- Location
- Overland Park, KS
1. Do not scrape xenia off a rock that is desperately attached to lots of other rocks, where the act of scraping might set off a chain of reactions that will lead to corals getting knocked over.
2. Do not, once you recognize that the corals may well fall since you have indeed begun to scrape xenia, decide to put the corals ANYWHERE BUT on the sand bed.
3. Do not, once you have put the corals somewhere other than on the sand bed, accidentally jiggle the rock the corals are on while scraping xenia such that they fall into the HOLE that has opened up adjacent to the rock the corals are (unbeknownst to you) PRECARIOUSLY perched instead of firmly resting.
Should you not heed my warning, I assure you and speak from very recent and unpleasant experience that you will spend the next two hours taking your rockwork apart as carefully as possible and without killing all the remaining corals, attempting to find the small and beautiful frag that has fallen into the cave wherein dwells your marine beta (and hopefully nothing that stings!). Not at all surprisingly, you will come to discover while hunting blindly for your frag, that this very frag was, in fact, your FAVORITE frag of all....
you will NOT be able to sleep.
you will need serious amount of chocolate and possibly also a stiff drink, and for hours after that, you will peer into your tank with the brightest flashligh you have, attempting in vain to catch a glimpse of the frag you are convinced is gone forever.
you will probably not be able to look at the tank for weeks without searching for that frag.
My best advice for you, my friend, if this speaks to you directly, is to join me in my jaunt to Manhanttan Aquariums to dull the pain in the search for a new favorite frag.
I wonder if they still have the one I lost....
2. Do not, once you recognize that the corals may well fall since you have indeed begun to scrape xenia, decide to put the corals ANYWHERE BUT on the sand bed.
3. Do not, once you have put the corals somewhere other than on the sand bed, accidentally jiggle the rock the corals are on while scraping xenia such that they fall into the HOLE that has opened up adjacent to the rock the corals are (unbeknownst to you) PRECARIOUSLY perched instead of firmly resting.
Should you not heed my warning, I assure you and speak from very recent and unpleasant experience that you will spend the next two hours taking your rockwork apart as carefully as possible and without killing all the remaining corals, attempting to find the small and beautiful frag that has fallen into the cave wherein dwells your marine beta (and hopefully nothing that stings!). Not at all surprisingly, you will come to discover while hunting blindly for your frag, that this very frag was, in fact, your FAVORITE frag of all....
you will NOT be able to sleep.
you will need serious amount of chocolate and possibly also a stiff drink, and for hours after that, you will peer into your tank with the brightest flashligh you have, attempting in vain to catch a glimpse of the frag you are convinced is gone forever.
you will probably not be able to look at the tank for weeks without searching for that frag.
My best advice for you, my friend, if this speaks to you directly, is to join me in my jaunt to Manhanttan Aquariums to dull the pain in the search for a new favorite frag.
I wonder if they still have the one I lost....
