HappyGeorge
Fish Herder
I took a day off from decorating yesterday and took a trip to Living Reef in Dartford. Pretty impressed in general, the corals weren't a patch on The Reefshack but they had a mass of beautiful fish in lovely clean tanks and amazingly a shop that rather than scribble on the tank, has a piece of paper with names (spelt correctly) and price on it, and............wait for it..................the names on the paper actually corresponded to the fish in the tank!
Had a long chat with the guy in there and spent a while just wandering between the tanks. Spotted a lovely Peacock Wrasse and I have been after one for ages. I had asked Kevin at Reefshack to get me one but TMC have not had any. I spoke to the guy about the Wrasse and it had come from a customers tank and been in the shop for almost a month (how so many people had resisted him I really don't know). I decided to take a chance on him after watching him for a good 20 minutes and he has gone in my Reef tank.
Just downloading a video of my tank to youtube for linking to my journal now.
I know many Peacock wrasses prove problematic as they often won't accept frozen or flake and fade when they run out of pods to pick up. This one has now come out of hiding, is eating flake and frozen, lets the shrimp clean him and the firefish don't mind him brushing against them. What a star!
Had a long chat with the guy in there and spent a while just wandering between the tanks. Spotted a lovely Peacock Wrasse and I have been after one for ages. I had asked Kevin at Reefshack to get me one but TMC have not had any. I spoke to the guy about the Wrasse and it had come from a customers tank and been in the shop for almost a month (how so many people had resisted him I really don't know). I decided to take a chance on him after watching him for a good 20 minutes and he has gone in my Reef tank.
Just downloading a video of my tank to youtube for linking to my journal now.
I know many Peacock wrasses prove problematic as they often won't accept frozen or flake and fade when they run out of pods to pick up. This one has now come out of hiding, is eating flake and frozen, lets the shrimp clean him and the firefish don't mind him brushing against them. What a star!
