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Originally Posted by Dentoid  Great video! Sorry to hear about Jorja!  In the video is that Jorja on the right? That BS doesn't seem as animated as the one on the left. Just wondering. I love to see them bobbing up and down. Can you imagine what a colony of these look like in nature! I can only imagine "Whack-a-Mole"!  |
One thing I definitely want to do is go diving in Mexico to see these awesome animals in their natural environment. I have heard that the locals know these fish well and will take you out into the see of Cortez to see them.
I think that was Jorja on the right. Jasper is still in the the same burrow on the left, he has really built it up now that I have been adding larger pieces of live rock rubble (as opposed to just coarse gravel and shells). It is about six inches high now!
Fortunately he seems really happy these days and gets a good 12 hours of sleep each day with his burrow completely covered up. After the halides go off, he does something that looks like hyperventilation for about 30-60 minutes then retreats into the burrow, with a very well crafted pile of rubble sealing off the entrance.
And he has gotten pretty fat, between the spectrum pellets that he loves and the surprisingly large pieces of krill he gulps down. He
really likes big pieces of food. I've seem him down stuff that the 5" sohal tang has spit back out...
I have a few days off this weekend and will try to get a new video of him inhaling krill. The dendronephtheas on the bonnie he lives under have grown too and are now usually open during the day, they are really stunning; I've had pretty good success recently with aposymbiotic soft corals and gorgonians even in a tank dominated by stony corals, which I attribute to a probiotic environment (Zeovit) and various Fauna Marin invert foods.