Rebuild 16-7

Last Saturday I’ve done some work on the crabtank again. The new coral pieces have been moved a bit and I have adjusted the crab-rock.

But first the frag part, at this point I have 6 Kenya Trees on 5 different rocks on the top shelf together with a piece of the Pavona Coral and a shotglass with 2 corals still waiting to attach.

The middle shelf is filled with one big rock with starpolyps and purple mushrooms and 4 small rocks with star polyps together with a rock with buttons and a purple mushroom.

And finally at the bottom there is a shotglass with a ricordea mushroom.

Kenya Trees on top shelf

Then the crab part of the aquarium, the montipora coral has been moved into the crab part, it is located in the rear next to the overflow. Here it is in a high location without much waterflow.

I removed a piece of the Pavona coral from the rock RobT put it on and placed it of the crab-rock using reef construct. So I now have 2 pieces of it.

The small leather coral I got from Lara is now attached to the crab-rock using a rubberband. Hopefully it will attach itself soon to the rock so I can remove the rubberband and leave the rock alone.

The eventual result looks like this.

New inhabitants Crabtank

Yesterday I got some nice new additions to the crab/fragtank. First I went to a forum member RobT where I got 15 euro’s of new additions, being a Green Clown Goby, Branched Montipora Coral, Pavona Coral and 2 pieces of Young Blushing Finger Leather Coral. The 2 SPS corals are currently located on the frag side, until I find a spot for them. The 2 leather corals are in a shotglass because he made the frags directly when I was there, so they need to attach to rock first.

The Goby starting hopping around in the aquarium quickly, at first hanging around near the red mushroom, but this morning I found him on the frag side in one of the Kenya Tree corals.

Then after dinner we went to Lara, where I spend 5 euro’s on a coral and a second Mud Crab. The Mud Crab is much smaller then the one I already have, but I hope it doesn’t give problems, the Leather Coral frag also needed to be attached to a rock, so I put it on a rock with a rubber band.

So with all these new additions I will need to see how to place them, but first we will see how they evolve in the aquarium.

Changes to crab aquarium

Last Wednesday I made a big change to the crab part of the fragtank. I removed the covering rock and replaced it with the “crab-rock”. It was a rock that I was building up with all sorts of corals on it. Now the purple mushroom has been removed but instead the following corals where added, a Toadstool Leather coral, Kenya Tree coral, Button polyps, Starburst polyps and the latest addition to the crab-rock, a Cabbage Leather coral. Next to that rock I also moved the rock with a big Button polyp and Red Mushroom. So now the top of the Crab tank is covered with corals.

Here are some pictures directly after placing the rock, everything looks better already.