lotofish

See my latest video of the Corynactus

My Temperate Marine tank has been running for 9 months so I thought it a good idea to do an update. What better way to do an update than with pictures. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words.

The next Auckland Fishkeepers Association meeting as follows: When: 31st May 2014 Times: Start time - 12pm Speaker presents - 12:15pm to 1pm Light lunch - 1:15pm to 2pm Social - 2pm to 4pm Where: 22 Ganymede Place, Half Moon Bay, Auckland Presentation Topic: "Disease Management" Basic understanding of diseases Causes Treatment Managing disease Presenter - Raymond Klein Cost: AFA Paid Club Members - Free Guests - $5 or join for $20 Please RSVP by private message before 26th May so we can prepare seating and food Please come and join us for an informative social afternoon and a tour of my fish room :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77: :f77:

Oh I know what moves my jewels and I am pretty sure I know what is moving the ones in my tank too :slfg:

I have been keeping an eye or two on a colony of pink Jewels in my local temperate marine aquarium. I noticed something unusual a couple of days after I placed them in the tank. First I saw a conical tube extending out between some of the corallimorphs which had a small opening at the top. Out of curiosity I touched it with my feeding tube and it retreated. Not only did the tube retreat but a whole bunch of the corallimorphs subsided too. The corallimorphs themselves were still open and extended but what ever they were on moved. For 2 weeks I continued to observe this and noticed that the opening would remain extended and open for long periods of time. After chatting to LA and doing some of my own research I have reason to believe that this camouflaged creature is a type of tunicate hiding under the pink corallimorphs. I noticed from the pictures I took over the weekend that it has two openings/siphons, one branchial siphon and one atrial siphon. Love to here some opinions.

I am thinking of adding sand to the tank now but not sure if it should be deep or shallow and what grain size. I like the look of the 0.2mm - 1mm aragonite and I am favouring a shallow sand bed. The tank is running well so I do not think I need the extra bio filtration from a deep sand bed. Question is how shallow is shallow? 20mm maybe?

Received some more stock over the last 2 weeks and have re-arranged things to cater for the new rocks. Also have a double helix fan worm, thanks LA. I have removed most of the brown sea weed as it started to take over some of the rocks so you could not see the jewels. After calibrationg my salinity probe it turns out that the SG did not drop as I thought it did. SG=34.7 :slfg:

Thought I would share the test results from the last month while the aquarium has been cycling Looks like the cycling process is near complete. The problem I have now is that the salinity has taken a sharp drop after a 40% water change with NSW.

the more the merrier :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Any to spare

These are from my Temperate Marine tank. I need some help identifying these sea weed and algae and deciding if I should remove it or allow it to grow. Picture A - this one has grown more than 4 times in size in the last 3 weeks. Picture B - this one has doubled in size in the last 3 weeks Picture C - this looks like green hair algae and there are patches of it on half the corallimorphs rocks Picture D - This looks like strap weed

Did not like the flavour :sick:

More pictures of the Corallimorphs.

Finally after 4 weeks and some fine tuning the Curve 7 skimmer is running in nicely so it is time to build a proper stand for it out of acrylic. Step 1 - Cut the acrylic pieces from some left over 10mm black acrylic Step 2 - Make the legs by glueing 2 pieces together at right angles. Step 3 - Glue the legs onto the base Step 4 - Done

binu you need trace elements (copper, zinc, boron, molybdenum, iron, manganese and magnesium), Magnesium Sulphate, Potassium Sulphate and Potassium Nitrate. You will need to do some research about dosing your specific tank.