Rabbut's Marine Jurnal

[rabbut]

Lol Seffie, I'm still waiting for proof of last time pigs flew, so that I can get on with your RO unit tips, tricks and maintenance thread

 

[seffieuk]

Lol Seffie, I'm still waiting for proof of last time pigs flew, so that I can get on with your RO unit tips, tricks and maintenance thread

Well, it is very lucky I had my camera handy then when he came in to land..........................

Ehhhh, so when does the hints, tips and maintanance thread begin !!!!!

Seffie x

 

[bagu]

ahahahahah thats hilarious!

 

[TigerIssey]

Did not have my camera handy when the pigs flew over Lancashire, luckily Seffioe caught them landing in her garden.

Tank looks a new tank completely. Amazing what just the canister can cause in the way of algae, glad you found the reason!!

Looking good, don't forget to keep updating.

 

[rabbut]

Well, the pigs flew past leeds, so a rather miffed rabbut sprang into action, starting the the journal snapps...

Elegance coral

Organ Pipe

Closed Brain

Open Brain

The new Hammer Coral, that's in a strop having been FW dipped on the way in to remove a Brown Jelly infection...

It looks stunning when out, large and the relatively large area of affected skelaton could not be seen due to being covered by healthy tissue at the point of purchase...

Some new SPS that I haven't ID'd yet...

Second new SPS piece. Both floress a red-green colour under Actinics

Purple monti, it's had a "growth spurt"

A slightly stroppy Torch. It's sulked the last day or two, and lost a head, but I still have twice as many heads on it as when purchased, and it's starting to look better today

And a FTS to finish

There was a Royal Gramma added with the hammer coral also...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[TigerIssey]

The elegance is stunning, going to have to get me one of those.

That plating monti is to die for, stunning colouration.

Good Luck with the new hammer, hope it comes back even more beautiful for you.

 

[bagu]

lovely torch! even if it is sulking

 

[rabbut]

Well, time for an up-date me thinks... I'm going to do things a little differently this time aswell, by starting with a FTS

Well, after strong growth from the trumpets, I've had to frag them to allow light to the center polyps, so I have two colonies of them

The Elegance is looking good

The hammer has perked up somewhat

The closed brain

The open brain

The Organ Pipe and the strange but nice looking red seaweed. The Organ Pipe had just been moved over to make way for the new Trumpet coral frag, so is in a bit of a strop as a result

"Fire Coral" SPS

Purple Montipora

Some new GSP's. My ex-collegue that sold these to me surgest the cause of the demise of the last lot was that they were getting too stronger light, hence they are in the front corner

The Bubble coral is in a massive strop ATM, and has been for a few days. Any ideas as to whats causing it anyone? See the end of the post for the water stats, a few levels are too high, but not to a point where they should cause the strop I wouldn't have thought...

The Malu has moved a bit..

Unfortunately I've lost the torch Here is a water test result up-date

Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 5ppm
pH 8.2
Phosphate 0ppm
Magnesium 1480 - missed two drops of Mg -1 regent, so take that reading with a pinch of salt, was expecting about 1350ppm
Alkalinity 11.2dKH
Calcium 460ppm
Salinity 1.027

All the best
Rabbut

 

[bagu]

sorry about the torch

your tank is looking fantastic, and that new looks amazing

 

[TigerIssey]

Does the bubble get direct light from the halide and has this lighting changed recently (to coincide with the strop). I was warned under T8's by the LFS that they prefferred indirect light. Has the current changed since you moved anything or since you removed the Torch??

Cannot see that your levels would be a problem.

Elegance and Malu look stunning as usual. I am sure that Malu looks even whiter than it did before. Has it grown too??

 

[rabbut]

The Bubble's flow is about the same as it was when I have the Nanostreams in, slightly more than a week ago, but it still should not be an issue. The strop pre-dates the flow change by about a week. It's on the far left towards the bottom, so in as in-direct light as possible. I've found through experience before that they don't like light, so your LFS is correct there. I remember now, your the lucky devil with the really good LFS aren't you

Thanks for the input
Rabbut

EDIT to add, The malu is actually more cream, but it's directly under a 14,000K lamp now, rather than in a cave so it look whiter in the photo, don't worry, it hasn't bleached, and that is clear when it gets natural sunlight Yes, it's grown Not by much, but some growth is better than none.

 

[TigerIssey]

Thats a shame it was not something simple like flow or lighting.

Yes I am the lucky devil with the good LFS, if I need any extra info she is always prepared to get books out and help me look too. I really think her support has helped a great deal since I started on marines. Whatever she says has turned out to be right so I can now trust her, just leaves me to do extra research of my own.

I love going in on delivery day too, she knows how interested I am and really goes out of her way to show me the great new stock she has just got in. Only last week she unpacked the LR just to show me a particular piece. It was stunning. It was almost like a piece of driftwood cave and most of the rest was stunning Fiji plate.

I still have problems with one of my bubbles, somehow I think I damaged some tissue when I swapped tanks and I have only a fraction of the bubble I used to have. I am spot feeding its now one mouth to try to bring it back, but hell is it slow. Feel for you on that one.

 

[kj23502]

Hi Rabbut Like the layout. and the trumpet coral especially lps is my thing

Question for you?? Are those brains supposed to be that color? They look rather faded. Or is the cameral just not catching the true color of them? I don't think I've ever seen a brain that's off white.

 

[rabbut]

It's a combo of the camera and being 6" below a 150W 14,000K halide. In daylight, it's a pink-red colour The colour hasn't changed since purchase about 4-6 months back either as far as I can tell This said, when you look at them daily, you don't notice small colour changes. The pictures look slightly darker when I first got it, but it looks like a lower contrast was set then, and I recall running them through Photoshop to get more "true to life" colours. Also, I was using a different camera back them...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[TigerIssey]

You would probably find if you ran them through photoshop, you could get the colour back to show how it truly is. Sometimes the contrast, especially under harsh lighting can drain the colours very easily. It also depends very much as Rabbut said on the camera settings.