Black Clowns

As I have told you before, my tank crashed, and most of my coral was wiped out.  I saved a few survivors by placing them in Dan’s 75 gallon.  I am glad to report that they are doing well so far.  My 30 gallon was then converted to a fish only tank, because I completely forgot that my coral banded shrimp is still in there.  Anyway, I removed the Tunze powerhead and the lights to wipe out the remaining coral.  The tank is sitting next to a window, so it gets a little light from the back.  The only two things that I have running in the tank are the filter and the heater.  The filter creates enough water movement to keep everything alive, and the heater keeps the temperature stable.  It is now minimalistic.  It is interesting, because now I see my coral banded shrimp all the time.  He is just chilling up top of the rocks.  I guess he likes the darkness, because he is in perfect health, molting regularly and has grown a brand new, fully-functional pincher.  The fish are apparently not bothered by the absence of the lights.  My black clownfish Magellan is getting a little bigger.  I am guessing, that since the passing of his girlfriend (Missy committed suicide by jumping out of the tank about a year ago), he is attempting to change sex and become a female.  I read somewhere that when a pair is split up, the male will change sex to a female and grow in size.  I really hope he gets her deep coloring too !!  My yellow tailed damsel has gained some weight.  It is thick and meaty now, and it also grew in length by about 1 cm.     I decided to keep the tank just like this until the time when I can build a nice big tank.  Then I will go all out and make it pimp.  More on that later.