Gearing up for posting my first frag

the reefs UK web forum is a great place for advice and lively discussion about reef keeping - and I have actually managed to frag some of my corals and people are hapy to swap or buy some of my frags.....

So I have been lookign for suitable packaging for the Xenia frags and eventually I will be posting a toadstool frag to Sheffield -

It is quite nerve racking as you just dont know whether the frag will survive the postal system.....

hopefully the frags will get to their intended destinations

JC

Tank is two months old!

A little worrying that my mushrooms were not looking to good - though the furry mushies are doing great, the new zoas are growing well, and my new frags are extending nicely

It looks like I have a Montipora (encrusting) which is growing.......

I am holding off on any more additions as I think that slowing down would be a good idea as my parameters are not sorting out and it is probably my fault adding a little frag there and a little frag here (pictures to come)

I have a tiger sand sifting snail and a toadstool on reserve at Maidenhead Aquatics (Farnham) - once the parameters have stabilised next week then I will be getting those in the tank

Eventually I will be getting a few more fish - just two more

I hope to get a neon goby and the baby bangai when it has grown up a bit

JC

my new shrimp

settled in nicely

ARGH!

My rock work is falling my rock work has fallen

and I had to rearrange the rock work - luckily no livestock was harmed and you know I actually like the rearrangment - I have clipped the algae including the large clumps of caluerpa and my frags survived okay

Photos to be posted tomorrow

Latest parameters

Salinity - 1.027
pH - 8.0
Temp - 24.9C/26.2C
NH3/NH4 - 0 - 0.25ppm
No3 - 2.5ppm

Over th elast few days I have managed two water changes - around 10% each and this has brought the ammonia down the pulsing Xenia are now happier and are pulsing

I need to deal with the phosphate as it was tested tonight and it was over the low rate needed - 0.5 -

I hope the extra Phos ban will help reduce this

Furry Mushroom coming on nicely

After the flatworm infestation the mushroom is now growing well and is budding hopefully into a few more on the rock

Update - Frags

Zoas and Trumpet Coral

Parameters (27th Feb 07)

Temp - 26.4C
Salinity - 1.026
NH3/NH4 - 0 to 0.25ppm
NO2 - 0ppm
NO3 - 2.5ppm

1st March - 10% water change at 11.00am

I have also blagged some lime green mushrooms from my LFS (cheaply) I have now superglued the substrate on the mushrooms foot to live rubble and have placed them in the substrate to recover before being moved up into the live rock

Things are going okay
JC

My First Frag.....1st March 07

I have taken the plunge and have fragged my first coral from the dead man's finger coral (at least that what I think it is) - I took the coral cut off a nice piece off with a scalpel and then superglued the frag onto a piece of live rubble from the tank......

Bloody hermits pushed over the frag.......fingers crossed it recovers okay

Photos to be posted soon



JC