[Marcus Watts]

Hi everyone,
Following a brilliant couple of hours in the coral room at Jasons Mandy and I have just joined the forum. We live in cornwall, make fishing bait for a living and have a DD28 nano stocked mostly with Lps, although I love the unusual too.



We've gone for a very natural set up simulating the steep side of a reef. The full back wall and most of one side of the tank is plate LR.On this 'wall' we have several sun corals, galaxia, zenia, several ricordia sp. zoas, briarium, a RBTA, a couple of finger leathers, a plating monti and all sorts of assorted polyps. At the base of the wall (on the sand bed) there is a branched hammer, a torch coral, a fungia, a couple of clams, 2 oysters, a large 100+ head + sun coral and some blue mushis. Hiding here and there are scallops, shrimps, and the usual snails, blue, red and brown hermits, an atlantic nem and a blue star fish. There are a few swimming fish like creatures including 3 percular clowns but corals are the main interest. There is a breeding brine shrimp population and we feed live phyto to begin the food chain.

Even though the tank is only 28 gallon we use a deltec600 skimmer 24/7 as the suns are very hungry, and when they're hungry you gotta feed them.

Marcus & Mandy

[Social D]

Welcome to the Forum Marcus enjoy your stay

[ben]

welcome to the site marcus. any chance of a full tank shot?

ps, you dont play drums do you?

[dave14]

to the forum, yes more pics would be good

[karnivor]

Hi and welcome.
If you are in St Columb, we are practically neighbours.

[Marcus Watts]

hi again everyone, thanks.
Thanks for the hellos.,regarding the pictures on this forum I'd love to get some more up but how do I include them in my posts? as an attachment it says my space (500k) is used! do i need to host them elsewhere and link to them?

daft question I bet, but the uploader system is different to the ones i've used before.

cheers

[Marcus Watts]

lets see if this works.....i've optimised a few pics for the web so the files are smaller.....

if this works i'll take some tank shots later tonight



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[ben]

nice pics,

most of us use photobucket to upload pics. if your not sure how, let us know

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Hi Marcus some stunning pics there m8 and will be good to see many more .

Just like to say for you fresh water fishing guys that Marcus maybe the guy to contact for Baits as he sells to a of top brand names lol a few ton at a time lol

Trev i think a pm to Marcus is a must for you m8



Welcome to the board m8


jas

[BOM8ER]

Welcome to IR

[lindsay]

Cool pics,welcome to IR .

[TrevC]

Nice pics and funky looking Zoas.

[Social D]

Nice pics!