This is the 30th month and I think I am making some headway where sps is concerned. I am not sure if it has anything to do with the chiller but I suppose it does help. Whilst most of my sps eventually bleached out previously, these new additions seemed quite stable. The green pocci that I bought from Ah Beng was doing fine for a while, so I gradually added some sps from Taiwan and they were also doing well, so I recently added quite a number from Aquarist Chamber and GO.
I haven't heard anything on the Zeolith reactor so I may just stick with the dosing system for now. I may also need to upgrade my chiller because I am concerned on the longevity of it since these days the weather has been very hot and the chiller I bought is actually undersized for my aquarium.
The updates are presented below.
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The Red Planet sps was bought some months ago and for a while I thought it was dead because I didn't see any polyps or growth. I didn't remove it and gradually I noticed the polyps appearing just as the base turned more green. It was only with this change that I felt the aquarium was ready for me to add some sps.
I added one sps followed by another and another until I had all these amazing sps in the aquarium.
The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
- 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
- 2 Fire Gobies
- Invertebrates
- Turbo and Nassarius snails
- 2 red Linckia starfishes
- purple Linckia starfish
- 2 Tuxedo Urchins
- 2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
- Fire Shrimp
- Corals
- SPS
- Horn Coral
- Poccillopora
- Cyphastrea
- Red Planet
- red Acropora digitata
- monti (bleached slightly)
- brown Poccillopora
- green sps
- green Poccillopora
- red digitata
- red monti plate
- birdnest
- watermelon Millepora
- Strawberry Shortcake frag
- pink Millepora
- blue sps (browned out)
- purple green sps
- blueberry sps
- purple pink Millepora
- unknown frag
- LPS
- Acan
- 3 Hammer Corals (peach and 2 purple green)
- 4 Supersun Coral frags
- 2 yellow Bubble Corals
- 2 branched Octo Corals (half green and half peach, light green)
- 4 Goniopora Corals (green tentacles and purple center, 2 purple tentacles green center and brown)
- Elegance Corals (blue tip yellow body)
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- Fox Coral
- Mushrooms
- orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- red mushroom
- purple mushroom
- green mushroom
- 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)
- luminous green tree
- Polyps
- purple Zoas
- Fiery Red Zoas
- 5 assorted Zoas
- green Palythoa
- 5 green Star Polyps
- 5 Clove Polyps (2 gold, 1 green and 2 common)
- 3 Daisy Polyps (brown and 2 green eyes)
- grey pulsing Xenia
- 17 frag plugs of Zoas
- Zoas
- green Clove
- green Palythoa
- pink Zoas
- Macroalgae (in sump)
- Chaetomorpha
- red Bamboo
- green Bubble algae
The technical details are:
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
- Solite 2 x 24W T5 lights
- Hailea HS-28A chiller
- Reef Octopus BH1000 skimmer
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
- MP25 and RW-8 wavemakers
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
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| under white lights |
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| green pocci under white lights |
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| green sps under white lights |
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| birdnest |
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| green Palythoa |
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| blue and red mushrooms |
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| under white lights |
Aquarium 4 with IOS (39 cm x 32 cm x 36 cm = 45 litres)
I am still not too pleased with the look of this and have not been focusing my attention on this for now.
The livestock are:
- Fishes
- False Percula Clownfish
- black Clownfish
- Hector Goby
- Invertebrates
- 3 Turbo Snails
- Nassarius Snail
- Tuxedo Sea Urchin
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- yellow Banded Coral Shrimp
- Corals
- LPS
- Soft Coral
- branched Finger Coral
- Anthelia
- Rose Bud Tip Anemone and Bud Tip Anemone
- White Tree Coral
- a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- Polyps
- Macroalgae
- Bubble Algae
- green Algae
- red algae
The technical information is as follows:
- Sanrise LED Pro lights (without wifi)
- Tunze Osmolator Nano
- Boyu Cooling Fan
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| under blue lights |
Aquarium 4 with IOS (39 cm x 32 cm x 36 cm = 45 litres)
