Ive had enough, its time for u to leave....

An epic disaster last night Jacques decided to make his mark on the tank and have an epic final battle with Arnie, Arnie and Jacques have never been the best of friends. Small skirmishes happen now and again all ways resulting in a draw. Arnie managed to chop off one of Jacques claws but much to my surprise Jacques managed to finish off Arnie :'( Sad times. To finish the blow Jacques also killed and ate Hoff. Now completely devastating the larger crustacean populous making Jacques the supreme crustacean. I wasnt having any of this first thing this morning i chased him around the tank with a net, after removing some of the live rock i eventually caught him (not before scaring him into loosing his other large claw) and bagged him ready for transporting him to the prison facility in Aquatics center. Hopefully there he will regrow his two major claws and find a new home.

Bringing the death toll to 13;
1 Threadfin Butterflyfish (Todd)
1 Copperband Butterfly fish (Sherminator) who was already ill!
4 turbo snails (never buying them again, Shaun's and Sam's)
1 red legged hermit crab (griffin)
1 blue legged hermit crab
2 dancing shrimp (Bunny and now Hoff)
2 Clown fish (Cousteau and Stevsie)
1 Royal Grammar :'( (Monie)

Now to repair the damage left by this vicious predator, i have now purchased a larger arrow crab called Arnie (squared), he is a bigger far more calmer crab who by the looks of it is happy to plod about.

The other new addition is a member of the sea cucumber family called a Medusa worm, she will be called Euryale. Named after the wide stepping sister of Medusa. This is a sand cleaning wonder, hope fully will be a wonderful new addition to the family.


In other news because I had to move the rocks about the anemone is more open and as a result the remaining clown fish is hosting with it perfectly. So i am a very happy boy!

Been a long time

Hey guys i know its been a long time since ive posted. I havnt been posting as the fish tank has been getting me down. Previously i had a beautiful butterfly fish called Todd who died i replaced him with a copperband cousin of his called Sherminator, he died after a few days so i took him back for a full refund as the other copperband they had at the shop had also died so oh well. With the money they gave me i got my self a beautiful Firefish called Amber. Meanwhile one of the clown fish has died and Simone has bought me a belated birthday gift as they finally have Royal Grammars named Monie in stock. Another clown fish died so now i only have one :'( bad times. Then the Royal Grammar died and i all but gave up on the fish tank. The crustacean's were hardly ever about because they dont like the Cynobacteria that is covering my tank. With this black-green slime nearly covering the tank i was about ready to jack it all in. I have since decided to call my remaining clown fish Zissou as that was the name i liked the most :)

After a couple of days of mulling it over i decided to give it one last crack. I decided not to buy any more creatures for the tank until every thing was sorted. I went to the local Fish shop and got my water tested too see if they could help. They told me that i was low on magnesium and calcium, the two things i hadnt actually tested since. So they sold me some fluid top up additives for the tank. With the instructions of put one cap full in every day for a week then do one cap full of each once a week. We chatted some more and after a passing comment that i should make a book about this they showed me the book they recomend, which is a million times better than the 'look at the pretty fish' book they sold me in Havant. After a flick through i saw a man with a siphon i asked what its for. I now realise that the water changes i have been doing every 3 weeks have been taking water from the top of the tank not the bottom ><. So i bought a siphon and now i change my water like this.

I have also put some black out curtains in that room so as to block the natural light as the cynobacteria seems to be growing more on the side of the tank where the window is even thought it doesnt not directly touch it.

Things ive learn't:
Magnesium and Calcium need topping up now and again
Water changes must be done from the bottom of the tank as they are more effective at removing rubbish.
Havant's fish store is really crap, oh wait I already knew that!
Natural light bad, black out curtains good!

So now the bacteria is on a massive decline before it covered most of the tank now it is only on a few rocks and hardly on the sand at all :D Happy days!!