OPPPS!!

arrow crab

This cool guy was the choice of my brother in-law, it is a crab but looks like a daddy long leg. He sits on the rock swaying about moving the substrate around finding food. His legs will get to 12 inches but his body will be around 4 inches. When we put him in the tank for the first time he looked like a rain drop.

White star polyp (green)

This coral was Malteseputter's choice, it does look like grass waving in the wind. Its a low to mid level placement coral and feeds mostly off the light, and with all the other corals we must add calcium and mineral supplements to the tank. This one is pretty to watch.

pair of black and white clownfish

Ah the black and white clowns.... they are two of the most calming fish to watch, oh and very cool to watch. They are always beside one another, you see one there is the other kinda like us "smile." These guys were our choice, but jewel named them daniel and vala from the show stargate sg-1.

flame firefish

Now isn't he pretty? Another choice of my brother in-law. The firefish loves to hang out in the open water, but spook him and he goes into the rock wall faaasssst maybe the quickest fish in the tank. I would go into all the colors that are on him but it would take forever so lets just say that he is a very colorful fish and a beautiful addition to jewel reef.

bicolor blenny

Here's one of the smallest additions to jewel reef, and quite cute I might add. This little blenny was a surprise by malteseputter and was put in the day after the initial big buy. When jewel noticed him chilling on one of the rocks, she asked, "What is that?", but as she watched him his behavior was so cute that she fell in love with him instantly. What he likes to do is hang out on rocks watching the daily routines of the tank, and when he thinks that things aren't kosher, he dips into one of the live rock crevices. One of the amazing things about him is that at night he will blend with the rock by changing his natural color to milk white. You might ask what makes this little guy so cute? As you watch him, he'll get as close as possible to you, and look up and down only by moving his eyes.

galaxea coral

This beautiful yet aggressive coral was picked by jewel...go figure that she would pick something aggressive "smile" is one of our more impressive corals at this time. As you can see, the white at the bottom right are actually sweeping tentacles which are used for eating and stinging any coral or fish within 4 inches in each direction. He's another one that waves in the current looking like grass in the wind, and we're hoping that he will also glow under the lunar lights when we finally obtain them. Jewel is one proud mama of this big baby!