My River Reef 94 Marine Adventure!

[ALW]

Welcome back Simon

 

[simonas]

Thanks ALW

Well I have been busy

I stripped the old set up and cleaned the tank and moved it from my bedroom to my crammed living room as i want to be able to see the set up

Bought the substrate and added a powerhead a Koralia forget which kind

dashed to the fish shop and although I;ll be mixing my own in the future on this occasion I used their ready mix

and then off to Manchester to pick 13.5kg of live rock, actually bought a couple of extra kilos for a mates mantis shrimp tank but not sure whether I'll give him any. i got in late and just threw ths in this way and had some tea and wont mess with this till the weekend to see how I am going to scape it

But its coming on and Im excited

 

[MBOU]

Wow that looks risky!!! Is that rock really stable like that!?

Lookin good though!

 

[lljdma06]

Whoa! You've been busy! No kidding!

If you could epoxy the rock into that position, it would be soooooooooo awesome.

I covet that top piece of rock.

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[MBOU]

I like that flat bit

 

[simonas]

ha ha hands off my rock

yeah its safe as it is there buut its not staying that way. not sure what to do with it all though when I get time next couple of days I need to take it all out and plan how to leave it I want shelves for my corals

 

[lljdma06]

But there are tons of places to epoxy corals too. I see lots of flat places.

Interesting to see what you come up with, though.

Oooooooo, you need to add yourself to meet the salties.

 

[simonas]

I will be doing over the weekend in work at the moment and last night and tonight with the girlfriend so I have a whole three days off work this weekend with the kids so will get cracking on the tank and Meet the Salties

 

[GAB99]

cant wait for tank #2 your first one was pretty cool!

 

[simonas]

cant wait for tank #2 your first one was pretty cool!

cheers pal I'll be more of a bargain hunter this time with less cash to splash but I think I;ll have a better idea of what I want this time

 

[-Nemo-]

Watching with interest nice scape!

 

[simonas]

Watching with interest nice scape!

cheers, the scapes not staying though. Ive not been checking journals out for a good while on here so will have a catch up on yours

 

[-Nemo-]

I only just updated mine after 6 months so not much to catch up on!!! haha I haven't been around much!

 

[simonas]

well Ive passed a piece of the rock to my mate as that was the plan he has a mantis shrimp tank in his living room

I find scaping really hard and have done this one and it will stay this way I think. Its functional more than anything as it provides spaces and ledges for my corals and theres space around the rock for me to clean the glass which is a problem I had with my last tank. Cant wait till it has coraline all over it it doesnt half look bare like this

also found a couple of signs of life a mushroom coral and a starfish that doesnt look like the kinds I had in my last set up plus something else which Im not sure whether its aspistasia or not

 

[lljdma06]

1st critter pic is probably a majano anemone. Pests, but not as bad as aiptasia, at least IME. I actually like my two majanos in my 8g, they are really quite lovely. Ssecond is a baby mushy, third looks like a starfish of some type.