2ft Cube It’s All About The Motion Of The Ocean

[john.o]

Little late to the party here, but congrats JohnO

thank you skifletch

Where have you ordered from??

TigerIssey the coral were ordered from a few different aquatic out lets but the main one was the Aquatics & Exotic Pet Centre in Byker Newcastle Upon Tyne . I have been to A&EPC over in Newcastle a few times now {140 miles round trip } and it is a very good shop and the staff are very friendly with lots of good advice to dish out they have hundreds of corals on display including a designated zoa tank {100+ high colored frags easily } which is just pure eye candy They also do regular trips to TMC so if there is some think in particular that you want then they will try to pick one up for you . There also willing to frag pieces off large colony’s that they have on display for you {you have to wait till they have healed before collection or post of course} but yep really these guys are the best aquatic shop keeps that I have come across so far. I could not be happier with their customer services 5***** all the way and they always have special offers on as well which is a bonus for e.g. SOFT CORALS @ £24.99 EACH OR 3 FOR £50 SPEND £100 AND GET ANOTHER CORAL TOTALLY FREE zoas £14.99 each or 3 for £40 SALIFERT BUY 4 AND GET THE 5TH FREE ect ect so yep well worth a visit in my opinion or if it’s too far travel then they also do post

 

[john.o]

Ok so the post man has been....

have you seen the size of that box it’s as big as my tank, :lol:

 

[youngfisher]

And the contents are...
more pictures are needed johno!

YF

 

[john.o]

And the contents are...more pictures are needed johno!

YF

As in post 127 pics of corals to follow later on when every think has acclimatised properly

 

[youngfisher]

Ah, I will read that now sorry johno!
Everything seem to have survived the journey?


YF

 

[john.o]

Time will tell m8t everything is closed up now. But packaging was really good as you can see in pics and all bags have plenty of water in them so all looks good I am going to drip acclimatise them for a good few hours so I will try to get some more pics up later on today / tonight once there in the tank

 

[seffieuk]

Hurry up

Seffie x

 

[SkiFletch]

Suspense.... killing

 

[john.o]

Ok peeps sorry for the delay in getting the pics up , we had a little accident and now our desk top is in the shop for repair {water damaged}

so hy ho I will post what pics I got uploaded to photo bucket before the cloud of smoke, then I will have to take the rest of the pics off the cam and on to the laptop then upload them later on

so here goes.....

 

[youngfisher]

Omg, I love them all, apart from the mushrooms ovbiously.


YF

 

[seffieuk]

Glorious eye candy

Seffie x

 

[bagu]

Omg, I love them all, apart from the mushrooms ovbiously.


YF

i used to dislike mushrooms, but they have grown on me loads!

The pictures are amazing, fantastic mate!

 

[john.o]

Thanks peeps
I still have to take some pics of the zoa,s which are still closed I just hope that there ok as there is a good few quid’s worth in there now and I have not had much luck with zoa,s in the past in my nano so I have my fingers crossed for them in this tank and as for the duncans I am not happy at all large colony my bum the majority of the heads are babies’ don’t get me wrong they look stunning and are really healthy and are feeding well but there tiny, {about 6mm - 8mm per head} how big does each head grow? I was kind of think about 1 inch or so?

 

[Anguilla82]

the heads on my duncan (when they were open) were only about 1cm across at the most.

 

[TigerIssey]

On the subject of the Duncans, don't panic yet. Firstly are they getting a decent flow, they like that. Secondly they like to sulk to when newly introduced to a tank. I would think that the heads are not fully expanding yet and as such it looks a lot smaller.

Also feed them every day if you can, really important for Duncans. Within a few weeks they will be lovely for you. I feed mine about 6 days a week now, lovely big head. (oh my that sounds )

On the subject of your delivery, what we can see looks lovely, I have those top zoas, if you put them higher up they get some purple on them.

Sorry to hear about the computer, I am having my own troubles here, may have to buy a new monitor if PC World say its not the tower. Not happy that on a pc cover your monitor is not covered.