Jack's Marine Adventure!

[Truck]

new coral in, and it wont open up! a saw 6 heads open yesterday but none today i will get pics up soon, ive added more flow to that area too.

 

[rabbut]

While they need flow, cloves don't like being blasted by it. Try strike a balance. Both too much and too little flow will make them close up

 

[Truck]

While they need flow, cloves don't like being blasted by it. Try strike a balance. Both too much and too little flow will make them close up

i will move it higher up and point the K1 at it from about 30cm away

 

[Truck]

some polyps now open, i just hope the others follow suite lol,

what do you reckon i add next?

a cardinal (banggai or pyjama)
red firefish
algae blenny
six line wrasse

 

[rabbut]

What type of algae benny do you have your eye on? Hows your algae growth?

The Cardinal would likely be my choice though

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Truck]

no algae PO4 is 0 and nitrate 0 always, hardly any algae at all, im leaning towards the banggai cardinal myself. just going to fiddle with my rock work

 

[hollanda88]

no algae PO4 is 0 and nitrate 0 always, hardly any algae at all, im leaning towards the banggai cardinal myself. just going to fiddle with my rock work

You got any photos?

andrew

 

[rabbut]

Looking good those stats I'd likely leave the Algae Blenny until there is something for it to eat Also, check the species you get before buying. There are three sold under that name in the UK. One is a Dragonette and a specialist Copepod feeder, so obviously not wanted. There are two others, the dot-dash version that gets to about 4-5" and the Juwled that gets to 8"

 

[AdAndrews]

sorry to interupt, but i have a bit of a disaster truck, please see my thread !!!!!

 

[Truck]

pics are uploading in facebook at the moment, i have loads of pods hanging around the skimmer, if i stuck some in a plastic container with an airpump how will they get on? what do i feed them?

ive got a load of protein on the surface, i may buy a cheap power head for some surface agitation, I also need some more CUC which will be added after the cardinal

played around with my rock work too! really like it now.

 

[rabbut]

^^ good to hear

The copepods are best cultured off to one side in a glass tank in a window somewhere. They feed of pretty much any microscopic food, but marine snow or phytoplankton products can be used. You need to aerate gently, keep the water slightly cloudy with food and water change it one a month or so *Apparently* it will look like the culture died off after a few weeks before a population explosion, but I haven't got that far with mine yet

 

[Truck]

piccy time!
acclimatization

placement and polyps

the snails getting jiggy

norbert

dolly

i think this is cute

more pics soon!

 

[Truck]

more pics
norberts new crib (4th home this week)

stretch

semi FTS

norberts crib, a better view

another FTS

new clavularia position

 

[TigerIssey]

A tip with the clavularia - leave it be, the more you move it the longer the polyps remain closed, I moved the outputs on powerheads instead, they come out quicker that way.

 

[Truck]

A tip with the clavularia - leave it be, the more you move it the longer the polyps remain closed, I moved the outputs on powerheads instead, they come out quicker that way.

im happy with the placement now, i will leave it be for a few days, and move the powerheads like you suggest