New Saltwater Aquarium

Thursday my “aquarium kids’, as I call them, were out here setting up a bigger aquarium for me. Actually, they’d already set it up last week, and were just moving the remainder of the fish over to it.

These kids are in their early twenties, due to be married come May after a six year courtship. (Think they’ll doom the thing by getting married after being together since a tender age?)

Aundrea was moving the fish from the old tank. Jeff was standing there alongside her. All of a sudden he turns to me and says, “Well, I’ve got to go to Shreveport next and pull a worm out of a fish’s butt.” He said this in a quite matter-of-fact manner.

Say what? Naturally, this perked my ears up. “Say what?”

He explained that they had to leave here and drive to the big Bass Pro, or whatever it’s called, which is one of their commercial accounts. Apparently the “pros” there teach folks how to fish out of the big aquarium. (But thankfully without hooks.) And someone used a plastic worm. Some large fish decided it was the real deal, I suspect, and ate it.

Unfortunately, it’s having a little trouble “passing” the worm. So Jeff had to be the young man who was expected to get in there and pull it out. I don’t know just quite how this was to take place…

Oh, truth is always stranger than fiction, isn’t it?

Do you remember Georgie and Porgie from a previous post on the aquarium? Well, here they are in the big 90 gallon tank. A lot of real estate for fish accustomed to about 26 gallons, I’m telling you.

And the dart fish… Unnamed, because I’ve never been able to tell them apart.

Toby the Goby, seen below, who has taken up residence in this hole in the rock. Benny the Blenny has always chased this poor thing, bless him, and he has to swim away and hide. Now he has a hole in the new Fiji rock. He comes out for a short time, then backs up into his hole and stares out. See him?

The little villain himself…

And meet the new member of our little underwater critter world… A Tang named Sunny. Named for obvious reasons.

Yes, the live sand is brown right now. It’s part of the natural “cycling” process. It will clear up soon, and hopefully I’ll have some better photos for you.

More on the saltwater fish saga at a later date…

I also wanted to add that I my site is now simply http://viewfromthepines.com