More critters!

Wednesday I added yet more life to the reef tank!

I had heard good things about Keen Reef so I packed up the little one and headed out. I had a mission; more cleanup crew. I succeeded, in that I ended up with more snails. Astrea snails were cheap so I got a dozen -- I had ordered some with my original crew but they don't ship very well in my experience. The original set never really moved much, but these guys are happily chewing up bits of algae. I also got 5 more mexican turbo snails. (I love mexican turbos; they are eating machines!)

I didn't mean to get anything else, but the coral frags were just too tempting. I ended up with a tiny little bunch of zooanthids and a little acropora frag. They seem to be pretty happy. There were both red and green polyps on the zooanthid rock... the green ones are open all the time, but the red seem to only open in the evenings. The acropora (which I have never kept before) is also looking very healthy. Hopefully they will grow and justify my impulse buy.

The algae is fading fast, and either next week or the following one, I'm going to head out with an even more ambitious mission; to find my first fish.

(For anyone who read the last entry and is wondering, the little blue finch is still with us, but still looking scruffy and sleepy. She is eating, though, always a good sign.)