Today, the aquarium is still recovering from the aftermath. I couldn't believe that it didn't occur to me to replace my phosphate remover media when the algae overtook everything but now the algae is more in control.
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
I rescaped some of the rocks recently to give more space for the water to flow through them instead of covering every possible opening between the rocks.
The livestock update is as follows:
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
- 2+1 Sea Urchins
- Corals
- SPS
- Horn Coral
- 3 green Poccillopora frags
- orange Cyphastrea
- red Acropora digitata and multiple frags
- red Montipora
- 2 pink Birdnest
- beige/purple Montipora plate
- Acropora valida frags
- red Montipora plate
- green Acropora digitata
- green Acropora frag
- purple polyps Acropora digitata
- green Pocci frag
- unknown Acropora (smooth-skinned sps)
- LPS
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- yellow Torch Coral
- green Elegance Coral with blue tip
- green Frogspawn 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
- brown Tree Coral
- Polyps
- purple Zoas
- Fiery Red Zoas
- 2 green Palythoa
- green Star Polyps
- 3 gold Clove Polyps
- pink Zoas
- green base purple skirt Paly
- green base brown skirt Zoas
- orange Zoas
- Sympodium
- Zoas rock and frags
- green Clove Polyps
- Macroalgae (in sump)
- red Bamboo
- unknown red algae
- 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
the sad state of the aquarium |
a recovering green Pocci with dead parts with brown algae |
another green Pocci frag |
partially dead red A digitata |
the pink Birdnest overgrown with algae |
the second unrecognizable pink Birdnest |
the third lime green Pocci and what's left of the big clump of Pocci |
3 different A digitata and a green Clove Polyps |
one of two green Palythoas which are doing well |
a fast growing colony of Nuclear Green Zoas |
unknown red Montipora plate |
an island of frags and Zoas |
the new purple A digitata |
brown Tree Coral |
white Tree Coral |
clumps of nuisance hair algae |
a new unknown Acropora |
a new green Pocci frag |