Pictures from March 1997

The two gobies are Amblyeleotris guttata. I had mail ordered a pair of Valenciennea puellaris, a highly effective sand stirrer, but I got these instead. These fish never sift sand. They just hang around most of the time. Boring fish, but pretty. They eat live amphipods and whatever scraps they can catch when I feed chopped up seafood to the corals. To the right of the fish is a Porites coral with Christmas tree worms in it. Just below and to the left of the fish is a fragment of Hydnophora exesa, given to me by Sanjay Joshi. At the far left, you can see a peek of a Caribbean anemone that came on my live rock (damn the thing).

The closed brain coral is probably Platygyra daedalea. To the right of it, in the glare from the light, you might be able to see another fragment of Hydnophora exesa, from Sanjay. The blurry brown strands in the foreground are the branches of a Caribbean gorgonian that came on my live rock.

Here's a Pachyseris with a case of RTN (notice the bare skeleton in the middle). I removed the coral and treated it in 5 drops of 5% Lugol's solution per liter of treatment water for 30 minutes. That seems to have stopped the spread of the death. The coral is exposed to air at the top in this picture because the circulation pump is turned off.

Two Tridacna maximas in my lower tank.

Blue Tridacna crocea in my top tank. Sorry about the blur.

Here's a Montipora digitata fragment that I won at a local raffle. When I received it it was completely brown. Now it's taking on a green tint.

Chris Paris

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