Kent Marine Bio Reef

[steve861uk]

A few happy snaps [emoji4]

Duncan's already growing new heads. Bought for £29 from Dream Reefs [emoji4]

Frogspawn now hosting clowns is the centrepiece of my display. Bought for £25 from Dream Reefs [emoji2]

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[steve861uk]

My tank is now starting to fill out

A bargain acan, with lots of heads [emoji4]

My best bargain yet! A blasto frag for £10 with 7 heads [emoji4]

Nice bright candy canes

My Lobo has puffed up a bit [emoji2]

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[steve861uk]

It's finally happened............The Sulphur Goby has paired up with my Tiger Pistol Shrimp :w00t:. I watched them for 20mins two nights ago, goby was keeping watch whilst the shrimp bulldozed the sand and fixed the entrance to their cave (just wish I'd thought to take a pic, but would have probably spooked them).

Unfortunately they have now both gone into hiding once again :search:and all the wife can say is......"what's the point in buying fish and a shrimp that we can't see".

My tanks becoming more established now as I have copepods all over the glass at the top, but am not tempted to add a mandarin (am content with my invisible fish and my pair of clowns).

One day am hoping to capture my symbiotic relationships on camera :dance:

 

[CEECH]

Hey there i have just had a read through your thread. Really nice tank and lots of effort put in there Some really nice corals and fish you have.
pictures are always good too and they llok good keep up the good work Big Thumbs Up

 

[steve861uk]

Hey there i have just had a read through your thread. Really nice tank and lots of effort put in there Some really nice corals and fish you have.
pictures are always good too and they llok good keep up the good work Big Thumbs Up

Thanks [MENTION=22835]CEECH[/MENTION], have been following your thread as well and your tanks coming along nicely too.

Am looking forward to Friday as my next batch of corals will be turning up [emoji4]

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[CEECH]

Cool what corals come on friday ?

 

[steve861uk]

Cool what corals come on friday ?

1x Zoa 'Fire and Ice' Frag - 20+ Heads/Polyps £16 for £16.00 each
1x Goniopora Frags Purple/Blue for £10.00 each
1x Ultra Acan (2) for £35.00 each
1x Ultra Metallic/Toxic, Neon Green Torch - 1 Head £25 for £25.00 each
1x Tri-Coloured Australian Red, Lime and Black Ultra Blastomusa Wellsi - 2 Heads £20 for £20.00 each

Copied straight from my order acknowledgement email. I've already planned where they are all going to go and can imagine what my tank will look like once they are all grown out :w00t:.

 

[CEECH]

1x Zoa 'Fire and Ice' Frag - 20+ Heads/Polyps £16 for £16.00 each
1x Goniopora Frags Purple/Blue for £10.00 each
1x Ultra Acan (2) for £35.00 each
1x Ultra Metallic/Toxic, Neon Green Torch - 1 Head £25 for £25.00 each
1x Tri-Coloured Australian Red, Lime and Black Ultra Blastomusa Wellsi - 2 Heads £20 for £20.00 each

Copied straight from my order acknowledgement email. I've already planned where they are all going to go and can imagine what my tank will look like once they are all grown out :w00t:.

Very nice i am a zoa guy
i have my eye on a blasto at the minute look forward to seeing the new corals in your tank

 

[steve861uk]

Very nice i am a zoa guy
i have my eye on a blasto at the minute look forward to seeing the new corals in your tank

I too love Zoas.....especially all the weird and whacky names (Fruit Loops, Darth Mauls, Reverse Space Monsters, Bam Bams, etc... ).

Have learnt some valuable lessons over the years regarding coral selection and tank stock, which is why (for now) I will not be adding any Crabs (don't trust them), nor any softies (chemical warfare) or shrooms (moving stingy things, another reason for not having a nem!) :scared:.

I've left the top of my tank clear for the later addition of some SPS' (Hystrix, Acro's - maybe, monties and some guttatus). But I'll wait for tank to mature a bit more before adding SPS.

 

[CEECH]

Sounds like you have a good plan

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[steve861uk]

What could be better than new coral delivery day? Free corals [emoji4] [emoji7] [emoji4]

Would I recommend Zoa Marines to anyone........YES!

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[city1111]

Nice lol [emoji106]

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[warby]

nice one however you've been around long enough to know the rules dosent exist unless we see photographic proof of corals haha

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[steve861uk]

nice one however you've been around long enough to know the rules dosent exist unless we see photographic proof of corals haha

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lol, will post some later once they've settled and my hangovers gone.

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[steve861uk]

The new stuff [emoji2] :

Great value large headed acan.

Fire and Ice Zoa's

Green/Red/Black Blasto

Two Headed Torch

Unknown? Zoa

Purple Goniopora (starting to open)

FTS [emoji4]

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[warby]

very nice! so they do exist [emoji14] haha

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[steve861uk]

Reef-Roids is magic dust :w00t:. Tried it for the first time last night and my corals went crazy (puffed right up).

Also found the first Aiptasia in my tank smiley-sex020, it's a small juvenile on a piece of acan enchinata rock and now I know it's there, it is now doomed :hunter::death:

 

[steve861uk]

Checked my params last night.....has been a while :whistling::

Nitrate, Phosphate all Zero, Calc 450, dKh 10.9, PH 7.8 (hence the higher dKh figure). So I now know that my tank is using approx. 1dKh per day which means my corals must be a growing :dance::w00t:.

 

[steve861uk]

Just been away for 4 nights and did a 20% water change before we left and upon my return......CYANO! [emoji35]

My last 2 water barrels from our local MHA, so thought I'd test the TDS. Result was over 200 [emoji35] , which will explain why their tanks have it as well! So even though I have a nano tank from now on will be producing my own, with a guaranteed TDS of Zero (ish).

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[steve861uk]

Latest addition.....a Quad colour RBTA [emoji4]

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