Eeeee! New Tank

[MBOU]

Ahhh well.... seeing as I am a bit of a 'picture whore' i think i ought to put up some more pictures...

It was a right pain in the #17#####, i had to do a waterchange xmas eve and so changed things a bit... forgetting i was leaving early and didnt have time to rearrange stuff! So everything is kind of neatly dumped in there for now! Its going to be changed a fair bit i think, i dont like all the huge bits of liverock, it takes up so much space and not handy for putting corals on!

However... Have put in some more zoas, a purple barnacle decoration which thankfully dulls down in colour and i will hopefully get covered in zoas or mushies...

But guess whose home its going to be oh yeah... i want a sailfin blenny! Yes I do!

Ooops and the red Feather duster has gone in too. Temporarily in the barnacle to protect it as i have something in the tank still eating turbos! Baaahhh!

I killed 27 asterina stars on xmas eve too.... merry bloomin christmas

Oh yeah... photos.... i knew that!

Large Rhodactis

Smaller Rhodactis now has awesome green lines on it now that look great under blue leds!

Yuma with its bright green mouth parts that it wont show off unless feeding

Clowns hosting large Rhodactis

Better photo of my original zoas (there are a fair few colours but the ones with white spots are amazing!!)

A few little zoas i managed to frag off the system and superglue onto the rock!

Original Zoas left, new Zoas right with barnacle for the sailfin blennies to come and the red feather duster

FTS and im just not happy with it now LOL

...... and the token hermit LOL they are always sitting right up at the glass!

 

[lljdma06]

looks nice, MBOU. Just remember the picture I posted of my little rhodactis eating the mysis. Hopefully clownfish are brighter than that.

Hey, I got a meet the salties thread up. You should do it! It's a pinned topic.

L

 

[MBOU]

Was just looking at that thread and thinging EEEEEP!

Yeah the clowns are fairly smart, they only host like that when im standing in front of the tank scaring them, they actually snuggle under the rhodactis and use them like blankets! Scared the life out of me! I thought they had been eaten as they werent there and suddenly they popped out from under it LOL

 

[lljdma06]

Fairly smart doesn't inspire much confidence.

I think the clowns just like to give you heart attacks.

Get your profile up!

 

[MBOU]

They are clowns... i think fairly smart is about as good as it gets for them!!

Will do profile after dinner yay for leftovers.... still... *sigh*

 

[lljdma06]

They are clowns... i think fairly smart is about as good as it gets for them!!

Will do profile after dinner yay for leftovers.... still... *sigh*

I saw the profile, very nice.

I'm tired, I just added all of our journals to the journal database. Whoa, lots of work!



PS: My rhodactis is indeed evil. It tried to eat my orange sun. Thank goodness I caught it in time.

 

[MBOU]

I may have dismantled that tank.... and put it all back together again...

I got sick of all the bubbles (though they are still appearing!) and half the pussy coral had fallen behind the rockwork and was most likely going to die and thats one spike i just didnt need and i have got some murderous little git running riot in the tank that keeps killing turbos!

Finally changed all the liverock around lol, i got sick of the 'mountain in the middle' look and now have a wall that is so much easier to put corals on!

I have photos somewhere but intend to take more tomorrow so will post them then!

And now i have a slight incident in agreeing to buy a critter on the UR forum... and it calls for redecoration of an epic level... again!... though there may be ways around it... we shall see!

lljdma, you will be proud of me i think

 

[lljdma06]

I may have dismantled that tank.... and put it all back together again...

I got sick of all the bubbles (though they are still appearing!) and half the pussy coral had fallen behind the rockwork and was most likely going to die and thats one spike i just didnt need and i have got some murderous little git running riot in the tank that keeps killing turbos!

Finally changed all the liverock around lol, i got sick of the 'mountain in the middle' look and now have a wall that is so much easier to put corals on!

I have photos somewhere but intend to take more tomorrow so will post them then!

And now i have a slight incident in agreeing to buy a critter on the UR forum... and it calls for redecoration of an epic level... again!... though there may be ways around it... we shall see!

lljdma, you will be proud of me i think

Uh oh... What did you buy...

 

[MBOU]

Well, when I bought a load of liverock off a guy a few weeks ago, iwas admiring his tank!! I fell in love!!

I fear they will need abigger tank, if so I will have to sell them on, but the guy had a yellow watchman and the most gorgeous pistol shrimp... The shrimp is about 1" and White ish with bands, though I want to treat the goby first..

I couldnt let them go to just anyone!!! I can house them either way and im picking them up on saturday!

*waits for the beating*

 

[lljdma06]

Well, when I bought a load of liverock off a guy a few weeks ago, iwas admiring his tank!! I fell in love!!

I fear they will need abigger tank, if so I will have to sell them on, but the guy had a yellow watchman and the most gorgeous pistol shrimp... The shrimp is about 1" and White ish with bands, though I want to treat the goby first..

I couldnt let them go to just anyone!!! I can house them either way and im picking them up on saturday!

*waits for the beating*

Why are you waiting for a beating? MBOU, I've got a yellow watchman/pistol pair in my 8g. They only get 3 inches or so and really don't move around much. I actually like the watchman better than the yasha haze that I had originally tried. Even with a lid, the Yashas I tried, went through two, still managed to jump out of my tank. The watchman swims differently and it has a fatter head. You're tank is bigger than mine. The only reason I'd beat you is that I'd watch the clowns with the goby for a bit. The goby should've gone in first. IMO, they need time to establish a burrow and find the pistol that they're gonna work with. My gramma ignores the goby, but I got really lucky with my gramma and he's not a pain, but an unusually extroverted gramma that likes to swim out in the open instead of hide. Yeah, I've got a gramma too. I actually have had him for about a month, but I wanted to see how he did first. I really am taking some big risks, they are working for me, but even when I did planted tanks, my systems didn't run like anybody elses. If the gramma becomes a problem, I've also got the biotope he can easily go into. I also do water changes and maintenance like a crazy woman.

Not going to beat you. It's a lovely fish.

L

 

[MBOU]

I wasnt sure they would fit, i thought you had them in an 8g but i cant remember for sure how big the yellow watchman but if i remember rightly, he is an adult and i think i fear he might be too big, i mean, he wasnt huge as gobies go!! But still... bigger than they are meant to get im sure.

I have plans, have discovered another HUGE snail with a little 'tube' thing thats purple and white stripey, its body is identical the one i took out, i suspect this is the culprit thats been killing my snails this time!

Im going to get some black tubing, about 3 inches i think (does the tunnel need to be longer or shorter? Am going to live the rock slightly and wriggle it slightly under on the right hand side of the tank and bury it in sand and smaller liverock bits.

I dont think the clowns will be that interested, they host the rhodactis at the top of the tank and rush to the front glass for food but they rarely venture near the bottom, and they are honestly the tiniest clowns. It sounds awful but i might just take them out, they honestly are the butt ugliest clowns ever, im going to get some more tomorrow so if i take them out now they are in better nick, i will have choice to either put them back in or swap them

So much is going epically wrong atm (nothing important to anyone but me) that im struggling to stay as enthusiastic or excited about it atm... i still got photos to post and about three million zoas to glue onto coral plugs when they finally turn up!

 

[MBOU]

Thought it was time for more photos as im slowly getting the hang of my filched camera LOL

New layout, i have changed it a bit since because some of the corals had been placed in their quickly, the rhodactis have opened right back up again, maybe another inch on what they are on this photo.

The white rock at the bottom in the middle is temporary, there is a gorgeous cave under the barnacle and with the rocks curved slightly either side, is going to be for a sun coral at some point

The Rhodactis are rampant... the top one has 7 little ones growing underneath the big ones! I assumed they were clove polyps until i had a good look today! Im going to have to frag the Rhodactis to controll it i think!

I love the Rhodactis! I cant believe i ever had a marine tank without them, they are amazing!!!

Dont know what to do with the riccordea, the rocks they are both on are really square and heavy and are like little concrete blocks, i cant sit them higher up and im not ready to start epoxy puttying stuff in one place, i may take them out.. or frag them i know i know... keep saying i'll do it... one day i will!

Anyhoo... enjoy!

Tank now:

Zoas dotted about in the tank (seeing as i cant get them in the full tank shots as they are small frags atm!)

I love the ones with white spots! Too small and too few to risk trying to frag, i'd end up killing a patch of them if i tried would love them to have their own colony!

This is the colony at the bottom of the tank (has the funky white zoas on it) and a what? Mussel? Its bizarre, have loads of them on the system zoas. This one has since put out stringy bits to the white rock next to it so i cant move it again LOL

Token Riccordea

 

[MBOU]

Just lost my post that i just spent ages writing! Tbh I cant be bothered writing it again.

So short version... went to our suppliers today and was like a kid in a sweetshop.

Got lots of goodies on the system, very tempted by a forgeous wetmorella spp i have got...

But for my tank I have added today:

1:2 Sailfin Blennies ("Emblemaria pandionis" i think!)
1 x rock of Yellow Polyps
1 x Sun Coral (well... will be added tomorrow, i acclimatised it to system so i could have easier access until it fed well... but it opened and ate a huge meal within 3 minutes LOL)
1 x Gorgonia (Red stem with golden polyps) a species of Muricea i think.

Will see how it all goes i suppose!

I had to freshwater dip the Gorgonia so now it hates me, but it was heaving in creepy crawlies and had so many brittle star type things that i couldnt believe it was possible to open!

I also expected the Sailfin Blennies to go right into hiding for a day of two but they sat where they landed, moved a little but were so fascinated by me running back and forth past the tank that they just sat, all thre in a row at the bottom facing the front glass, watching me! When i got close, i got what is effectively 'the finger' from their fins but they didnt move! They seem pretty happy! Clowns werent interested, especially as i offered them food and then they havent noticed the blennies!

 

[MBOU]

 

[-Nemo-]

Tank looks great! Those mushies are gorgeous!