Sharing the Joy!

[Jolieve]

Oh my GOD! I cannot believe it! After a month of being gone, my queen conch has reappeared! She was burrowed into the sand bed, and you can see the huge divet she's left in the sand where she came out!

I am so thrilled! She's grown in size and the first thing she did when she came out... was start eating the brown crud off my sand bed! WOOHOO! She's back! She's not dead! I didn't kill her!

I will post pics later on.. got some great shots of her as she was right up at the front of the tank! I just had to share the joy!

Jolie

 

[fungia]

awesome jolieve! i love conchs and i am glad to see yours is alive and kicking. awaiting those pix!

 

[Kabob]

That's great news Jolieve!

Jason

 

[Jolieve]

I posted the pic to my tank specs thread. Here's the link. WOOHOO! Thanks for the kudos guys *hugs*

http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=289066#289066

Jolie

 

[Anonymous]

What a cute little thing!

Oh, and the queen conch is cool, too!



Happy to hear she's alive...

Peace,

Chip

 

[Anonymous]

And a-woo and a-hoo and a-hoo-dee-hoo! Great pics, I'm curious, Jo, how did you get that "painterly" quality to the pics? It's very unusual that they looking like paintings (even appear to be done using fine art techniques)?

 

[Jolieve]

My digital camera is actually my cell phone... I am the proud owner of a Nokia camera phone. The camera does 640x480 res... not high quality images, but higher quality than my old digital camera.

I do take them through photoshop and color balance the images so that the colors come out more true, other than that... well the painterly quality is diatom algae growing on the rocks and glass, cyanobacteria on the sandbed (discovered that the stuff on the sand is dying, but there's more on the rocks underneath the hair algae where my crab is clearing it away) and the rest has to do with lighting in the tank, and in the tank room at the time the pics are taken.

The halo around the queen conch in that shot, is diatom algae that I allow to grow at the base of the glass so that the snails can party on it. I've been trying to avoid cleaning as much of the glass as possible because my snails aren't eating the cyanobacteria and a lot of my ceriths were browsing the sandbed before it took over. Most have headed for the glass now.

Funny thing is... I saw on a website last night, that cerith snails apparently eat this stuff. I have a dozen of them. I haven't seen any of them eating cyano. They eat diatom and other algae on the rocks, but they haven't touched the cyano. My conchs don't touch it either.