Since today is the first Tuesday in June, I’m taking a look back at the best images from last month on the reef: Little Tai the dragonet is growing and eating well, and proving a frisky addition to the tank: The emerald crabs feed mostly at night (or before the lights come on) so capturing one in the open can be a challenge: Ghillie has started sitting among the anthelia at night again – and peeking up periodically to see what everyone else on the reef is up to: And, last but not least, a photobomb of imperial proportions: Have
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November on the Reef
I’ve been less than perfect about my reef posts for the last couple of weeks – but I promise we’re back on schedule now. And since it’s the first week in December, it’s time for a November retrospective on the reef: I caught Ripley the porcelain crab at the end of a successful moult, with the old shell still clinging to her legs: And the zoanthid and daisy polyp corals enjoying the evening lights: Max spent lots of time hanging out in his cave: And enforcing the “no shenanigans” rule when Emo got out of hand. Finally, near the end
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Last month I started a new feature: – the Month in Review, Reef Edition. And so, with no further ado, let’s take a look at what happened in April, 2013: The best shot of the month goes to Cyg & Ceti: a mid-water clip from their mating dance: Elsewhere on the reef last month: Lots of algae meant a need for additions to the clean-up crew. This time, that meant large turbo snails and also nassarius snails, which spend most of their time burrowed in the sand and emerge at feeding time to clean up the aquarium floor. (They’re fully
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