"Diogenes", I said, "you have come down further in the world."
The hermit crab sat on a toadstool, smoking a tiny hookah and regarding me coolly. At length it spoke.
"I never did find an honest man. I took to the sea. A shell is a more fitting home than that old cask. And this" - one eyestalk indicated the hookah - "has illuminated more for me than my lantern ever did."*
But! You the readers interrupt my story to ask: What was the crab sitting on again? We can suspend disbelief only so far. A toadstool under the sea?
And I say - oh yes. It was
SARCOPHYTON
a soft coral of which I have far too many examples in my tank. I wish to share this bounty with you folks.
They seem to be happy in moderate-to-high flow and light. They may benefit from supplemental iodide (in moderation).
I have two kinds:
(1) fluorescent light-green "skin" with pink wavy polyps
(2) pink "skin" with fluorescent green wavy polyps.
There are several of each. They vary between two and six inches in diameter and are generally a bit taller than their diameter.
Available for pickup this weekend in Somerville MA.
* Crabs can be wrong.
The hermit crab sat on a toadstool, smoking a tiny hookah and regarding me coolly. At length it spoke.
"I never did find an honest man. I took to the sea. A shell is a more fitting home than that old cask. And this" - one eyestalk indicated the hookah - "has illuminated more for me than my lantern ever did."*
But! You the readers interrupt my story to ask: What was the crab sitting on again? We can suspend disbelief only so far. A toadstool under the sea?
And I say - oh yes. It was
SARCOPHYTON
a soft coral of which I have far too many examples in my tank. I wish to share this bounty with you folks.
They seem to be happy in moderate-to-high flow and light. They may benefit from supplemental iodide (in moderation).
I have two kinds:
(1) fluorescent light-green "skin" with pink wavy polyps
(2) pink "skin" with fluorescent green wavy polyps.
There are several of each. They vary between two and six inches in diameter and are generally a bit taller than their diameter.
Available for pickup this weekend in Somerville MA.
* Crabs can be wrong.