Thursday, December 20, 2007

Our first wave of janitors

Tonight, we all went out to two of our local fish shops (River City Aquatics and Horizon Aquatics) to look for some aquarium janitors to help keep our tank in tip-top shape. After visiting both stores, we decided to make our purchases at Horizon Aquatics.

After about 2 hours of acclimation, we have added two zebra hermit crabs, one emerald crab, four nassarius snails, two cerith snails, two margerita snails, and two astrea snails. All of these serve various functions like cleaning up debris, eating algae, stirring up the sand, etc. They are also fun to watch! These are all quite a bit bigger than the other things that we had been seeing in the tank so far. It is nice to see activity throughout the aquarium!

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