- Wednesday March 3
- Next available shipping days will be this Saturday the 6th
for airport collect deliveries and Tuesday the 9th for to your
door deliveries. We are fast running out of horses pipes and
peppy's remaining stock goes to the first orders received. We
have started gassing up some of the new systems at the farm.
While we now start to move the live stock across we don't have
capacity to also keep up with orders. We wont be shipping again
now till after the Easter break.
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- Monday February 22
- We have almost completed the electrical installation side of
the farm only a few air conditioners and switches are left to
complete, all the circuits are installed and powered up. This
means we can now prepare some of the systems for start up. First
systems will be the quarantine and fish brood stock systems.
This will allow us to move our existing brood stock to the farm
site in preparation for when the first grow out systems come on
line. All our brood stock will be put through the quarantine
before entering the grow out areas. Our aim is to prevent any
problematic items like Aptisa or Briopsis from entering the
culture areas. We are also starting up some experimental
plankton reactors to feed into our systems. We will give more
detail in time on our experiment our aim is to create automated
systems that can feed live enriched rotifers, artemia or
copepods direct to the corals.
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Tuesday February 16
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So far the to your door option has worked
reasonably well. We have had a few problems with AAE not leaving
parcels as per instructions if you are not there. Even so 48
hour deliveries have resulted in good results and we have
implemented new measures to avoid any future parcels being taken
back to the depot. Next available shipping days will be;
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We have now put down a few batches of Banngai
cardinals for future brood stock we would like to diversify our
genetic make up as they all come from one parentage. If you are
in Perth and have some CB Banngai's we would like to either
arrange a swap or sale. Please contact peter on 0427941126 or
fish@oceanarium.com.au
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I have just realized the links to the
propagation supplies have not worked, you can now follow the
path through the products page to order prop rocks.
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Saturday February 13
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 The
magnifica did complete a division called a pedal laceration,
unfortunately I missed any photo opportunity of the final
separation. A small hairy crab started eating the new division and
caused its demise. The magnifica is now showing signs of a second
division so hopefully we will manage some better success at
documenting and completing the division this time round.
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- Sunday February 7
- We can manage to ship this week Saturday 13th arrival
airport collect only. I have added the pricing to the sea horses
on the cultured specimens page. At this stage its only a
opportunity to order sea horses. We will keep a delivery day
available every other week from now on. Once the new systems
start up we will add more products.
- The electrical fit out of the farm has halted, we wait for
some missing switching gear for our back up generator. This
needs to be done in Melbourne and we don't expect much to happen
this week.
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- Tuesday February 4
- We have now installed the back up generator and now the
electrical fit out has begun of the first propagation room.
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 We
have never successfully done propagation on fungia coral
species before, for the last two years we have held a damaged
orange fungia disc in the belief it would eventually produce us
anthocauli. Anthocauli are daughter colonies formed as a
reproductive strategy when the parent colony decays. A few moths
back 20 babies appeared and are now growing quite well. We will
never have large quantities available of these but we will be
able to supply a few on a on going regular basis as once formed
the anthocauli continue to produce ongoing clones.
- We have now updated and published 8 care sheets from the old
web site, as time allows we will continue to move across pages
from the old site that provides care, information promoting
success or encourages propagation.
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- Thursday January 28
- Sea horses arrive tonight, but looks like we have lots of
work at the farm next week so we will need to delay listing them
for a week or so. We need to do some trenching and have the
generator positioned for the electrician who starts next week.
- I have also listed some propagation rocks on a new page for
propagation supplies. There will be lots more products to come
on this page with time. We will be purchasing all our propagation supplies in bulk to achieve good
pricing for our farm and will listed at our best prices. Follow the links
through from our products button on the left.
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- Tuesday January 26
- It looks like it will still be some time before we can
resume all our normal sales. We will start to bring back certain
items as time goes on. We have a new shipment of sea horses
pipes etc arriving from Seahorse Sanctuary later this week. Once
they have settled in we will list the sea horse products
available for shipping.
- I added a new link to ARKive a organization creating a multi
media data base on endangered species. There is a lot of
interesting information on endangered marines including ones
collected for our hobby. We recently donated a picture of a
Acanathstrea lordhowensis for their use.
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- Thursday January 21
- The anemone continues to look more like it will form an
asexual division. The anemone has formed more twists between the
two oral discs and the original is now stretching itself
away from the division creating a tearing of the tissue
separating them. In the second picture you can see a white area
on the right this is a tear in the flesh.
 
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This picture shows how it now
sits alongside the main oral disc. It is receiving full light and
has started to colour up. It was feed some shrimp yesterday which it
ate so seemingly has fully formed mouth now as well.
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- Tuesday January 12
- The magnifica continues to indicate it will split into two
individuals. This is quite interesting as there is little
information available to indicate these anemones use this as a
reproduction strategy. It has continued to form a more defined
second oral disc and now a twist between to two oral discs
leaving only a slim margin of flesh connecting them. un
fortunately I left the camera at the coral farm so this picture
is from a mobile phone. I will be sure to take the camera to get
better pictures of the process.
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We have now finalized the new option for a
delivery to your street address for small 5kg parcels. This
option is only available for a Tuesday delivery during business
hours. Check the order form out for more details.
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I took some photo's today of our magnifica anemone
we have had here for many years, it is forming a second oral disc.
These anemones are not reputed to asexually reproduce we will
continue to see what happens and post pictures of anything to
update.
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Sunday December 28
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We trust everyone has had an enjoyable Xmas and
wish a prosperous new year to all.
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I have published the sea horse care sheet today,
over time we will revise all the care sheets from the old web
site and also continue to create new care sheets as time allows.
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A few pictures of the construction of our first
propagation room. it has 200mm insulation since the build we
have experienced temps of 45C and have seen a temp swing of only
+ / - 1C the room temperature is 24-25C.
    
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Saturday December 12
- Welcome to Oceanarium new look web site.
- No shipping yet just a look at what we have been up to
lately, we will keep you updated here on progress of the coral
farm.
- We have a new arrangement to send live fish shipments <5kg
direct to your door. Further details to come on how this will
work.
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