A Cry for Help

Last yeah, when Em and I moved into a third floor apartment, we had the oh-so-enjoyable experience of moving not one, but two saltwater fish tanks. This involved catching wily fish, removing rocks covered in bristleworm spines (which I believe are still stuck in my fingers somewhere), filling multiple buckets with water and sand and [...]

Welcome to a long overdue installment of Fish Stuff Friday. There’s been a lot of changes for our finned friends since last update, too much to get to in one post (hey, it’s Friday, and there’s a bottle of wine on the table…). So here’s one of my current favorites in the tank, an electric [...]

Feel the love.

Some people think its unnatural for a conch and a hermit crab to get together, but we’re pretty open-minded here at A Cry for Help.

It’s been a while since we visited any of our sea creechiz </alan shawn feinstein>.

That’s our blue hermit crab, sporting the new fall fashion of algae tufts. Or, as Remy would call it, an algal “system.”

Back by popular demand, it’s a new Fish Stuff Friday! This week’s installment is “Damsel, in Distress?”
You may remember, from months ago, my new fish tank which was quickly infected by a straight-from-the-store deadly parasite. Well, I waited the suggested six weeks and got new fish (from the same store, though). Those fish came down [...]

Alan Shawn Feinstein delivered to me today the most sacred of all of his possessions - his precious collection of almighty and everlasting sea creechiz (established in nointeen sixty noin). While many do not recognize their value, ASF and I have a special connection.

The most important items in the museum are:
Cank (the rock), sacred [...]

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on a project for my marine ecology class. We had to design our own experiment, on any subject we wanted, and carry it out.
I’ve been doing evil experiments on barnacles. Barnacles are those little encrusting guys that just look like white bumps [...]

Master Conch & Red Hermie

Yellow Goby in his new spot

Thats all! Just a quick, non-reading Fish Stuff Friday this week! (I miss Bil’s 4-megapixel camera)

I’ve been watching a practically empty tank for over a month now. A month without fish does great things to a tank - its wonderfully clean and very healthy. Lots of little organisms have been growing and keeping the ecosystem in good shape. However, most of these organisms are extremely tiny or [...]

Em said maybe I was a good luck charm in all things marine related, and boy was she wrong! You know how I introduced you guys to the new fish yesterday? Well, last night we lost the LBC.
I was talking to Em when I noticed the little brown clownfish was covered in spots (click here [...]

Well, we took a week off to mourn, but all the while down here in the Big Easy I was setting up a 5 gallon salt water tank. New sand, new live rocks, new hermit crabs… the works! And last weekend I finally got two clownfish, an orange one and a black one (which looks [...]