I thought I wouldn't be able to put up this post today because I was quite ill the last few days due to a fever, sore throat, cough and back ache after weeks of working on the floral display. I slept from 4-6 am on last Friday and that morning, I developed a sore throat, lost my voice around lunch time and a high fever by 2 pm. I went to see the doctor by 5 pm and when I reached home, I slept until the following day around 11 am.
For this whole month, the aquariums were so neglected and I didn't even make any new acquisitions. So everything looked miserable and just yesterday, the first casualty of the year was the Yellow Wrasse, which I found today on the table. I guess it managed to squeeze through the gap in the cover. Rest in peace, little fella. I don't know when I lost the Hector Goby, which is one of my small favourite gobies, but I think it could be last month. Even the Tuxedo Sea Urchin was dead and I found the remains of it.
I felt better today, did a cleanup of the aquarium and here are some photos taken today.
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I feel bad that the water in this aquarium always feel warm to the touch. I stopped using the fan for some time now and whilst the inhabitants are fine, I think they are not in their optimum condition. Maybe I am being cruel here, so I am considering getting them a chiller now to make them feel more at ease in this small abode.
The livestock are:
I feel bad that the water in this aquarium always feel warm to the touch. I stopped using the fan for some time now and whilst the inhabitants are fine, I think they are not in their optimum condition. Maybe I am being cruel here, so I am considering getting them a chiller now to make them feel more at ease in this small abode.
The livestock are:
- Fishes
- False Percula Clownfish
- 2 Fire Gobies
- Invertebrates
- Turbo Snails
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Corals
- LPS
- 2 Supersun Corals
- Macroalgae
- green Algae
- Chaetomorpha algae
The technical information is as follows:
- Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter
- Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K)
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
Today, I removed a number of dead corals and siphoned away a lot of sand, which was smouldering the corals lower down, and hopefully things will stabilize soon. I discovered my beloved Black Percula Clown also disappeared and I think it could have gone missing last month. The biggest culprit is the Golden Maroon Clown, which was always chasing it and which I failed to net out.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
- Invertebrates
- Turbo and Nassarius snails
- Tuxedo Urchins
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- 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
- unknown Acropora
- Bird Nest frags
- LPS
- Hammer Corals (purple green)
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- Fox Coral
- Mushrooms
- orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- red mushroom
- green mushroom
- Soft Corals
- Chilli Coral
- pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
- Toadstool Leather Mushroom
- luminous green Tree Coral
- 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
- pink Zoas
- green base purple skirt Paly
- green base brown skirt Zoas
- Macroalgae (in sump)
- Chaetomorpha
- red Bamboo
- green Bubble algae
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
- Solite 2 x 24W T5 lights
- Hailea HS-66A chiller
- Skimz skimmer
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
- Maxspect Gyre and RW-8 wavemaker
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
