This was an exciting month and I shall elaborate more below.
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I started running the AOL 60 litres chiller and transferred the pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone from aquarium 3 to this tank, together with the Golden Maroon Clown, where it immediately split into 2 separate anemones under the stress.
Interestingly, I noticed there were suddenly a lot of pods on the glass and I wonder where they came from?
The livestock are:
- Fishes
- Golden Maroon Clown
- Hector Goby (I am trying to locate it)
- Invertebrates
- Turbo Snails
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Corals
- LPS
- Soft Corals
- pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
- 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
- AOL 60 litres chiller
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| the rose bud tip anemone with Golden Maroon Clown |
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| Hector Goby |
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| the split |
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| the white spots on the glass are the pods |
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
I lost the False Percula Clown fish, which was with me for a long time, that I transferred over from aquarium 1. A few days into the month, the Clown fish disappeared from view and I am quite certain it was dead from the bullying by the Golden Maroon Clown.
On a separate note, I purchased the Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD light and it was easily setup. I would be monitoring the effectiveness of it on the corals in the weeks to come. I also purchased a 22 kg tub of Aquaforest Probiotic Reef Salt, the Pro S (bacteria) and NP Pro (polymer for bacteria), which I read on the Sg Reefers Forum to be very good in controlling the phosphates and nitrates and colouring up the corals. I would be monitoring and reporting the effectiveness of this for my system over the next few weeks when I start changing the water with the new salt.
Anyway, I wasn't pleased with the current scaping of this aquarium, so I spent some time re-scaping it last night to achieve the following:
- switch my 3 green Pocci corals around - the larger one from the right to the left and the 2 smaller ones to the right to provide more balance and more light on the right;
- remove the luminous green Tree Coral from the left and switch it to the right;
- remove the rock works touching the left and right side of the glass;
- relocate the temporary rock works on the left foreground; and
- provide more areas on the rock works for new corals to be added on in 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
- Royal Gramma
- Yellow Clown Goby
- Yellow Wrasse
- Yellow Tang
- Heniochus diphreutes
- 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
- yellow Birdnest
- pink Birdnest
- red Acropora digitata frag
- Acropora valida frag
- 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
- 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
The technical details are:
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD
- Sanrise Aqua Pro (without wifi) 30 cm
- Hailea HS-66A chiller
- Skimz skimmer
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
- Maxspect Gyre
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
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| FTS of the aquarium under Aqua Sanrise and AI Hydra 52 HD lights |
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| I removed the overcrowded Zoas here to allow the yellow one to grow |
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| the relocated Horn Coral beside the outlet and the big Pocci on the right |
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| FTS under 100% AI Hydra 52 HD lights which is more white |
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| hopefully this blue Acropora will colour up in the upcoming weeks |
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| this is actually a green polyps Pocci |
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| the yellow Zoas |
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| I relocated this green A. digitata that bleached previously |
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| the Rose Bud Tip Anemone before I transferred it |
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| the new resident Banner Fish |
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| the beautiful pink Birdnest |
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| the mixed frag of A. valida and an unknown sps |
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| I am happy that this green Acropora retained its colour |
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| the new A. digitata |
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| one of 2 corals that revived |
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| the yellow Birdnest |
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| I hope it has enough food to eat |
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| the pink Millepora |
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| I just couldn't get a clear view of my favourite Flame Angel |
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| this was the FTS after the rescaping and down-tuning the Sanrise and 100% AI Hydra 52 HD lighting |
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| the left side with empty branches on the rocks |
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| the top view of the left side |
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| the empty rock works towards the foreground and larger Pocci on the right |
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| the top view of the more complete right side |
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| the FTS with down-tuning of the AI Hydra 52 HD lights to give a more white look |
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| the colours of the corals look pale under this setting |
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| a better view of the bare branches and I love the blue from the Sanrise |
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| the 2 smaller Pocci corals were relocated to the right side |
