Adaptability of the creatures we keep

[Tankkeepers]

So I find it interesting at how well the creatures we keep adapt to where we keep them

The 2 examples I have are

A randells pistol been in tank for over a year now and has been without sand now for about a year no watchman no spot feeding I have not even seen it in 6 months

I know it's alive for 2 reasons I hear it almost every night popping at somthing and sometimes when I'm messing with the large rock on the right of my tank where it lives it'll pop my finger

And it's also funny that's it's digging out rock to make his home

Kinda as the sand he produces is the Bain of my existence took me forever to figure out where it was comming from lol I thought it had started to breed or I had a gnome adding alittle every night


The second example I have is this snail in pic it looks dead ish its not

It's a nassarius tonga and I have no sand and it does just fine on top of that I have alot of water flow so no food ever settles for it to eat so it sits in the flow sideways and uses its foot to trap and catch food then sits on top of it to eat

It's been without sand for as long as the pistol and is as old as the tank

I still have 2 hermits
1 turbo
5 flordia ceriths
And 1 tonga that's my cuc
All as old as the tank
Lost a turbo recent to a super glue accident that really sucked
Plus all the microphana I added myself when I started the tank

 

[Hoodstream]

My fish are basically water dogs at this point I wake up every morning make my rounds and they’re waiting at the corner of the tank for me. My clowns will literally run into my hands well I’m working in the tank. My one rock flower anenome kept trying to suicide into a Powerhead and I kept haveing to peel him off the glass and just to tick me off he hides behind everything and I forget he even exists. It’s amazing how we create little windows of the ocean.

 

[Tankkeepers]

Bump

lets hear from some other with neat stories

Or creatures that do odd things

I once had a Dimond goby that would pick up snails from the 55 he was in swim to the bottom right of the tank turn around and swim to the top left of the tank and throw the snail out of that tank and into the tank next door

It took a few trys before he got it then it was his favorite thing to do

Had a sea hare that would craw onto my hand so it could be moved to another tank to clean it