Archive for June 2006
June - August 2006
Posted on Monday, 26 June, 2006 at 12:39 PM by miskairal
June 2006 saw me fed up with the R/O unit so I went and spent more money ($288) on a booster pump and UV steriliser. I also bought 5 x 200 litre ex olive drums for carting seawater from the coast back home ($250). I made my own sump out of an old 3 foot tank I'd previously used for freshwater and Tony helped me get the plumbing to it. I got some pieces of glass cut and sealed them in to form an area for my skimmer and a heater, a refugium area and a a return area. The sump has a moderate coral sand bed of about 30x30cm and maybe 6-8cm deep. The sump is not under the tank but rather sits sort of beside and behind on it's original stand. I find this perfect for access with my sore back but a bit of an eyesore. Lighting consists of simply two of the compact fluoro bulbs attached to a piece of wood on which Tony put the holders and a power lead. It is in serious need of some sort of guard so you are not looking at the light and for now only has alfoil. My return pump is a power head that came with the main tank. Water flow is low because the hole in the main tank is so high up on the side.
On the 25th July 2006 I bought a spotted Mandarin and a Midas Blenny and
put them into the Peregian tank where they could not infect my other
fish. I loved both of them, they were great fish but I stuffed up. The
Peregian tank had bioballs still in place in the sump from when I bought
it and 8 days after buying Nuggett the Midas I found him in the morning
dried up on top of the bioballs. In that short time that fish was taking
food from my fingers, even flake food. That fish death really cracked me
up. So easily avoided if I'd just stopped procrastinating and got rid of
the bio balls. Needless to say they are now gone and there is gutter
guard over the weir.
August saw some coral purchases. One of those is something weird, it's
base is a brain of some sort and then it has sea fan type elkhorns
growing out of it. All is brown unfortunately. That is quite tall and
was hard to get home and ended up with some dead tips but it has
survived although not thrived.
- Elegance (my favourite coral to date)
- Green brain which was doing well but has died right back in April 2007
- small zoanthids
- Candy cane which has never looked great and is finally dying back
- Scloymia and Cynarinas
Alf_D posted me up some (thankyou Alf)
- Nice bright green mushies
- Pavona which is slowly growing
- Acropora which was DOA and stank
Edited on: Wednesday, 02 May, 2007 3:59 PM
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