Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Double Trouble

This weekend we moved Goldie and Harvey into the main tank. They have been in quarantine for a month now and Harvey's whitespot has all cleared up.  Goldie was quite easy to catch after removing some of the rocks. Harvey was a real pain in the bum tho! He jammed himself in a hole in the rock and wouldn't come out. We left him overnight and tried to catch him when we fed him but he wouldn't come out the rock far enough! Eventually we gave up on trying to catch him to transfer him to a bag and acclimatise him properly, we whipped the rock out that he was hiding in and popped it straight into the main tank. Within a couple of minutes he came out to see all the other fish, nosey fish that he is!

Harvey has made friends with the Clowns and Eddie and follows them about all day! He looks like he is annoying Boomerang at times but they all seem quite happy. He is still really tiny - much smaller than Boomerang. He loves eating the algae on the back wall and I noticed the Clownfish tried to copy him thinking it must be tasty, I don't think they were impressed!

Goldie has settled in well and is always out for feeding time. Yesterday I came to say Hi to them all before I fed them. When I came back with the food Goldie was out the tank! It looks like he jumped out the tiny cut-out corner of the glass lid as he landed on the sliding glass under the lights. I just opened the glass and pushed him back in the tank. He seems fine - no damage done. I've covered up the gap now! Troublesome fish! I can't quite believe he managed to get out that gap as it's pretty small, and to land on the glass where I would see him was just lucky. If he wasn't out swimming I would normally have just presumed he had gone hiding under the sand.

2 comments:

Eilsa said...

Sounds like these fish are keeping you entertained anyway! What a load of stories to tell!!

What about an update on the crabs, I'm starting to think they are becoming neglected. What's Sergeant Major's newest hat look like?

Von said...

Good idea! I will fill you in on the lastest with the crabs in my next post and will try to get a photo of Sergeant Major and One Claw McGraw for you!

Stu and Yvonne’s venture into the world of marine fish keeping.