my reef GARden frenzY: May 2015

Another month has gone by so quickly. This is the first time in many months that I am putting up the monthly post this early in the day instead of at night because I will be catching a flight this afternoon to Taiwan with my mum and sister's family. So I will be gone for a week and the aquarium is up for another frightening week again. Hopefully all is fine when I am back.

This is also a significant month because from the day I re-started reefing 29 months ago, I started with Aquarium 1. I had lots of memories of it, good bad, and last week I finally decommissioned it and combined the stuff from Aquarium 4 which I brought back from the office. It is with sadness that I finally cleared everything and put it aside for good.

As for Aquarium 3, it is now predominantly LPS and soft corals dominated. I will try out more SPS after I manage to get the Zeolith reactor.

The updates are presented below.

Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)

This aquarium is finally decommissioned after 29 months!

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
I couldn't help it but added a beautiful pocci which was on sale at Ah Beng's at $30. Well, I almost planted the base of the aquarium with LPS and there isn't much space left for others. But I think this aquarium is overcrowded with fishes at the moment with the big 5s taking the lead.

I am looking out to buy a zeolith reactor but there wasn't any that I fancy and is affordable.

So anyway, here is the monthly updated list of livestock:

Fishes

Purple Tang
2 Blue-yellow Damsels
Yellow Tang
Flame Angel
Regal Blue Tang
Majestic Angel
Yellow Wrasse
Orange Striped Prawn Goby
2 True Percula Clowns
Golden Maroon Clown
Royal Gramma
Yellow Clown Goby

Invertebrates

Turbo and Nassarius snails
2 red Linckia starfishes
purple Linckia starfish
2 Tuxedo Urchins
2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
Fire Shrimp

Corals

Horn Coral
Poccillopora
Cyphastrea

Acan
3 Hammer Corals (peach and 2 purple green)
4 Supersun Coral frags
2 yellow Bubble Corals
2 branched Octo Corals (purple and half green and half peach)
4 Goniopora Corals (green tentacles and purple center, 2 purple tentacles green center and brown)
2 Elegance Corals (pink tips green body and blue tip yellow body)
green Candy Cane
Duncan Coral
Blasto Coral
Fox Coral

Mushrooms

orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
green Ricordea yuma mushrooms

Soft Corals

Chilli Coral
red Flower Rock Anemone
2 pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
Toadstool Leather Mushroom
branched Finger Coral
9 Gorgonians (purple branch with brown polyps, 2 yellow branch and polyps, 2 red branch with yellow polyps, 2 white branch with red polyps, red branch with pink polyps, half yellow and brown branch)