Sea Urchin, Condy & Flower Anemones

This weekend we added a sea urchin:


This guy is pretty cool.  It's hard to see in the picture, but he has an orange ring on the bubble in the middle of his body (which we call his eye) and several white and blue spots on his body.  For something with so many spines sticking out everywhere, he gets around very well.  The other marine life don't seem to mind him much either, but the best thing about him - he eats algae!  :)

We also added a condy anemone (left) and a flower anemone (right):












Neither of these anemone's are a good host for clown fish (we just think they're 'pretty' LOL).  In fact, the condy is kinda... sticky!  You have to be careful with him and peel him off of you, as we learned while putting him in the tank.  He's also great at grabbing his mysis shrimp and gobbling them up.  He could do the same to a small fish if he got the notion and he'll sting, too - even corals.  That's why he got put in an "out of the way" place under an arch of live rock in the tank.  Both anemone's have stayed in place, unlike our first rose-tip, bubble anemone.  He once again floated on up in the overflow box and I had to dig him out with a hanger.  Ack!  Here is another picture of him after his "split."















The photo on the right (above) is another picture of the frogspawn (taken with the "good" camera this time).  Frogspawn is another type of invertebrate that clown fish sometimes like to host in.  We're hoping since we've had so much trouble with the other anemone that maybe the clown fish will be able to host in this, though they haven't taken to either yet.  We're considering getting another, much larger "tree" of frogspawn, but wanted to see how it would fair in the tank first.  Our research says that frogspawn is pretty easy to keep.

Here are pictures of the Xenia's & Mushroom Coral (left) and Kenya trees (right) that I didn't include in the last post:















The Xenia's are the light pink (all though in this picture they look more peach) coral.  They look like small hands whose fingers are constantly opening and closing to catch things in the water to eat.  They're pretty cool.