Peaking into the Aquarium nightlife with a torch isnt really nice for the fish I think, even though they dont seem to be too bothered, but I still dont want to do it too often. Sunday evening though it was really worth it. I saw an inhabitant that I have long thought ended up as…
Yes it might sound strange but thats whats happening 😉 Since a few days right near the front glass on one of the rocks a worm seems to have settled and started to build his sand tube. Recently then there was a lot activity also in two other places where I could observe how they…
Thought it was time to upgrade the water testing so I ordered another API marine test kit that can do Calcium, KH and Phosphates. The result is fairly colourful… 0ppm    Ammonia 0ppm    Nitrite 25ppm   Nitrate 8.2      pH 420ppm  Calcium 143.2ppm KH 0.25ppm…
Trying to grow macroalgae was something I really wanted to achieve with this project and so far I am quite pleased. Its very enjoyable to me to observe growth especially new shoots. One of the reasons surely has to be that the watertemperature in the tank is around 15degrees which is about 6 more than…
And interesting event happened in my small 20l Plastic tank from the temporary setup. Currently I only use it to hold some fragile pieces of seaweed with various hydroids and bryozoans that I collected after the storms. Also some animals like the two grey snakelocks that I will release shortly. There are about 20 mussels…
Happy New Year everybody! And while I am at it thanks for reading my Blog! I finally got around making my first video of the aquarium. The camera is a wideangle actioncamera type (Actionpro SD21 Pro) and unfortunately not really suited to make sharp shots on close distance but still thought I post it. I…
A break in the weather at last. I was itching to get out rockpooling as the weather was violent for a few weeks now. Really heavy storms and raging seas. Was hoping that the storms might carry some goodies from the deep up to reachable places. Coral beach was the only place I dared to…
When I looked in the tank yesterday I was a bit shocked to see two of the three-spined Sticklebacks  having kind of reddish chins. Very hard to make a sharp shot of them with the phone but the color can be seen. I thought it could be some disease or parasites. A quick google however…
Of course its a nice idea to grow your own live food for your aquarium system in your home. Its difficult though not to make it into a real chore and spend more time culturing than enjoying the aquarium. Thought its about time to post something about my food cultures as they take up so much…
Another lesson learnt with how rockpooling trips never turn out the way you plan them, so far always in a good way 🙂 The Plan was to escort a few holiday makers  back to where they came from as they got a bit cheeky and/or greedy so their holidays got cancelled. The main culprit was…
Irish Rockpool Aquarium Adventures 