Salt Water lab Walt Whitman

Reef Tank  Percula Clown: This is Nemo. Nemo, along with other clownfish like to live inside an anemone for protection Black and White Clown: Nemo’s cousin. A similar fish to Nemo, The color pattern is the same

Reef Tank  Sailfin Tang: This fish eats algae and was raised in a tank however naturally found in the wild in the Pacific  This Yellow Goby will only be seen by the best first grade eyes for it is less than one inch long

Reef Tank  Royal Gamma Wrasse: a beautiful fish that is part of a family that can reach weights of hundreds of pounds  Blue Green Damsels: These beauties love to swim in schools even in an aquarium

Reef Tank  Leather Toadstool: This is a coral which means it is actually an animal  Blue Xenia (zeenia): This coral actually looks like it is moving but it is the water that is moving the polyps (arms)

Reef tank  Marine Mushrooms: These mushrooms look like mushrooms in a forest but they are under the sea. They tell me if the water chemistry is good  Live Rock: The rock is not actually alive. The microorganisms in the rock are alive and they are doing the filtering of the water (removing wastes.) Most of the tanks have the rocks in them.

Reef Tank  Bubbletip anemone: There are over 1,000 anemones and 1,000 clownfish however only ~12 combinations exist whereas a clownfish and anemone will live together

Green Wolf Blenny This is not an eel, it’s a fish

Snapper  Emperor Snapper: This fish can get very large in the ocean

Groupers  Skunk Grouper: Guess what kids, it does not make the tank smell  Panther Grouper: Nope you are not seeing spots, they should be there When I feed these two fish in class, you will see how big their mouths are. Huge

Local tank Local tank  Killies: These fish were caught by myself and a colleague of mine last September. They basically can conform to any salt content which can be good or bad  Mud snails: These buggers are great! Their job is to eat up and recycle stuff in the water  Mussels: When these and others like them were abundant, they filtered out the Great South bay in a week

Fresh water  Convict Chiclid: A Mean fish  A red Devil: The most expensive fish at $200. The hump shows it is a male