Achilles Tang

Sadly, he died in early March ’09, after eating the dead body of another fish.

Lion Goby

The Lion goby died unexpectedly in Jan 2009. He was a very fun fish.
I tried replacing him with a Sleeper Goby in early March,
but that Goby didn’t survive the new environment, dying in 1 day.

Carpenter’s Fairy Wrasse

Pulsing xenia

On Feb 21, 2009, 3/4 of it has died. In March 28, 2009, that remaining 1/4 has managed to survive, but still is borderline health.

On April 4, 2009, during the night, something ate the bigger remaining stalks. Just a tiny amount remains.

All gone on May 3, 2009.

Zoanthids colony

palythoa sp.

pink or purple

Some polyps in the middle have been sick for a few days, Feb 21, 2009
Sadly, by March 28, 2009, only 1/3 of that colony remains.
The rest died and were picked off by fish. April 26, 2009: 95% gone. Early May, all gone.

Bubble coral.

before I moved him, when he was in too much water currents, the balloons wouldn’t inflate.

Then, I moved him, and he started looking great.

Same Bubble coral.

plerogyra Sinuosa. At night, (2nd image) the balloons deflate and a different kind of pointy polyp becomes active.

Same bubble coral.

Unfortunately, by late March 2009, this coral was nearly dead. It was around this time, that I discovered that my aquarium had been running with low salinity. (S.G. 1.018) due to incorrectly calibrated refractometer. I hope it will survive, after fixing the salinity problem, to a true S.G. of 1.026.

April 23, 2009 update: doing a little better.

April 26, 2009. My Sally lightfoot crab at the remnants of it. It’s dead now.

Actually, a few small bits have stayed alive.

Aiptasia

a different few corals with light green tips

Small feather dusters

anthelia or clauveria species

Dragon goby

He’s slowing starving to death. 4 pictures of same fish. In mid-March 2009, he died.

2nd picture shows it curled up temporarily into a ball. Super cool.

Algae

Extra snails were added, and this gradually went away.

A lawnmower blenny sitting on a big snail

he he. This smaller blenny tries to hide from the other bigger lawnmower blenny.

April 26, 2009. Haven’t seen this 2nd blenny for a few days. I think he got killed by the bigger one.

Diatoms

Scotts Wrasse

for some reason, he’s hard to get a sharp photo. This photo from April 3, 2009 shows the wrasse up high near the water-surface.

By April 9, he’s having swim-bladder trouble and is sinking to the bottom and ending up in a vertical orientation. I hope he survives.
By April 17, he’s been upside down in a net for past 5 days. His swim bladder is empty and gas in his belly always flips him over. He hates that. He’s tiring out and slowly dying.
By April 23, still upside down, very stiff, hardly eating anything. Died May1, 2009.

Cyanobacteria growth

Bicolor Blenny

added late March 2009

By late april, 09, his yellow tail had faded to black. He was all black. He bites the big clab, causing it to retract its flesh a lot. He bites all corals, and had to be removed from the tank. gone in Mid-May.

Big Bristleworm

(flushed it.)

Flasher Wrasse

He was one of my first fish, in fall 2008.

update May 17, 2009. He was sick for a few weeks, having slight whitish opacity sticking onto his body, and slightly cloudy covering over his eyes. Then that mostly resolved, but now the fish is hanging out at the top of the tank, so it might have developed a swim-bladder problem.

He disappeared on May 20, 2009.

an orange Plate Coral, Fungia spp.

This poor little coral became an object that a crab used to wedge into crevaces. 3 times I found this coral moved into dark crags. Its edges have been damaged from those moves (and subsequent retreivals), but it’s doing OK, and recovered its orange color. But in May 17, 2009 its edges are dark and it has white bleached streaks. By May 25 it was totally white.

Berghia Nudibranch

new Coral 6

Blue Sponge

Zoanthids polyps

palythoa sp.

growing bigger colony in May 2009.

But later, the Bellus Angel ate them all, slowly, bit by bit, day after day.

Turbo Snail

Yasha Haze Goby

Fire Cleaner shrimp

Leopard Crab

He had been hiding unseen in my tank for 6 months before I caught my first sighting of him.
This crab moves shells around the tank, and builds them into walls for a his private fort inside the rocks. He got bigger, and moved corals and rocks too much, and I had to get rid of him. I gave him to the aquarium store, Oct 2009.

Rainford Goby

Shrimp goby

Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria

Cured of this stuff in late Nov 2009. Hurray!

Big Maxima Clam 2

Mixed clump of corals

Red Head goby

Globe Urchin
(Mespilia globulus)

(Tuxedo Pincushion Urchin)

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