I just colour mine in with felt pen

:roll:

I've introduced live Mysis shrimp, plus a few other creepy-crawlies have come in on corals that have established a population:D

where did you get your live mysis shrimp from? i'd like to add some to my marine tank. I also wondered about adding some to my discus tank as an alternative food source, any ideas whether this would be ok?

I think the discus would love them - but they'd be gone in 20seconds! I syphoned mine out of someone else's tank - they seem to breed pretty easily.

i had some but i carnt see them anymore

I suspect they don't like AquaKnead-it. I guess I could go catch you some more this weekend.

I suspect they don't like AquaKnead-it. I guess I could go catch you some more this weekend.

are you talking to me ?

Yea YOU! We'll meet at the usual place, I guess. Don't bring any Pepsi.

:roll: the place i get pepsi dosnt have it anymore

Oh well. Apple juice rots your teeth just as quickly

coke is just as bad :lol:

So is red bull.

I daresay that eating bags of sugar would probably be better for your teeth.

Incidently, how long did it take for the alge to die off Conch, or did you prune it with a weed trimmer, or similar?

It began to die off after about a week, but I just picked most of it off with my fingers to speed the process along a bit - and I didn't want dying algae to re-release phosphates back into the water. Snails took care of the rest, although there is still quite a bit on the back of the tank. I'm not too worried by it - it gives all the critters something to graze on.

how about more pics?

What type of fish is in the last photo?

its a mandarin it isnt a easy fish to keep as it likes live food and often dosnt eat flake foods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarinfish

how about more pics?

I'll see what I can do. Unfortunately my camera is a bit useless as it has no macro function, so I can't get decent shots of a lot of interesting stuff like the brittle stars, mussels, etc.

So... would a Red Sea Max be a good environment for an Anemone? There are no exposed pump instakes to shred them, but what else would they need to do well? How hard / easy are they to keep by comparison to the other corals I've got i my tank? So far the biggest problem I have had is corals getting too big and having to sell them back to the shop. Any ideas on how to retard their growth a bit without making them look aweful?

Best bet would be a small bubbletip anemone but a few things to be aware of. Your lighting is at the lower end of the scale it is borderline for even a bubbletip, but it might be enough it would be interesting to find out, both for you, plus other RSM users for the future.

If anemones are light starved they get paler and paler, eventually becoming white, then dying. So start with a good dark coloured one whatever you do don't buy a pale or white one as they need to go to a more highly lit tank to recover.

The other issue is that when you first put a bubbletip anemone in, they tend to move around till they find a suitable spot. Problem here is your tank is quite full and the anemone will sting things as it moves around, and in turn will get stung by some things. There will be a degree of luck as to wether it settles in safely or not.

Other clown hosting anemones get too big for your tank, they would expand till they filled the whole tank.

I'd say get the smallest bubbletip you can find, but a darkly coloured one. Some bubbletips for sale are small because of stress etc from shipping but this will be given away by a pale colour. You want one that is genuinely small, so look for a rich dark colour.

Even a bubbletip will grow too big for your tank, but they can be chopped in half if need be, which I do to mine every so often to keep the size down.

? So far the biggest problem I have had is corals getting too big and having to sell them back to the shop. Any ideas on how to retard their growth a bit without making them look aweful?

you could alwys sell them to someone who lives near by for reduced prices

Yea YOU! We'll meet at the usual place, I guess. Don't bring any Pepsi.

what time are you going

definatly get a anemone and then tell me how it goes :lol:

Here are a few more...

...give me your thoughts...

looking good. some nice photos there too

Very nice, well done

yea there looking good