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Details of the tank setup are archived here, otherwise what you have on this page is the most recent segment of the tank diary. Our piece of advice for anyone starting a marine aquarium is "think SimCity". You will have in your hands an entire and rather complex ecosystem; it's not just fish and filtration. Keep that in mind and you'll do the Right Thing. As well as the diary, we now have:
The Regal Tang was absolutely covered in white spot today. Here's a bad picture of it.
We have dosed with 50 drops of eSHa Oodinex and hope it will clear up quickly.
The Yelloweye Tang and then the male Maroon Clownfish are now deceased so we visited Totally Tropicals to procure more fish. We have another Yelloweye Tang, a lighter variety this time, and a Purple Firefish that is rather shy.
We also purchased some more coral: another variety of Green Star.
While giving the fish their first feed we noticed worm activity once more. This time it's clear that there are two worms and that they notice when brine shrimp are put in the tank. Watch the one at the back: it picks up a brine shrimp and wolfs it down through its, err, mouth/hole thing.
Yesterday we very briefly spotted a huge bristle worm in the tank and, today, managed to catch it out in the open, though unfortunately not with the right camera. Still, here are a few fuzzy pictures of it. It seems to be around 15 cm long when fully extended and quite "hairy" in tufts along its side.
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Earlier entries are available here: