my reef GARden frenzY: April 2014

Last few photos of Tank 2

April 2014 is an exciting month because the 3 feet tank I ordered finally arrived on 25 Apr 14.

This new tank, made by CR Aquarium, shall be named Tank 3 and it was to replace Tank 2. I spent almost an entire day of back-breaking time setting it up and transferring the inhabitants from Tank 2 and some from Tank 1 over. I knew it wasn't a good idea to shift all the livestock over at one go but I did so because the few sps that I bought earlier at end March became bleached in Tank 2 and I felt the new conditions might hep to get them to recover. Anyway, sadly I lost the Fire Shrimp, a Cleaner Skunk Shrimp and killed the Purple Feather Duster Worm in the process because of my impatience. I also fished out a very big and disgusting black bristle worm that was feeding off the tank.

Interestingly, the grey Monti Cap that I had in Tank 2 never showed the grey colour for so long but now it's colour is more apparent even on the second day.

The following are the livestock and technical updates:

Tank 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
The list of livestock is as follows:

Fishes

Flameback Angel
Yellow Shrimp Goby

Invertebrates

Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
big red Hermit Crab & 3 small red Hermit Crabs
2 Turbo Snails
Nassarius Snail
small yellow Feather Duster Worm
medium Clam

Corals

Hammer Coral

Mushrooms

a few loose blue Actinodiscus mushrooms

Macroalgae

green Caulerpa
red algae

The technical information is as follows:

Dolphin H-200 hang-on-back filter

Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000 K)

Tunze Osmolator Nano

Dymax Vortex W-9 Cooling Fan

Tank 2 (1.5 feet cube - 56 litres)
Decommissioned on 26 Apr 14.

purple Stag

pink Millepora (right)

pink Birdnest

Tank 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The dimensions of the display tank and sump are 91 x 46 x 42 cm and 76 x 40 x 25 cm respectively, giving the total volume of water to be about 250 litres.

The updated list of livestock is: