Snow's 60G Secret Predatory Sanctum 🐲🐉 - Shutting Down

[Snow_Phoenix]

I love the amount of dragon's breath my LFS gave me today:

 

 

Usually I only wind up with caulerpa when I replenish my macro from the store. 🤐

 

Even found a tiny hitchiker stomatella! 🤗

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

I checked up on the new shroom today. 😊

 

 

Just noticed it has some yellow splashes of color on the polyps here & there, which is pretty awesome. 🥰 :

 

 

 

 

I'm thinking of picking up some green hairy shrooms next (if I can find them). 

 

The new red discosoma was fully open too:

 

 

My yumas are developing extra colors around the edges again: 😊

 

 

 

And my hammer looked large & happy this morning:

 

 

 

It might be too early to tell, but I think replenishing the macro stock in the fuge helped in some way. 👍

[Snow_Phoenix]

Orion was busy investigating Mushroom Mountain this morning: 🐲🐉

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the addition of the new shrooms intrigued him. Hopefully I can add more corals - maybe even a LPS or two from my primary LFS next month. 👍

[Sharbuckle]

Love this tank. Your fuge really makes me miss my old overgrown fuge. 

[Snow_Phoenix]

22 minutes ago, Sharbuckle said:

Love this tank. Your fuge really makes me miss my old overgrown fuge. 

Thanks! I usually trim off my older macro & toss it, then replenish my macro stock from the fuge of my LFS's DT. Since macro is free, and they toss theirs after pruning also, I thought I might as well request for a small portion of it every month. The hitchikers from it are amazing though. So rich in microfauna, including pods. 😊

[Snow_Phoenix]

Fed the reef the usual breakfast slurry of enriched copepods, rotifers & mysis: 

 

 

 

So many hungry corals:

 

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHb_5BBrRMk/?igshid=1ft14p6gjzlws

 

Bella was particularly curious over snacking from the wavemaker (it was off) : 🤗

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcA2P7D7G2/?igshid=1eior6u17gyob

 

 

 

Illaron seemed pretty hungry too: 😊

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHb_y90jiSt/?igshid=1om1auo22hy2k

[Snow_Phoenix]

Feeding frozen mysis:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHb_F77Dv2b/?igshid=104clmbh6xelo

 

The Big Guy deliberating if he should have a few bites also: 😄

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHb_aS-jBot/?igshid=dzszw0xii870

 

Feeding the triple-mix slush:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcAZvyjkEo/?igshid=frfhas2li13s

 

I went extra heavy on the feedings today because I plan on doing a massive WC either today evening or tomorrow. Roughly 20G or 30G WC, if possible - but I'll be WCing the DT, not the sump. *Might replace the floss in the sump tomorrow, if it's dirty and full of gunk. 👍

[Leo_ian]

22 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

You're welcome! 😊

Nah, it's okay. Although I have been dying to get my hands on a neon goby for a while now. Are they still readily available in Sg? 🤗

Havent seen them for a few months, the first time a saw them was 3years before this year when i bought my breeding pair (which hasnt bred since)

[Leo_ian]

go to specialised aquatic solution's  facebook page, they have great quality fish that are usually eating pellets. They regularly update when they have new shipments (I have seen tiger angels there more times than i have seen spriger dottybacks) Check it out when you can! coralfish12g was there and im in the vid HAHAH

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #1: 

 

My CUC hard at work:

 

 

 

Both Pyro (fire) & Doc (cleaner) on standby:

 

 

Thanos & Goblin - the largest & littlest fish in the reef: 🤗

 

 

 

Freckles! (Sorry about the blurry pics!) :

 

 

Update #2: Illaron. 🐲🐉💦

 

 

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #3: Hunting Together. 🐲🐉💦

 

 

 

 

A quick close up of my cup coral:

 

 

🤗

[Snow_Phoenix]

Dinner time in the reef - Bella & Poseidon eating pellets together:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHe-XkND746/?igshid=mhzxhkn2zw44

 

Poseidon taking his time: 💦

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHe-gU8DDS3/?igshid=841dy8fo6m24

 

Helios & Nero stealing pellets from the palys: 🤗

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHe-ls6jtpm/?igshid=9d1igjcvo2uu

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #1: 

 

I actually spotted a black stomatella snail in my fuge last night - was quite surprised because I had no idea stomatellas came in this color:

 

 

 

Can you spot the crab? 🤐 :

 

 

 

^Spyder was stranded in the first compartment of my sump somehow. Had to gently lift him up and put him back in the fuge, where he quickly scuttled into the bed of macro to hide. 😅

 

The new baby Superman shroom & rainbow yuma are developing quite well:

 

 

 

Quite excited to watch them finally grow. 😊

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #2:

 

Shadowed Orion for a bit today morning:

 

 

 

 

 

Hunting for pods:

 

 

Red devil shroom - need to glue the frag rock back on Mushroom Mountain one of these days: 👍

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Perching:

 

 

 

Paled out:

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Cubert the conch - still asleep, will wake up once the lights dim down in the evening: 🤗

 

 

Monty hard at work:

 

 

Incidently, halloween urchins come in an assortment of colors including blue & white. If I can get that variant, I'll probably buy one to beef up my CUC. 

 

Orangish-pink yuma:

 

 

Goblin (not sure what that red fleck on his back is though - dirt or a loose scale, maybe? ) : 🤔

 

 

Thanos perching against the glass & looking for attention: 😄

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Mushroom Mountain is full of pods and a popular hangout spot for the 🐲🐉. Here's Bella & Illaron, hunting together:

 

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Almost 9.20pm atm. Bella & Illaron, my scooter 🐲🐉 pair are attempting to spawn again near Mushroom Mountain. Am leaving them to it. 🤗

[vlangel]

I love Bella and Illaron!  I definitely want dragonets when I am sure my pod production is sufficient.

[Snow_Phoenix]

7 hours ago, vlangel said:

I love Bella and Illaron!  I definitely want dragonets when I am sure my pod production is sufficient.

I love them too! 🥰

 

And yes, you should get one! Lookimg forward to seeing a little dragonet in your reef someday! 🤗

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #1:

 

Followed 3 out of my 4 dragonets around today morning. 🤗

 

Orion: 

 

 

Bella (she has chubby wrinkles now! ) : 🥰

 

 

 

Poseidon: 💦

 

 

 

^Apologies over the blurry shots. He was very active and moving quickly along the back wall. 🤐

[Snow_Phoenix]

Update #2:

 

New shrooms are doing okay: 🤗

 

 

 

There are some GBA on the rock the shrooms are attached to, so I'll try to manually remove that this evening. 

 

Also, these two have the same job, but one likes to dress up more: 😄

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Yesterday, Derp the long-lived hermit faked his death in my 10G nanocube. In a panicked attempt to save him, I dropped him into the 60G. 

 

And today, I just realized there's nothing wrong with him. He's just a lazy douche that enjoys watching the bubbles drift by on my waterline: 

 

 

 

For those of you who aren't familiar with Derp, he used to be a hermit that resided in my O.S.P.R.C. tank last year. I believe Seabass was fond of watching him create chaos in my tank (namely in throwing off all my mounted frags from the rocks) and more than half of the forum voted that I keep him, because watching a single crab upend an entire reef was so much fun. 🙄

 

Derp was eventually moved to my nanocube in the library when I took the contest tank down, and has been protesting his transfer since Day 1. I guess yesterday he finally figured out that if flops over for a few days, with his limbs partially hanging out, and *not twitching, I'd move him to a different tank. 

 

Well, he got his wish. Once he gets off his fat butt, he's probably going to toss my new shrooms off the rocks. Just watch. Pfft. 😕

[Snow_Phoenix]

New baby bullseye rhodactis shroom spotted! 🤗

 

 

Freckles & Bo are buddies! 🥰 :

 

 

Cubert vaccuuming the sandbed:

 

 

Hammer time! 😊 :

 

 

 

Om nom nom nom:

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHm4Gy2L9wd/?igshid=ue9v1z69i9ir

[Snow_Phoenix]

Some of the shrooms in my current collection: 🥰