After seeing the pictures that OCD posted of the Student and Aspie Boy, I was reminded of some pool pictures taken just about 3 years ago today.
The pictures didn't come out too well because I took them with an old cell phone whose quality wasn't that good.
The Student and Aspie Boy sure have grown.
In looking for those pictures, I came across one of the very first pictures of the aquarium. (OCD: Create a link to one of my blogs about the aquarium that has recent pictures, k?)
The first step was to put in the sand and water and live rock, and then we had to wait a few days for the dust to settle. At first, the dust in the water was so thick we couldn't see anything at all. This picture shows that the dust is almost settled. We could finally see the rock, which had been invisible up to this point, because of the dust.
This next picture is how it looked after we added more rock and a couple of corals:
I'm going to see if I can find some other pictures to show how the tank has evolved over the last year and a half.
It's interesting the things you learn along the way, and the things you discover growing in the tank that you didn't know were there. We have seen some interesting creatures.
For instance, the little things that look like roly poly bugs that come out at night. Or the things that look like underwater centipedes or millipedes.
Or the tiny little white things that almost look like starfish that I have found in several locations:
Can you see the little white star-like things?
And here is something else that is always entertaining to find:
See the body parts? Turns out that crabs and shrimp shed their exo-skeleton. I remember the first time Houston and I went to the office and found poor Mr. Shrimp's carcass. I was so sad that he passed. Except that later, we found him hanging under a rock.
This time, it's Mr. Crab shedding his skeleton.
And just for fun, here's a feather duster:
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