May was such a busy month that I did almost 2 weeks of daily day and night works without any time to post the monthly update. This is the first time in all these years that I delayed the posting!
It was also a frustrating time when I returned home in the wee hours of the morning on 29 May 16 to find my Aqua Illumination light was completely off! Given the cost and good reviews, I had so much hopes of this light and it seemed some of my SPS were just starting to colour up.
I only had this light since 12 Apr 16 for less than 2 months and this had to happen to me. I checked all the connections and the transformer was warm to the touch but the main lights and the green signal lights were off. Despite several attempts to connect and disconnect the power sources and changing the power points, it didn't light up. I only managed to send it to Razali of De-aquatic, where I purchased the lights, for repair on 30 May 16 and sadly, he said all stocks of AI Hydra are completely out until possibly 2 months later. According to him, the transformer rarely burns out and I must be one unlucky customer! Imagine using it for less than 2 months and I have to wait another 2 months to get it back. This really sucks big time.
So, I am relying on my Sanrise Aqua Pro lights to do the arduous task to illuminate the entire 3 feet aquarium until the AI light is repaired.
NB: I received an SMS on 7 Jun 16 that my lights were ready for collection and collected it on 8 Jun 16 (Wed).
Things are more colourful this month than the last, I think. I added a small Camel Shrimp to the community but the Maroon Clownfish is still the only fish left.
The livestock are:
- Fishes
- Golden Maroon Clown
- Invertebrates
- Turbo Snails
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Camel Shrimp
- Corals
- LPS
- Supersun Coral
- Fox Coral
- Hammer Coral (light purple green)
- Soft Corals
- 2 pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
- cyan Tree Coral
- pulsing Xenia
- Polyps
- green Palythoa
- Zoas
- green Star Polyps
- 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
- AOL 60 litres chiller
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
- Fishes
- 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
- Flame Angel
- Regal Blue Tang
- Orange Striped Prawn Goby
- True Percula Clown
- Royal Gramma
- Yellow Clown Goby
- Yellow Wrasse
- Majestic Angel
- Invertebrates
- Turbo and Nassarius snails
- 2 Tuxedo Urchins
- Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
- Golden Stenopus Shrimp
- Corals
- SPS
- Horn Coral
- green Poccillopora
- orange Cyphastrea
- red Acropora digitata
- green Poccillopora - 2 frags
- unknown green
- green Acropora digitata
- 2 unknown Acropora
- red/brown Poccillopora
- red Millepora
- brown with blue-tip Millepora frags
- green deep sea Acropora
- Forest Fire Acropora digitata
- pink Birdnest
- red Acropora digitata frag
- Acropora valida frag
- green/pink Acropora
- green/blue Acropora
- green/pink Millepora
- LPS
- Hammer Coral (purple green)
- green Candy Cane
- Duncan Coral
- yellow Torch Coral that turned green (left 2 heads)
- Bubble Coral
- Mushrooms
- green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- red mushroom
- green mushroom
- blue mushroom
- Soft Corals
- Chilli Coral
- Toadstool Leather Mushroom
- luminous green Tree Coral
- Polyps
- purple Zoas
- Fiery Red Zoas
- 5 assorted Zoas
- 2 green Palythoa
- 3 green Star Polyps
- 2 Clove Polyps (2 gold)
- pink Zoas
- green base purple skirt Paly
- green base brown skirt Zoas
- Macroalgae (in sump)
- Chaetomorpha
- red Bamboo
- green Bubble algae
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Aqua Illumination Hydra 52 HD
- Sanrise Aqua Pro (without wifi) 30 cm
- Hailea HS-66A chiller
- Skimz skimmer
- Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
- Maxspect Gyre
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
