Showing posts with label stylophora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stylophora. 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










    Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    38 MONTHS

    It's 2 months into the new year but nothing much happened this month because I was still kind of caught up with other stuff.

    Aquarium 1  (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
    I haven't managed to get the chiller for this aquarium, so it is status-quo for this aquarium and I won't post any photos.

    The livestock are:
    • Fishes
      • False Percula Clownfish
      • 2 Fire Gobies
    • Invertebrates
      • Turbo Snails
      • Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
    • Corals
      • LPS
        • 2 Supersun Corals
    • 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


      Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
      This month, I lost the Yellow Tang, one of my favourite solid colour fishes which added a beautiful yellow to the other bluish aquarium. I will not be replacing it for the time being because of the existing Purple Tang. The Rose Bud Tip Anemone is a threat to the other fishes now and measures about 8-10 cm across.

      Something happened to the doser, which I was totally clueless for a while, until I realized the water level in the dosing container didn't drop. Well, I managed to get it back up but the kH level has dropped really low. I measured it on 28 Feb 16 and it read 5.5, so I need to raise it to at least 8.

      The monthly updated list of livestock is as follows:
      • Fishes
        • Purple Tang
        • 2 Blue-yellow Damsels
        • Flame Angel
        • Regal Blue Tang
        • Orange Striped Prawn Goby
        • True Percula Clown
        • Golden Maroon Clown
        • Royal Gramma
        • Yellow Clown Goby
      • Invertebrates
        • Turbo and Nassarius snails
        • 2 Tuxedo Urchins
        • Cleaner Skunk Shrimp
        • Golden Stenopus Shrimp
      • Corals
        • SPS
          • Horn Coral
          • Poccillopora
          • orange Cyphastrea
          • Red Planet
          • red Acropora digitata
          • green Poccillopora
          • unknown green
          • 3 Radioactive Bird Nest frags
          • Bird Nest frag
          • green Acropora digitata
          • 2 unknown Acropora
          • pink tabling Millepora
          • Stylophora
          • smooth-skinned deep water Acropora suharsonoi
        • LPS
          • Hammer Corals (purple green)
          • green Candy Cane
          • Duncan Coral
          • Fox Coral
          • yellow Torch Coral
        • Mushrooms
          • orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
          • green Ricordea yuma mushrooms
          • red mushroom
          • green mushroom
          • blue mushroom
        • Soft Corals
          • Chilli Coral
          • pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
          • Toadstool Leather Mushroom
          • luminous green Tree Coral
          • pulsing Xenia
        • Polyps
          • purple Zoas
          • Fiery Red Zoas
          • 5 assorted Zoas
          • 2 green Palythoa
          • 3 green Star Polyps
          • 2 Clove Polyps (2 gold)
          • 3 Daisy Polyps (brown and 2 green eyes)
          • 15 frag plugs of Zoas
          • pink Zoas
          • green base purple skirt Paly
          • green base brown skirt Zoas
      • Macroalgae (in sump)
        • Chaetomorpha
        • red Bamboo
        • green Bubble algae
        The technical details are:
        • Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
        • Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
        • Solite 2 x 24W T5 lights
        • Hailea HS-66A chiller
        • Skimz skimmer
        • Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosguard
        • Maxspect Gyre and RW-8 wavemaker
        • Tunze Nano Osmolator
        • Marine Magic Triplet Dosing
        FTS




        I don't know if this tabling Millepora will make it 

        the pink Rose Bud Tip Anemone (top left corner)

        Acorpora suharsonoi (top right corner)

        top view of left side

        top view of center

        I switched off the pumps and the fishes thought it was feeding time



        they were all looking for food



        they were still not giving up








        the right side


        the new Sea Urchin

        the best SPS I have - Poccillopora

        the Clove Polyps and Green Star Polyps


        the luminous Tree Coral I bought from Taiwan has grown so much

        the yellow Torch Coral with a dead head

        the Yellow Goby on the Acropora suharsonoi