Swedish fish - behind the scenes rebuilding a public aquarium

[Sallstrom]

Looks like a Monet. Gorgeous.
On this phone of mine.

Thanks! It was a lucky shot with my old iPhone. Just spiced up the colours a bit.

 

[Sallstrom]

Tomorrow I'll be back amongst the corals at the Aquarium! In my natural habitat..
Been skiing this week in the Swedish "mountains "
So more updates on the aquariums and everything else next week!

 

[Alfrareef]

Tomorrow I'll be back amongst the corals at the Aquarium! In my natural habitat..
Been skiing this week in the Swedish "mountains "
So more updates on the aquariums and everything else next week!
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Great pics. Both the tank and this last one... [emoji846]

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Here's rare NPS coral Truncatoflabellum.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Tomorrow I'll be back amongst the corals at the Aquarium! In my natural habitat..
Been skiing this week in the Swedish "mountains "
So more updates on the aquariums and everything else next week!
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What a life. Must be nice.

 

[Sallstrom]

Back at work. Here's a view into our bambo shark tank(the only clean window in the whole Aquarium ). This tank goes okey. Not every coral species thrive, but most of them. Despite low flow( and only LED )

 

[Sallstrom]

Some updates.

The Lysmata wurdemanni breeding experiment goes on. The number of larvae has decrease from about 200 to about 50. Not sure why. We've started testing both adult artemia and mixed frozen food, seems like they can catch both. Hopefully they eat it as well. Should be settling soon I think, in week 4 or 5.

Here a pic from our second floor, the exhibitions and museum objects have been moved to other facilities due to the rebuild. There will be new culture/martime history exhibitions on this floor but they won't be up until 2021. So now we can practice golf indoor at work

And since we're a small museum, we need to help each other. Today we've moved a ship model. These are usually behind glass, so it's a bit scary lifting and moving them around ;Nailbiting

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Some updates.

The Lysmata wurdemanni breeding experiment goes on. The number of larvae has decrease from about 200 to about 50. Not sure why. We've started testing both adult artemia and mixed frozen food, seems like they can catch both. Hopefully they eat it as well. Should be settling soon I think, in week 4 or 5.

Here a pic from our second floor, the exhibitions and museum objects have been moved to other facilities due to the rebuild. There will be new culture/martime history exhibitions on this floor but they won't be up until 2021. So now we can practice golf indoor at work
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And since we're a small museum, we need to help each other. Today we've moved a ship model. These are usually behind glass, so it's a bit scary lifting and moving them around ;Nailbiting
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Play golf, hmmm..What a life. Must be nice.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Tomorrow I'll be back amongst the corals at the Aquarium! In my natural habitat..
Been skiing this week in the Swedish "mountains "
So more updates on the aquariums and everything else next week!
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Ok, your past post, trying to figure out back ground. Photos of Red Sea by Egypt . Take by one of our member, not me.

 

[Sallstrom]

Ok, your past post, trying to figure out back ground. Photos of Red Sea by Egypt . Take by one of our member, not me.

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Wow! That's the kind of background I dream of in the new 400m3 reef tank! Blue and endless, and schools of Anthias and Chromis hovering above large Acropora colonies

 

[Sallstrom]

Play golf, hmmm..What a life. Must be nice.

Hehe, well we've talked about praticing golf svings on our lunch break for a year. Hasn't happened yet

It'll be kind of empty from today and a year or so forward. Most of the staff will move to other facilities today, only the Aquarium staff and some technicians stays in the museum during the whole rebuild.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Hehe, well we've talked about praticing golf svings on our lunch break for a year. Hasn't happened yet

It'll be kind of empty from today and a year or so forward. Most of the staff will move to other facilities today, only the Aquarium staff and some technicians stays in the museum during the whole rebuild.

Maybe setup for putting?

 

[Sallstrom]

Today I got to be an aquarist again. Started removing some corals from our 1500L room divider reef. I was hoping to get an Acropora efflorescence out, but knocked down a large A. nana instead.. And since we got a lot of some kind of small clove polyps growing on the rocks in this tank, I only want to move live coral tissue to our other tanks. Therefor it had to be a lot of cutting and gluing.
I only got a piece of the A. efflorescence colony, it's really thick! Almost 10cm at the base. Will try again tomorrow.

Two buckets with only live tissue A. nana, and one with coral skeleton that will go into the calcium reactor(after cleaning).

Since I didn't have time to do 50 frag plugs, it turned into three Acropora nana rocks instead.

Not really my best artistic work so far, but I think they will look good in a year or so

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Today I got to be an aquarist again. Started removing some corals from our 1500L room divider reef. I was hoping to get an Acropora efflorescence out, but knocked down a large A. nana instead.. And since we got a lot of some kind of small clove polyps growing on the rocks in this tank, I only want to move live coral tissue to our other tanks. Therefor it had to be a lot of cutting and gluing.
I only got a piece of the A. efflorescence colony, it's really thick! Almost 10cm at the base. Will try again tomorrow.
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Two buckets with only live tissue A. nana, and one with coral skeleton that will go into the calcium reactor(after cleaning).

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Since I didn't have time to do 50 frag plugs, it turned into three Acropora nana rocks instead.
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Not really my best artistic work so far, but I think they will look good in a year or so

They look natural. Good job Sallstrom. Now that's real work.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Guess what I got? @Sallstrom & @Lasse

And its not a water tarantula either.

 

[Sallstrom]

Guess what I got? @Sallstrom & @Lasse

And its not a water tarantula either.

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Oh, is it a crinoid? Those are beautiful.

We had a small cold water species for over a year. It even grew back lost arms.
Never tried any tropical ones.

 

[Sallstrom]

Today I continued the work trying to get a large Acropora efflorescence out of our 1500L room devider reef. Here's the colony:

And here two not so good top down pics from this tank. The corals have created coral islands. So I need to cut them down before it starts growing palm trees in there as well..

No wonder the flow isn't good in this tank

Today's tool box! Hammer and screwdriver did the trick

Here's the colony out of the tank! No wonder we're having a hard time keeping alk, Ca and Mg up. The base is about 10cm in diameter.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Today I continued the work trying to get a large Acropora efflorescence out of our 1500L room devider reef. Here's the colony:
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And here two not so good top down pics from this tank. The corals have created coral islands. So I need to cut them down before it starts growing palm trees in there as well..
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No wonder the flow isn't good in this tank

Today's tool box! Hammer and screwdriver did the trick
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Here's the colony out of the tank! No wonder we're having a hard time keeping alk, Ca and Mg up. The base is about 10cm in diameter. View attachment 947123

Now thats real work.

 

[Brew12]

Today I continued the work trying to get a large Acropora efflorescence out of our 1500L room devider reef. Here's the colony:
View attachment 947109

And here two not so good top down pics from this tank. The corals have created coral islands. So I need to cut them down before it starts growing palm trees in there as well..
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No wonder the flow isn't good in this tank

Today's tool box! Hammer and screwdriver did the trick
View attachment 947115

Here's the colony out of the tank! No wonder we're having a hard time keeping alk, Ca and Mg up. The base is about 10cm in diameter. View attachment 947123

Whats wrong with palm trees?

 

[Sallstrom]

Whats wrong with palm trees?

Then we would need these kind of facilities
https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/