Finally! New place...new tank!

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Like wise. Diatoms have cleared up on the sand bed after adding 2 sand shifter starfish.

FTS 1

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FTS 2

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FTS 3

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Close up of the bigger island

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The more barren smaller island

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Hopefully the 6-line, green and yellow wrasse will stop the acro eating flatworms

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Purple digi frags from joeP encrusting nicely with new tips over 3 weeks

Before

After

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Orange monti cap frags also encrusting nicely.

That's my current biggest hope for the corals...so as to prevent them from falling and getting injured

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Parting shot for this week.

I guess that's the reason for corals costing a premium at GO. See the difference in the quality of the green trumpet? Right one from GO and left one from one of the pasir ris farms

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i feel you bro.. my radioactive birdnest dropped on my elegance coral for a couple of hours and the parts that touched also RTN.

thanks bro. In a morbid sense, it's comforting to know that I'm not alone. My condolences to you on your radioactive birdnest's demise too

[james72]

Beautiful colour mixed......

[say1606]

Upz for nice tank!!! Cheers and Happy Reefing

[hanafi_weeseng]

Nice mix tank bro

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Thanks guys for the encouragements. Think those are necessary to keep people going... especially during any tank crisis.

Hope to continue to learn more and improve over time with everyone else here in this forum.

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Lately been trying to eradicate pests in the tank including the following:

1) Hairy crab (found a red eyed eating in my humilis colony)

Method of removal: using chicken essence bottle trap as well as trying to manually catch it out. So far managed to chase it manually away somewhere in the rocks and caught another huge crab with the chicken essence bottle

2) acropora eating flatworm:

Method of removal: multiple wrasses but seems like I'm fighting a losing battle and slowing losing my stag. Sigh. Encrusted on my rock and I'm unwilling to yank it out for a dip.

3) pesky glass anemones

Method of removal: tried peppermint shrimp without success until I got the seagrass file fish recently and saw them diminishing rather quickly over a week

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Anyone knows whether this might be the result of some worm trying to tunnel into my montipora? It appeared overnight and there was like a 5cent coin size patch

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Reminiscing the past and hopefully there is still a future for this monti

3 months back

Today(with the sad gap on it)

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Still an unidentified acro

2 months back

Now(seems like a rather slow grower but showing great polyp extension and colours not too shabby

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Lovely blue hairy mushroom. First got

Today

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Pink birdnest frag couple of weeks ago

Today

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One of my first few acros in this new tank 3 months back

Today

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Orange lobo improving in colour and polyp extension. First bought:

Now:

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The humilis which has suffered a little due to the hairy crab feasting on it. Thankfully still healthy and hopefully after I have chased it to the rocks, it will have time to heal.

When I first got it 3 months ago:

Today:

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Was so sick of toppling corals that I glued all the newer corals which has yet to encrust onto the rocks... 2 words to describe: back breaking

Some of my newer purchases:

And the older corals that hasn't encrusted

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This acro surprisingly held its colour very well and also decent grower despite putting it in an awkward position in my tank