my reef GARden frenzY: 39 MONTHS

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:

Fishes

False Percula Clownfish
2 Fire Gobies

Invertebrates

Turbo Snails
Cleaner Skunk Shrimp

Corals

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