Hi again cyberspace...
Sorry for the long delay in posts - I've been busy with real world stuff which leaves little time for blogging. Thanks for all of the recent comments I have been receiving despite my long absence from the blogosphere. Keep reading and keep commenting, I really appreciate the feedback.
Anyway, since the last update many changes have occurred in Surfquarium. I exported a few mushrooms, a few Xenia's, and the larger of my two yellow toadstool leathers. My research lab gained a new member who was looking for some life to add to his new 80 gallon tank, and these guys were either getting too large for (leather) or overpopulating (mushrooms and Xenia) Surfquarium, so off they went into a new home. I've been bugging him for photos of their new lair, but so far no photos.
On a natural coral reef, space is usually the ultimate limiting resource. This also holds true in Surfquarium, where mushrooms and Xenia were quick to colonize the empty space left by the exported creatures. I now seem to have a mushroom side (left) and a Xenia side (right) in surfquarium, with my anemone (E. quadricolor) holding down the middle. The photo at the top of this post represents the new look of Surfquarium.
