Saturday, January 31, 2015

25 MONTHS

Other than rejoicing or lamenting that I have been busy, busy and busy for this month, I have nothing to say. I was working late nights to beyond midnight and reaching the office the following morning before 7:30 am and was catching only a few miserable hours of sleep a night, so I was feeling sleepy most of the days and drank many cups of coffee a day.

So here are the updates.

Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)

Some fishes seemed to have disappeared on me recently.

The list of livestock is as follows:

  • Fishes 
    • Yellow Shrimp Goby
    • 2 true Percula ocellaris Clowns
    • Regal Blue Tang
    • Possum Wrasse
  • Invertebrates 
    • 3 Turbo Snails 
    • Nassarius Snail
    • Tuxedo Sea Urchin
    • Fire Shrimp
  • Corals
    • LPS
      • Acan
      • mega Blasto
      • Bubble Coral
      • Duncan
    • Soft Corals
      • Rose Bud Tip Anemone and Bud Tip Anemone
      • White Tree Coral
      • Orange Tree Coral
    • Polyps
      • Anthelia
      • Zoas
      • 2 rocks of Green Star Polyps
      • Glove Polyps
    • Mushrooms 
      • a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
  • Macroalgae
    • green Caulerpa
    • green cup algae
    • red algae
    The technical information is as follows:
    • Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter
    • Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K) 
    • Tunze Osmolator Nano
    • Boyu Cooling Fan


    Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
    Here's the update.

    The updated list of livestock is:
    • Fishes
      • false Percula Clown Fish
      • 2 black Clowns
      • Purple Tang
      • Blue-yellow Damsel
      • Six Line Wrasse
      • Yellow Tang
      • Yellow Clown Goby
      • Flame Angel
    • Invertebrates
      • Turbo and Nassarius snails
      • red Linckia starfish
      • purple Linckia starfish
      • 2 Tuxedo Urchins
      • 2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
      • Fire Shrimp
      • Yellow Fan Worm
      • Fromia starfish
      • brown polyps Gorgonian
      • Toadstool Leather Coral (bleached)
      • yellow polyps Gorgonian
      • Sea Fan
      • Toadstool Leather Mushroom
    • Corals
      • SPS
        • Horn Coral
        • 2 frags of green digitata
        • frag of pink Pocci
        • frag of Birdnest
        • frag of pink Birdnest
        • frag of purple digitata
        • 2 frags of Fibre Optic Pocci
        • frag of green Stylophora
        • peach Monti cap
        • green Monti cap
        • frag of red digitata
        • frag of sunset Monti
        • frag of reverse sunset Monti
        • orange Cyphastrea
        • purple stag
        • blue sps
        • purple Birdnest
        • Red Planet
        • green Pocci
        • maroon Pocci
        • green purple Pocci
        • green encrusting Monti
        • yellow Birdnest
        • red Millepora
        • unknown digitata
      • LPS
        • 6 Acans
        • Hammer Coral
        • 3 Supersun Coral frags
        • yellow Bubble Coral
        • Octo Coral
        • green and blue Goniopora
        • red Goniopora
        • purple Alveopora with blue eye
        • peach Hammer Coral
        • Elegance Coral
      • Mushrooms
        • orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
        • rock of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
        • red Actinodiscus mushrooms
        • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
        • red mushrooms
      • Soft Corals
        • 2 Chilli Corals
        • red Flower Rock Anemone
        • 2 pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
        • green tipped anemone
        • grey pulsing Xenia
      • Polyps 
        • purple Zoas
        • Fiery Red Zoas
        • green Palythoa
        • 4 green Star Polyps
        • 4 assorted Zoas
        • Clove Polyps
        • Clove Polyps with green eye
        • 2 golden Cloves
    • Macroalgae (in sump)
      • Caulerpa
      • Chaetomorpha
      • red Bamboo
      The technical details are:
      • Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
      • Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
      • Reef Octopus BH1000 skimmer
      • 2 Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
      • Cooling Fan
      • Fluval 3 external filter
      • MP25 and RW-8 wavemakers
      • Tunze Nano Osmolator
      • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing


































      Aquarium 4 (39 x 32 x 41 cm with 7 cm IOS - 55 litres) 
      This is neglected because I hardly have to look at it. The LED lights also failed and I replaced it with a smaller one.

      The updated list of livestock is:
      • Fishes
        • Yellow Tang
        • Gold Maroon Clown Fish
        • Blue-yellow Damsel Fish
      • Invertebrates
        • Turbo snails
      • Corals
        • Polyps
          • Anthelia
          • Zoas
      • Macroalgae
        • green algae
        • Chaetomorpha
      The technical details are:
      • Green Element LED 60W (12 White 12,000K and 8 Blue 460 nm)

      Thursday, January 1, 2015

      INTERESTING DESIGNS

      a sump with a mangrove plant?
      This post has nothing to do with and is not directly related to my aquariums but it is the first of its kind that I am posting in this new year.

      I thought I should show some interesting tank designs as well as the animal bean overflow system, which I will do for my next project, if there is one actually. Don't ask me why it is called the animal bean though.

      seamless overflow, presumably with sump below, but is not fish safe

      animal bean overflow design with sump tank