Tank Journal Archive

[Jonny Glover]

good job mate :) looking good so far.

 

[chimaera]

Nice!

 

[Priscacara]

Looking great as always, just spotted your coral goby on the rack :)

 

[Buddy]

Thanks everyone.

Looking great as always, just spotted your coral goby on the rack :)

That's his favoutite hang out! If he isn't there then he will most likely be sitting on the clam.

 

[Buddy]

So with the 39c day in Melbourne my tank got to 29c... I think I better drag the chiller out and hook it back up :rolleyes
My trachy got a beating from my cynarina which got pushed in to it by my stromb, not sure if the trachy will make it as half the mouth is gone. It is still puffing up the rest of its flesh though.

 

[Priscacara]

Ouch! I had a small fan I used on my main and it got to 27C so was happy with that, my nano sat on 26C the whole day and didn't budge which I thought odd.
Hope the trachy makes it, warfare amongst corals is just nasty!

 

[Buddy]

Well nothing looks like it got annoyed from the higher temp, even though my tank has been sitting on 25c since last summer. I am learning which corals come off worse when they touch. My scolly got that same cynarina down to the bone when the cynarina was touching it. The cynarina is fully recovered now and I guess it took its bad mood out on the poor trachy!

 

[Buddy]

Brought home a couple of corals today that caught my eye, a redish acan with white stripes and a nice zoa rock with a few different types.

The acan is in an awkward spot, hard to get a decent pic...

Couldn't resist these zoas for 20 bucks!

Also got the chiller out and hooked it up to the return line. I noticed it was out by just over 1 degree so calibrated it. To do it you just hold the up and down buttons for about ten seconds and then set the temperature that it should be reading, then press set.

 

[firebird]

Those are nice. I think those zoas will look mauvy blue under actinic light

 

[chimaera]

Nice acan and zoas! I've look at those zoas before, well, that colour ... at Fishworld I think it was. Look cool!

 

[Buddy]

You got it right chimaera there is still a few decent sized ones there that are cheap.

 

[chimaera]

Sounds like they put them on half price, swear they were $40 when I looked. Nice pickup!

 

[chimaera]

Have you always had the heater in your display?

 

[Buddy]

Over winter I had two heaters in the sump and the tank would struggle to stay over 24 degrees, so I took one out of the sump and put it in the display. After that the tank had no problems holding a temp over 25 degrees. I have just been lazy and havent taken it out yet :p

 

[Buddy]

A couple of sps frags just for reference to see of they actually grow or keep colour :D They have been in the tank for a couple of months now. The monti has only been in since the vic meet (thanks @Sarg ) Does anyone know what the other one is? I couldnt quite get the colour right, its a fluro yellow but looks faded in the pic.

Birdsnest

 

[chimaera]

Nice! Not that I know eff all about acro, but 'Highlighter' comes to mind when I see it - must have seen that kind described that way before.

 

[Buddy]

Oh and I am making good use of your frag racks... they are overflowing! I think you are on the money with the highlighter. I just saw a pic of a colony and it is the same colour and looks like the same growth pattern. Polyps look the same too (do all acro have the same looking polyps???)

 

[Sarg]

Some acro seem furry where some have the little star shape. I just refer to it all as acro except stags and millis. Maybe the furry ones are different?

Your going to have some nice ones to test in a few days ;)

 

[Buddy]

Do you have the little fan thingys popping up out of your monti @Sarg ?

 

[Sarg]

The monti has really small polyps. I get massive extension on my bluey green acro and it looks more like a little hand where as a pink acro I have has more like a single polyp.