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| The Flameback Angel is elusive and shies away from the camera |
December is kind of a slow month for me in the sense that I didn't add much stuff into the 2 home tanks. However, I did more shifting of soft corals etc around both tanks.
In terms of colour, tank 1 is not as colourful anymore. It is quite pink and purple against my wishes and I wish to add more yellow and orange if I can. For tank 2, I have stocked a number of the Zoas from tank 1 and it is kind of crowded but I am still not completely pleased with it yet.
To end the year, the information on the two tanks are below:
Tank 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
The list of livestock is as follows:
- Fishes
- 3 Clown Fish
- Flameback Angel
- Invertebrates
- 2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
- 3 Pom Pom Crabs
- big red Hermit Crab & 3 small red Hermit Crabs
- 2 Turbo Snails
- Nassarius Snail
- red Coco-worm
- 1 big brown, 1 big yellow-brown and 2 small yellow Feather Duster worms
- Corals
- SPS
- brown Monti Cap
- grey Monti Cap
- LPS
- grey red Acan
- pink Acan turned orange blue
- orange green Acan which looks a bit like the topmost one
- Mushrooms
- plate of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- 2 orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- a few assorted colour Ricordea florida mushrooms
- Soft Corals
- Chili Coral
- Polyps
- purple Goniopora
- frag of pink-green Palm Tree (Clove) Coral
- rock of brown Daisy Polyps
- green Palythoa
- red Palythoa
- mixture of Zoas
- Macroalgae
- clumps of green Caulerpa
- purple algae
- Sobo WP-607H hanging filter
- PS 2012 protein skimmer
- Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000 K)
- Tunze Osmolator Nano
- Dymax Vortex W-9 Cooling Fan
Tank 2 (1.5 feet cube - 56 litres)
The updated list of livestock is:
- Fishes
- Flame Angel
- Royal Gramma
- Yellow Tang
- Invertebrates
- Fire Shrimp
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Peppermint Shrimp
- 7 Turbo snails
- 2 Nassarius snails
- 2 Bumble Bee snails
- electric blue Hermit Crab
- yellow Coco-worms
- blue Clam
- Corals
- Mushrooms
- orange and rock of purple-pink Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- 3 Ricordea florida mushrooms
- 4 red Actinodiscus mushrooms
- 2 rocks of Discosoma mushrooms
- Soft Corals
- rock of Finger Mushroom Coral
- Polyps
- 6 rocks of mixed Zoas & plugs of Zoas
- 2 mats of Green Star Polyps
- brown Daisy Polyps
- yellow Parazoanthus
- green Palythoa
- Macroalgae
- Halimeda
- Caulerpa
- Eheim 2213 external canister filter
- Bubble Magus Q3 skimmer
- AquaBeauty 70W LED lights
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
- Dymax Windy W-7 cooling fan (42 CFM)
- Hydor Nano and Boyu (WM-101) wavemakers
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Dosing container
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| I lost the earlier pink Palm Tree Coral and this is the second |
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| One of the Acans |
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| I love the combination of this Zoas rock |
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| Another Acan |
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| This purple Goniopora is one of my favourites for a long while |
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| Tank 2 still looks flat in terms of colour and texture |
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| Without other similar fishes, this Royal Gramma is doing well |
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| The algae eating Yellow Tang |
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| The gregarious Fire Shrimp |
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| Thank goodness the Cleaner Skunk Shrimp occupies another corner |
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| The most colourful fish in my tank is the Flame Angel |
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| The combination of Zoas |
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| The Daisy Coral and yellow Parazoanthus |
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| This blue clam is the only one with me for the last 9 months |
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| Close-up of these 3 Zoas colonies |
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| A beautiful mushroom |
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| The Sunflower Zoas is the brightest in my tank |
