My latest endeavor

Somehow a friend in shul convinced himself that what his new apartment really needed was a big in-wall saltwater fish tank. So he came over to me during kiddush and asked me if I could put one together for him. Tonight we started filling his 135 gallon Oceanic tank (took 3 hours.) Tomorrow I'm picking up the live sand and rock. So far we are doing really well in terms of our budget!

Pictures coming soon!

Jello Melto

Well, the other night we had a bunch of friends over and one of them asked about the jellyfish, to which I replied, "Oh no! I totally forgot about it!" When something sits on the sand in the same place for two days you just kinda forget. Immediately I feared the worst, and unsurprisingly I found Jello stuck next to the overflow box. Surprisingly, it was actually still alive. I moved it and he pulsed around the tank for the first time to everyone's delight. Then it found a place in the front of the tank and just sat down, per usual.

The next day it was gone. Disappeared. Nowhere to be found. Checked the intakes, the overflows, everything.

Jello melto. RIP.

Blellow Problems

Blellow is nipping at our kenya trees. The smaller one is taking a hard hit, and it's hard to tell how much more it can take. The bigger one is also getting hit pretty bad. I keep him pretty well fed, but it might just be his nature. I can't tell if he's trying to eat the Xenia or the GSP yet. He's also eaten all of the tube worms, bristle worms, etc.

In other words, he's a very pretty jerk.

Pictures of Jello

Jello is still alive, for now. We haven't had the fortune of seeing him swim yet, but we know he tried because he's managed to move across the tank. My guess is that once he started swimming the powerheads shot him across the tank. I turned off the powerheads in an effort to get him to swim. Still nothing. But here are some pics.

Blellow? Meet Jello

Impulsive behavior usually has disastrous results in this hobby. Throw a fish in your tank without quarantining it and you can expect a debilitating disease. Buy a fish without first having researched it and you can expect compatibility problems or starvation.

Buy a JELLYFISH when you know absolutely nothing about jellyfish or how to keep them?

Well, that's just a waste of $12.

His name is Jello (proper name is "Mr. Jelley.") Right now he just sits on a rock pulsing--he's yet to get up and swim around. Basically, I'll be shocked if he's alive tomorrow morning.

I'll keep you posted.