On day 9, the water was sparkling clear, as evident by some of the photos posted here.
The tank looks kind of boring to me and I need to go on my hunt for more colourful corals soon.
By the way, today when I came back from work, the water looked cloudy and the zoanthids were not opening up. Has it got anything to do with the feeding I performed yesterday? I read the reviews and will stop using the Marina Snow product since there were a lot of negative comments on it. Well, I guess I will wait one more day and see.
Day 3 was exciting because I managed to buy a $23 bigger tank that I was thinking of and some other materials. Compared to the earlier one which was all of 10 litres, this one measures 30 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm and has a capacity of 27 litres.
So, I dumped in two bags of washed marine sand and transferred the 3 live rocks and corals over. The water was still slightly cloudy though.
By day 5, the water cleared up but most of the mushrooms didn't make it. The Kenya Tree Coral was a sorry mess that seemed doomed. On the skeleton that was once a coral were a number of small filter feeding organisms. My camera wasn't able to capture them well but they were apparent by their white circle around them and their 2-dimensional filtering fans.
NB on 11 Jan 13: The mystery is solved. The fan-like filter feeding creatures are actually barnacles. Cool!
I finally managed to buy quite a number of things yesterday at Wong Loy Kee Aquarium at Blk 1 Sago Lane (Chinatown), including the following:
- Tropic Marin salt 4 kg
- sand which I did not use because it seems a tad too coarse to my liking
- Ocean Free Super Hang On Filter size 2 (650 litres/hour)
- 1 live rock, 1 mushroom coral on rock, 1 pink soft coral on rock
Day 1
Anyway, I set up the tank last night before the new year and the water was crystal clear. I am a very impatient person and bought the 3 rocks. I would have added a small clown fish if the shop had it. There were a number of yellow tail blue damsels but I refrained from buying it because my priority is a small clown. I also did not use the sand in case I can buy a slightly bigger tank in the next few days.
Day 2
The water turned slightly cloudy today and the mushroom and pink coral appeared stressed. In fact, the latter looked so dejected like it is dying. I hope it is because of the proliferation of bacteria after I added the Ocean Free Super Bacteria last night. I mean I tested the water and it was free of ammonia and nitrate. Frankly, I am not too worried about the ammonia and nitrite because I am confident the live rock and bacteria would take care of it. I felt tempted to buy a cleaner shrimp yesterday but I guess I did the right thing. Otherwise it would probably have been dead by now.
Anyway, I will wait it out and see how things go over the next few days. However, I tried to go to the aquarium shop that I knew of at Lavender Street on Saturday but I couldn't find it. I googled it but found that the phone number was no longer in use. I guess it must have closed shop although it was a good place to buy marine fishes and corals around the town area.
