Aquarium Madness

In the middle of my aquarium is a live rock structure. The live rock structure is made out of a few different chunks of live rock, so I have options as far as how I want to arrange this live rock structure.

Territorial Fish

I’ve been having some issues with some territorial and aggressive clown fish. I’ve always noticed that rearranging my live rock in the tank helps to make the fish less territorial. It seems to shake things up and keep the fish from getting too comfortable with a particular part of the tank.

I do like it when the fish have their spots that they like to inhabit, I just don’t like it when they become overly territorial and disrupt the tank.

A Hidden Cave

I also have noticed that I have a cave that some of the fish like to hang out in that is nicely hidden on the back side of the tank. I wanted to make sure that I can easily see around the rock structures in the tank. I don’t like it when there is a popular fish hangout that is completely out of my site.

Moving the live rock on the right side of the tank helped to make the structure look nicer and also remove the fish cave.

I am pretty happy with the results so far. I’m wondering which fish will hang out in that area first.

I work in an office environment that has the perfect spot for me to set up a 20 gallon saltwater aquarium just a few feet from my desk. I am heavily contemplating making this move and setting up this aquarium.

Taking on more responsibility

I will need to consider that instead of just having my 75 gallon saltwater aquarium at home, I’ll also now have a 20 gallon saltwater aquarium at the office to take care of. More fish to feed, more aquarium hardware to clean, more aquarium interior space to maintain and clean. And so on.

Regardless of the extra responsibility, I think it would be worth it. Plus, the added benefit is that I could move the two aggressive Clown fish from the 75 gallon aquarium at home to a new home at the office. They could have the whole tank to themselves.

Finding equipment

I’ll need to find a tank, stand, filters and probably a protein skimmer. I’ll also want to make sure I have some good substrate for the bottom of the tank. I may or may not use live rock, depending on what the tank looks like.

Aquarium inhabitants

As I mentioned earlier, I would put my two clown fish in this new tank. I would also probably pick up a hermit crab and couple snails. I wouldn’t stock the tank too heavily, I want to keep it simple. Plus, if it’s only going to be a 20 gallon tank, there will not be much room for lots of fish. The two aggressive clown fish will probably be the only two fish in the tank.

I wouldn’t mind trying to find another Electric Blue hermit crab, they are pretty cool and entertaining to watch.

Now I just gotta do it and get this tank set up. Good times.

I’m officially now setting up a site for my aquarium. Why not. It seems like interesting enough stuff to post to the web. Actually, I’m just kinda linking to random stuff and playing around with this entry to get myself a nice block of content to use for testing layout tweaks. It’s hard to re-design a web site layout when there is no content to format. Yep.