I PUT MY FISH BACK IN!!! Or at least some of them. My fish have been in a small aquarium at the
LFS, with a little sticky on the tank saying "en pension", for the past 2 months. Unfortunately not all survived, I lost one percula clown and one yellow tang, but the rest seem okay. Saturday I brought most of them home and transferred them to their new home. I tried to take pix today but my camera was dead out of battery, I will post some tomorrow.
Fish now in the tank: a blue hippo tang, a flame hawkfish, a 6-line wrasse, a red and white (snowflake?) mandarin, a percula clown, and a large comet. The hippo tang and the comet I've had almost since the first days of the aquarium, and they are hardy and happy. I brought home my surviving yellow tang from the
LFS, and he was doing very well, eating well on Sunday, but on Monday when the lights came on he was floating. Very sad.
But I have to say that putting the fish in the aquarium was the first moment I appreciated the size. It was AMAZING to watch the tangs swim 10 feet from one end to the other, and seeing the wrasse disappear into the caves at one end and reappear at the other. The percula just bobbed along like a kid in trampoline heaven. And it did almost feel like I could be in there with them. Now I can't wait for corals and other inverts, and of course more fish (but I will be patient).
Thanks for the response above. It's so great to know I'm not alone in this!
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Originally Posted by Small Fry  I have noticed an inconsistency here. The title of this thread seems to be "my LITTLE piece of the ocean??" |
Well, it's little compared to the ocean I guess, and coming from a huge country (Canada) to a little one makes everything feel smaller here.
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Originally Posted by veriann Not totally sure on the twin overflow design, can you ask the builder more on its design functionality for me. im interested in learning any new developments in europe. I suspect its function is to make cleaning difficult & a quieter waterfall transition into the weir but im only speculating ...lol The thing that concerns me is the "metal" component as the overflow strainer. Durable plastics are used for a reason in regards to salt. Leaching & conductivity can be a problem. |
I did ask about the overflow, but I asked the designer's assistant (the
LFS owner wasn't in). The assistant is great but doesnt always explain things in ways I can understand just because his French is fast and colloquial. He was excited to explain it to me, and I can assure you there is an explanation, and it has something to do with (a) the fact that the water comes into the overflow both from the top and the bottom, not just the top, and (b) aeration (which didn't actually make sense to me but I'm sure it's the word he used, I could be wrong though). It is pretty quiet and it is a pain to clean, so you are right on those guesses! Rest assured I will persue this - his excitement at least proved to me it wasn't a stupid question and there is more to explore. Maybe it is a new trend here. Thanks for the heads-up about the metal. It is definitely coated-metal, not straight metal, but I will for sure ask about that.
