37 MONTHS

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:

• 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

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
• Skimz skimmer
• Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
• Maxspect Gyre and RW-8 wavemaker
• Tunze Nano Osmolator
• Marine Magic Triplet Dosing