This has been a challenging month, mainly because I was hospitalized for a couple of days and even after I was discharged, I wasn't in a the best position to maintain the aquariums until these last few days.
The lucky thing was, everything pretty much remained fine but the first thing that I saw upon reaching home from the hospital was the sight of the Rose Bud Tip Anemone eating up my Purple Tang. This is the second Tang that I lost to this growing anemone! Naturally I was very upset but looking at the Purple Tang, I was convinced there was nothing I could do to revive it. So the big four of my aquarium is reduced to just 2 big fishes - the Regal Blue Tang and my all time favourite the Flame Angel.
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I cleared a large clump of the Chaetomorpha, which seemed to grow really really fast in this aquarium due to the high nutrients. Now the aquarium looked kind of empty, so perhaps I should stock it with more fishes soon. Looking at the attached photos, it looks really uninspiring.
The livestock are:
The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
I cleared a large clump of the Chaetomorpha, which seemed to grow really really fast in this aquarium due to the high nutrients. Now the aquarium looked kind of empty, so perhaps I should stock it with more fishes soon. Looking at the attached photos, it looks really uninspiring.
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)
I spent quite a number of days lying in bed, recovering from my medical condition and I started to read up on more reef stuff. For one, I am determined that the next aquarium I have would be a customized drop-off tank of perhaps 4 feet length. I feel really excited just thinking about it. I also read that Innovative Marine is coming up with a new series of small tabletop drop-off tanks soon, so perhaps I may just start with that first. I am also contemplating getting a new AI Hydra lighting in the near future.The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
- Fishes
- 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
- Flame Angel
- Regal Blue Tang
- Orange Striped Prawn Goby
- True Percula Clown
- Golden Maroon Clown
- Royal Gramma
- Yellow Clown Goby
- Yellow Wrasse
- Yellow Tang
- Percula Clown
- Invertebrates
- Turbo and Nassarius snails
- 2 Tuxedo Urchins
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Golden Stenopus Shrimp
- Fire Shrimp
- Corals
- SPS
- Horn Coral
- Poccillopora
- orange Cyphastrea
- Red Planet
- red Acropora digitata
- green Poccillopora - 2 frags
- unknown green
- 2 Radioactive Bird Nest frags
- green Acropora digitata
- 2 unknown Acropora
- pink tabling Millepora
- smooth-skinned deep water Acropora suharsonoi
- red/brown Poccillopora
- red Millepora
- brown with blue-tip Millepora frags
- green deep sea Acropora
- Forest Fire Acropora digitata
- LPS
- Hammer Coral (purple green)
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- Fox Coral
- yellow Torch Coral that turned green (left 2 heads)
- Hammer Coral (light purple green)
- Bubble Coral
- Mushrooms
- green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- red mushroom
- green mushroom
- blue mushroom
- Soft Corals
- Chilli Coral
- pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
- Toadstool Leather Mushroom
- luminous green Tree Coral
- pulsing Xenia
- cyan Tree Coral
- Polyps
- purple Zoas
- Fiery Red Zoas
- 5 assorted Zoas
- 2 green Palythoa
- 3 green Star Polyps
- 2 Clove Polyps (2 gold)
- 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
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| I came back to witness the death of the Purple Tang. |
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| FTS under 100% white and 100% blue lights |
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| the right hand side |
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| the new Tuxedo Sea Urchin |
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| the deep sea green Acropora |
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| this Pocci has gone through a hard time in the past |
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| the A. suharsonoi and tabling Millepora |
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| the blue Acropora lost its colour |
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| red Millepora (left) and red Pocci (right) |
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| green Pocci |
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| I broke these into frags when it showed rtn |
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| true Percula Clown |
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| my favourite Flame Angel |
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| pulsing Xenia |
