Silly damsel

[tebstan]

I got a pair of Talbot damsels a few weeks ago. One of them immediately decided it wanted to live under my trachy.

The damsel would flutter in the sand and pick up pebbles to drag away, excavating a good size cave. As the lights dim out in the evening, the trachy retracts its flesh for the night, and sinks into the hole the damsel made!

The next morning, I put the sand back in order, the trachy opens happily, and damsel begins work again. I thought he'd get tired of it, but after two weeks, I got tired of it.

I got a piece of scrap acrylic and buried it just under the surface of the sand, and put the trachy in place over it. Voila! Happy trachy, happy damsel.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Fish/DamselandTrachy4-3-12.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Fish/DamselandTrachy4-16-12.jpg

[hobogato]

nicely done :) it isnt often we can outsmart our fish

[SinisterLou]

That looks so cool the way he is just hanging out there

[Scutterborn]

Nice!! Good thinking.

[Kristy]

I thought he'd get tired of it, but after two weeks, I got tired of it.


Haha! I've SO been there. They are persistent little things, aren't they?!? Great solution to the problem.