My 45 L Mediterranean Tank

[Isaac García]

Hy everybody (specially Wolfgang jejeje):

I'm starting now my new saltwater tank. Like I told you several months ago, it will be a Mediterranean coastal inverts tank. It's a 45 L and my intention is to grow up some algae species, with a sand substrate and livestones with coralline algae, sponges and coral. For the moment the tank es full with freshwater to test its resistance (I broke it some time ago and we repared the glass, so I want my bid to be sure, no surprises are wanted). And maybe this weekend (if everything goes well) we will go to the sea to take the sand, rocks and algae. I promise photos

I'm like a small child jejejeje, it's very funny and a new experience for me.

[Ulli Bauer]

Please keep us posted, sounds like a very interesting project!

Cheers
Ulli

[Palinurus]

Hi Isaac

Have you got a neoprene diving suit? What´s the temperature of the Mediterranean sea now? I ´ll have one week holidays in Turkey, and I am not sure, if it´s warm enough for snorkeling. I´d like to find some hermits, shrimps, crabs, or a an Actinia equina or Anemonia sulcata. I only can bring home animals which need few water, or which can be transportet even only wrapped in wet paper, because of the rules in aeroplanes. But if I do not succeed I´ll have a second chance in April when we start for three or four weeks to Spain with our camping car.

Cheers
Wolfgang

[Isaac García]

Ulli, I'll post each time I make a new thing promise.

Wolfgang, now it's cold here. The polar weather that has come from North Europe has done it snow in the near mountains of Alicante. Now the sea water is too cold to dive in without neoprene (but I have a suit yes). The advantage here in Alicante is you don't need to dive to catch some animal or plant species. In the same coastal line you find platforms of rocks where you can go simply walking on and seeing what is under your feet (the water is very clear, mostly now in winter). I have caugth nudibranchia in 20 cm deepness.

When I was in Turkey last year, in Istanbul, the sea was plenty of fascinant species I had never seen before. People was fishing in the shores of all the city, and in other cities the same thing, like in Smirna. There are a lot of jellyfish and zebra mussels. Maybe you could find a lot of interesting things.

And when you come to Spain, if you come near Alicante, please, tell me. Maybe I can go where you are and show you interesting places in the sea. And of course we can snorkel if you want. I told Ulli when she came, but she was in the north-east of Spain, very far from me.

[Palinurus]

Hola Isaac

I´m waiting for fotos of your new mediterranean tank. I also prepared one, because tomorrow we´ll take for one week in Turkey, near Antalya. Please wish me luck, that I can bring some animals safe to Germany (with very few water or even only humid)

Cheers
Wolfgang

[Ulli Bauer]

Isaac seems to have severe problems with logging in here... We're working on it.

Cheers
Ulli

[Palinurus]

I am now back from Turkey, but as the crop of marine beings it was very poor. When it was good weather I was far from the coast, and when I was at the seaside it was stormy. So I got only some some sea-grass plants, the sea had thrown out. Is here anybody of experience with these plants in a tank?

Here some pics:

Posidonia oceanica with (probably) a colony of bryozoans




plant with a small sponge on it´s base




leaves covered with colonies of hydroid polyps




plant with a small sea anemone




another species of hydroid polyps

[Ulli Bauer]

Incredible...
To think that I saw meadows of these seaweeds in summer without taking a closer look...

Cheers
Ulli

[Isaac García]

Hi Wolfgang and Ulli.

It seems I have solved the problem... it was a problem with the accent in "Garc

[Isaac García]

Hi Wolfgang and Ulli.

It seems I have solved the problem... it was a problem with the accent in "Garc