Wagtails Dog Walking Norwich

I'm so proud of my best friend who has launched her amazing dog walking business! If you have any dog walking or pet sitting needs, please give her a bell! I know I'm biased but there really is no one I would trust more with my furry friends!

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Winning our war on algae!

We've had a lot of changes since the last post and the majority of these changes were in the hope of getting rid of our algae problem, and...I think we're getting there!

The first is our rabbit fish called Rambo who we have to be careful with because it apparently has some nasty stinging spines when scared!

Marcel has also made a home made device with a box, granny square, red and blue lights. Think it works by encouraging algae to grow on the granny square rather than the tank. But don't quote me on this!

We also have two new gobies : Obi and Jelly. Obi was supposed to sift sand but does bugger all. Jelly fortunately is pretty good and does what Obi refuses to!

Marcel has also gone a bit mad with coral shopping! 

This is a trachyphylia from Swallow in East Harling.

This is a Maze coral from Cambridge Coral Tech.

This is a purple acans I chose from Distant Waters in Norwich.

These flowers are Clove Polyps, again from Swallow. 

And this is a clam that Polly and Marcel picked up for me. I realise it's not a coral but I've always wanted one of these! The colours are so beautiful when it opens up a bit!

We are going coral shopping again this weekend, this time to Harlow and Ipswich, can't wait to see what we find!

Algae clean up brigade!

Despite good efforts by Phikki, algae is still a problem, it just won't go away! We've had to buy a few new residents to help the clean up process. Luckily we've always wanted these guys!

This creepy looking little guy is our new arrowhead crab who has yet to be named. He really does not help with my arachnophobia! 

This really isn't the best picture! To the left of the arrowhead crab is an urchin with some coral growing on it! Again, I don't think we've named him yet.

I've saved the best till last! This is our new orange shoulder tang, lovingly named Lemon by Polly! Lemon is also here to help with the algae clean up and with age, she will transform into a lovely grey colour with an orange shoulder. 

And just an update from the previous post, Phikki and Gracie are getting on just fine!

Our tank is still alive!

Can't believe I've not posted since November! Didn't realise it had been that long! We've actually been a bit lax and not done very much till now but we have some new inhabitants!

Here we have the lovely Miss Polly posing with our two new cowries - Ellie and Alice (named by Polly!) We are hoping they and our new tang will help out with our algae infestation!

To the right of the second picture is the new convict tang Phikki who has already started picking at the algae, yay! She and Gracie have already had a little scrap, never realised Gracie was so territorial! Will keep you posted about how they get on!