I am actually quite happy that a few new sps that I bought this month are also colouring up nicely with the combination of the AI Hydra 52 HD and the chiller.
I moved the Maroon Clownfish, which was growing humongous, to the office after I bought a Flame Angel to add to this aquarium. I have also introduced 3 of my all time favourite False Percula Clown fishes.
The livestock are:
- Fishes
- Flame Angel
- 3 common Clown Fishes
- Invertebrates
- Turbo Snails
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Camel Shrimp
- Corals
- LPS
- Supersun Coral
- Fox Coral
- Soft Corals
- 2 pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
- cyan Tree Coral
- pulsing Xenia
- Polyps
- green Palythoa
- Zoas
- green Star Polyps
- 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
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The colouring up of the sps is quite encouraging but I find I still lack some vibrant colours such as red, purple, blue etc to achieve the reef look that I sort after. Unfortunately, the iphone doesn't quite capture the actual colours of the corals too.
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
- Majestic Angel
- Yellow Tang
- Invertebrates
- Turbo and Nassarius snails
- 2 Tuxedo Urchins
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Golden Stenopus Shrimp
- Corals
- SPS
- Horn Coral
- green Poccillopora
- orange Cyphastrea
- red Acropora digitata
- green Poccillopora - 2 frags
- unknown green
- green Acropora digitata
- 2 unknown Acropora
- red/brown Poccillopora
- red Millepora
- brown with blue-tip Millepora frags
- green deep sea Acropora
- Forest Fire Acropora digitata
- pink Birdnest
- red Acropora digitata frag
- Acropora valida frag
- green/pink Acropora
- green/blue Acropora
- green/pink Millepora
- LPS
- Hammer Coral (purple green)
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- yellow Torch Coral that turned green (left 2 heads)
- Bubble Coral
- Mushrooms
- green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- red mushroom
- green mushroom
- blue mushroom
- Soft Corals
- Chilli Coral
- Toadstool Leather Mushroom
- luminous green Tree Coral
- 2 red Rose Bud Tip Anemone
- 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
- 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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| one of the cyan blue Acropora |
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| a Millepora that coloured up but effect is not visible from this photo |
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| a beautiful Acropora with purple tips and green body |
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| a small frag |
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| presumably a green Pocci |
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| my only Montipora frag below a green Acropora frag |
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| a Bird Nest frag and assorted Zoas |
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| another same Bird Nest frag |
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| this Acropora was originally green, lost its green and is regaining its green again |
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| a stowaway Sea Urchin |
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| an unimpressive FTS |
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| the Majestic Angelfish |
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| a pink Bird Nest colony with salmon Pocci |
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| my beloved Flame Angel |
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| view from the top |
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| a FTS |
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| a new Zoas bought from Seasonal Aquarium |
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| the stressed Pocci |
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| Purple Death Zoas? |
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| one of my favourite Zoas |
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| such beautiful polyps extension |
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| this is colouring up beautifully |
