Corals in the mail!
Perfect distraction whilst acclimating corals!
The 2 tiny orange hammers started opening up right away pretty much!
Got took delivery of 2 small bits of a orange hammer in the mail today from 100% Reef Safe in QLD. They were packed really well, with a heat pack and a couple of chupa chups even!
Yesterday I had a great catch up with Simmy. We were meant to shoot a little too, but instead we got smashed, and all I have on my memory card is photos of her cats Luna and Diego! HAHA!
A few more corals from Aquaristic. A small orange torch and a green leather (as I miss the one in my old tank!).
Get Arty on the deck, cause the sun was just too nice.
Krystal.
Krystal’s got a really distinguishable and unique style. This piece inspired by my aquarium!
Krysti’s painting is off to a killer start. Such a mature painting. I love it.
Man painting is hard! But hey, not bad for day #1 right?!
Spent the day getting arty with 2 arty farts, Krysti and Krystal. Mad tunes, good vibes, such a rad arvo and I’m truly happy to be painting again. It’s been over 15 years since I’ve painted. I’m painting a portrait of Krystal, it’s not right, yet, but I think I’ll get there in time!
Had a fun shoot with Hannah today (our 2nd shoot, our first amazing shoot here). Lighting was so on and off. Sun, no sun, sun, no sun! I struggled a bit, but we had fun, so all good!
The full set is up here: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/girls#/hannah-1/
Hammers are puffing up more and more by the day! New one from this morning on the bottom right corner. Gold tip hammers on the cards!
Morph is also getting bigger.
Small star polyps.
Normal/larger star polyps. They had opened up completely but got pretty grumpy when I took them out and cut off a bit which was hosting an aiptasia anemone. I like how they move with the flow though, very nice.
Sea water storage. Something I should have done ages ago!
I stumbled upon a guy on Facebook, Adam from Aquarium Excellence, who delivers natural sea water around Sydney. He also sells a big variety of drums of all shapes and sizes. I ended up getting a 220 litre food grade drum delivered to me, with natural sea water. His hose was long enough to reach around 1/4 of my house to my laundry! So cool. I now have so much fresh sea water which will make water changes a breeze! I could even do 80% weekly water changes and not dose a thing from now on! Such a luxury! And in an event of a tank crash (touch wood it never happens!) I have plenty of ready to go sea water.
He also sells corals so I bought some green star polyps (GSP) off him. One piece had a pretty big Aiptasia (pest anemone) on it. I thought about keeping it, but then I remembered how quickly these things spread so I took the coral out and broke off a fair bit of the GSP to make sure he was gone for good!
I also took delivery this morning of 3 x small Nassarius Snails from Darren at Reef Secrets in QLD (I got them to keep my sand bed clean). They came overnight (with another hammer coral too) and everything was packed super well, with a heat pack and all snails made it (they buried themselves into the sand bed right away!), and hammer is opened up already!
Photos of the tank tomorrow, not sure if I can capture the snails in a shot as they’re under the sand bed, but I assume they will come out for food!
Photos from yesterday’s shoot with Make Up Artist Lily are now up!
Lily got in touch about a shoot a week ago. I’m meant to be shooting her friend Mazza in a few weeks from now, but Lily beat her to it! The girl was bubbly as, quite awkward… but funny! Once she got warmed up she didn’t want to stop!
Check the intro of this video. Freaky!
Still no fish! I have been having fun visiting local fish shops though (namely Aquaristic, Hurstville Aquariums and Newtown Aquarium too), and picking up coral pieces from each one I visit. I’ve got my eye on a fish (just the one fish I’m thinking for this tank in order to keep the bio-load down), he’s rather special so I’m going to let the tank mature a little bit more before bringing him home.
I’ve got a build thread/tank journal going on Nano-Reef Forums.
Visit: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/362497-justin-foxs-fluval-edge-2/
Missing her already. My photos from yesterday’s shoot with Amanda are up! Visit: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/girls#/amanda-1/