FOUR MONTHS

I am already one day late in providing the update for the fourth month.

The photos shown here before 1 May 13 are no longer relevant. Both tanks look kind of empty in certain areas and I am looking forward to adding new stuff to both aquariums.

Meanwhile, this is the updated information on the 2 tanks:

Tank 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
One thing that really irks me is the thick protruding inlet tube of the Atman hang-on-filter on the left of the fts because it obscures the frontal view. Purple coraline algae has colonised aboyt 20% of the tube, and that is one reason stopping me from doing something about the filter.

I am waiting to add the Sexy Shrimps and the current fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae are:

• 1 Clown Fish (Candy)
• 1 Hector's Goby (Hector)
• 1 Six Line Wrasse (Wendy)
• 1 Blue Neon Goby (Bernard)
• 1 Red Spotted Goby (Ralph, I haven't seen it for a few days now)
• 1 Cleaner Skunk Shrimp (Chris)
• 1 red and white Pistol Shrimp (Paul)
• 1 Pom Pom Crab (Penelope)
• 2 Turbo Snails
• 2 Nassarius Snails
• 1 small Yellow Cucumber
• 1 Coco-worm (Coco)
• 3 big and 2 small (yellow and red) Feather Duster Worms
• 3 pieces of Green Star Polyps and 1 mat of gsp
• 1 pink Sun Coral
• 1 red Acan Brain Coral
• 2 frags of green Palm Tree Coral
• 1 frag of orange Palm Tree Coral
• 1 fluorescent Goniopora with white eye
• 1 fluorescent Goniopora with pink eye
• 1 rock of brown Daisy (Clove) Polyps
• 2 plates of red Actinodiscus mushrooms (1 is bleached)
• 1 plate of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
• 1 plate of Ricordea mushrooms
• 2 orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms (1 from office tank)
• 1 frag of green Zoanthus (cannot find 1 frag)
• 1 plate of Sympodium Coral (not opened completely)
• 1 rock of red bamboo macroalgae, 1 plate of red wavy macroalgae (Ulva) and 2 clumps of red branched macroalgae

The casualties are:

• 1 Diagonal Bar Goby - never see after introduction into tank
• 10 Sexy Shrimps
• 1 Turbo Snail
• 1 branched Goniopora
• 1 Acropora Coral

The technical information is as follows:

• 1 Ocean Free Super Hang-On Filter 2
• 1 Atman HF-0600 hang-on-back filter
• 1 Green Element 3W LED light (4 white, 2 blue)
• 1 Tunze Osmolator Nano

Tank 2 (1.5 feet cube - 56 litres)

This tank has gone through a really rough patch and I am still trying to solve the high phosphate problems.

The updated list of fishes, invertebrates etc are:

• 1 Tigertail seahorse
• 2 Banded Pipefish
• 1 Yellow Wrasse (Yogi)
• 1 Six Line Wrasse (Selena)
• 1 Hector's Goby (Henry)
• 1 Fire Shrimp (Felicia from tank 1)
• 7 Turbo snails
• 2 Nassarius snails
• 2 electric blue and 1 red Hermit Crabs
• 1 big and 1 small (yellow) Feather Duster Worm
• 1 purple Clam
• 1 orange Sun Coral (from tank 1)
• 1 rock of Xenia
• 1 red Goniopora with pink eye (from tank 1)
• 1 rock of fluorescent green and blue Goniopora
• 1 Elegance Coral
• 1 fluorescent Bubble Coral
• 1 rock of Finger Mushroom Coral
• 1 branched Candy Cane (from office tank)
• 1 Leather Coral (from office tank)
• 1 pink Cauliflower Tree Coral (from tank 1)
• 1 Coco Worm (Camelia)
• 2 rocks of Chili Corals
• 1 rock of Clove Polyps
• 1 rock, 2 plates and 6 plugs of Zoanthus
• 1 mat of Green Star Polyps
• 1 rock of Green Star Polyps (covered with nuisance algae and growing Halimeda macroalgae)
• 2 green Ricordea mushrooms
• 1 branch of Rhodactis mushrooms (from tank 1)
• 2 frags of orange Palm Tree Corals
• 1 red Bamboo, 1 big and 1 small (from tank 1) red Bubble macroalgae and 1 red branched macroalgae

The casualties are:

• 2 Tigertail Seahorses
• 2 red spotted Gobies (never spotted them after the introduction)
• 1 blue Neon Goby and 1 yellow Neon Goby (quarantined in Satellite breeding box but died)
• 1 Banded Pipefish
• 2 Turbo Snails
• 1 salmon Tree Coral
• 1 Tree/Stick Coral (regained fluorescence slightly but died subsequently)
• 1 branched Sun Coral (from tank 1 but removed subsequently)
• 1 purple Rhodactis mushroom
• 2 red mushrooms
• 1 green feather Caulerpa 
• 1 green bubble Caulerpa

The technical details are:

• Eheim 2213 external canister filter
• Tunze 9004 skimmer
• Green Element LED (12 white 12000k and 8 blue 460 nm)
• 1 Sunon fan
• 1 wavemaker
• 1 Satellite breeding box