Happy New Year Readers! Some updates on the Seaweeds… Since the addition of the chiller the nuisance green cyanoabcteria is nearly gone and red microalgea are going back drastically. The sand is also staying perfectly clean 🙂 Finally! Also following the current daylight times and adjusting the controller every week might also have had a big impact…
Some updates in relation to the Fauna in the aquariums… 200ltr Maintank The Prawns as many other others have been very busy with procreation through the summer. All females have been carrying and releasing eggs to the joy of many. Unfortunately they where on the menu specials for all other inhabitants. Especially the two spotted…
Hurray! 🙂 Its the Birthday of my Tank and Blog! 🙂 24/10/14 Thanks to all you readers, for comments and over 23000 views 🙂 It has been an amazing experience so far much more exciting and educational than I ever imagined. I have learned so much from knowing next to nothing about our native sea…
A recent netting session for sandeel as fishing bait was produced a lovely surprise. We where out with a 5m gillnet in search for sandeel in about 1.5m of water. We pulled the net between us trying to chase the sandeel shoals into the net. A very good first haul has produced around 200 Sandeels…
Long last, an update… So much good and bad has happened and I try to summarize some of the things from the maintank for now… Pollack The 10 Pollack fry that I had have all done very well for a good few weeks and have grown and filled up considerably. Very nice to watch them and…
Started writing this post about three weeks ago, only finishing it now with more updates so its a bit mixed… A good clean of the tank was badly needed. Removed loads of hairalgea and old dead seaweed. Was hoping to find some new seaweed on my last trip but to my extreme surprise the pools…
Its been ages since the last maintank update so here a bit of catching up… As the title gives away the two seahares have grown to real giants. They are now by far the biggest animals in the aquarium. From their former length of around 25mm they have now grown over 100mm! 🙂 They still graze…
A new tank is in the making. Its going to be a split tank. One side for Mysis shrimp, Chameleon Prawn, Mini Hermits and other fragile creatures on the other side Predators or other creatures that are too destructive for the other Tanks. Basically how it works is as follows. My old tropical freshwater tank…
A lot has happened and has come and gone in the tank since the last update. First the worst news. The fifteenspined Stickleback has deceased 😦 Not sure why, he was doing fine now for over 4 months and I net fed him daily with either tiny live prawns or unthawed mysis shrimp. However he…
Puuiuuhh, where should I start… Very much has happened so an update is overdue. I guess I will have to split into a few posts to get up to date again… Lets start with thanking the sun and moon for giving us a fantastic really low low tide (0.2m) 🙂 and nice enough weather at…
Irish Rockpool Aquarium Adventures 