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| FTS of aquarium 3 |
Strangely and sadly, my beautiful Flame Angel which had been so healthy looking suddenly disappeared completely about a week ago and I never saw it ever since. I presumed it to be dead amongst the rocks and decided not to overturn anything to find its carcass. I also lost a clam just like that for no apparent reason. It had been growing so well for so long and yesterday I noticed it shrunk into its shell. I had no choice but to clear it before it pollutes the water further.
For this month, I am posting it earlier than usual because I am going off tonight to New Zealand and would only be back around 5 Jul 14.
Here are the livestock and technical updates and photos:
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I removed another batch of basal sand which I discarded. It is also still looking pretty bare and I haven't added anything much.
The list of livestock is as follows:
- Fishes
- Flameback Angel
- Yellow Shrimp Goby
- 2 true Ocellaris clowns
- Hector Goby
- Invertebrates
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- big red Hermit Crab & 3 small red Hermit Crabs
- 3 Turbo Snails
- Nassarius Snail
- medium Clam
- Corals
- LPS
- green brain coral
- bleached Hammer coral
- neon Candy Cane
- Brain corak
- Soft Corals
- Zoas
- Rose Bud Tip Anemone
- Polyps
- unknown Anthelia
- Green Star Polyps
- Mushrooms
- a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- a few green Rhodactis mushrooms
- Macroalgae
- green Caulerpa
- red algae
- purple algae
- Dolphin H-200 hang-on-back filter
- Shiruba XB-303 External Filter
- Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000 K)
- Tunze Osmolator Nano
- Aqua Cool Fan
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| I forgot to adjust the colours before taking the photo |
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| a boring display that looks pretty bare |
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| Hector and a shy Flameback |
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
I was quite sad with the SPS loss and decided not to add any more for the time being but added some LPS instead. I also finally accepted that some SPS and corals became bleached because of the higher than normal water temperatures and am struggling with whether I should get a chiller. I also stopped all dosing because it seemed to bring on more harm than good when I didn't calibrate everything properly.
There are still quite a bit of diatoms on the sand but I will just let it be for the time being.
The updated list of livestock is:
- Fishes
- 2 black Clowns
- 2 false Clown Fish
- Yellow Tang
- Purple Tang
- Blue-yellow Damsel
- Royal Gramma
- Six Line Wrasse
- Yellow Wrasse
- Fathead Sunburst Anthias
- Yellow Shrimp Goby
- Hector Goby
- Golden Stripe Maroon Clown
- Invertebrates
- Turbo, Nassarius and Bumble Bee snails
- electric blue Hermit Crab
- small Clam
- red Linckia starfish
- small yellow, big brown and yellow-brown Feather Duster worms
- Cowry
- 2 black pistol shrimps
- black crab in sump refugium
- Tuxedo Urchin
- Corals
- LPS
- 6 Acans
- 2 Hammer Corals
- 2 Blasto (bleached)
- mega Blasto
- Sun Coral
- Supersun Coral
- Green Chalice (bleached)
- Brain Coral (bleached)
- Unknown
- Neon Candy Cane
- 2 Bubble Corals
- Mushrooms
- Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- rock of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- Soft Corals
- 2 Chili Corals
- green Carpet Anemone
- red Flower Rock Anemone (bleached)
- Polyps
- 2 frags of pink-green Palm Tree (Clove) Coral
- mixture of Zoas
- 3 Green Star Polyps
- 1 green Goniopora
- Macroalgae
- Caulerpa
- Chaetomorpha
- red Bamboo
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Maxspect R420R 16,000k 120W
- Tunze 9004 Nano Skimmer
- 2 Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
- Dymax cooling fan (42 CFM)
- Fluval 3 external filter
- MP25 and Boyu wavemaker
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
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| green Yuma |
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| unknown LPS |
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| green mushrooms |
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| two Bubble corals |
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| Hammer |
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| bleached Blasto |
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| diatoms on sand bed |
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| Fathead Sunburst Anthias |
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| I have been neglecting these |
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| these too! |
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| my only clam now |
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| red Acan |
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| bleached red Flower Rock Anemone |
