Aquarium Saturday

Saturday I had a nice aquarium drive. Went to pick up some extra life rock for the fragtank and ended up with some corals as well. I traded 7 life rocks for 2 Kenya Trees and a mushroom, well if that isn’t a great deal I don’t know what is :).

In the Red Sea Max I added 3 of the corals.

First is a small branch of Trumpet Coral, a small LPS Hard Coral. We have seen this before at someone’s aquarium and thought of it back then. So when I got this offered I couldn’t refuse. I just dumped it somewhere quickly, we still need to find a spot for it.

The other 2 are an unknown kind of soft coral. The colours are very nice, so that’s why I wanted them. Just need to find out what kind of coral it is. It looks a bit like Kenya Tree coral, but no polyps (yet) and different colour. Also this one is still not where I would want him.

Then in the fragtank there are a whole lot more corals, some might move to the RSM, some may not.

The first is one that really caught my eye, it’s a giant toadstool leather coral. Unfortunately we found it was even too big for the RSM. But it looked so much like the one we had, so I’m still thinking of a solution. Maybe cut it off a bit, since it’s foot is damaged because of a piece of rock that broke off during transport.

The rock also had many smaller Toadstools, which are ideal for sale/trade later.

The rock that broke off was covered with buttons, 2 kinds and Red Mushrooms. The buttons are one that I might consider nice for the RSM, since there are some really beautiful ones there.

The mushrooms will probably serve as sale/trade material and be separated. Basically this whole rock will probably end up in pieces.

Then I also got a piece of cabbage leather coral, which is also located in the fragtank now. No plans yet for that piece of coral. 

Then all the pieces of life rock also had buttons, mushrooms and other stuff on them. This needs to be sorted first. I now put it all in the sump to keep it alive.

After my round I got a visitor that wanted to buy some Kenya Trees from me. He bought all the fragments located in the RSM, so there is none left over there. Only fragment there now is a mushroom fragment I made for trade for the life rock. It still has to attach to rock, but when it does I probably visit again to give it to him.

Here some shots of the Kenya Trees in his aquarium.

All this might result in some changes in the Red Sea Max, but no concurrent plans are made so far.