Tuesday, February 28, 2017

50 MONTHS

This is a tiring day and I was worried I might miss updating this blog for the second month in a row. But anyway, here it is.

There are no significant changes to the aquarium setup because I had no time to make much new acquisitions or changes. However, I did get a few new sos and a flame angel. I thought I could form pairings of my fishes, from the damsels, to clownfish, to royal grammar but I didn't succeed with the flame angels. As soon as I released the smaller flame angel into the aquarium, the bigger went after it relentlessly. So now it is, in the makeshift basket until I don't know when. Fortunately, it was jittery at first but started to feed on the pellet food.

Maybe I will have a few more tries again.

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The livestock update is as follows:

  • Fishes
    • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
    • Flame Angel
    • 2 Royal Grammas
    • Yellow Clown Goby
    • Yellow Tang
    • 2 False Clown Fish
  • Invertebrates
    • Turbo and Nassarius snails
    • 3+1 Sea Urchins
  • Corals
    • SPS
      • Horn Coral
      • 2 green Poccillopora and 3 frags
      • orange Cyphastrea
      • red Acropora digitata and 4 frags
      • 2 green Poccillopora frags
      • red Montipora
      • red/brown Poccillopora
      • 2 pink Birdnest
      • green branching Stylophora
      • beige/purple Montipora plate
      • blue Acropora browned out
      • Acropora valida
      • 2 Radioactive Birdnest frags
      • red Montipora plate
    • LPS
      • Hammer Coral (purple green)
      • green Candy Cane
      • Duncan Coral
      • yellow Torch Coral with one head left
      • Bubble Coral
      • green Goniopora
      • green/brown Frogspawn Coral
      • green Elegance Coral with blue tip
      • red Brain Coral that bleached
      • green Frogspawn Coral
      • green Plate Coral
      • orange Plate Coral
    • Mushrooms
      • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
      • red mushroom
      • green mushroom
    • Soft Corals
      • Chilli Coral
      • Toadstool Leather Mushroom with luminous polyps
      • luminous green Tree Coral
      • pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
      • green Tree Coral
    • Polyps
      • purple Zoas
      • Fiery Red Zoas
      • 5 assorted Zoas
      • 2 green Palythoa
      • 4 types of green Star Polyps and 
      • 3 gold Clove Polyps
      • pink Zoas
      • green base purple skirt Paly
      • green base brown skirt Zoas
      • orange Zoas
      • Sympodium
      • Organ Pipe Coral with sea squirts
  • Macroalgae (in sump)
    • red Bamboo
    • green Bubble algae
    The technical details are:
    • Jecod Marine DC Pump DCS-7000 return pump
    • Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD
    • Sanrise Aqua Pro (without wifi) 30 cm
    • Hailea HS-66A chiller
    • Skimz SN143 skimmer
    • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
    • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running NP reducing biopellets
    • Jebao Cross Flow CP 25
    • Jebao WP 25 Wavemaker
    • Tunze Nano Osmolator
    • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing









    Thursday, February 2, 2017

    49 MONTHS 1 DAY

    This past month was spent working late into the night and on an overseas trip. I barely had enough time to recover from the lack of sleep. Even last night I was at work until past midnight. So this is the only time that I am posting the monthly update late.

    Anyway, it is also because I had no time to do anything to my aquarium or acquire any livestock, I have nothing much to update other than the skimmer pump broke down again, and it is past the warranty period now.

    Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
    The livestock update is as follows:
    • Fishes
      • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
      • Flame Angel
      • 2 Royal Grammas
      • Yellow Clown Goby
      • Yellow Tang
      • 2 False Clown Fish
    • Invertebrates
      • Turbo and Nassarius snails
      • 3+1 Sea Urchins
    • Corals
      • SPS
        • Horn Coral
        • 2 green Poccillopora and 3 frags
        • orange Cyphastrea
        • red Acropora digitata and 4 frags
        • 2 green Poccillopora frags
        • red Montipora
        • red/brown Poccillopora
        • 2 pink Birdnest
        • green branching Stylophora
        • beige/purple Montipora plate
        • blue Acropora browned out
        • Acropora valida
        • 2 Radioactive Birdnest frags
        • red Montipora plate
      • LPS
        • Hammer Coral (purple green)
        • green Candy Cane
        • Duncan Coral
        • yellow Torch Coral with one head left
        • Bubble Coral
        • green Goniopora
        • green/brown Frogspawn Coral
        • green Elegance Coral with blue tip
        • red Brain Coral that bleached
        • green Frogspawn Coral
        • green Plate Coral
        • orange Plate Coral
      • Mushrooms
        • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
        • red mushroom
        • green mushroom
      • Soft Corals
        • Chilli Coral
        • Toadstool Leather Mushroom with luminous polyps
        • luminous green Tree Coral
        • pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
        • green Tree Coral
      • Polyps
        • purple Zoas
        • Fiery Red Zoas
        • 5 assorted Zoas
        • 2 green Palythoa
        • 4 types of green Star Polyps and 
        • 3 gold Clove Polyps
        • pink Zoas
        • green base purple skirt Paly
        • green base brown skirt Zoas
        • orange Zoas
        • Sympodium
        • Organ Pipe Coral with sea squirts
    • Macroalgae (in sump)
      • red Bamboo
      • green Bubble algae
      The technical details are:
      • Jecod Marine DC Pump DCS-7000 return pump
      • Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD
      • Sanrise Aqua Pro (without wifi) 30 cm
      • Hailea HS-66A chiller
      • Skimz SN143 skimmer
      • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
      • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running NP reducing biopellets
      • Jebao Cross Flow CP 25
      • Jebao WP 25 Wavemaker
      • Tunze Nano Osmolator
      • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing