Reet, stock is from Fishworld in Chatterton, Oldham. Cannot fault the shop, can get in touch any time if I have any problems, (does that sound ominous or what??)
Firstly, this is an early birthday present off my mum.
I have a hammer and a frogspawn in the same colour, so to add my collection of Euphyllias, I needed a Torch (don't worry Ben, yours is a different colour).
Now the purchase was a colony of 5 heads. Not bad for the price ehh. Anyway (I forget his name) but the owner said I would probably be better off fragging this coral before putting it into the tank. That was why I wanted a little extra light tonight, wanted to make sure they recovered.
And recover they did. (By the way, Andrew did the fragging under my supervision, I could not due to my arm)
Two decent sized frags just like my hammers are. They are not in their final positions yet, after fragging them, I did not want to light shock them, so will gradually move them over the next few weeks.
My second purchase.
I had done plenty of reading on a web site recommended by Seffie so many times. You can never remember exactly what it says though. Daft thing is that there is a computer in this shop for use by the customers to check info on the net, should have used it.
Reet, not that anything is wrong, I may add.
However, I saw a Nem in a tank that had 2 labels on, Malu nem and Green BTA. Looking at the nem, it was not green but it was not a Malu either. I asked the man about it, he said it came in as a Malu about 4-6 weeks ago. In that time under 3 T5 tubes (1 blue), it had doubled in size. I am thinking now and looking at the Nem. I remembered looking at Malu's and finding that they were an opaque cremy colour with purple tips. This one was not opaque, the tentacles looked translucent. In the shop the colour did not look brilliant but was a pinky brown. I remember reading in Reef Secrets that you could get Brown ones. After much deliberation, I decided to take it, I can contact the shop with any problems. He showed me how he lifted it out in so doing I got to examine the foot, which was sound. I had already examined the tentacles so was pretty happy.
I asked where exactly in the tank I should place it whether on rocks or on the sand and was told to try rocks as if placed on sand they can move about more. He gave me an extra bag to use to handle the nem when placing it in the tank aswell.
I was also advised for the first night to turn my powerheads off. (Good job I have a sump, I will still have circulation).
So I dripped her (mines female) over a 3 hr period and gingerly placed her into the tank. I had arranged the spot where the hairy mushrooms were, with a few smaller rocks to create a small cave for the foot. I placed her gently on one rock. She has moved 1" forward and 1" t the reet in the last 2.5 hrs. However the foot is not in the cave I planned it to be in, most of it is on the sand. So far so good. Good job I am a severe insomniac ATM, you can guarantee I will be watching like a hawk.
I am convinced now it is a bubble tip, I think it should be darker pink than it is but everything else is good, no whiteness, healthy foot, closed mouth (it did open a little after the journey and acclimatising). It has taken some Mussel with Brine and Mysis as it is not huge at the moment and I need to get some silversides.
Enough Rambling anyway.
Will be calling her Meritamun.
Hope you like
she showed me the whole filtration and everything xD she even said she will give me a 40% discount when i get fish from there!!!!
