Well folks I have broken a cardinal rule and I don't care! Well, I do care but I couldn't let it be. I went to the LFS today for a look see and I find this juvenile spotted mandarin in a 10 gallon tank with a fist sized piece of LR. It was so emaciated, but still had some spunk to him.
He can't be more than 1 1/4" in length and was starving.
I just couldn't let him sit in a bare tank waiting for some unknowing or uneducated person to walk in and take him home to a certain death. He was looking at me with those eyes I tell ya!
I have a 20 gallon tank in my basement that I call the coral grave yard. I throw coral in this tank that isn't doing well in my MD or frags that break off. Some of the corals that didn't do well in my MD have thrived in this tank. It has been set up for 2 years and has never had any fish in it.
This tank is swarming with pods. I mean it is over run with them. I look at it at night and the front glass is literally covered.
I will not forget this little guys enthusiasm when I let him out into the tank, gobbling up these pods on the glass on his way down to the bottom. So for this little dragonet, a chance for life. Sure I know that this tank will not support him through adulthood, but I can always move him when he outgrows it. Come on little buddy, you can do it!
He can't be more than 1 1/4" in length and was starving.
I just couldn't let him sit in a bare tank waiting for some unknowing or uneducated person to walk in and take him home to a certain death. He was looking at me with those eyes I tell ya!
I have a 20 gallon tank in my basement that I call the coral grave yard. I throw coral in this tank that isn't doing well in my MD or frags that break off. Some of the corals that didn't do well in my MD have thrived in this tank. It has been set up for 2 years and has never had any fish in it.
This tank is swarming with pods. I mean it is over run with them. I look at it at night and the front glass is literally covered.
I will not forget this little guys enthusiasm when I let him out into the tank, gobbling up these pods on the glass on his way down to the bottom. So for this little dragonet, a chance for life. Sure I know that this tank will not support him through adulthood, but I can always move him when he outgrows it. Come on little buddy, you can do it!
That's how I felt Teri! It's never a good thing for me to go to an animal shelter, as I want to take everyone of them home! Therefore, many times when I go to the LFS, I don't look at the fish. Today I looked as I had not been in this LFS for some time. Now look what I did!
