Thought I'd post some new pics & stuff of my nano/picos now that I've got an ever-so-slightly better camera (still a hand-me-down, but hey--it focuses!). I'm rather proud of the vid I got tonight, cruddy as the quality may be, it's not often I catch my engineer goby in the act of engineering while the light's on.
You'll have to excuse the irrelevant music. I had to put it in to cover up some rather interesting explatives my bf chose to insert upon realizing that the goby was doing as it always does and moving several cups woth of rubble to the end of covering up a new rock (this fish also tries to bury new snails and anything else it isn't used to), and prior to realizing that I couldn't turn the sound off.
Some other photos...
Full tank shot (or full tub shot lol):
I set up a small mesh holder on the left side for corallimorph propagation. The LFS I took some of my larger ones off to already sold them, so I guess people are interested in them. The corallimorphs reproduce and settle on the rocks, where I can pluck them off and grow them a bit larger in the holder without risk of them stinging anything.
My happy little mystery nem, still going strong and stinging like hellfire:
I've had one surviving offspring from it so far, but that one went and ran off under a rock. I'm hoping the new one will eventually resurface in good shape.
And I finally have proof that I wasn't hallucinating jellyfish in my 1 gallon! There are actually barely visible tentacles here. I finally IDed the species to; they are a type of Cladonema. The population is on the 4th or 5th generation so far (the adults grow fast and don't live all that long).
A couple more 1 gallon shots:
I just had to replace the light on that tank - I'm not sure what went wrong with the old lamp, since the bulb was the correct wattage. I had a lucky call with it though and caught the fixture before the fixture got mushy enough to start dripping. The new fixture is good for up to 40W (overkill, but the price was right) so I'm going to swap in a lower wattage bulb, keep the light high, and hopefully avoid any risk of future fixture meltage.
And finally, my female Clibanarius ransoni (part of a mating pair) digging for some munchies:
I'd post pics of my conch tank but that one is rather messy currently and needs a good macro pruning to be able to see much.
EDIT:
Blast! The video link didn't work...trying again.
You'll have to excuse the irrelevant music. I had to put it in to cover up some rather interesting explatives my bf chose to insert upon realizing that the goby was doing as it always does and moving several cups woth of rubble to the end of covering up a new rock (this fish also tries to bury new snails and anything else it isn't used to), and prior to realizing that I couldn't turn the sound off.
Some other photos...
Full tank shot (or full tub shot lol):
I set up a small mesh holder on the left side for corallimorph propagation. The LFS I took some of my larger ones off to already sold them, so I guess people are interested in them. The corallimorphs reproduce and settle on the rocks, where I can pluck them off and grow them a bit larger in the holder without risk of them stinging anything.
My happy little mystery nem, still going strong and stinging like hellfire:
I've had one surviving offspring from it so far, but that one went and ran off under a rock. I'm hoping the new one will eventually resurface in good shape.
And I finally have proof that I wasn't hallucinating jellyfish in my 1 gallon! There are actually barely visible tentacles here. I finally IDed the species to; they are a type of Cladonema. The population is on the 4th or 5th generation so far (the adults grow fast and don't live all that long).
A couple more 1 gallon shots:
I just had to replace the light on that tank - I'm not sure what went wrong with the old lamp, since the bulb was the correct wattage. I had a lucky call with it though and caught the fixture before the fixture got mushy enough to start dripping. The new fixture is good for up to 40W (overkill, but the price was right) so I'm going to swap in a lower wattage bulb, keep the light high, and hopefully avoid any risk of future fixture meltage.
And finally, my female Clibanarius ransoni (part of a mating pair) digging for some munchies:
I'd post pics of my conch tank but that one is rather messy currently and needs a good macro pruning to be able to see much.
EDIT:
Blast! The video link didn't work...trying again.
