Monday, November 30, 2015

35 MONTHS

It is almost coming to 3 years since I returned to aquarium reefing, so here's the latest update. I am cutting it so close to the update for this month and it is minutes away from the next month.

Aquarium 1  (1 ft cube - 27 litres)

I am not posting any photos of this aquarium since there are no new additions or removals. I should be getting something on this Wed to add on to this aquarium.

The livestock are:
  • Fishes
    • False Percula Clownfish
    • Hector Goby
  • Invertebrates
    • Turbo Snails
    • Tuxedo Sea Urchin
  • Corals
    • Soft Coral
      • a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
    • Polyps
      • Zoas
    • Macroalgae
        • green Algae
        • red algae
    The technical information is as follows:
    • Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter
    • Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K)

    Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
    I just bought the Skimz SN143 skimmer on 20 Nov 15 to replace the current HOB Reef Octopus skimmer and we shall see how it performs.

    The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
    • Fishes
      • Purple Tang
      • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
      • Yellow Tang
      • Flame Angel
      • Regal Blue Tang
      • 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
      • Golden Stenopus Shrimp
    • Corals
      • SPS
        • Horn Coral
        • Poccillopora
        • orange Cyphastrea
        • Red Planet
        • red Acropora digitata
        • green Poccillopora
        • unknown green
        • Radioactive Bird Nest frag
        • Bird Nest frag
        • green Acropora digitata
        • cyan blue Acropora digitata
        • red Acropora digitata
        • unknown browned out SPS
        • unknown Acropora
        • unknown sps
        • Bird Nest
      • LPS
        • Acan
        • Hammer Corals (purple green)
        • Supersun Coral frag
        • 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
        • 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
      • Maxspect Gyre and RW-8 wavemaker
      • Tunze Nano Osmolator
      • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing


      a bleaching Acropora

      a pink Bird nest

      I love the green Acropora behind

      a blue Stag

      nice Zoas

      a newly acquired sps

      this frag is growing







      the Red Planet sps


      the foreground sps looks bleached





      this Octo-coral left only one head



      the colour of this Royal Gramma seems to be fading