Marty's Reef

[Marty.h]

Went out for a few hours to finish filling brother inlaws tank up no mean feat that was 1400L !!

And just come in and greeted with this

So I now have 2 I'm just hoping they don't go walkies !!

 

[Marty.h]

What with my anenome splitting and both parts moving around and one chalice coral got battered to death by its sting sadly I decided to remove them as I could potentially loose ££££ in corals should they go walking one end to the other.

This meant breaking down the left hand scape again !! To get them out but I'm happy with how it has turned out.

This is it now

 

[Marty.h]

This month's practical fish keeping magazine

I'm happy with the feature they done on me

 

[Sniperhank]

How'd you pull that off?

 

[Marty.h]

They contacted me and asked if I could do a write up and supply some pictures for an article so that's what I don't I'm chuffed it got published

 

[Sniperhank]

Well that's really cool. Good for you

 

[Marty.h]

Just had a look back and I changed the tank over to the salty side 13 months ago and it has come a long way in that time here is 2 pictures for comparison.

At the beginning 13 months ago

A picture taken tonight.

 

[DisneyMatt]

^ Wow at the difference in those two photos!

Your tank looks amazing!! Keep up the great work!
~Matt

(p.s.) Congrats on getting published!

 

[Marty.h]

Thanks for the kind comment.

It's been a challenge but I've got my head round it all now and I look forward to it growing out now

 

[paul87]

Just had a look back and I changed the tank over to the salty side 13 months ago and it has come a long way in that time here is 2 pictures for comparison.

At the beginning 13 months ago

A picture taken tonight.

Tank has come a long way! Nice work.

 

[Marty.h]

A little update.

I see an orange shoulder tang a couple of weeks back for sale from a tank that was being broken down so went to view it and tonight I picked it up and is a lovely healthy fish as well as an urchin.

It has settled in well and there has been no real aggression from any of the other tangs. I has muched on pellet and frozen so seems happy enough.

It was in a 3ft tank so I'm sure it will be happy of the extra swimming space and the brother inlaw will move it upto his 8x3x2 should it get to big for mine so it has a good home secured for it even if it does outgrow my 6ft

 

[paul87]

Love that new tang!

 

[redsea]

I love your new Orange Shoulder Tang...they're such cool little guys (well not so little actually, lol)! You're right, he looks super healthy!

 

[Marty.h]

Thanks it is really chunky which is good that's why I got him because it was so healthy

 

[Marty.h]

Just took this vid at feeding time

https://youtu.be/Y-D-Vbs2Koc

 

[paul87]

Just took this vid at feeding time

https://youtu.be/Y-D-Vbs2Koc

Nice, he looks happy. He wasn't skipping a beat at dinner time either. Tank and fish look great!

 

[Marty.h]

A few pictures taken tonight

 

[paul87]

Those acro's are looking happy. I absolutely love the mystery wrasse!

 

[Marty.h]

Thanks

Yeah that's an awesome fish you don't see them in the LFS often

 

[Marty.h]

A few pictures from tonight