I’ve been a bit lax with my reef posts lately, in part because I’m scheduling the tours for my upcoming mystery, BLADE OF THE SAMURAI, which releases on July 15. I’ve come out of the weeds, however, and I’ll be back to regular posting as of this week. Since it’s the first week of a new month, today’s reef post offers “the best of” April 2014: We brought home a new dragonet (sometimes known as a “scooter blenny”), who’s doing well and already eating frozen mysis–in the wild, they live on live foods only, so making the transfer to frozen is
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January 2014 on the Reef
This year, I’m trying to keep up with the monthly reef-retrospectives, where I share some of the best images from the month before. Here’s a little of what I saw in January: Ghillie and Ceti, the seahorses, sharing dinner: Some new purple mushrooms (settling in well – despite the adventurous hermit): Max. Being Max. Emo the clownfish, hiding in a cave: And, last but not least, Red Spot the fire shrimp enjoying a rare trip into the open: Which is your favorite? I can never decide.
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Last night, while working on the third Shinobi Mystery, I glanced at the tank and noticed something I rarely seem to see with a camera handy: Red the fire shrimp cleaning Flappy the mandarin dragonet. A couple of days ago, I snagged this photo of the process just before the aquarium lights came on: It’s rare to see a cleaning when I can film a video, because Red (like most fire shrimp) prefers to stick to the safety of his cave during “daylight hours” on the reef. Last night, however, everything aligned, so here’s your Tuesday aquatic treat – bath
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