I have really been kind of busy this month, so there are no interim updates. Something that I did was to change back the IOS aquarium 4 back to aquarium 1.
Today was an exciting day because I made my only trip of the month to 2 lfs and bought some stuff, including 9 Turbo snails to help clear the algae in the aquariums, which I have updated below. I also did a minor rescape today but I was too lazy to take the photos.
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The Golden Maroon has grown so much in size and it is constantly bullying the other 2 clowns. I must get a trap to fish it out someday.
The Red Planet is looking better with each passing day while the Duncan coral has sprouted 2 smaller heads on its side. On top of that, the red digitata that I bought in Taiwan in June has grown considerably, although it lost much of its red colour. Now I have 2 more beautiful digitata SPS into the aquarium, and I will keep it that way for now.
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
- 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
- unknown green
- Radioactive Bird Nest frag
- Bird Nest frag
- green Acropora digitata
- cyan blue Acropora digitata
- red Acropora digitata
- unknown browned out SPS
- unknown sps
- LPS
- Acan
- 2 Hammer Corals (peach and purple green)
- Supersun Coral frag
- branched Octo Corals (half green and half peach)
- Goniopora Corals (purple tentacles green center)
- Alveopora Coral
- 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
- grey pulsing Xenia
- 2 Xenia trees
- Polyps
- purple Zoas
- Fiery Red Zoas
- 5 assorted Zoas
- 2 green Palythoa
- 3 green Star Polyps
- 5 Clove Polyps (2 gold, 1 green and 2 common)
- 3 Daisy Polyps (brown and 2 green eyes)
- 15 frag plugs of Zoas
- green Clove
- 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-66A chiller
- Reef Octopus BH1000 skimmer
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
- 2 RW-8 wavemakers
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
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| the orange colour of the Cyphastrea didn't come out |
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| the Red Planet under white light |
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| the Rose Bud Tip Anemone |
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| under blue lights |
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| the Red Planet SPS |
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| Cyphastrea under blue lights |
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| a deteriorating Pocci |
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I switch it back to a smaller aquarium as before since it is more manageable and there are only 3 fishes, including my first Herald's Angel.
The livestock are:
