Just a bit of an update.

Just for kicks I've started naming my anemones with numbers instead.

#1 is the original green-based rose anemone with magenta tips I bought off Henry, which has since turned into a larger-than-laptop sized monstrousity and this was the one that produced a baby. It also hosts my A.venustus glass shrimp.

#2 is the second rose anemone I bought off another shop at a rather hefty price. It was neon orange with white specks at first, but now has coloured up into a deep reddish-pink with white specks. This was the one that got irritated by seaweed and went into hiding for a week.

#1.1 is the baby of #1, which has now grown a mouth and is eating well (anemones split from the mouth, so they end up mouthless for several months at first)

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Anyway, #2 has emerged from the rocks but has come up so near the 2 hammer corals I love, that I'm getting very worried. Going to find some time to find a piece of rock to segregate the hammers from the anemone so that the poor hammers don't get stung. Alternatively I really could shift the hammers around, but I like them the way they are right now. Ideally the bloody rose #2 should hitch on a free piece of rubble so that I can move it along to the front of the tank (she really is a beauty).

#1 has moved away from #1.1, down to the front of the tank in the far leftest corner which is rather dark, so I'm concerned that it's not getting enough light. Seems to be doing well though, and eating a piece of shrimp each night. Yes, my anemones are getting intensive nutrition therapy in the puerperium.

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Now for the true plants. (p.s. Mr. Ye, are marine alga true plants?)

Turtle weed, which I claimed was dying off, seems to be making a comeback - and a frightful one at that!! I swear the tips of the plant are growing at 1cm per day. While it's pretty, I'm really not sure if I want this one to over-run my tank.

Red Gracillaria algae, which I bought from CoralFarm and was dying off, stopped dying actively. With any luck, it'll grow soon enough.

Penis plant isn't doing well at all. Shame, it's such an exotic.

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The blue Ricordea florida mushroom which started off as a 1cm frag some months ago (remember that piece which I pinned onto rocks with a toothpick) has now grown 3 mouths and looks ready to split! Hopefully I can trade a frag of this off for one of another colour.

Still have to find time to epoxy my 2 frags of the royal blue Rhodactys mushrooms from Tonga onto proper rocks. They are currently lying on the sandbed and looking very sorry. Enough about mushrooms already!!

All 14 polyps of Dendrophyllia are now open and thriving!!! =D The plan to pre-prepare and pre-freeze their chunks of shrimp really worked; now I'm barely spending 10 minutes feeding the tank each night, and the fish are learning to beg at 11pm sharp. Very nasty habit. I really don't know where I'm going to place the Dendrophyllia, since the Kent Marine Nautilus prongs will not be here for another 2 weeks. In fact, I'm thinking if I should even spend good money on that thing at all. I really could, I guess, come up with a simple contraption to feed the Dendrophyllia - perhaps a rigid piece of transparent piping with a large syringe at the other end of it?