So, it’s been a pretty exciting week at times. On Monday I got
the culture going for the artemia, these will provide the reliable basis for
feeding the juvenile seahorses so it’s good to get that all going. In addition
we’ll use them for feeding some of the fish in the warehouse that have been in
for a while, so it’s nice to get experimenting with that. On Tuesday I went out
with the divers and found a species of algae called Caulerpa
taxifolia, it’s a very fast growing and easy to keep algae that does very well in aquariums and has been
recommended to me as a good thing to have in seahorse tanks. The divers had
told me that they wouldn’t be able to get any, but I stumbled on a few bits and
they’ve now taken a hold in the trial tank.
Tuesday was an interesting day actually. We went on a
seahorse hunt with a few of the divers and took kit. Baya had been to the area
last Saturday and assured me it was about 3m deep and covered in seagrass so I thought
I’d give the (in my view extremely dodgy) dive kit a go as there’s only so much
can go wrong 3m down! However, when we got there it was far deeper and the
visibility was appalling, so I quickly gave up on the diving side of things and
went back to snorkelling. Even the guys that were used to the kit only stayed down
for about 5 minutes, it was definitely not seahorse hunting conditions! This was
further evidenced by the continuing lack of seahorses!
On Friday I had to leave work early as Tadge was playing in
a basketball game and Penny needed the car to go and see her play. So I left
work at 4 instead of 5 to sort that out. At about 4.45 I got a call that we had
a couple of seahorses, typical! A private fishermen had caught a pair, and it
turned out the male was heavily pregnant, unfortunately he didn’t survive the
catching process. It’s really unfortunate that I wasn’t’ around to collect him,
because he really shouldn’t have been disturbed. On the bright side though the
female seems to be doing really well, here are a few pictures:
She seems to be a fully grown Hippocampus histrix or thorny seahorse and she really is beautiful.
At around 10 or 12 cm long she’s fairly large for the species, according to the
guide I’ve got anyway!
After watching Tadge’s (victorious) basketball match I went
with Penny to see a local play. It was truly and unbelievably awful. We me a
couple of people that Penny works with who also work in the theatre. The three
of us walked out after half an hour, and Penny only lasted another 10 minutes!
The only redeeming feature it had was some cheesey overacting.
Really hoping the panto turns out a bit better!
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