my reef GARden frenzY

I made an impulse buy on 1 Apr and bought the Hailea HS-28A (1/10 hp) chiller from Aquamarin.

I was supposed to post the following photos earlier but was too tired and lazy and procrastinated till now to do so because the end of the month is coming soon. I have decided to forego SPS for the time being since I am not doing a good job and to focus on LPS and soft corals etc.

Strangely, my Maxspect Razor Nano blue lights for my Aquarium 1 were burnt out yesterday. I was here when the lights flickered on and off until the blue lights were no longer on. I was playing with all the lights that I have yesterday and cut my left thumb with a pair of scissors and there was blood everywhere. The pain lasted me through the night. I replaced the lights with a simple 18W Green Element lights but it was flickering just now too. I wonder what is the problem?

my yellow Banded Coral Shrimp in my office aquarium

I guess this Bubble Coral is recovering?

one of the two Royal Gramma has disappeared

the Supersun in my home aquarium

close-up of the Supersun

one of three green-purple Gonioporas that I have

photo taken under more white light

another Goniopora

fan worms and Zoas

Elegance and Zoas

FTS with white Aquazonic lights on the left

Aquazonic white lights on the right

one of two Bubble Corals

one of the last SPS that I have

too much blue in the photos

too much white makes it too warm

This is another slow month and I hardly visited many lfs. In fact, I don't even have time to go to the Pasir Ris Farmway area at all.

The updates are presented below.

Aquarium 1 (1 ft cube - 27 litres)
Ok, the Possum Wrasse is still around and for that, I am happy because I was worried it wouldn't have enough things to eat. This is not the first Possum Wrasse I kept so it is kind of special for me.

This aquarium is seriously lacking in colours and I vow to colour it up.

The list of livestock is as follows:

Fishes

2 true Percula ocellaris Clowns
Regal Blue Tang
Possum Wrasse

Invertebrates

3 Turbo Snails
Nassarius Snail
Tuxedo Sea Urchin

Corals

Acan

mega Blasto
Bubble Coral
Duncan Coral

Soft Corals

Rose Bud Tip Anemone and Bud Tip Anemone
White Tree Coral
Orange Tree Coral

Polyps

Anthelia
Zoas
Green Star Polyps

Mushrooms

a few blue Actinodiscus mushrooms

Macroalgae

green Caulerpa
green cup algae
red algae

The technical information is as follows:

Atman HF-0600 HOB Filter

Maxspect Razor Nano 60W (10,000K)

Tunze Osmolator Nano

Boyu Cooling Fan

Aquarium 3 (3 x 1.5 x 1.5 feet and sump - 250 litres)
Somehow, all the Poccis in this aquarium started to go downhill. I do not know the cause but I suspect it's partly due to my neglect in the daily dosing. Most of them are goners now and another possibility is a bleaching event brought about by high temperatures again.

I will also gradually remove the sand because they are causing sand storms every now and then and contributed to some coral deaths when the sand covers them for extensive periods.

I am having problems with my SPS and upon a recent visit to Aquarist Chamber, I saw how beautiful their LPS aquariums are. Perhaps I should just stick to LPS and soft corals for the time being.

By the way, I managed to net the Six Line Wrasse, which was sleeping in a Montipora digitata sps and brought it to the office. Now I have the chance to introduce other wrasses and fishes, which didn't make it previously because of the very aggressive nature of the resident Six Line Wrasse.

The updated list of livestock is:

Fishes

false Percula Clown Fish
2 black Clowns
Purple Tang
Blue-yellow Damsel
Yellow Tang
Yellow Clown Goby
Flame Angel

Invertebrates

Turbo and Nassarius snails
red Linckia starfish
purple Linckia starfish
2 Tuxedo Urchins
2 Cleaner Skunk Shrimps
Fire Shrimp
Yellow Fan Worm
Fromia starfish
brown polyps Gorgonian
yellow polyps Gorgonian
Sea Fan

Corals

Horn Coral
2 frags of green digitata
frag of Fibre Optic Pocci
frag of sunset Monti
orange Cyphastrea
Red Planet
green Pocci
maroon Pocci
green purple Pocci
purple digitata
Strawberry Shortcake Acropora
yellow digitata
Birdnest
green pink Stylophora
red digitata
pink-green Millepora
green Millepora
Watermelon Millepora

4 Acans
Hammer Coral
3 Supersun Coral frags
yellow Bubble Coral
Octo Coral
green and blue Goniopora
red Goniopora
peach Hammer Coral
Elegance Coral
green Candy Cane
yellow Elegance Coral

Mushrooms

orange Ricordea yuma mushrooms
green Ricordea yuma mushrooms

Soft Corals

2 Chilli Corals
red Flower Rock Anemone
2 pink Rose Bud Tip Anemones
Toadstool Leather Mushroom

Polyps

purple Zoas
Fiery Red Zoas
green Palythoa
5 green Star Polyps
4 assorted Zoas
Clove Polyps
Clove Polyps with green eye
2 golden Gloves
green Glove Polyps
grey pulsing Xenia
mixed Glove Polyps
4 frag plugs of Zoas

Macroalgae (in sump)

Caulerpa
Chaetomorpha
red Bamboo

The technical details are:

Jebao Marine Aqua DC-6000 return pump
Maxspect R420R 16,000K 160W
Reef Octopus BH1000 skimmer
2 Two Little Fishes Phosban Reactor running Phosban
2 Cooling Fans
Fluval 3 external filter
MP25 and RW-8 wavemakers
Tunze Nano Osmolator
Marine Magic Triplet Dosing

This fts photo is taken based on 100% white and 50% blue lights

left side of aquarium

right side of aquarium

a browned out Strawberry Shortcake

a Watermelon Millepora

a green Millepora

a pink Millepora

a yellow Elegance Coral

a green Candy Cane

3 new Zoas from Steven (LCK 201)

Aquarium 4 with IOS (Office)

I have posted this aquarium before and in reality, it looks better in person than in these photos. The Caulerpa used to grow well but now it's gone and overtaken by the green sea grapes that's growing at the top left of the photos. The Anthelia that spread all over was recently receding too leaving the sand bed rather empty.

At the height of my work display, I didn't notice that the original Yellow Tang disappeared. So I got a new one to replace it, together with a pair of small Royal Grammas. I also found that a shrimp that I introduced weeks ago is still around. A Bubble Coral that didn't do well in my main aquarium also appears to be recovering here.

Then there was the other office Aquarium 5 which I have never shown.

Anyway: the inhabitants of this aquarium are: