DAYS 85-89

With a new tank comes new opportunities and challenges. Usually the scaping design that is planned in the mind is derailed when you visit the local fish shops (lfs) and find livestock that you would love to add to the tank. Such are the perils of this hobby.

The monthly update is coming up soon but before that, these are some recent photos of the old tank, which I would need to rescape with the additional purchases, and partially scaped new tank, where I transferred some corals from the old tank to.

By the way, one of the horses died today and I'm afraid the rest would end up the same since all my attempts to feed them were futile.

DAY 12

In this post, the top half of the photos was illuminated with my existing 2 14W, 12,000k lights. In the second part, I turned on my new LED lights with 4 10,000k and 2 actinic blue partially and switched off the former towards the end.

Oh yes, the tank obviously looked different because I added the following:

• a plate of mini Zoanthids
• 2 stalks of Green Star Polyps (GSP)
• an unknown soft coral
• a Xenia at the corner
• 3 Turbo snails
• a live rock with Caulerpa and a Chaetomorpha in an old fish breeding container

I know I probably shouldn't stock the aquarium so quickly and one can tell my impatience from all these because I just couldn't wait any longer. Anyway, the Xenia looked like it was gone but I placed it in a corner with good flow and hope it would recover. If it is dead, it would definitely pollute the water significantly. One GSP opened up a bit while the other remained close. I actually wanted 3 Nassarius snails but they gave me 3 Turbo instead. I threw all of them in without acclimatizing them and for a while I was worried because they didn't seem to move at all except occasionally. Hopefully, they would do a good job of cleaning up the tank of hair algae. I got the Caulerpa first then managed to get the Chaetomorpha subsequently to help with nitrate export.

I was checking out the Clown Fishes and Six-Line Wrasses in the local fish shop (LFS) because I love both but ended up not buying any of them since the staff were busy. Well, at least I managed to curb myself and left the place before I succumbed to temptation again.