The morning sun is high enough these days to reach my kitchen window and bounce its light off the wall back towards the aquarium for a few minutes; I took advantage of it to get some quick photos with natural light.
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| First shot. I didn't even bother to turn off the pump; no time to waste. Three anemones, an oyster, red and green seaweeds. |
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| Sun shining through the tentacles of a little pink-tipped anemone. |
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| The second pink-tipped anemone, with barnacles. |
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| The burrowing anemone, reaching towards the light. She always wears this collar of red seaweed these days, and it's usually hiding a fair collection of neighbours; hermits, copepods, sometimes a crab, snails, worms, isopods, and limpets. Can you see the hermit? And the three strands of snail poop? |
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| This rockweed isopod was poking around on the far side of the tank. There are two of them; I don't know how or when they arrived. |
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| Limpet working on new growth on the glass. (I had scrubbed it well the night before, but algae grow quickly.) |
And then the sun climbed over the roof and left the tank in dim light again.
I was thinking about your tank the other dat and wondered if you altered the light cycle through the year.
ReplyDeleteI have one small light that is on a timer, but there's another that I switch on and off, more or less following my schedule. And then there's the light from the window; long days in the summer, very short in the winter.
DeleteYou tank is doing very well, and your natural light pictures really show it off. - Margy
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