Say Good Bye

I'm giving up my coral reef aquariuim. I have a love hate relationship with such a large amount of salt water in an apartment -- I rarely went a day without fearing a leak -- the tank is plumbed to the domestic water supply for example. Some simple technology failure and the water would just keep running into the tank until it got too deep then of course it would keep running into the apartment at large...

The love side though is pure fascination with growing stony corals in my living room, and the amazing diversity in even such a small closed system. The ultimate water feature in my home.

A major infestation of an anemone (aptasia) wiped out most everything in my tank -- the darn things even got big enough to eat a couple of large candy cane cleaner shrimp (vulnerable when they molt).

Anyway, most all is sold. Hardware will be picked up soon -- just have to sell one last fish (the orange striped guy pictured here -- a candy basslet) The hippo tang also pictured here was plucked from the tank this morning and sent off to his new home north of the city. You didn't know there were fish with freckles did you? A fish with a lot of personality that wee guy.

Not great photos, just snapshots for the classifieds where I advertised them for sale. The basslet is also much more colourful than the photo suggests--the washed out stripes are in reality a dirty deep purple -- but I had to use flash without the main lights on (he's a shy fish -- I also sat across the room and used my telephoto :) )

Good bye fishies...