Tank Maintainence....

Water change for:
120G - 1.025
Kitchen 20G - 1.025
Tall 20G - 1.025
10G - 1.025
WTR LR curing tank - 1.026

DIY LR is soaking in saltwater from water change, to start seeding it.

Blue/Queen junvenvile angel added to K20G tank.
Fungus zoo removed from display tank into K20G for recovery.

OMG .... pgymy angel become giant angel~!!!

So we went to our weekly weekend fish watching trip. We happened to went to BA Kennedy, they do not have the weekly special listed on website as usual. However they do have marked down corals ... however it seems only 20% or so, but their corals are not that cheap comparing to RR not to mention NAFB these days...

.... so we were watching fish and we suddenly see this very beautiful angel, it was marked as "flavicauda pygmy angel" and looks very pretty. It was only $29.99, so I was really surprised to see such a pretty pgymy angel for sale at that price; flame angel is $69.99 and coral beauty is $34.99 normally at BA..... so we kinda debated for 3 minutes or so and decided to try our luc, plus the angel actually looked pretty healthy no ich or stress. So we made a quick decision and bought it for $34.99.

So when we come back and tried to give an ID, found out that it's either a blue/queen angel in junvenile form. MY GOSH, I really wish it is a pgymy angel as I am not ready to have large angels in my reef.... I still wanted to keep corals. Right now it is only 2" long, hopefully it does not grow too fast. So far,it has been nibbing at rocks and stuff, so I don't think it will have any problem eating, it did tasted some brime shrimps and dead zoos.


Blue/Queen junenvile angel..
$34.99

Clownfish aren't really that picky

So after the male breeding pair clownfish died, the female one seems to mourn it for a few days.... well, until I moved my green bta hosting anemone from my 20G tank down to the 120G. They were fighting a bit here and there, the small one even wanted to take over the breeding female's rose bta, however the female blow it away. ... then they fight a bit.....

Next day when I woke up and took a look (make sure one did not kill the other), they were already both hosting in the green bta that the small one used to host. Seems like nowadays they are hosting together in that one bubble tip anemone, so there are actually two rose bubble tip empty without clowns :D Maybe I can get some black& white percual to host those.... if I can ever find some.

Pre-boxing day cleanup

As boxing day is getting near and I have blew too much $ already, today we decided to spend some time at home doing some maintainence.

20G Kitchen tank

• 50% water change
• Rocks with dark algae is treated with Mauric acid to descale: one xenia rock, one zoo rock & the big platform rock
• The new sun corals are doing better. Jony's Orange sun coral is starting to open up, the NAFB yellow sun coral is opening up and eating fine
• pH 7.9

120G Tank

• Cleaned the hood for moonlighting
• The clove polyps are half open, so are the new green & blue/red zoo colony but they should be doing better. Next time might want to avoid non-opening speciments.
• Found out torch coral actually will eat like anemones, so will feed them too
• Still no sights of Nassarius snails that I put in anywhere, maybe the substrate is still poisonious from the dead flatworm or medicine.... hmmm....

Sad day - breeding pair male gone

... to our disappointment, mom announced the bad news that the male clown fish of my breeding pair is dead.... somehow got suck into the powerhead but I think it's dead before it got suck in because that powerhead is not that strong to kill a fish. Oh well, the female one seems to wander around all tank to try to find her mate, they lived together for 5 years, it is in deed a sad day for her. Poor girl.

Aiptasia .... MY GOSH

So i was tank watching tonight and found out that the new batch of 2nd hand LR i got actually have aiptasia... ARRRRRRR.... I tried hard not to add peppermint shrimps in my tank because they will eat all my brown soft featherdusters, but looks like I do not have a choice but to buy them again... *sigh*.. those LR from cam were great b/c of all those little featherdusters... damn aiptasia....

Know where I can find cheap peppermint shrimps?

So many things to watch out for buying 2nd hand LR:

• copper used
• phosphate level in tank water
• nitrate level in water
• aiptasia
• brown flat algae
• avoid FOWLR LR
• flat worms