We are totally in love with our fish!!! To all you divers out there who don't get enough underwater time, get a tank! There are so many cool things about having a reef in your living room. Garrett and I just got 4 new fish! Our little tank is maxed out now and I'm sure many tank experts would tell us we have too many, but we got clearance from our tank buddy, John, who told us we have a great tank that could handle a big load. So we now have two Tangs: Tack and Turk (Tack is a sailfin, and for you non-sailers out there, to tack means to kind of sail in a zigzag when you are going into the wind, so we thought it was fitting for him (he's black and white and yellow; Turk is a Unicorn Tang aka a Surgeonfish, which Garrett decided meant he should be named after a famous surgeon - Turk, from Scrubs) I feel like I need to explain Turk a little because if you see him in the pictures or the video you will think, "Hmm. why did they buy all those cool fish and then that boring grey one?" But he's really beautiful in person! He changes from light to dark a lot, and when he is lighter you can see his cute purple freckles all over his face. Also, he's a juvenile right now, but when he gets older he will be even more gorgeous. We also have a Mandarin Dragonette who doesn't have a name yet - it will be something helicopter related though because he doesn't swim like a normal fish, he just goes straight up and straight down like a helicopter. And we have a really amazingly cool looking fish called a Dragon Wrasse. He lookes like he's wearing army camo, and then he has these crazy fins poking out of the top of his head that look a lot like reighdeer antlers, so his name is Private First Class Blitzen or P.F.C. Blitzen for short (ha, not so short) He had me worried all day because we just got him and the two Tangs last night and he was really active all night but this morning I couldn't find him anywhere, which doesn't make a lot of sense in a 14 gallon tank. He's not a tiny fish either. So when we came home today and couldn't see him I started thinking we'd need to take the rocks out and find his dead body. Instead, Garrett started laughing and showed me this little tail sticking up from the sand. He likes to bury himself in the sand! It's really not that unique; a lot of species do it, but the guy at the store said most wrasses do it but he didn't think a dragon wrasse would. Well, he does. He can bury himself completely because he's so flat, so he just hangs out down there and sleeps during the da;y and then I poke him so he comes out to play with everyone else at night. And of course we still have our baby - Juice!!! He's the sweetest little guy. He's been giving the other fish kisses - and I really mean it. He goes up to them and gives them these open-mouthed kisses on their bodies. And he's not trying to be mean, he's really gentle about it.
So fun!!! Meanwhile, the bar is not fun, and posting this blog and these pictures counts as my break for the night, so I've got to get back to it. We hope you like the video. I am posting a few still shots on here even though they look terrible because my sister can't get videos on her computer - so here's for you Paige!!!
