MarineTankDiving

This little guy was stuck in a hole in the rock for a week. He got himself free and went right back in. It took me 15 minutes to get him back out and I put a shell in the hole to keep him out. Today, he decided to change into that shell, on the rock. Needless to say, I was a tad worried. He is now climbing the rock in the new bigger shell. Hope he stays out of the holes.

This hermit is eating the algae on the snail’s shell. The snail is not to happy about lugging around an unwanted passenger.

When you use your feet to anchor yourself on rocks, in water, is there really and up or down?

If your food was on every grain of sand in the tank and you had a mountain of rock to climb later, you would be eating on the run too.

This is the largest hermit in the tank. Just watched him eat a patch of mucus net on the rock, and my heart is singing.

Chloe the cat tries to make new friends with the fish in the tank. Check it out!

Here you go. Six weeks today. I am discovering the pitfalls of macro algae in the display tank. It keeps falling apart and scattering everywhere. I had one Pom Pom that is now 3 glued to rock Pom Poms. So far, the critters seem to be eating. Definitely pooping. I have tons of shells for the hermits.

When you think you are the one watching them, someone eats at you through the rocks.

The tank has 15 lbs of rock. It is a standard 10 gallon tank with a hang on the back filter. It is 6 weeks old this week.

Little hermit crab in new shell makes the same run through the macro algae again.

I just love watching these guys in the tank.

The snails are out and about eating. Lights out in 20 minutes.

When you are a small mysid shrimp, the bigger shrimp might see you as food. This little shrimp is trying to bury himself in the sand.

This little guy is fast. One minute he is on the sand, the next minute, he is at the top of the rock. His personality is growing.

Most people by a Cleaner Shrimp or other large ornamental shrimp for the display tank. I have a few large mysid shrimp holding their own with the fish and each other. They are busy all over the tank, cleaning it.

Hermit crab catch a ride on a Cerith snail going up the glass. Wasn’t too long before he wanted off.

The itty bitty hermit pushes his tint shell around unto another hermit pushes back.

He is the smallest critter in the tank. Even the smallest shrimp is bigger. He just sits on the edge of a rock. Quiet in his own space.

I have two fish, 8 hermits, 4 Cerith snails and 5 small Trochus snails. The tank is 5 weeks old, has been seeded with coralline algae, amphipods and copepods. I started with dry rock and live sand.

When the food is on the shell of a snail, you just catch a ride.

I have a problem with mucus net in my tank. The moment I see some stringing itself out I stop everything to get it out of the tank. It is an eye sore.

Sometimes a hermit will look at a new shell forever before deciding if it is the one. This shell didn’t make the cut and is still empty in the front of the tank.

When ever square inch of rock has food, you can enjoy a snack with a friend.

When food is everywhere, you eat as you climb down the rock.

This little guy turned his new shell over to get air bubbles out only to hop in and have more bubbles to remove.