Our Survivors!

Introducing our little members at home who survived a mini disaster....

First our double "snipper" mini lobster, he's a slim dude who is good at hiding inbetween tiny creeks, almost gave me a fright once when I thought he was dead with a stretched out body. He enjoys coming out into the open during the afternoons and feeding times, otherwise, he usually work behind the scenes without our knowledge. Quite a shy guy I suppose.


Next in the shell family is our red hermie, he is so cute! carrying that fancy shell around his back, crawling from one end of the tank to the other, feeding promptly on our sandy bottom. He enjoys churning out sand, gravel out of his mouth in search of his algea food. He even cleans the sides of our algae infested tank with his tiny claws. Hence the funny "art work of algea" left behind.

pardon me for the blurry images, they are too active lah. caught them during feeding time, so all very excited. hee... Best part about this red hermie is that he's got two followers. We've got two smaller hermits in the tank, occasionally they'll follow red hermie around the tank in search of hidden treasures. So cute!

One of our biggest challenge and pride in the tank is Nemos! Yah, you wonder why they would be a challenge... afterall, just fish right? But they require a home different from other marine life. They grow synergistically with sea anemones. Anemones has naturally growing stings on them which when the clown fish (aka nemos) live closely with them, rubs off some of these sting on their body and use it for their defence.


We previously tried to keep a sea anemone as well, but it did not manage to find a good anchor point and sort of died from starvation. Recently we found out that they actually have a mouth and EAT with it! All we have to do is to put their food at their mouth part! So cool right?? And it really does wallop half a piece of frozen fish food all on its own!

Feeding times are wed and sun! Come and join us?? *wink *wink*

Finally, we have found an interesting behaviour of our Ah Hock, he enjoys balancing on his fins. Maybe he's a lazy fish who doesnt like to waste energy on finning to gain steady bouyancy. So here's a shot of him on one of his "side stand".

if only he knew how comical he looks ha ha ha!