Coral background update.
Thanks for all the comments guys...& gals.
I decided to change the tank from Tanganyikan to a Malawai set-up but keeping the back ground in place.
I have since changed it again into a Tropheus species tank.
To cut a long story short... I had to take the water level down to 5cm because the fry & smaller fish were all hiding in the coral & I couldn't catch them.
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I had buckets & anything else that would hold water all through the house.
It proved to be a real big headache
I also had trouble with very thin flakes of something floating round the tank & getting caught up in the coral etc. IEven though I boiled all the coral & shells etc I am convinced it came from the worm-tubes etc.
When I had it stripped I took the opportunity to spray the back ground with the hose set on jet, you should have seen the debris that I dislodged, it was like a snow-storm.
Another hassle I noticed was that the silicon I use for making tanks does not stick coral to coral which I think is due to the porous nature of the coral.
Since setting it up as a Tropheus tank the debris has not returned....so far..fingers crossed.
The back-ground still looks good IMO, I don't know if I would do another one though.
Col