Sunday, April 25, 2010

RTAW Frag Comp 2010

Well it’s here again... RTAW frag competition and with this little tank slow going I thought I might as well join the competition.

There are 5 categories which are SPS, LPS, Softies, Zoos and Other. I hope to join all 5 but first of all I start with 2 frags that I picked up from the MASWA meeting.

First one is a small purple acropora that had been broken off during transport I guessing.



The soft coral frag is from another frag I got from David (stormtropper from MASWA) that had encrusted itself onto another rock so I just cut it away from the main frag to make a mini size one.



I will be posting on the blog so you can keep track of my frags even if you aren’t RTAW forum user.

Here is a timeline of the event.

Thursday 15 April 2010 - Opening Date
* Opening Posts may be started from now

Sunday 16 May 2010 - Shutoff Date
* All Opening Posts must be in by now. Entrants need to be a MASx member at this date to be eligible for prizes.

Between Shutoff Date (16 May) and Final Post Date (15 Nov) - additional updates
* At least 3 updates per frag to be posted. Updates must be at least 2 weeks apart from other updates.

Monday 15 Nov: Final Post Date
* Final Post must be made some time between now and Closing Date (29 Nov).

Sunday 29 November 2010 - Closing Date
* All threads locked and poll created for each category.

Monday 6 December 2010 - Voting closes & winners declared.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dam Gatorade !

Hello All,

Been awhile since I update my blog but I finally got some time to update but please excuse the picture of the Gatorade bottle in it AS I waiting pick up their shrimp.

The newest mod I have conducted on this aquarium is the long window cell tank which will become a Refugium for pod and mysid and hopefully in the future a small cuttlefish or a pair of them :)

The long aquarium is naturally light by the window and a siphon from main tank keeps the water slowly moving but I will add a small power head once I add some algae.



My first residents of this tank are my colony of 9 sexy shrimp which have been going quite well and the colony of mysid shrimp have breed quite over this few weeks.



First Corals to test my Par 38 Blub.



COMING SOON - Par 38 Led Blub PAR readings