Reef_Aquatics
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So I've had this reef tank for a couple of months now and here is a few photos that I have of how the tank has developed. I started off with a few kilograms of live rock and 3 to 4cm of sand. I added a pair of clownfish as well as skunk cleaner shrimp into the tank the day I set it up and after about two weeks I added a bubble tip anemone as well. At that time there is also 5 nassarius snails. This tank has no sump and I use a Seachem Tidal 55 for filtration. For the light I use a ReefLED 50 as well as a Red Sea ReefATO+ for water top off.
Here's a few images that were taken after I added the clownfish and anemone some time in April. I don't think I have any images prior to this but I'll try to find some later if possible.
So afterwards I waited a month before addding a duncan LPS and gold hammer coral. Here's a few pictures of them. Unfortunately both of them died. The duncan I believe was caused by improper dosing of Red Sea NOPOX and the hammer died of brown jelly disease I believe. The duncan died after two month+ and the hammer died after five months. Also algae started growing at around this time and even now there is still quite a bit of algae.
Around this time I also added a sea hare to deal with the algae. It has been doing a good job of cleaning up algae ever since then but it never completely eradicated the algae. In a bid to try and eradicate the algae, I added a lawnmower blenny too. However the two of them still couldnt deal with all the algae. In June, I added a yellow tip torch and one green toadstool. They're still doing quite well but I think that the torch is unhappy with the light it receiving being too strong so I moved it down a bit. I also made the lighting a bit less intense. After that in August I started to see aiptasia growing. I didn't do anything about it at first but after seeing it spread like wildfire I decided to buy some Aiptasia X. A group of aiptasia is also growing near the anemone and I was worried that the anemone would get stung. The first time I applied aiptasia X it wasn't really effective. I think that the aiptasia grew back in about a week+ after I administered the aiptasia X. I applied aiptasia X a second time two weeks prior and I think that this time it worked a lot better. Now I only see about 3 or 4 very small aiptasia. I also added a pair of firefish in early September and one more torch coral. I think that both are doing quite well. The firefish and clownfish's relations were quite tense at first but I think that as both of those fish got more familiar with one another the tension broke down. The firefish and clownfish used to be quite far apart and avoided each other. Now I see the fish getting closer to each other without problems. I haven't seen the firefish get injured or bitten by the clownfish and they definitely weren't scared either.
The new torch coral:
One of the firefish. The other one is more scared of me and harder to get a photo of. You can see the yellow tip torch in its old position in the background as well.
Here's a few images that were taken after I added the clownfish and anemone some time in April. I don't think I have any images prior to this but I'll try to find some later if possible.
So afterwards I waited a month before addding a duncan LPS and gold hammer coral. Here's a few pictures of them. Unfortunately both of them died. The duncan I believe was caused by improper dosing of Red Sea NOPOX and the hammer died of brown jelly disease I believe. The duncan died after two month+ and the hammer died after five months. Also algae started growing at around this time and even now there is still quite a bit of algae.
Around this time I also added a sea hare to deal with the algae. It has been doing a good job of cleaning up algae ever since then but it never completely eradicated the algae. In a bid to try and eradicate the algae, I added a lawnmower blenny too. However the two of them still couldnt deal with all the algae. In June, I added a yellow tip torch and one green toadstool. They're still doing quite well but I think that the torch is unhappy with the light it receiving being too strong so I moved it down a bit. I also made the lighting a bit less intense. After that in August I started to see aiptasia growing. I didn't do anything about it at first but after seeing it spread like wildfire I decided to buy some Aiptasia X. A group of aiptasia is also growing near the anemone and I was worried that the anemone would get stung. The first time I applied aiptasia X it wasn't really effective. I think that the aiptasia grew back in about a week+ after I administered the aiptasia X. I applied aiptasia X a second time two weeks prior and I think that this time it worked a lot better. Now I only see about 3 or 4 very small aiptasia. I also added a pair of firefish in early September and one more torch coral. I think that both are doing quite well. The firefish and clownfish's relations were quite tense at first but I think that as both of those fish got more familiar with one another the tension broke down. The firefish and clownfish used to be quite far apart and avoided each other. Now I see the fish getting closer to each other without problems. I haven't seen the firefish get injured or bitten by the clownfish and they definitely weren't scared either.
The new torch coral:
One of the firefish. The other one is more scared of me and harder to get a photo of. You can see the yellow tip torch in its old position in the background as well.
