Monday, September 30, 2013

NINE MONTHS

As before, much happened towards the end of the month, which culminated in me purchasing the AquaBeauty 70W LED lights. You see, I still wasn't too happy with the results, or rather little to no results on the sps, after adding on the PAR38 Royal Blue LED lights to tank 2. The green digitata has almost turn a complete brown and the red digitata didn't look too promising as well. I love pocci sps but after trying more than just a couple of times with no polyps extension, I am ready to give up on them for now. 

The new LED lights addition is just a day old, so I will continue to monitor the results while waiting for the Maxspect Razor 120W LED lights. Hopefully, the sps will colour up soon. The photos show a series of photos of tank 1 taken a few weeks back and then what was taken just yesterday.

Tank 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)

The list of livestock is as follows: 

  • Fishes 
    • Fire Goby
    • Purple Fire Goby
    • Flameback Angel
  • Invertebrates 
    • Cleaner Skunk Shrimp 
    • 3 Pom Pom Crabs 
    • big red Hermit Crab & 3 small red Hermit Crabs 
    • 2 Turbo Snails 
    • Nassarius Snail 
    • red Coco-worm 
    • big (brown) Feather Duster Worms 
  • Corals 
    • LPS 
      • pink Sun Coral 
      • cream Elegance Coral
      • grey red Acan
  • Mushrooms 
    • plate of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms 
    • orange Ricordea yuma mushroom 
  • Soft Corals 
    • Rose Tip Bubble Anemone 
    • Chili Coral
  • Polyps 
    • Goniopora
    • frag of green Palm Tree Coral 
    • rock of brown Daisy (Clove) Polyps 
    • green and red Palythoa 
    • mixture of Zoas
  • Macroalgae 
    • clumps of green Caulerpa
    • purple algae
The technical information is as follows:
  • Easy Aqua Ex500 External Filter with wave deflector
  • PS 2012 protein skimmer
  • Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000 K)
  • Tunze Osmolator Nano 
  • Dymax Cooling Fan 

Tank 2 (1.5 feet cube - 56 litres)
The updated list of livestock is:
  • Fishes
    • Flame Angel
    • Yellow Wrasse
    • Six Line Wrasse
    • Hector Goby
    • 3 Clown Fish
  • Invertebrates
    • Fire Shrimp
    • Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
    • Turbo snails
    • Nassarius snails
    • 2 Bumble Bee snails
    • electric blue Hermit Crab
    • red and yellow Coco-worms
    • brown and grey Feather Duster Worms
    • blue Clam
  • Corals
    • SPS
      • green digitata
      • red digitata
      • brown monti
      • red monti
      • Acropora secale
      • yellow birdnest
      • unknown white
      • pocci
      • Stylopora
      • green Horn Coral
    • LPS
      • fluorescent Octo Coral
      • orange green Acan
    • Mushrooms
      • 5 orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
      • 12 Ricordea florida mushrooms
      • 4 red Actinodiscus mushrooms
      • plate of purple Actinodiscus mushrooms
      • St Thomas anemone mushroom
    • Soft Corals
      • rock of Finger Mushroom Coral
    • Polyps
      • plate of pink Clove (Palm Tree) Polyps
      • brown Palythoa
      • plate of Daisy Polyps
      • rock of green skirt purple center Zoas, plate of green skirt orange center Zoas, plate of mixed green and green skirt orange center Zoas
      • plugs of Zoanthus (Incredible/KO 9, Fruit Loops 6, Eagle Eye 10, Sunflower 20, Red Eagle Eye 17, Fire and Ice 6, Nuclear Green 2, Nuclear Death 8, Purple Death 7, Pink Starburst 6, Rasta 9 and Sunflower 2) 
      • 2 mats of Green Star Polyps, frag of GSP
      • white and yellow Organ Pipe Corals
  • Macroalgae
    • red Ulva macroalgae
    • red branched macroalgae
    • Halimeda
The technical details are:
  • Eheim 2213 external canister filter
  • Dolphin H-200 hang-on-back filter
  • Bubble Magus Q3 skimmer
  • AquaBeauty 70W LED lights
  • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactors running Phosban
  • Dymax fan
  • 2 Hydor Nano wavemakers
  • Tunze Nano Osmolator
  • Dosing container