Hi
Thought I'd drop a note to say Hi. I just recently joined this website and it's the first time for me posting on a forum, ever.
I've got pretty diverse interests, from fish keeping (fresh water & marine)to gardening and keeping orchids. I've just recently taken up keeping a marine tank hence joining this site. It seems to me that most information in this hobby, whilst much has been published, is gleened from fellow enthusiasts.
Well, I have a 4 ft fresh water tank, with plants and the odd fish, platies, guppies, 3 platinum? gouramis a couple of tetras and siamese flying foxes with some algae eating shrimp. It pretty much runs itself.
This Feb I got a Red Sea Max. Marine was always something that fascinated me, as I'm sure it does with most people, but I was scared off by the unknown and supposed complexity. Well one day whilst perusing the items in the fish shop with my wife who was at the time 4 months pregnant , I was struck by a moment of weakness and my wife seemed not to object too much. Now I'm bitten by the bug. I've also got a small 2ft tank with coral frags (mainly xenia) in and some corals being bullied by my cleaner shrimp (until they grow up a bit) it sort of doubles as a quarantine (not ideal I know). I'm by no means all that serious and the tank's not pristine or that amazing, but it brings me joy and every time I walk in the LFS I want to buy another bit of coral. Generally I try to get small frags or swaps, but you know how irresistable it can be, my poor wallet (I'm sure most of you can simpathise)
In the Read sea max (Apart from the hair and other algae grrrrrrrr):
a pair of false clown fish
a pyjama wrasse
3 red legged hermits
1 pair cleaner shrimp
a sand sifting star fish
assorted snails
Feather duster worm (new today)
Seriatopora hysterix (pink? bit early at the moment)
Green Trachyphylla geoffroyi open brain coral
Sun coral - Tubastrea faulkneri?
Red/orange montipora plating
xenia (brown) going mad from a couple of small frags I got right at the beginning
Purple/blue mushroom
Sinularia ? leather finger coral
a couple of hitch hicking corals (one that looks like a cup coral and the other a Millepora?)
frag of green Clavularia
frag of green zoanthid
yellow zoanthid
very small piece of Acropora < cm long (I won't hold my breath, it's tiny, well the lights aren't really right either, but I did get it for free)
Pocillipora damicornis? (pink) my latest coral
In the 2 ft tank
Red & green Trachyphylla geoffroyi
Hammer coral
Frag of green Caulastrea echanged for some of my xenia at the LFS
frag of white pulsing xenia (it actually looks more pink)
Platygyra sp?
frag of deep sea acropora. Brown at the moment. I don't know what it is though it might be a bottlebrush type? I thought that it looked lonely in the store
xenia frags anda bit of the sinularia from the main tank
Purple/blue mushroom
green(ish) mushroom
Thought I'd drop a note to say Hi. I just recently joined this website and it's the first time for me posting on a forum, ever.
I've got pretty diverse interests, from fish keeping (fresh water & marine)to gardening and keeping orchids. I've just recently taken up keeping a marine tank hence joining this site. It seems to me that most information in this hobby, whilst much has been published, is gleened from fellow enthusiasts.
Well, I have a 4 ft fresh water tank, with plants and the odd fish, platies, guppies, 3 platinum? gouramis a couple of tetras and siamese flying foxes with some algae eating shrimp. It pretty much runs itself.
This Feb I got a Red Sea Max. Marine was always something that fascinated me, as I'm sure it does with most people, but I was scared off by the unknown and supposed complexity. Well one day whilst perusing the items in the fish shop with my wife who was at the time 4 months pregnant , I was struck by a moment of weakness and my wife seemed not to object too much. Now I'm bitten by the bug. I've also got a small 2ft tank with coral frags (mainly xenia) in and some corals being bullied by my cleaner shrimp (until they grow up a bit) it sort of doubles as a quarantine (not ideal I know). I'm by no means all that serious and the tank's not pristine or that amazing, but it brings me joy and every time I walk in the LFS I want to buy another bit of coral. Generally I try to get small frags or swaps, but you know how irresistable it can be, my poor wallet (I'm sure most of you can simpathise)
In the Read sea max (Apart from the hair and other algae grrrrrrrr):
a pair of false clown fish
a pyjama wrasse
3 red legged hermits
1 pair cleaner shrimp
a sand sifting star fish
assorted snails
Feather duster worm (new today)
Seriatopora hysterix (pink? bit early at the moment)
Green Trachyphylla geoffroyi open brain coral
Sun coral - Tubastrea faulkneri?
Red/orange montipora plating
xenia (brown) going mad from a couple of small frags I got right at the beginning
Purple/blue mushroom
Sinularia ? leather finger coral
a couple of hitch hicking corals (one that looks like a cup coral and the other a Millepora?)
frag of green Clavularia
frag of green zoanthid
yellow zoanthid
very small piece of Acropora < cm long (I won't hold my breath, it's tiny, well the lights aren't really right either, but I did get it for free)
Pocillipora damicornis? (pink) my latest coral
In the 2 ft tank
Red & green Trachyphylla geoffroyi
Hammer coral
Frag of green Caulastrea echanged for some of my xenia at the LFS
frag of white pulsing xenia (it actually looks more pink)
Platygyra sp?
frag of deep sea acropora. Brown at the moment. I don't know what it is though it might be a bottlebrush type? I thought that it looked lonely in the store
xenia frags anda bit of the sinularia from the main tank
Purple/blue mushroom
green(ish) mushroom
