Tank Journal Archive

[chimaera]

Those fans are barnacles, don't do it any harm that I know of (in fact as filter feeders they should be overall beneficial to the tank). But I've read of some people killing them with a syringe of hot water and the monti then grows over the shell/hole ...

 

[Buddy]

They doesn't seem to be causing any trouble so ill just leave them then.

 

[Sarg]

Haha sorry it was late that's my excuse :) yeah have all sorts of creatures in mine. I saw one at Reeflections that had its own baby mantis living in it :) when tapa is back (I use it to upload pics of the phone) my reverse superman monti has around 8 holes with long arms coming out.

 

[Buddy]

So @Sarg organised some corals from acro al in W.A. and a few of us grabbed some. My frag racks are full to the brim now! I had to put a rack on the front glass cos I ran out of room
He ended up throwing in an extra coral so I have two of the same and one other.

These two are just a slightly different colour but I think the same coral.

My Coral Goby pissed this one off just before the pic :rolleyes This coral looks awesome with all its polyps out! I have the good side of it facing the light, ill try and get a better pic another day.

Got this Dallas from @vpreef

I've'e also got a few zoas and this chalice from @Priscacara thanks mate!

 

[Sarg]

They are cool! I feel if these go ok there will be another @acro al group purchase in the future! You guys need to find more room!

 

[Priscacara]

Beautiful blue color on those acros! You guys are really determined to get me into colored sticks.

More room is easy Sarge........................another tank :D

 

[chimaera]

Great pics of those frags! I mounted mine so it was a bit harder to snap them clearly, but agree, they are spectacular. Never seen colour like it ... just hope it lasts.

 

[Aspidites]

Do you know the names of photos one, two and four? I might put an order in!!

 

[chimaera]

I think 1 and 2 are the Infamous WA stag I believe. We ordered a Hardy stag, but all the frags like the ones shown above seem to be the same dark blue colour. At least mine do. Maybe @Rob got the Hardy stag by mistake?!

Pic 4 is a Dallas, not from Acro Al but from VP's personal frag stash ;)

 

[Buddy]

Thanks @chimaera :) I think these look a bit nicer than the hardy did anyway.

 

[MichaelBinns]

This TJ is great, the stand you built from scratch is a fine piece of work, i sence another tradie of some sort?!

 

[Buddy]

Not officially a tradie but just handy I guess haha

 

[Buddy]

So here is how I spent the last couple of hours :rolleyes
I fed the tank tonight and noticed someone missing, the Copperband that I got from @mscott Its always ready to pig out on food so I thought I better see where it is and..... Its entire snout and head was jammed in a rock! I tried giving him a tug but he was really jammed in there so after a couple of nice words I had to start pulling the tank apart to get to it. Ofcourse he was in the rock that was the very first to go in the tank so I had to take ALL of the rock and coral out! Little bastard!
Here is a pic before I pulled the rocks out

After I took everything out and rotated the rock so I could get to him in a better position

I gave him another tug but it felt like I was gonna pull the poor bugger in half. I was thinking what to do next when he managed to free himself. He has a scratched up face and looks like he has damage on one of his gills. He is swimming around so hopefully he recovers!

I managed to get a crab out of the display which was about 3cm wide, also found this snail. Anyone have an ID?

I took a large bit of rock out of the tank because it was gonna be too hard to arrange it again so I will have a new FTS soon

 

[Sarg]

Haha what a clown! I hope he got what he was after :) and make a full recovery :cool:

 

[chimaera]

Serious? What a dumbass fish. You would think with a nose like that he would know by now not to stick it in small places.

 

[Aspidites]

Thing always happen to stuff on the bottom rock!!

 

[Buddy]

He has lost a lot of colour on the top half overnight and his fins aren't the best... doesnt look good!

 

[Buddy]

After I took that pic I put him in a container with holes in it so he didn't fall in to any corals. Im pretty sure he wont make it through the day.

 

[Sarg]

That sucks :( I wonder what was in the hole? I wonder wether there may have been some sort of worm?

 

[Buddy]

Well the fish is no longer, I guess the stress was too much. Such a shame to lose a nice fish like that in a stupid way! So that notches up my first fish loss!
I noticed the whole time the copperband was in my tank, my wrasse was in hiding except to eat. Since I removed the copperband the wrasse is back out like he used to be. I didn't know flasher wrasses were so timid :confused: