FOUR MONTHS

I am already one day late in providing the update for the fourth month.

The photos shown here before 1 May 13 are no longer relevant. Both tanks look kind of empty in certain areas and I am looking forward to adding new stuff to both aquariums.

Meanwhile, this is the updated information on the 2 tanks:

Tank 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
One thing that really irks me is the thick protruding inlet tube of the Atman hang-on-filter on the left of the fts because it obscures the frontal view. Purple coraline algae has colonised aboyt 20% of the tube, and that is one reason stopping me from doing something about the filter.

I am waiting to add the Sexy Shrimps and the current fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae are:

• 1 Clown Fish (Candy)
• 1 Hector's Goby (Hector)
• 1 Six Line Wrasse (Wendy)
• 1 Blue Neon Goby (Bernard)
• 1 Red Spotted Goby (Ralph, I haven't seen it for a few days now)
• 1 Cleaner Skunk Shrimp (Chris)
• 1 red and white Pistol Shrimp (Paul)
• 1 Pom Pom Crab (Penelope)
• 2 Turbo Snails
• 2 Nassarius Snails
• 1 small Yellow Cucumber
• 1 Coco-worm (Coco)
• 3 big and 2 small (yellow and red) Feather Duster Worms
• 3 pieces of Green Star Polyps and 1 mat of gsp
• 1 pink Sun Coral
• 1 red Acan Brain Coral
• 2 frags of green Palm Tree Coral
• 1 frag of orange Palm Tree Coral
• 1 fluorescent Goniopora with white eye
• 1 fluorescent Goniopora with pink eye
• 1 rock of brown Daisy (Clove) Polyps
• 2 plates of red Actinodiscus mushrooms (1 is bleached)
• 1 plate of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
• 1 plate of Ricordea mushrooms
• 2 orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms (1 from office tank)
• 1 frag of green Zoanthus (cannot find 1 frag)
• 1 plate of Sympodium Coral (not opened completely)
• 1 rock of red bamboo macroalgae, 1 plate of red wavy macroalgae (Ulva) and 2 clumps of red branched macroalgae

The casualties are:

• 1 Diagonal Bar Goby - never see after introduction into tank
• 10 Sexy Shrimps
• 1 Turbo Snail
• 1 branched Goniopora
• 1 Acropora Coral

The technical information is as follows:

• 1 Ocean Free Super Hang-On Filter 2
• 1 Atman HF-0600 hang-on-back filter
• 1 Green Element 3W LED light (4 white, 2 blue)
• 1 Tunze Osmolator Nano

Tank 2 (1.5 feet cube - 56 litres)

This tank has gone through a really rough patch and I am still trying to solve the high phosphate problems.

The updated list of fishes, invertebrates etc are:

• 1 Tigertail seahorse
• 2 Banded Pipefish
• 1 Yellow Wrasse (Yogi)
• 1 Six Line Wrasse (Selena)
• 1 Hector's Goby (Henry)
• 1 Fire Shrimp (Felicia from tank 1)
• 7 Turbo snails
• 2 Nassarius snails
• 2 electric blue and 1 red Hermit Crabs
• 1 big and 1 small (yellow) Feather Duster Worm
• 1 purple Clam
• 1 orange Sun Coral (from tank 1)
• 1 rock of Xenia
• 1 red Goniopora with pink eye (from tank 1)
• 1 rock of fluorescent green and blue Goniopora
• 1 Elegance Coral
• 1 fluorescent Bubble Coral
• 1 rock of Finger Mushroom Coral
• 1 branched Candy Cane (from office tank)
• 1 Leather Coral (from office tank)
• 1 pink Cauliflower Tree Coral (from tank 1)
• 1 Coco Worm (Camelia)
• 2 rocks of Chili Corals
• 1 rock of Clove Polyps
• 1 rock, 2 plates and 6 plugs of Zoanthus
• 1 mat of Green Star Polyps
• 1 rock of Green Star Polyps (covered with nuisance algae and growing Halimeda macroalgae)
• 2 green Ricordea mushrooms
• 1 branch of Rhodactis mushrooms (from tank 1)
• 2 frags of orange Palm Tree Corals
• 1 red Bamboo, 1 big and 1 small (from tank 1) red Bubble macroalgae and 1 red branched macroalgae

The casualties are:

• 2 Tigertail Seahorses
• 2 red spotted Gobies (never spotted them after the introduction)
• 1 blue Neon Goby and 1 yellow Neon Goby (quarantined in Satellite breeding box but died)
• 1 Banded Pipefish
• 2 Turbo Snails
• 1 salmon Tree Coral
• 1 Tree/Stick Coral (regained fluorescence slightly but died subsequently)
• 1 branched Sun Coral (from tank 1 but removed subsequently)
• 1 purple Rhodactis mushroom
• 2 red mushrooms
• 1 green feather Caulerpa 
• 1 green bubble Caulerpa

The technical details are:

• Eheim 2213 external canister filter
• Tunze 9004 skimmer
• Green Element LED (12 white 12000k and 8 blue 460 nm)
• 1 Sunon fan
• 1 wavemaker
• 1 Satellite breeding box

DAYS 50-53

These are some of the photos taken on days 50-53 before more changes to the layout were done.

The Palm Tree Coral, Yellow Polyps, Candy Cane Coral, Ricordea mushrooms, Stick Coral, Sun Coral were still performing fine. Penny always comes out waving its arms in the water, as if asking for attention, whenever I dose the tank with microplankton etc. I am glad the green Button Polyps were opening up.