43 MONTHS 5 DAYS

the intense green Acropora

As I acquired a few sps yesterday, I thought it might be good for me to show it here before I forget all about it. Unfortunately, I do think the aquarium that I see in person looked better than in the photos here. Somehow, the iphone camera couldn't pick up what I really see.

an early Acropora frag that I saved from a parent colony with stn

one of my favourite Acropora now with pinkish green body

a FTS that looked kind of empty but better in person

the right side

the left side

a browned out Millepora that I bought from Iwarna yesterday

one of 3 new sps I bought yesterday

the second new sps

the third one with a relocated Duncan coral far far away from the gsp

a pinkish Acropora frag

the top view of the right side

the supposedly browned out Millepora which I hope will colour up

I feel this sps has potential to look great! we shall see

close-up of this Acropora

a relocated green Pocci

the Acropora with a green base and more polyps extension

the Acropora valida is still small

a relocated Goniopora is now opening up happily

my big Royal Gramma in front of my only pink Acropora digitata from Taiwan!

a different gsp

my only growing plating Montipora with a green Acropora

i also shifted this large hammer coral

a new Zoas rock which is hard to see from here

I wonder if a black background would look better?

top view

the same Zoas rock seen from the top with blue Zoas

the Taiwan mushroom coral with other Acropora and Pocci frags

33 MONTHS 7 AND 10 DAYS

the right is dead, possibly because it was next to the wavemaker

Ok, I must admit now that the chiller does seem to have some effect on some of the SPS. Although I lost some SPS recently, I attributed it more to my negligence and poor husbandry when I was caught up with other stuff to spend time on them.

I lost a number of LPS too, such as the bubble corals, golden hammer, octo coral. My guess for their demise is I placed them on the sand bed and the bully maroon clown loves to agitate the sand and create sandstorms in its territory, causing them to constantly be covered with sand.

For these two weeks, I was battling a diatoms problem and didn't know what was wrong until yesterday when I found a disintegrated leather coral in my sump, which emitted a rotten egg smell, which I suspected to be hydrogen sulphide. Thank goodness I siphoned out much of the debris and detritus and changed almost 2 pails of water and all live stock are fine when they look really stressed out yesterday.

Anyway, these are some photos taken a couple of days ago.

the left side looks perfectly fine

I couldn't believe how much this digitata grew until I looked at the June photos

more close-ups of the polyps extension

this photo doesn't do justice to the actual colours of this Cyphastrea

a newly acquired green digitata

the same pocci under blue lights

a top view showing a number of zoas colonies

one of two newly acquired Radioactive Bird Nest

an unknown SPS from Ah Beng

I didn't know what was wrong until I realized they are not all with 8 tentacles

another beautiful newly acquired cyan digitata

this bubble tip anemone recovered its colours and anchored itself on the glass

the fluorescent Coral Tree has more than doubled its size since June