Here are the livestock and technical updates and photos:
Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
I had no time to clean this aquarium this month, so it looked really dirty. However, I am really amazed that this aquarium supports 5 fishes. Sadly, the 2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps suddenly disappeared without my knowledge and I suspect it had something to do with the less than ideal water conditions and they were eaten up. The clam also died mysteriously. This aquarium also saw the resurgence of the purple algae.
The list of livestock is as follows:
- Fishes
- Flameback Angel
- Yellow Shrimp Goby
- 2 true Percula ocellaris clowns
- Hector Goby
- Invertebrates
- big red Hermit Crab
- 3 Turbo Snails
- Nassarius Snail
- Corals
- LPS
- 3 bleached Acans
- mega Blasto
- Soft Corals
- Rose Bud Tip Anemone
- Polyps
- unknown green coral
- Green Star Polyps
- Mushrooms
- a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- a few green Rhodactis mushrooms
- Macroalgae
- green Caulerpa
- red algae
- purple algae
- Dolphin H-200 hang-on-back filter
- Shiruba XB-303 External Filter
- Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000 K)
- Tunze Osmolator Nano
- Aqua Cool Fan
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| it looks unappealing |
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| the colours come from the fishes |
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| thank goodness this is doing fine |
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| the red and purple algae |
Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
Just when I thought I made some headway last month, things seemed to go on the decline again.
I lost the Flame, Potter and Regal Angels, and the Dispar Anthias, then my Stylophora and Birdnest SPS started to show stn. My Yellow Tang also disappeared a few days ago and I am pretty sure it is dead.
The other SPS frags which I bought were mostly fine though.
The updated list of livestock is:
- Fishes
- false Percula Clown Fish
- 2 black Clowns
- Purple Tang
- Blue-yellow Damsel
- Six Line Wrasse
- Yellow Wrasse
- Invertebrates
- Turbo, Nassarius and Bumble Bee snails
- electric blue Hermit Crab
- red Linckia starfish
- big grey Feather Duster worm
- Tuxedo Urchin
- 4 small Hermit Crabs
- Corals
- SPS
- 2 orange digitata frags
- yellow Birdnest (with stn)
- Monti cap
- 2 Stylophora (with stn)
- Horn Coral
- pink Millepora
- frag of green digitata
- frag of pink Pocci
- frag of Birdnest
- frag of pink Birdnest
- frag of red Monti cap
- frag of deep sea Acro
- LPS
- 1 Acan (bleached)
- 2 Hammer Corals
- 2 Bubble Corals
- Sun Coral
- Supersun Coral
- Torch
- red Brain Coral
- green Brain Coral
- red green Favites Brain Coral
- Mushrooms
- Ricordea yuma mushrooms
- rock of blue Actinodiscus mushrooms
- brown hairy mushrooms
- Soft Corals
- 2 Chili Corals
- red Flower Rock Anemone (bleached)
- pink rose bud tip anemone
- Polyps
- mixture of Zoas
- pink Goniopora
- 2 green Star Polyps
- Macroalgae
- Caulerpa
- Chaetomorpha
- red Bamboo
- Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
- Maxspect R420R 16,000k 120W
- ATI Sun Module 4 x 39W T5 lights
- Tunze 9004 Nano Skimmer
- 2 Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
- Dymax cooling fan (42 CFM)
- Fluval 3 external filter
- MP25 and RW-8 wavemaker
- Tunze Nano Osmolator
- Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
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| almost a fts |
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| the Stylophora and Birdnest with stn |
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| a brownish looking Pocci |
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| the green digitata frag |
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| Horn Coral from Aquamarin |
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| a beauitful Birdnest with good pe |
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| one of two Hammer Corals |
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| all the colours are washed out |
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| similarly, a Stylophora and Birdnest with stn |
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| this small Birdnest showed stn from the base up |
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| the only Zoas |
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| the Stylophora close up |
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| the deep sea Acro |
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| the pink Pocci frag |
