Monday, August 31, 2015

32 MONTHS

Things are very different this month, and I don't mean it in a good way. I was busy and neglected the care of the main aquaurium to the extent that I lost a number of SPS and even LPS. I bought a new chiller Hailea HS66A but haven't had the time to connect it up to replace the current under-sized one. Honestly speaking, I don't know the real reason why my SPS started to show stn from the base but even my precious Millepora was finally lost.

The updates are presented below.

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
On the fish issue, the Golden Maroon has become such a notorious bully that I strongly believed it was responsible for the demise of the smaller true Percula clown and constantly chases the bigger true Percula clown to hide at a corner.

The Red Planet is looking better with each passing day and remains one of my few reliable SPS besides the Pocci.

A few of my LPS e.g. bubble coral, octo-coral, flower pot coral, almost wasted away completely.

The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
  • Fishes
    • Purple Tang
    • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
    • Yellow Tang
    • Flame Angel
    • Regal Blue Tang
    • Yellow Wrasse
    • Orange Striped Prawn Goby
    • True Percula Clown
    • Golden Maroon Clown
    • Royal Gramma
    • Yellow Clown Goby
    • Black Percula Clown
  • Invertebrates
    • Turbo and Nassarius snails
    • purple Linckia starfish
    • 2 Tuxedo Urchins
    • 2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
    • Fire Shrimp
    • Golden Stenopus Shrimp
  • Corals
    • SPS
      • Horn Coral
      • Poccillopora
      • orange Cyphastrea
      • Red Planet
      • red Acropora digitata
      • green Poccillopora
      • red encrusting monti plate
      • purple green sps
      • green deep sea Acro
      • green base brown polyps sps
      • Radioactive Bird Nest frag
      • Bird Nest frag
      • unknown green
    • LPS
      • Acan
      • 2 Hammer Corals (peach and purple green)
      • 2 Supersun Coral frags
      • 2 branched Octo Corals (half green and half peach, light green)
      • Goniopora Corals (purple tentacles green center)
      • Alveopora Coral
      • 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
      • 2 Gorgonians (purple branch with brown polyps, yellow branch and polyps)
      • 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
      • 15 frag plugs of Zoas
      • Zoas
      • green Clove
      • green Palythoa
      • pink Zoas
      • yellow frag
      • green base purple skirt Paly
      • green base brown skirt 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
    • 2 RW-8 wavemakers
    • Tunze Nano Osmolator
    • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing