mandy pics

I thought I would post a few more pics and a small vid of mandy the manderin as now she seems to love to pose for the camera I hope you enjoy the pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TU8ty52m-Y

The New Fish!!!!

Yayyy the new fish have arived!!!!! and as you can see the fish place has sent them very well packaged lol, tho seriously im very happy they take such care that their fish arives well protected. The two fish are called Mandy ( A Green Mandarin Dragonet) and PJ ( A Pyjama Cardinal )

Where are they !!!!!!!

Yayyy found them and starting the aclimatisation so that they get used to the temp of my tank and then I slowly add some tank water over the next hour so that its not such a shock to them

Awwwwww isnt Mandy a stunner !!!!!!! just look at thoes colours.... hopefully once Mandy settles down more I will be able to take better pics

And here is PJ... also a very colourfull fish

update

Well I have a new update. I got a feeding station for the marine tank. Its a piece of plastic sourounded by foam so it floats and its attached to the side of the tank so that when you feed the flack food to the fish it stayes in one place and not float all over and getting sucked up by my filter




This shows the station in use



I also bought a brine shrimp hatching station so that I can grow shrimps to feed both corals and fish. I forgot to take a before pic lol so you have to make do with the pic of it in the tank



I also have a small vid of me giveing my anenome its first feeding and if you look closely you can see that it starts to react to the shrimp before it even touches the anenome, almost as if it could see it lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3dX2GaCN4

Also I should also have me two long awaited fish delivered on friday, yayyyy!!!! lol I will be sure to post a new update then

Anemone

Ok time for anouther update and as I had a new coral delivered I thought this was the perfect time. I decided to get a green Anemone. Im also waiting for a brine shrimp hatcher to be delivered so I can get fresh food for both corals and fish..

This is the Anemone on a small peice of live rock



This is the Anemone in the tank after its been aclimatised to the temp and water conditions, its just starting to open up

And here it is fully opened up

I thought I would post a update on Nemo and Ellen, as you can see they are growing great and very lively

Lol this is one of the hermit crabs that decided to try and climb up the side of the tank, the little bugger only made it half way up before falling down and makeing his way over to the rocks

new filter

Well I thought it was time I made a update on the blog and as I had to buy a filter I thought this was as good a time as any. I had wanted to get something new either the Marisys or the reefpack both have combined skimmers which would free up much needed space in the tank as there would be less pumps/pipe work inside. I had been looking around for the best deal when the desision to buy was taken out of my hands when the external filter I was useing decided to give up and pump water all over the floor instead of into the tank !!! So it was a rush to get the first one I could get and I ended up with the Marisys 240 which as you can see in the pics below is kinda big and kinda blue.... lol

First pic shows the top of the filter and its inbuilt skimmer system




This pic shows the only bit that attaches to the tank the front bit hangs into the water and sucks up the water through the grills and down to the filter, the return water is returned to the tank from the small pipe you can see pokeing out




This pic shows the whole filter system

This pic shows the tank with some of the rocks rearanged opening up some interesting areas to put new corals Ive also readded the old powerhead so it directs the flow of water so it flows along the back which the old filter did

Well its time for anouther update and this time its about my rock climbing hermit crabs. How they manage to get where there do I have no idea and Ive yet to catch them actualy climbing but they are getting high up the rocks some how lol and some of the places have nearly vertical patches so its a mystery to me as I know they cant swim up and with the waight/shape of their snail shells I would have thought it would make things difficult and yet they still manage to get to the top of the tank and back down again.
As always dont forget you can click on the pic to get a bigger view and ive marked out where the crabs are (plus you can then zoom in slightly with anouther click)

new corals

Hi guys, well as you can see ive ben buying things again... lol. This time I had a delivery of four corals, a orange crush zoa that looks more like a brown zoa to me, a venus fly trap polyp, a metallic green flower goniopora, and finaly a yellow sun coral. Now unknown to me the yellow sun coral only comes out at night and needs to be fed special foods (small frozen shrimp) which Ive now bought through ebay. When I opened the box I must admit that I thought the metalic green flower one was a fake as it looked like a cube of white stuff with some pale green pant dabed onto it but as you see in the pics its the most lively of the corals Ive bought and biggest, I gues the saying is true just becouse it starts out small dont mean it cant end up nice and big.... lol. Anyway I hope you enjoy the pics and you can expect to see more pics tomorrow as Im getting anouther delivery......


Ahhh the new corals...


The venus flytrap coral



The metallic green flowergoniopora



The yellow sun coral



The orange crush zoa

The start of the aclimatization process

All four corals put in the tank for first time

Three of the corals showing signs of life

The three corals moved to their new homes in the tank

I will be adding pics of the sun coral when it decides to wake up. The guy I bought it from said it could take a few days to get used to the new tank its in before it opens up, so Ive put it in a shaded area of the tank and will keep you posted as to its progress.