9to5 Cubicle

[kimdawg]

Good luck in the contest.  Your fish is so cute.

[M. Tournesol]

Update on the sick ones:

 

The small micromussa tissue seems to still be organising its cells to form a new mouth. Colour and form, sometime, change other night.

 

The trachyphyllia swelled for the first time in weeks. I have hope for him. (The glass cup is to create a very low flow area)

 

The goby isn't doing better but not worsening. I see a bubble inside him. I am waiting for a net to capture him and have a closer look. The net will arrive with a basic set of quarantine equipments (sponge filter, 3x T tubings, heater and some ESHA 2000).

[M. Tournesol]

Bonus, Where's Waldo? :

[Ratvan]

Has yours been a lot more active as well these past few weeks?

Also great photo

[M. Tournesol]

1 minute ago, Ratvan said:

Has yours been a lot more active as well these past few weeks?

Also great photo

Yes (sand storm is my new friend ) and thank for the compliment 😉

[M. Tournesol]

My stomatopod lovingly letting me know who the real boss of this aquarium is 🥰.

[LazyFish]

I see feeders out on the trach! Is it eating for you? 

[M. Tournesol]

2 minutes ago, LazyFish said:

I see feeders out on the trach! Is it eating for you? 

🤷‍♂️ Yes and no. I feed the trachy every day but I don't see it absorbing the food (I give it 30 minutes with the pump off). The best reaction it's ever given me is occasionally getting his stomach out.

[LazyFish]

I find mine like very small bits of food actualy  I recent switched to smaller lps pellets they responded better to that. They can eat quite large things tho. When full they start rejecting and sloughing / slimming off the extra. I also found they come from softer sand and mud flat areas its softer/ smoother than what I use in the tank. I usualy start off sitting the cone of the skeleton in a soda cap if they look irritated or I'm not getting good inflation ?maby it chafes them idk) untill they adjust to the tank then I put them on the sand. Could be worth a try.

[M. Tournesol]

36 minutes ago, LazyFish said:

I find mine like very small bits of food actualy  I recent switched to smaller lps pellets they responded better to that. They can eat quite large things tho. When full they start rejecting and sloughing / slimming off the extra. I also found they come from softer sand and mud flat areas its softer/ smoother than what I use in the tank. I usualy start off sitting the cone of the skeleton in a soda cap if they look irritated or I'm not getting good inflation ?maby it chafes them idk) untill they adjust to the tank then I put them on the sand. Could be worth a try.

I feed mine mixed size frozen foods. I will now focus on a smaller size.

 

Thank you for your "soda cap" suggestion. Since all peripheral tissue is dead (ie, no tissue is touching the sand anymore), I prefer to not move it as it seems to show signs of recovery.

 

[M. Tournesol]

I think I may have found a name for my mantis shrimp 😉

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[Ratvan]

Industrious little critters arent they?

[M. Tournesol]

A little sad today because my trachy had some tissue loss 😕.

 

Fortunately," BOB" is here to make me smile.

I love its new house 😂

 

 

[NoOneLikesADryTang]

It’s cool that he picked a spot where you can watch him easily! 

[M. Tournesol]

41 minutes ago, NoOneLikesADryTang said:

It’s cool that he picked a spot where you can watch him easily! 

I think he is trying to fill the opening. I may be to ugly for him 🥲

[M. Tournesol]

😭 my trachyphyllia is losing a lot of tissue. I think it's the end this time. the chance for him bouncing back is very slim.
I will glue 3 of the lordho on the sand and move the trachy to where they are tomorrow.

[M. Tournesol]

This post is to keep a temporal reference to the photo and gif in my new journal intro post.

 

Up to date front photo

Update to the last "visite gif"

Shimmer

 

[kimdawg]

Beautiful corals.  I can't grow any of the puffy kind even acans die in my 75 gallon tank.

[M. Tournesol]

21 hours ago, M. Tournesol said:

😭 my trachyphyllia is losing a lot of tissue. I think it's the end this time. the chance for him bouncing back is very slim.
I will glue 3 of the lordho on the sand and move the trachy to where they are tomorrow.

Done! What a messy endeavor 😓

I also took the opportunity to glue some of the small pieces of rock that the mantis use to build its house.  I am sick of seeing her beat up my micromussa with pebble 😫.

 

[M. Tournesol]

Its the end 😭

[seabass]

Some people will tell you to leave it in your tank, and that occasionally it will miraculously start to regrow.  That has never happened for me; but maybe just stick it behind some rock and check on it after several months.  Who knows, maybe there is something to that.

[M. Tournesol]

2 hours ago, seabass said:

Some people will tell you to leave it in your tank, and that occasionally it will miraculously start to regrow.  That has never happened for me; but maybe just stick it behind some rock and check on it after several months.  Who knows, maybe there is something to that.

One of my micromussa is doing this miraculous regrow 🤷‍♂️. But my trachy also doing it? I think I may need to go make a prayer at Lourdes 🙏. 

 

Lordho now vs before:

[M. Tournesol]

New position of the three glued lordhowensis 🙂.

 

[M. Tournesol]

3 minutes ago, M. Tournesol said:

One of my micromussa is doing this miraculous regrow 🤷‍♂️. But my trachy also doing it? I think I may need to go make a prayer at Lourdes 🙏. 

 

Lordho now vs before:

Another up to date pic:

[M. Tournesol]

On 5/13/2022 at 9:43 PM, M. Tournesol said:

I think he is trying to fill the opening. I may be to ugly for him 🥲

See @NoOneLikesADryTang, I was right 😭