Showing posts with label gsp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gsp. Show all posts

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
    • SPS
      • 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
    • LPS
      • 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










    Friday, September 30, 2016

    45 MONTHS

    I was away for 9 days early this month and when I returned home, everything was pretty fine except for algae growth on the glass and rocks. 

    Aquarium 1 (1 feet cube - 27 litres)
    In recent days, I have thoughts of shutting this down but when I introduced the small clowns to aquarium 3, the Tomato Clown chased after the one that was first introduced so the deal was off, for now. In fact, I just transferred a few fishes from the office aquarium to here and now it seems quite overcrowded.

    The livestock are:
    • Fishes
      • 3 common Clown Fishes
      • Blue Lipped Angel Fish
      • Royal Gramma
      • 2 Blue Damsels
    • Invertebrates
      • Turbo Snails
      • Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
      • 2 Camel Shrimps
      • Sea Urchin
    • Corals
      • LPS
        • Supersun Coral
        • Fox Coral
      • Soft Corals
        • cyan Tree Coral
        • pulsing Xenia
        • pink anemone
      • Polyps
        • green Palythoa
        • Zoas
        • green Star Polyps
    The technical information is as follows:
    • Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter
    • Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K)
    • Tunze Nano Osmolator
    • AOL 60 litres chiller



    the Camel Shrimp from office

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    the 2 Blue Damsels from office



    the Blue Lipped Angel Fish

    the new Royal Gramma






    Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
    I lost 2 deep sea or smooth-skin Acroporas and 2 other Acropora and Millepora to rapid tissue necrosis (rtn) but the aquarium looked more colourful than ever. I also found the Green Star Polyps killed off part of my Strawberry Shortcake and cyan Acropora.

    Before I went on the trip, the AI 52 HD lights gave me some slight problems but when I came back, it was fine. However, the replacement Jebao cross flow CP 25 wavemaker broke down and fortunately I had the electrical transformer replaced yesterday.

    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
      • Tomato Clown
      • Yellow Wrasse
      • Golden Maroon Clown
    • 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
        • red Montipora
        • red/brown Poccillopora
        • pink Birdnest
        • green branching Stylophora
        • red Acropora digitata frag
        • green/pink Acropora
        • green/blue Acropora
        • purple Montipora plate
        • blue Acropora
        • cyan Acropora
        • pink sps
        • Acropora valida
        • strawberry shortcake Acropora
        • dark purple Acropora
        • Radioactive Birdnest
        • red Montipora plate
      • LPS
        • Hammer Coral (purple green)
        • green Candy Cane
        • Duncan Coral
        • yellow Torch Coral that turned green (left 2 heads)
        • Bubble Coral
        • Goniopora
        • green Brain Coral
        • green Elegance Coral
      • Mushrooms
        • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
        • red mushroom
        • green mushroom
        • blue mushroom
      • Soft Corals
        • Chilli Coral
        • Toadstool Leather Mushroom
        • luminous green Tree Coral
        • pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone
      • Polyps
        • purple Zoas
        • Fiery Red Zoas
        • 5 assorted Zoas
        • 2 green Palythoa
        • 3 green Star Polyps
        • 3 gold Clove Polyps
        • pink Zoas
        • green base purple skirt Paly
        • green base brown skirt Zoas
        • orange Zoas
    • Macroalgae (in sump)
      • Chaetomorpha
      • red Bamboo
      • green Bubble algae
      The technical details are:
      • Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 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 Phosguard
      • Maxspect Gyre
      • Jebao Cross Flow CP 25 
      • Tunze Nano Osmolator
      • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
      the newcomers

      the new Birdnest

      the new Brain

      the new Acropora



      the Blue Tang is getting so big




      this Millepora died because of rtn

      the Elegance Coral

      a recovering Acropora

      the Acropora digitata from Taiwan

      the cyan Acropora





















      the rose bud tip anemone

      the Royal Gramma with scars on his dorsal fin area