CynthiaB

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

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

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

This guy rarely makes an appearance in the front of the tank. He also seems to move backwards most of the time.

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

When you see a fish disappear into the rock and appear in another place, he knows the tank better than you.

This guy was a busy bee looking for a new home.

This guy changed shells on me. Looks like he is happily eating now that he isn’t hunting for a new home.

When you follow a mysid around the tank, you run into everyone else. Hermits, Ceriths, and other mysid.

This little guy has zero fear while climbing a macro algae. He falls from the top but goes right back to climbing.

This guy is all over the macro algae. Who knew they had a ‘face’.

The blue goby sits on this rock ledge most of the day while the pajama cardinal either hovers on the back left corner or watches me through the rocks from the back of the tank.

From left to right, seeing what everyone was doing in the tank

The mysid had the wafer all to themselves until the hermits found it.

This snail controlled his slide down to the bottom of the tank so he could eat off the algae covered shell.

Thought this was pretty cool. You don’t normally see their little faces.

Another hermit flipped him over. Then he has to pull himself back.

Finally put live food in the tank. The pajama cardinal loved it.

He is all over the tank all the time. I don’t think I want to get a fish big enough to eat him.

We have 5 Trochus snails, 4 Cerith snails, and 7 dwarf Zebra/Orange & Black hermit crabs. I had a spot of musics net, nasty little gross snails without shells, and 5 hours in with the new clean up crew, and that spot is gone.

We have fish in the 10 gallon saltwater tank. The Neon Blue Goby got into a quarrel with another Neon Blue Goby. (It’s own reflection!) Thankfully it lost interest and is now exploring its new tank.

Decided to drop a macro algae in the 10 gallon tank. The amphipods that have stayed hidden since the mysid shrimp were introduced. They went nuts, pouring out of the rock. Not afraid of being eaten when they think there is something to eat. Thankfully they have swarmed in and out of the Pom Pom. (There is a glass shrimp in the tank too.)

The hitchhiker in the bag of mysid shrimp is doing well. Found out today he isn’t the smallest shell in the tank. Week 3 of cycling a saltwater tank.

This little guy was a hitchhiker in a bag of feeder shrimp. He is a teeny tiny hermit in a teeny tiny shell sitting in another HUGE shell eating.