Close up of Felicity my 'cut and shut' fish

I have not posted for a while, but thought I would do a quick update. All of my fish are still going strong. I have lost mt sun coral since I last posted but have had loads of success fragging other corals, particularly my pulsing Xenia.
This is a close up of Felicity my 'cut and shut' fish, coming out from her cave.

After many weeks, my sun coral is starting to open and feed well (bottom picture). It opens for lobster eggs, but its favourite feed appears to be mysis shrimp. I have been maticulously feeding each polyp of this little beauty, individually, using a small turkey baster. I mix some frozen feed with some of the tank water, then I drizzle some over the top of the coral. 10 mins later she starts to open and I then take another 10 + mins feeding her, ensuring all polyps get thier share. Well, all my hard work has finally been rewarded as she opens wanting food at about 8pm every night now.

Falicity is never far away when the coral gets fed!(top picture)

Cleaner Shrimp sheds again!

This is the third time my cleaner shrimp has shed his ekoskeleton and its the first time I have a pic of it.

1 month on - March 16th 2007

Its been about a month now since my last post, so I thought I would up date my progress. There has been a fair bit of development, with coralline algae appearing everywhere and everything thriving I am very pleased to say. You can just see the ekoskeleton of sam the cleaner shrimp on the sand in the middle front of the tank. My feather duster has just pulled in, so its not on display and the sun coral is closed...All in all not the best pic to post I suppose!!

Good Growth!!

These tiny (yet beatifully coloured polyps) were very tiny when I threw them into the same bag as my first Live Rock purchase! These are actually 2 small frags that have now tripled in size. I plan to move them to a more prominent positon on the rocks when the time is right, in the hope that they will propogate further.

25th Feb 07- Sam the cleaner shrimp

Having just shed his skin (for the 2nd time) My cleaner shrimp takes up residence on the right side of the tank were he continually is preening himself (and anybody else that comes his way). Natrual behaviour after a shedding I believe.

Meet Molly

After a hard day at work, my 'other' little girl greet me with some affection.

This is Molly, my 13 year old Yorkie. She fell very ill last year and had to have major surgery, at one stage she was touch and go! But thankfully she made a full recovery and there to greet me every day on my return from work.

She will sit with me (usually perched on my shoulder!) for hours watching my tanks.................................This is one spoilt pet!!

I will try to get a pic of her perched on my shoulder, in what my daughter calls 'the parrot position'