7 UK Gallon Reef Log

[Reefscape]

As people were aware, i brought a blinding deal off eBay for a little nano reef setup. My log for this tank has been started and i have decided to make best use of the new Blog system that is now in place, up and running here on Aquaria Central.

Put a link to my blog below. Please feel free to post and leave comments on there on the progress of the tank. All i will be posting here in this thread is any questions i want to ask, issues i come across or when an update has been posted on my blog..

Here is my blog.

Niko

 

[Reefscape]

Has anybody got an explanation to the formation of the chunk of live rock in the first picture of this blog entry?

We has Live Rock

Its a very strange formation. if i turn the rock over, it looks and feels exactly like fiji rock..its like a calcerous covering to the rock...any help or thoughts please?

Niko

 

[Grins]

You should check out the new blog section.

 

[Reefscape]

You should check out the new blog section.

thats it...i give up !!!! :thumbsdown: :feedback:

 

[Grins]

lol, it really is an odd rock Niko. It reminds me of a few things but nothing that really belongs in SW other than it looking like a macro shot of what a former porite and Christmas Tree worm formation would be. Odd really.

 

[salty420]

cool rock! sorry that's the only thought i've got

 

[Reefscape]

other than it looking like a macro shot of what a former porite and Christmas Tree worm formation would be. Odd really.

Yes, i think this is the answer thank you...pulled it out and looked at the rock under a magnifying glass, and you can see better that its a dead coral skeleton..Still does not explain what the tubes were...maybe a colony of tube worms perhaps? dunno to be honest...

Thanks for all suggestions..of course, any more would be veyr welcome indeed..

Niko

 

[Max]

I posted in your blog but, hey never ashamed to post twice. It was either a worm colony growing inside the living coral colony or maybe and encrusting coral that surronded a colony of tube worms. There is also the possiblility that it was another critter like a rock boring sponge etc. but, that's a bit less likely.
it's nice what ever it is.

 

[ideas1400]

Nice pic of that thing.


Look at this coral pic. It has holes in it too. Might be helpful.
http://www.animalorbit.com/For_Your...oral_Ornament_Turbinaria_Peltata_in_Blue.html

And this is just for a little knowledge
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov04/Coral.disease.hrs.html

 

[Reefscape]

Just thought i would throw up an updated pic here on the thread for anybody who is not following the blog..

Oh, and current water params

pH - 8.3
Ammonia - 1.0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20

Niko