my reef GARden frenzY: hammer

Saturday, April 1, 2017

51 MONTHS

A quarter of the year is officially gone and I have almost come to a halt when it involves visiting the lfs. This post is a day late.

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)

My aquarium is almost fully stocked and I don't have room for more stuff, much as I want to. I am not in a hurry to replace my lost hammer coral etc and prefer to look out for something good. I suspect that my other gsp is dead since no polyps have appeared since 2 weeks ago.

Since losing my beautiful Flame Angel, I managed to introduce a pair of them on 16 Mar 17 into the aquarium. As they were introduced at the same time, there was minimal aggression when the slightly bigger one went after the smaller fella but it managed to either fight back or swam away. They have also started to eat pellet food.

The green bubble algae was so irritating so I cleared most of it.

The livestock update is as follows:

Fishes

2 Blue-yellow Damsels
2 Royal Grammas
Yellow Clown Goby
Yellow Tang
2 False Clown Fish
2 Flame Angels

Invertebrates

Turbo and Nassarius snails
3+1 Sea Urchins

Corals

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

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

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
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

the gsp that I suspects to be dead

I rotated this Pocci around, hopefully the bare corner will grow back

the only new Acropora bought in March

the brown polyps Stylophora turned green when I moved it towards the Hydra 52 HD

some parts of this Pocci are dead

the unknown red algae is growing slowly

the Sympodium recovered too

I am curious to see what colour develops from this Acropora

Thursday, April 14, 2016

39 MONTHS 4, 10, 11 AND 13 DAYS

I bought the Aqua Sanrise led lights sometime ago and tried it on aquarium 1 previously but stopped using it because I didn't like the non-manual function of it then.

But as I was free recently, I tried it out on aquarium 3 and I was bowled over by the lights. There are the red and green lights which are not found on my Maxspect lights, which in comparison look too blue. The Sanrise has a more vibrant colour to it when shone on the corals but it remains to be seen whether the corals will look more better over time given the additional irradiation of other coloured lights.

Anyway, I transferred the Clown Fish from aquarium 1 to aquarium 3 a few days back but it was missing since a few days ago and I am afraid it is dead somewhere.

On a positive note, I got hold of the new Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD and I can't believe I actually did it. Hopefully, this is a worthwhile investment for great looking sps and I put up the Maxspect for sale on the forum but so far, there are no takers yet.