DAYS 44-46

Farewell Claudia! These are the last photos of you. Till now, I still do not know why you did it.

The Super Suns opened up so beautifully last night. That was the best thing that happened after Claudia's death.

DAY 43

It is with great sadness that I announce the demise of Claudia. I found her on the floor when I came back from work earlier. Did something spook her? Otherwise, why did she jump out of the tank when she was behaving so well all these time? She is still very small, young, has been eating well and was in good health. Sigh, what a pity.

When I saw Chris the other day, the exoskeleton was on the sponge and 3 of the Sexy Shrimps were teasing it apart. Chris the Skunk Cleaner Shrimp has been moulting quite regularly compared to Felicia the Fire Shrimp. Coco's twin crowns are also getting bigger each day. I brought the Daisy Polyp to the office yesterday and rescaped the layout yesterday.

Anyway, looking at these photos, I feel very dissatisfied because the colours shown are so dull. It lacks shades of blue, green and yellow. By the way, the camera did not reproduce all the colours truly in the photos.

DAYS 27 AND 28

It's almost the end of the month soon and before I list down all the live stock I have in this pico aquarium of barely 27 litres, I will post more photos of them in my small tank.

Penny has become bolder and has been seen venturing out into the open more often now, especially when the Sexy Shrimps are blatantly swinging their butts all the time.

I just pity the mini Zoas and mushrooms because now they get trampled all over all the time.

Coco is opening up beautifully, I must say. Oh, I think I have been neglecting Claudia for a while and haven't been paying much attention to her despite her efforts of sashaying across the waters all the time. She too, appears to be hosting the single red mushy amongst the mini green Zoas.

By the way, I feel very freaked out by the Nassarius snails because they glide at incredible speeds across the aquarium. When I fed Sunny yesterday, one of them appeared out of nowhere and climbed all over it. After feasting on Sunny's food, the detritus eating snail went back into its hiding place in the sand and sent out its long proboscis, like an alien's probe out of the sand. I tell you, their behaviour is creeping me out.

Looking at all these, I feel tempted to do a 1.5 ft tank instead so that I can house more stuff.

DAY 14

Everything remained pretty much the same and the snails were busy grazing. 

Claudia was swimming all around the tank and sometimes  diving straight at the GSP as if it was a bed of anemones. It must be under stress because it was either refusing to eat or has bad smell or eyesight because she never feed on the fish food or Mysis shrimps which I added to the tank. The Xenia still looked terrible and a few of the orange Rhodactis were detached from the skeleton and settled on the sand and amongst the mini Zoas.

It took me about 4 hours to feed Sunny but it didn't quite seem to eat much. I literally had to take a tweezer and pushed the Mysis shrimps into its mouth but it took forever to swallow even one shrimp. I would have to try tonight again to ensure it is eating.