38 MONTHS

It's 2 months into the new year but nothing much happened this month because I was still kind of caught up with other stuff.

Aquarium 1  (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I haven't managed to get the chiller for this aquarium, so it is status-quo for this aquarium and I won't post any photos.

The livestock are:

• Fishes
• False Percula Clownfish
• 2 Fire Gobies
• Invertebrates
• Turbo Snails
• Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
• Corals
• LPS
• 2 Supersun Corals
• Macroalgae
• green Algae
• Chaetomorpha algae

The technical information is as follows:

• Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter
• Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K)
• Tunze Nano Osmolator

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

This month, I lost the Yellow Tang, one of my favourite solid colour fishes which added a beautiful yellow to the other bluish aquarium. I will not be replacing it for the time being because of the existing Purple Tang. The Rose Bud Tip Anemone is a threat to the other fishes now and measures about 8-10 cm across.

Something happened to the doser, which I was totally clueless for a while, until I realized the water level in the dosing container didn't drop. Well, I managed to get it back up but the kH level has dropped really low. I measured it on 28 Feb 16 and it read 5.5, so I need to raise it to at least 8.

The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:

• Fishes
• Purple Tang
• 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
• Flame Angel
• Regal Blue Tang
• Orange Striped Prawn Goby
• True Percula Clown
• Golden Maroon Clown
• Royal Gramma
• Yellow Clown Goby
• Invertebrates
• Turbo and Nassarius snails
• 2 Tuxedo Urchins
• Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
• Golden Stenopus Shrimp
• Corals
• SPS
• Horn Coral
• Poccillopora
• orange Cyphastrea
• Red Planet
• red Acropora digitata
• green Poccillopora
• unknown green
• 3 Radioactive Bird Nest frags
• Bird Nest frag
• green Acropora digitata
• 2 unknown Acropora
• pink tabling Millepora
• Stylophora
• smooth-skinned deep water Acropora suharsonoi
• LPS
• Hammer Corals (purple green)
• green Candy Cane
• Duncan Coral
• Fox Coral
• yellow Torch Coral
• Mushrooms
• orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
• green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
• red mushroom
• green mushroom
• blue mushroom
• Soft Corals
• Chilli Coral
• pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
• Toadstool Leather Mushroom
• luminous green Tree Coral
• pulsing Xenia
• Polyps
• purple Zoas
• Fiery Red Zoas
• 5 assorted Zoas
• 2 green Palythoa
• 3 green Star Polyps
• 2 Clove Polyps (2 gold)
• 3 Daisy Polyps (brown and 2 green eyes)
• 15 frag plugs of Zoas
• pink Zoas
• green base purple skirt Paly
• green base brown skirt Zoas
• Macroalgae (in sump)
• Chaetomorpha
• red Bamboo
• green Bubble algae

The technical details are:

• Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
• Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
• Solite 2 x 24W T5 lights
• Hailea HS-66A chiller
• Skimz skimmer
• Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
• Maxspect Gyre and RW-8 wavemaker
• Tunze Nano Osmolator
• Marine Magic Triplet Dosing

FTS

I don't know if this tabling Millepora will make it 

the pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone (top left corner)

Acorpora suharsonoi (top right corner)

top view of left side

top view of center

I switched off the pumps and the fishes thought it was feeding time

they were all looking for food

they were still not giving up

the right side

the new Sea Urchin

the best SPS I have - Poccillopora

the Clove Polyps and Green Star Polyps

the luminous Tree Coral I bought from Taiwan has grown so much

the yellow Torch Coral with a dead head

the Yellow Goby on the Acropora suharsonoi

DAY 317

After leaving the blue lights on for some time, I still found most of the sps showing poor polyps extension and colour. So I finally switched on the white lights and due to the sudden increase in white lights, the sps and some of my Yuma mushrooms bleached out.

Initially, I ruled out high phosphates as the possibility since I added lots of new Rowaphos in the Phosban Reactor. However, I still found lots of algae growth and turning on the white lights made it worse. Even my Clove Polyps were covered with lots of strands of green filamentous algae and refused to open up. Without a Yellow Tang, it does appear that the phosphates is an issue that I need to address.