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…
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…
Irish Rockpool Aquarium Adventures 