Our Journey To The Salty Side - Part One

[Trod]

You kept that one quiet Big sis Been working hard last few days haven't visited site

Now I told you it was tank causing your blood presure to rise, I'll be round to get tank later

 

[seffieuk]

Mmmmmm, now let me think little sis ...........

I have got my lovely Frogspawn from Rare Ocean - doesn't really look the colour in the photo I posted - am assuming it is because my lights are not as good as theirs - but, too be honest I love it anyway what ever colour it ends up. Will try and post a picture tomorrow. At the moment it has brown polyps with bright green tips, It has already eaten some brine shrimp the packaging it came in was second to none

Question about my Blasto - I am spot feeding it as BigC suggested, however do I have to feed each mouth - I can't get to some of them - it is awsome the way it sucks the food in

Also, how often should I spot feed the blasto and the Frogspawn?

Seffie x

 

[SkiFletch]

2-3 times pre week. You can feed more if you like but do keep an eye on nutrients in the water column (nitrate/phosphate) if you do increase feedings much more than that. Gotta toe tha tline between enough food and good water quality

btw, now that you've got some hard corals, are you testing for calcium/alkalinity?

 

[seffieuk]

Going to buy those two tests this sunday Ski

Seffie x

 

[SkiFletch]

Cool, has "The Book" advised you anything about the chemistry involved with calcium, alkalinity, and the reef aquarium?

 

[seffieuk]

Oh drat, he has caught me out - haven't read that bit yet

Seffie x

 

[SkiFletch]

Lol

Well if you do end up needing more than what The Book offers, check out the "Realm of Knowledge Sticky" in the main marine section. On page two I added a lot of chemistry links and suppliment systems.

 

[seffieuk]

Oh excellent, thanks

Seffie x

 

[CageUK]

Don't worry Seffie I haven't fully got my head around that yet!

 

[seffieuk]

Oh my goodness, I am just acclimatising my new purchase - when i notice little puffs of what can only be described as white smoke, looked at where it was coming from and there is something very small puffing away, about ten times in all and then it stopped. The clowns started darting all over the place as what appeared to be tiny little eggs starting floating around the tank - what do you think it might be?

Wonder if it could be some sort of mollusc?

Seffie x

 

[Truck]

what is your new purchase? unless i missread your post

 

[seffieuk]

So off we went to Sevenoaks in Kent with our money clutched in our little hands - we arrived at STM and wow, wow, wow - you should see the stock they currently have, if you have got a few hundred pounds to spend then you could pick yourself up an amazing blasto or the like and the size of their Elegance, massive and purple tipped, gorgeous I will let Trod tell you what she bought but I bought.................... nothing! I would have loved some of the blasto but they were just too big and too expensive something to save up for me thinks They did have lots of smaller frags of things but nothing really caught my eye or was on my wish list

Anyway then we went off and had some lunch in a pub called the George and Dragon - from the outside it looks like a lovely country pub in the inside it looks like a pub from the 40's - it was great, good old music and the sunday lunch was fab, lovely big slabs of roast beef, yummy.

Ok, back to Marine - we then set off for Fishy world, it was a glorious day to be driving through the kent countryside - all the trees in their amazing autumn colours. We arrived at a fairly small shop and thought, oh, but the service was friendly and good and this is where I bought my green with pink hammers Euphyllia - oh , so pretty, just as he is putting it in the bag I realise I have done it again, bought a pink coral but it sure is pretty. Trod of course couldn't keep her hand in her pocket and made another purchase

Anyway, back to acclimatising

Seffie x

 

[BigC]

Patiently awaiting news and subsequent pics of STM trip.
BigC

 

[Truck]

you looky thing

lovely big slabs of roast beef, yummy.

 

[seffieuk]

Patiently awaiting news and subsequent pics of STM trip.
BigC

Ahhhhh, slight problem, we both forgot to take our phones in and neither of us thought to take a camera - it's not a big shop but boy do they have some lovely tanks full of corals you don't see every day


Lots of different colour Gonipora, many lovely favias and some really nice Acropora -unfortunatly neither Trod or I knew anything about the Acropora, but it is certainly something I am going to read about - but i think you will agree we were very good and didn't buy any of them - but next time...................... the blasto, acans and favias a whole large tank FULL of them, absolutly fab

A whole tank full of Acropora, a tank with some Zoas, they were a bit disappointing, no high colour examples a whole tank full of different colour tipped Elegance and staff who were not looking over your shoulder the whole time.

Not sure how they manage to get all those people in their shop on their open evening though

Seffie x