1 year old aqua

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Greetings from Indonesia

My aqua specs:

- a year old 1meter x 0.5m x 0.5m aqua

- 1, 150 watts Xm MH 20.000K hung at 30cm above the surface.

- 2, 40 watts Phillips actinic blue Fluorescent lights.

- Macro Aqua asf-500 skimmer

- for creating waves, I use zoomed-228 selfrotating powerhead and seio m620 pump.

- Modified fluidised bed filter filled with aquaphos. I used a tap water filter for the FBF.

- Resun cl-280 chiller. Water temp at my aqua is 25-27.

- 2 timers used for the lights.

My lively corals:

- Frogspawn

- Green hammer

- metalik green red blassto

- Leather coral

- Finger sinularia

- green star polyps

- orange zooanthids

- green with orange mouth zoos

- pink clove polyps

- Blue dotted purple mushrooms

- deep purple mushrooms

- pinkish red mushooms

- green mushroom

- metalik whitish blue mushrooms

- brown mushrooms

- hairy green mushrooms

- green mouth-orange yuma

- Bubbletip anemone

The corals that I used to have at the first month but died long time ago:

- goniopora

- alveopora

- sun coral

Since then I never buy another of those corals. It's just too hard to keep them alive.

[acidjazz]

welcome

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another shot using different lighting in my camera

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My refuge:

- caulerpa

- there's a shrimp living there which I forgot the name. It has red dots all over the body.

- I'm using a regular 15 watts phillips daylight FL and another 15 watts 10.000K azoo FL.

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My modified water tap filter for the FBF.

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My favourite mushies

[giantbicycle]

My favourite mushies

nice

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Closeup shot at the central

[veliferium]

WOW,a lunare wrasse in a reef....

Have always wondered if it disturbs corals

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One of myy mistake as a beginer...

The story began when those 2 lunares were given by my friend who loves fishing & diving and he caught them. I didn't know much about the fish that's safe to keep in the reef back then so I just put them in the tank. A month later I noticed about this fish behaviour from the books so I wanted to take them out of the tank. They are so damn hard to catch. In frustation that I'll never catch them, I just leave them in the tank up to now

sooo.... one thing for sure, they won't do any harm to the corals BUT they will disturb the other invertebrates such as turbo snails, fan worms and shrimps. I have 3 fan worms that they don't disturb because they are already in the tank before I put the lunare in. After that, everytime I put new fan worms, they tried to eat the worm inside the tube. The worm escaped safely and built a new tube in other place but this time the lunare didn't disturb it anymore.

[Dazza]

i used to hv a lunare wrasse as well. But it grew n grew n grew until its 7-8 inches long.... attacks everything n everytime i tried to catch it the whole rockscape gets disturbed.... Finally solution = old fashion prawn meat on fishing hook.

[flamey]

ur mushies very nice....

which part of indonesia r u from?

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Thanks, I'm from jakarta.

@ dazza, I've tried that before but the lunares were smart. I used a small hook but still I couldnt hook the buggers. Probably they already learned on how to nibble prawns without getting hooked from the previous experience. Remember that I got them fished from a friend.

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I've got the green star polyps for 2 months and it's starting to grow. Notice the small lump?

[Hard Rock]

I love your mushies

[aStRoBo|]

stock up more. since the corals in indonesia will be cheap.

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I can't put anything anymore. No more space in there

I'm still on the lookout for yummas and blue zoos though. They are so damn hard to find in here eventhough most of the corals sold overseas were from Indo. I guess all of the good ones have been sent to overseas.

more pic

[acidjazz]

i understand, good yumas are hard to find. i am still building up my garden of mushies.

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Blue sponges recently starting to emerge. It's at the underside of the live rock so it doesnt get any light.

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Green Star Polyps is spreading wider. The upper part is where the polyp dropped itself on the live rock and started to make a new colony (notice the white lump?)