…after getting a new one..(or its parts)…it didn’t fit. We did get a foxfaced rabbitfish (one-spot variety) to eat the cursed caulerpa weed (see Discovery Channel: Killer Algae) which has been the bane of this tank setup.<\/p>\n
But the tang hated him. We got him because the tang wouldn’t eat the stuff. So this time Mr. Tang had to go back to the fish store to find a new (and larger home) because he spent all last night blustering at Mr. Foxface. So…<\/p>\n
We took the water out of the tank and caught Mr. Tang, and also caught Mr. Pistol Shrimp, whom we believe responsible for the demise of 2 firefish and a scissortail. He did not play nice, had grown to look like a 2″ long lobster, and we got him. He also will go to a new home.<\/p>\n
You have to picture the living room Jane so lovingly rendered fit for company now scattered with 7 buckets, siphons, wires, pieces of ballast, lights, you name it. Not to mention sections of pipe we’ve removed, the lid, the pieces of the jump-guard, jugs of vinegar (used to remove deposits) and\u00a0bowls, pans, boxes, bags, salt—it was a zoo. OR rather, the back room of your average zoo.<\/p>\n
We caught both offenders, headed off to the fish store, got a proper ballast, handed over our problems, got back after a detour to a Japanese garden, where I hoped I might find either a Kyoto or Oribe lantern…they didn’t have that, but did have one. Jane and I have now lost our mothers and fathers, and wanted to set up something in the garden, and we are hoping to find a granite lantern to stand on the pond edge where we can put tea lights into it and have it light our garden on nights we’re out late.<\/p>\n