Aquarium Madness

I’ve just looked into my dark tank (the lights are off) and there are three snails swarming on the Halloween Hermit Crab’s shell.

I just noticed that the Halloween Hermit Crab had gone into hiding earlier. I am under the impression that this hermit crab is molting at the moment. I figure if the hermit crab is molting, the snail probably can’t get to it because of it’s shell.

Killer Snails

Could the snails possibly have gotten the Blue Knuckle Hermit Crab? I hope not. But they may have. This is some interesting behavior within my tank right now.

All this stuff just creates more questions about the happenings inside my tank. I don’t get any answers. It’s kinda like watching Lost.

I’ve recently begun an all out attack against algae in my 75 gallon saltwater aquarium. I am now vacuuming gravel and changing water at the rate of about 5 gallons of water per night.

I think this will be good for the long haul. My fish are looking very healthy. The water is clear. The filtration doesn’t need to be cleaned as much, it seems.

I just need to do whatever I need to do to starve the red slime algae into oblivion. At the same time, I don’t want to change the water in one motion so drastically as to stress the fish and other inhabitants of the aquarium.

Oh well. I’ll keep at. 5 gallons per night average.

Hmm, what should I put back there? I don’t want just a standard “looks like the ocean, yo” type of background. I don’t want to mimic a lush underwater plant backdrop. I don’t want standard blue, that looked like crap after a while.

I’m thinking of going with some unique looking posters or something. I do have some weird posters out in my garage from past days of decorating dorm rooms and bedrooms during college and stuff. I don’t think any of those would be that fun.

I think I need to do something like find some unique artwork that is printed onto some posters. The artwork should be abstract and look good even with a little bit of algae that needs to be scraped off the glass right in front of it. I probably don’t want any solid colors. I need a busy background, once again to mask some of the stuff that gets on the glass every now and then.

I have a Monty Python ministry of silly walks poster, for example. Something like that would look funny as a backdrop on an aquarium. Plus I like the idea of black/white with no colors for the aquarium backdrop, that could be kinda fun.

I gotta think about this one a bit more, and then probably just stop out somewhere where a bunch of funky looking posters can be purchased. I wouldn’t mind changing my fish tank background on a frequent basis just to keep it fresh. Fun stuff.

I began to grow quite annoyed at the dark blue background sheet that was taped on to the back of my 75 gallon tank. It was kinda ugly, getting worn out and not looking very nice anymore.

These background sheets they sell for tanks are interesting, with their goofy seaweed backdrops and other pattern landscapes. They sometimes can help improve the look of a tank. My low-quality backdrop could have possibly lasted longer. I didn’t want just a plain blue background on my tank anymore, though.

I am probably going to hang some random posters from the back of my aquarium to give it an interesting mixed up look. I can then swap out posters as I see fit to change up the background in my fish tank. Yeah, this will be interesting.

The new aquarium look, without the blue backdrop:

Anyways, compared to the above image of the ugly blue background in my aquarium, doesn’t this new version of the tank look better? At least for now?