Monday, May 1, 2017

52 MONTHS 1 DAY

I am posting this a day late because I worked late on Fri and Sat nights till 7 am and I was catching up on some sleep.

Anyway, I came across the following photos and am really tempted and inspired to do this drop cliff reef aquarium next year.


Closer to home, the following is what I own now. This is reality.

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
I am impressed how others maintain their aquariums in pristine condition. I battle scarring of the glass with growth of algae all the time. I don't know how to keep the glass clean all the time.

The green bubble algae is appearing every now and then at some areas, so I can understand why it was recommended not to let it establish itself in the home aquarium. Once it is there, it is hard to get rid of it completely.

The unknown fine red algae suddenly grew fast and covered my Duncan coral, so I had it thinned out.

The livestock update is as follows:
  • Fishes
    • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
    • 2 Royal Grammas
    • Yellow Tang
    • 2 False Clown Fish
    • 2 Flame Angels
  • 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
      • Acropora valida (in 3 separate frags)
      • 2 Radioactive Birdnest frags
      • red Montipora plate
      • fibre optic Poccillopora
      • Acropora (bleached)
      • Acropora
      • unknown birdnest
      • green Acropora digitata
    • LPS
      • green Candy Cane
      • Duncan Coral
      • yellow Torch Coral
      • Bubble Coral
      • green Goniopora
      • green Elegance Coral with blue tip
      • green Frogspawn Coral
      • orange Plate Coral
    • Mushrooms
      • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
      • red mushroom
      • green mushroom
      • blue mushroom
    • Soft Corals
      • Chilli Coral
      • Toadstool Leather Mushroom with luminous polyps
      • luminous green Tree Coral
      • pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
      • green Tree Coral
      • white 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
      • Zoas rock
      • Zoas frag
  • Macroalgae (in sump)
    • red Bamboo
    • unknown red 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 NP reducing biopellets
    • Jebao Cross Flow CP 25
    • Jebao WP 25 Wavemaker
    • Tunze Nano Osmolator
    • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing