I'm so excited! I finished my rock work finally. I had to mortar four rocks together and it took me forever to get someone to come over who was willing to offer a hand to get the rocks in the tank with the acrylic rod. I drained the water from the water test a month ago and arranged the rocks in their final position. I added a 5 gallon bucket of sand to cover up the acrylic plate that the rod is threaded into. I've added a few pics here of the rock drilling process. The mortar was from MarcoRocks.com ...
This is the coolest lookin yellow/green rainbow ric. So of course I'm stuffing it happily with PE mysis so it grows fast and happy. And yes, those are the first specs of coraline algae growing on my marcorock
Updated 02-14-2011 at 02:31 AM by melev
Hi all, I decided since I got some new corals tonight that I'd update you all on the status of my tank. I've got great coraline coverage over all my rocks except the areas that are mostly in shade. To go from dead rock to this much purple surprises me. I never had this much in my old tanks. My fish are doing well. I lost the neon cleaner goby...never saw it again. Fish List: 2 helfrichis firefish 1 mimic filefish 1 solarensis wrasse 1 psuedochromis ...
http://www.davidrickerd.com/underwater.htm Click the link to be taken to David Rickerd's site. I've never seen stuff like this before. Really cool