Hello!,
Only just discovered these journals and i have been on here for about a year!
Anyway, instead of me posting randoms questions in the forums i though it would be easier to have my own journal and just bang everything i need to know into this - so here i am.
This journal will concentrate on my 480 litre reef tank, i have a couple of others but this is where most of the money goes. Pictures will follow shortly but as far as current stock goes here is my list
Fish
Pacific Tang
Yellow Boxfish
Purple filefish
Coral Beauty
Pair of breeding percs
Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish
Royal Gamma
Flame Hawkfish
Corals
Dragon Eye Zoanthids
Blue Zoanthids
Pulsing Xenia
Massive Leather
Small Leather
Purple Mushrooms
Green Stripe Mushrooms
Pussy Coral
Sun Coral
Torch Coral
16 headed hammer
4 headed hammer
Inverts
2 Cleaner Shrimp
6 Hermits
a few Turbos
Fire Shrimp
Green Carpet Anemone
Crispa Anemone
Breaking News
Got a glimpse yesterday of a Mantis! in one of the bottom rocks of the reef, i had heard the dreaded clunking noise before but thought it was the boxfish sucking the glass, anyway i came home from work to find a hermit crab pulled clean out of its shell and half munched so i got it with the feeder stick and waggled it at the mantis burrow entrance.
Within seconds it flew out and grabbed the crab and i couldn't believe the power these things have, i tried to pull it from hiding but did not have any luck so removed the rock with alot of re-organising. I then tried the usual sparkling water trick but this did not work so i resulted to the old fastioned method of hammer and chisel which worked like a dream
The Mantis is about 2.5" long and now in a bucket along with a giant bristleworm also found in the rock. One thing i did notice though is that the Mantis is black? only picture i have seen is of the Peacock which is quite colourful and a sandy specimen.
Only just discovered these journals and i have been on here for about a year!
Anyway, instead of me posting randoms questions in the forums i though it would be easier to have my own journal and just bang everything i need to know into this - so here i am.
This journal will concentrate on my 480 litre reef tank, i have a couple of others but this is where most of the money goes. Pictures will follow shortly but as far as current stock goes here is my list
Fish
Pacific Tang
Yellow Boxfish
Purple filefish
Coral Beauty
Pair of breeding percs
Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish
Royal Gamma
Flame Hawkfish
Corals
Dragon Eye Zoanthids
Blue Zoanthids
Pulsing Xenia
Massive Leather
Small Leather
Purple Mushrooms
Green Stripe Mushrooms
Pussy Coral
Sun Coral
Torch Coral
16 headed hammer
4 headed hammer
Inverts
2 Cleaner Shrimp
6 Hermits
a few Turbos
Fire Shrimp
Green Carpet Anemone
Crispa Anemone
Breaking News
Got a glimpse yesterday of a Mantis! in one of the bottom rocks of the reef, i had heard the dreaded clunking noise before but thought it was the boxfish sucking the glass, anyway i came home from work to find a hermit crab pulled clean out of its shell and half munched so i got it with the feeder stick and waggled it at the mantis burrow entrance.
Within seconds it flew out and grabbed the crab and i couldn't believe the power these things have, i tried to pull it from hiding but did not have any luck so removed the rock with alot of re-organising. I then tried the usual sparkling water trick but this did not work so i resulted to the old fastioned method of hammer and chisel which worked like a dream
The Mantis is about 2.5" long and now in a bucket along with a giant bristleworm also found in the rock. One thing i did notice though is that the Mantis is black? only picture i have seen is of the Peacock which is quite colourful and a sandy specimen.
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