Things are coming to life!

Well, gee...no one has commented on my pictures yet. *sniff* I know...just another boring fish tank. *ssssiiiiggghhhh*

Just kidding! Heehee!

Anyway, the tank's been running about a week and I've had a few live rocks in it since Saturday. As of Tuesday, I started to notice things were hap' nin'. There are cute little animals all over the rocks and have started rearing their tiny flagella.

Monday night I slept on the couch in order to avoid Mr. sickie spreadin' his sickies to me. Well I peeked in the tank early Tuesday morning as I headed toward the bathroom and noticed a threadlike thing flowing in the current. A transparent, feathery appendage gracefully dancing in the dim light. I followed it from tip to the tiny pore on the rock it protruded from, which as a total of about 4 or 5 inches. Later that night when I turned on the light (hey, that rhymes! derg) I saw the hairy thing again. As I watched, it reeeeeeeeled itself into the pore on the rock. It was all, *zzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiippp*. Hehehehee! I've also noticed that some of the polyps on one of the rocks are still alive, even ones that I thought were dead are coming back. They have mushroom stems with sunflower looking ends. Man, it's hard to describe...I gotta charge the camera this weekend and take some close ups. Then there are the snails. I saw a different kind of snail last night, besides the black n' white stripies. This one was a little bigger (about the size of a pencil eraser) with a creamy colored shell. It was trying to crawl on the back part of the tank and had left a little zig-zag trail in the sand residue. A little while later, I noticed the snail, its back on the sandy bottom, with its slime trail suspended between it and the wall. A couple of grains of sand were stuck in the slime, blowing in the current. Then I saw a tiny shrimp skeleton blow by. Yes, there are teeeeeeeeeeeeny brown and white shrimp living in the rocks, too.

Good gawd! And this is only like, eight pieces of rock! I still have to add about another 25 pounds of the stuff! These guys get the BEST rock, it's got all this life on it and it's only $2.99 a pound! The rocks I got before had half the life and cost $4 - $5 a pound. I've made myself wait at least a week before I get more rock. So come Saturday, I'm gonna get about another 10 pounds. This time it'll be some from their more expensive selection. They've got some gorgeous purple rocks in the $4 - $5 bin. TONS of purple and green, corraline algea...oh man, I can't WAIT until my whole tank is covered in it!

Okay, I'm getting way too excited over a fish tank. Nuh-uh. It's cool, I have reason to be. I've always wanted to build a reef tank and it's finally coming about. Woopie for me! Now it's that time again. Time to stop babbling on the internet and get back to work. Later!