GemmaS & Semillon's RedSea Max 250 (TOTM winner Oct 2010)

[Postal]

Tank is looking great:D pm me your camera settings

Edit: Lawnmower Blenny then two clowns, hrmm will a royal gramma be next!

[Semillon]

No Royal Gramma, Fire Gobys are next, then Flame Angel or Coral Beauty and finally a Six Line Wrasse.

[GemmaS]

Couldn't resist this shot of the one of our trochus snails:


Our new Bubble-Tipped Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)courtesy of Le Aquatic:

[sydneydrewid]

some great shots you've taken there so whats the anemone going to host??

[Semillon]

some great shots you've taken there so whats the anemone going to host??

With a bit of luck, the pair of Ocellaris clowns

[GemmaS]

We mooched on over to Tarren Point this morning to check out the Australian Coral Farms retail store. I must say it's a nice setup they have out there. We did come away with four new corals, a hammer coral, a stunning torch coral, a turbinaria and a collony of favites (pictured below).

None of the other pictures do the corals justice, but I will persist with the camera

[Paul_D]

What time were you there? Were you the couple lurking around about 10.30 ish? Should have come over to Ryan and Pebbles and me.....

[Semillon]

Woke up this morning and went to check on the tank, could not find the anemone... it met a very sad end at the hands of our Vortech

Mixing up some water for a change now, however it takes a while... 1.5 hours for 20L of RO water, plus a few hours to mix in the salt. Hope everything else will be ok...

[sydneydrewid]

doh.. unfortunately they do love flow.. i hope it doesnt affect your tank too much

[fongyfong]

oh that sucks,i got 2 clowns and anemone@le aquatic and my clowns hosted straight away. Your anemone looked nice 2. What a shame

[Semillon]

So far all other inhabitants look ok - we did a water change and cleaned out all traces of blended anenome from the filter/bubble trap sponges - a task I would be happy to never repeat.

If anything, the Acans look as if they have been enjoying the anenome soup ...

[GemmaS]

So we may have a slightly new livestock plan with the tank which means no wrasse and several shrimp!

This is Pierre, our Redline Cleaner Shrimp and the latest addition to the tank. We plan on getting him a friend having read that they like to hang out in pairs. He is still a little shy at the moment, but he definitely knows what a syringe full of brine means!


The Torch coral from Australian Coral Farms, Tarren Point, which we fell in love with. The picture really doesn't do the specimen justice, it is a coral that you need to see in person to truly appreciate. The polyps hide a beautiful, rich deep forest green which you get a peek at with the flow going a certain way

[Paul_D]

Nice torch, noticed it when I was there and yep, it looks a whole lot better in the flesh!

[Semillon]

We just watched Pierre (The Red Line Cleaner Shrimp) give Victor (The Lawnmower Blenny) a cleaning, pretty awesome

[GemmaS]

Nice torch, noticed it when I was there and yep, it looks a whole lot better in the flesh!

My photos aren't that bad are they

[marks]

Redlines are so cool and always get great comments from non reefers.
I just never mention how much I pay for them.

[siddr20]

The Torch coral from Australian Coral Farms, Tarren Point,

ahhh are they open now?? I remember end of last year they were looking to move there. Where abouts in taren point?

Your tanks look lovely!!

[Semillon]

The Torch coral from Australian Coral Farms, Tarren Point,

ahhh are they open now?? I remember end of last year they were looking to move there. Where abouts in taren point?

Your tanks look lovely!!

Unit 4 155 Tarren Point Rd. They share space with a dive shop.

[Semillon]

Introducing our purple/blue clam, around 5cm in length:



I have it sat on a peice of live rock under the sand - hoping it will attach so that we can move it up into some stronger lighting if required.

Anyone know how I can ID this specimen?

[mgrav]

Anyone know how I can ID this specimen?

Tridacna maxima

[Semillon]

Anyone know how I can ID this specimen?

Tridacna maxima

Thank you kindly

[Semillon]

It seems as if the tank is showing no ill effects from the untimely death of the anemone. We have been doing a 10% water change every 2 days as a precaution.

I got my hands on some epoxy putty and have attached two of the SPS frags, the blue/purple acropora right in the middle of the tank and the purple montipora with green polyps over by the Vortech.

We also have a green "Dallas" acropora frag and very bright orange montipora frag which are not going to fit in with our plans for the tank - if anyone would like to trade for some other SPS frags then shoot me a PM. Both are healthy and showing new growth

[GemmaS]

Blue and red acan from itzmatty:


Still battling to get a good picture of the torch coral from ACF (my latest efforts) :

[GemmaS]

Some new rics we bought from Adam. There is a large blue/purple one which I am waiting to colour up a bit more before I attack it with the camera :


New torch from Le Aquatic:


Can you tell we like hammer corals? :

[RedLineR]

Couldn't resist this shot of the one of our trochus snails:

Great shot!!

Your tank is coming along very nicely by the look of it. Looks like your tank is getting abit of Hammering

[sydneydrewid]

Some new rics we bought from Adam. There is a large blue/purple one which I am waiting to colour up a bit more before I attack it with the camera :

i thought of you guys when i saw this in the classifieds (i dont know why i didnt forward it on ) glad to see you grabbed them

[Semillon]

i thought of you guys when i saw this in the classifieds (i dont know why i didnt forward it on ) glad to see you grabbed them

Nothing Ricordea related gets past Gem's watchfull gaze

[Tone]

This is Pierre, our Redline Cleaner Shrimp and the latest addition to the tank. We plan on getting him a friend having read that they like to hang out in pairs. He is still a little shy at the moment, but he definitely knows what a syringe full of brine means!

I hteenk dut dis ezz, Lucky ... Lucky Pierre, de dazleeng shreeemp!

Great pics and lovely display.

Tone

[Semillon]

Time for a FTS! Tank is officially 2 months old now (since addition of live rock):

[sydneydrewid]

wow, the tank looks very nice.. love the colour!!