A word of caution for those of you country folk thinking about how *neat* it would be to have a rooster, let me give you a brief summary of Mornings With a Rooster:
The Sun comes up this time of year in Seattle around 5am. If you own a rooster, the Sun is not the only thing getting up at 5am- add yourself to the list. Tranny Anny crows from the first hint of sunshine until I open the coop door. Try as I might, I cannot ignore this sound. I attempted to ignore, cranked up the noise on the white noise generator, tried to convince Ido let them out, but nothing works except for getting myself out of bed to run outside across the yard to let him start his day. And don't start thinking 'that isn't so bad, I'll just go back to sleep after!' Because you wont. Once out of the coop, he rounds up the girls and starts them on their daily worm hunt. This is pretty adorable until he reaches the large cutting of a tree that he loves to preach from. He crows and crows for hours. This is every day, every morning waking at the carpenter's crack of dawn to bend to his will. Don't do it.
On a different note, we bought another fish and more coral! I'm not sure if this guilt purchase from Ido is because he's playing a lot of that new computer game DOTA (I call it DORKA) until 3am EVERY morning, or if it's just Ido being his sweet self, but I'm not going to think about it too much because I get new critters!
Our tank is 120gallons with a 40 gallon sump. We have almost 150lbs of live rock, two fish, many Astrea snails, an evil Emerald crab, two Scarlett hermits, two Blue Legged hermits, a lot of unknown tiny critters, and three species of coral. We started this tank on April 24th of this year. It is massive and we love it.
Torch Coral
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