Surprisingly some of you have stuck around and read all of this jabbering so I have a riddle for you… “I am thinking of something orange and small, what is it?” If you saw the good ol’ movie Finding Nemo as many times as I did you will recognize that as one of Dory’s lines to Marlin and you will know what I am leading to…yepper, of course we had to have the clown fish, however everyone else in the world has Nemo, well I have Marlin although everyone calls him Nemo…grrrr…Ladies and Gentleman here is Marlin……Marlin was added on the 25th and is to this day the clown fish you see in my pictures on the gallery. There is also Coral, Nemo’s mom. I don’t have a Nemo. You might, but I don’t! I figured someone in this world should have Marlin and Coral so why shouldn’t it be me? I love my clowns and they have provided me many hours of entertainment. I loved watching them when we were acclimating the new clown to the tank. It was so adorable the way they took care of each other, shielded the other, even through the bag there was a lot of communication going on. Animals can teach us humans many things. Without further ado ….MARLIN!
The next picture is my long tentacle plate coral which is one of those things I should not have had. This is him after we got him and he was thinking about coming out. If you look to the right of him and up on the rocks a little you will see a little green feather duster. This feather duster actually lived in that snail shell and he was given to me by the employee at the LFS store, probably thinking it would die anyway. I still have that duster and the shell although he is no longer attached to it. He is also a lot bigger than that now. A whole lot bigger.
In this picture the tentacles are out and flowing in the current looking like a happy lil’ coral.
In this full tank shot you can see the toadstool shell in the front left corner better, as well as the toadstool leather, also the sea tree in the back right corner. Most of our inhabitants are visible in the corner. While you look at this picture, note the legs on the light… notice anything strange? Well, as much as I hate to say this and tell the whole world, do you know I just recently, as recent as a week ago, figured out that the legs do not sit directly on the glass?
Laugh with me…Jack would be cracking up about this and in fact when I came home I fixed the legs and I started snickering as I had one of those silent conversations with him about the lights. What’s worse is it took over a year to see this AND the light that is on the tank now is not the original light, so that means it was done incorrectly by me also!!!
