Tina's Twin Bommies

[TigerIssey]

Thanks Big C

Well what do you know, I exercised my right as a woman and changed my mind. I am going to wait a little while for the Elegance and I will get a Duncan from mail order corals as suggested to me by Big C before (Nano journal I think).

So what do you ask did I come away with?? ahaa, firstly I got another 4 Turbos, will probably need more but I will get them a few at a time.

Secondly, instead of blowing my hard earned pressie (believe me doing anything with Osteoarthritis - yes I now have that caused by trauma injury- is extremely hard work) on just the one coral, I have got 2. Now, we went to the shop that does all soft corals for £23.95 or 2 for £40 and all hard corals £28.95 or 2 for £50. I came away with 2 hard corals that are now acclimatising along with the Turbos (Astreas really). If I had got these anywhere else round here, I could guarantee I would have paid about £60-70 each for them.

What are they??

You will have to wait for the photographs in a couple of hours time I want these to be a surprise. They really are nice, and I mean NICE.

 

[BigC]

I think more than a couple of hours have now passed Tina,
The suspense is killing us. so lets see what you've got. .. my money's on Acros and/or Plating Monti
Sat here patiently twiddling my thumbs

 

[bagu]

that looks the bloody bees knees!

that leather looks amazing!

i cant wait too see what you have ^^

 

[TigerIssey]

I do apologise, unscheduled visit to my mums to pick up our suitcases fgor the holiday, we stayed there for ou tea. I just have to load up to photobucket which I will start to do now.

 

[TigerIssey]

Now Big C, I did tell you in my lighting upgrade thread, I am going to be a good little girl and wait a few months till the sump has matured a little and I am sure phosphates are down before getting any SPS.

Thank you Bagu, I have had this in mind for quite a while now.

I will start with the rest of the lighting pictures, I know, I am keeping you in suspense but all in good time.

Moonlights only

Moonlights plus red LED spots

Red LED Spots

As I said earlier, I bought some more turbos, since adding more LR, I have some diatoms again.

Now for the first coral, I have counted at least 18 heads.

My Caulastrea, looks perfect emerging from those rocks I think.

Now the next coral I have seen by us for £75, I have been wanting one for a while, I moved my Plerogyra bubble back to under the leather where it was in the Nano. Hopefully it will prefer the conditions there and start to expand its polyps properly again, it is trying just not there yet.

My Pearl Bubble Coral, nicely heart shaped at the moment too.

And again

A shot of the right hand side with new corals

The far right of this bommie is reserved for some plating montipora, preferably the purple looking one.

Hope you like them as much as I do.

 

[TigerIssey]

So, I ended up taking some more pictures of the new arrivals once the moonlights were on.

First off though, Hermit climbing silicone, soon after he dropped off and landed a little dazed.

The right hand side

Then the bubble

The Cauastrea

The bubble taken with flash, see its night time tentacles.

Hope you enjoy again.

 

[seffieuk]

You are a tease - but I enjoyed it you have been a lucky girl with those corals

Seffie x

 

[TigerIssey]

I do like to tease, Andrew goes mad at me for it.

I do believe you are right Seffie, I have definately been lucky with these. I cheated really, I went to get a 55w power compact bulb (wanted to change the K rating, doing it one at a time) earlier in the week and knew they were there. I had not counted exactly how many heads the Trumpet had though. I had hoped and prayed that they would still be there. I could not keep still all the way there, I was like a child on the way to the zoo. When I got there and they were, I was so happy, the man even thanks you profusely for buying from him, I think he's great.

They do look stunning though, I do still want a frag of the fluro green Trumpet too.

 

[TigerIssey]

Just a quickie to show you the tentacles that appeared on the Trumpet today

A few of the heads appeared to be sporting them. It was very close to a leather in the shop, no wonder the leather was not a happy chappy.

 

[ben1987]

il trade ya...for a mars bar and some skittles?

no?


worth a try

 

[TigerIssey]

Mars bars make me hyper and I don't like skittles

I suppose you had to try though.

 

[scott133]

what are your fish plans?

 

[TigerIssey]

We have not finished the stock list yet Scott, got to go looking round the LFS so that Andrew can see the fish first hand, he is struggling with photos. Looks like it will be tomorrow we go, were going to go today but there were too many tourists out on the country lanes where we live going at 20mph, it drove Andrew mad on his way home from work so he said he would not go out again today.

We are looking at
Definate
A Dwarf Angel (Coral beauty or Flame or Potters or Flameback or Cherub)
A Mandarin (will not be added till tank mature and copepod culture underway.)
Maybe
Another Flasher wrasse
Bicolour Blenny
Purple Firefish
Bangaii Cardinal


Not sure if the tank will take all of them, hope it will

Currently have

2 Percula clowns
Yellow Watchman Goby
Filamented Flasher Wrasse.

Andrew may change his mind but I think the Bangaii is now a definate too, he likes the way it is totally different in colour (they must all be different) and it seems to be always visible although does not do much (Boring as Seffie says). He is being very picky and says he must choose some of these as I chose the others and the Mandarin is my pick.

 

[BigC]

Be careful with the Coral beauty it may start to nip corals. I found that the Flameback's are pretty much fine in that respect (conferring with other aquarists).
And I seem to have got away with my specimen which hardy ever picks from the coral. Preferring to nip the rockwall. They need constant feeding though and that all they do, always searching for food. I was thinking of nori on a clip but folks say cherubs do go for it as much as their bigger cousins
Regards

 

[TigerIssey]

Ah but did you like the corals Big C??

I have heard with dwarfs it is the luck of the draw, some will nip and some won't. I think what I will do is ask the lady in the LFS to make sure whatever we pick is in with some polyps and see if it nips at them over a week or so period. She had a lovely flameback that was about to enter her display tank, until it started nipping at some button polyps. Seems that may be a good solution. I know it could always change its mind and start nipping at some point but at least this makes the odds better.