Wednesday, April 30, 2014

16 MONTHS

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
    • LPS
      • 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:
  • Fishes
    • Clown Fish
    • Yellow Tang
    • Purple Tang
    • Blue-yellow Damsel
    • Flame Angel
    • Royal Gramma
  • Invertebrates
    • Turbo, Nassarius and Bumble Bee snails
    • electric blue Hermit Crab
    • 1 big and 2 small Clams
    • red Linckia starfish
    • green Carpet Anemone
    • small yellow, big brown and yellow-brown Feather Duster worms
    • rescued 2 black pistol shrimps
    • rescued black crab and threw into refugium in sump
  • Corals
    • SPS
      • grey Monti Cap
      • Acropora (2 bleached)
      • Millepora (bleached)
      • purple Acropora secale (bleached)
      • purple Stag (bleached)
      • Pocci
      • grey digitata
      • unknown frag (from AquaMarin)
    • LPS
      • 3 Acans
      • Hammer Coral
      • Torch Coral
    • Mushrooms
      • Ricordea yuma mushrooms
      • 2 rocks of Discosoma mushrooms
    • Soft Corals
      • 2 Chili Corals
    • Polyps 
      • frag of pink-green Palm Tree (Clove) Coral
      • mixture of Zoas
      • mixture of Palythoa
      • 2 yellow Parazoanthus
      • Sympodium
      • 3 Green Star Polyps
      • brown Daisy Polyps
      • 1 green and 2 purple Goniopora
      • green Alveopora
  • Macroalgae
    • Halimeda
    • Caulerpa
    • Chaeotomorpha
The technical details are:
  • Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
  • Maxspect R420R 16,000k, 120W
  • Tunze 9004 Nano Skimmer
  • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
  • Dymax Windy W-7 cooling fan (42 CFM)
  • MP25 and wavemakers
  • Tunze Nano Osmolator
  • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
this is the new 3 feet tank



full tank shot (fts)



the valley