Snow's 10G Critters of Chaos (TOTM)

[Snow_Phoenix]

Mornin', everyone! 😊

 

My nanoreef was recently featured on Reefman's YT channel:

 

 

If you have time, drop by & give it a quick look. 🌺

[debbeach13]

Congratulations! 

[Snow_Phoenix]

A lot of pics coming through! 😊

 

Several more zoa & paly polyps have opened up today. I have no idea what some of them are called, but I find them beautiful regardless. 🥰

 

Red PE (Ultra-Large morph) :

 

 

Captain America palys:

 

 

Kedd's reds (?) : 🤔

 

 

Different angles of the new ledge - there's also Midas, Fairy Dust & several more unidentified morphs on the rock:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not something new, but I just love my Sunny Ds and can't help sharing it with all of you: 😅

 

 

More updates incoming! 👀

[Snow_Phoenix]

The pavona is healing!!! 

 

 

Geralt and his fat butt on my lepto: 

 

 

Two of my underfilmed corals - the spotted red discosoma, which was actually a hitchiker on the hairy shroom's rock, and the unknown purple-polyped green monti, which was originally a browned out freebie from my LFS a month ago:

 

 

The main Zoa Ledge from above:

 

 

Duncan going for 11 heads now! 😮 : 

 

 

 

 

Most of the new heads are tiny and still developing proper skirts around the super-tiny mouths, but I'm very happy that it keeps growing. 🥰

[Snow_Phoenix]

I love the yellow edges around my rainbow brain: 🥰

 

 

 

It might not look like much, but given that it only had *one tiny streak of yellow when I first acquired it, and now has began to develop more intense colors, I truly think it's a bit of a miracle: 😅

 

 

^My older turban snail was completely cleaned out last night. I think it accidently flipped over and was vulnerable, so my crab took advantage and ate it. Ultimately, I'm not really sure because I was asleep when all of this happened, but I honestly wouldn't put it past Geralt to have some late night munchies. 🤷‍♀️

 

Puffy acans:

 

 

A forest fire digi frag:

 

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Ironman discosoma:

 

 

 

 

Mini yuma garden: 🥰

 

 

 

^The special one. 🥰

[Snow_Phoenix]

Other shrooms from Mushroom Mountain:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoping to add more to this collection. 🥰

[Snow_Phoenix]

Throwback to exactly a year ago from today:

 

 

 

 

This tank has certainly changed a lot. 🤔

[Snow_Phoenix]

Was taking some time to observe the tank - mostly to relax and check on the health of all the animals. 😊

 

I really loved the subtle overlaps between various pieces throughout the tank:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll have to remove the tiny pavona fraglet that I tried sticking to the rock - it's covered in algae, and well, dead (?), I think. 🤷‍♀️

[Snow_Phoenix]

Still looking out for the ID of these 4 new pieces - if anyone knows or has a guess, do share! 😊

 

 

 

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Did more digging - this one is Fire & Ice, I believe. 🤔

 

 

That's one down, only 3 left to identify. 😅

[Snow_Phoenix]

Shot a quick text to my LFS Manager. He believes the one at the bottom is a Firestorm zoa:

 

 

Although he's not sure about the maroon one above, which appears to be some sort of paly. 

 

He also thinks these ones *might be Gorilla Nipple zoas:

 

 

But...I have gorilla nipple zoas, and they don't look like these. So I'm not 100% sure what these are called - maybe after they color up a bit more, I can get a proper ID. 🤔

[Snow_Phoenix]

Harvey busy cleaning algae from Geralt's shell:

 

 

 

 

😅

[Murphs_Reef]

On 1/10/2022 at 10:41 AM, Snow_Phoenix said:

I also reserved more zoas, palys & shrooms at the LFS to add to my collection in the future:

 

 

One of the frags is a rusty red nuclear death. The mother colony in the store's DT is absolutely beautiful. 🥰

 

The shrooms are not bleached - my camera couldn't capture the colors correctly under actinics. One's an ultra orange, another is an ultra green rhodactis. I really loved the ultra green I spotted in @Murphych 's journal, so I tried to see if I could get something similar here. Was pleasantly surprised to see rows of them available today, so I snagged one. 🥰

 

Also, not sure at what point my trumpet coral split again, but it's up to 4 heads now:

 

 

All squished between the SunnyDs. 😊

Looks great !!

[Murphs_Reef]

17 hours ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

Shot a quick text to my LFS Manager. He believes the one at the bottom is a Firestorm zoa:

 

Yes I would agree that's a Firestorm 👍🏼

[Snow_Phoenix]

46 minutes ago, Murphych said:

Looks great !!

 

44 minutes ago, Murphych said:

Yes I would agree that's a Firestorm 👍🏼

 

Thanks for the compliment & positive ID too! I'm still not sure what the top one is called - just waiting for it to change color (if it can) and look it up again after/if it does. 🙂

[Murphs_Reef]

1 minute ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

 

 

Thanks for the compliment & positive ID too! I'm still not sure what the top one is called - just waiting for it to change color (if it can) and look it up again after/if it does. 🙂

Yeah I'm struggling with the top one. It's the green mouth that's throwing me off.. I'll have to dig around some zoa sites to find out.. looks good though!

[Luis Agüera]

On 17/11/2020 at 0:15, Snow_Phoenix said:

Hola a todos,

 

Comencé una nueva compilación y decidí documentarla en este diario para que pueda seguirme (si está interesado). 

 

Fondo:

 

Solía tener un pequeño y maravilloso picotanque de arrecife mixto durante los últimos meses que me trajo mucha alegría. Desafortunadamente, 2.6G de volumen no fue suficiente para hacer crecer todos mis corales, y agregué más de 60 fragmentos en ese pequeño tanque. 

 

Finalmente, decidí que actualizar era la mejor solución. Necesitaba un tanque que no fuera demasiado grande como para que se convirtiera en una carga para hacer inodoros, pero tampoco demasiado pequeño como para que no tuviera suficiente espacio para acomodar todos los corales. Me decidí por un tanque 10G+: era lo suficientemente espacioso para cumplir con mis requisitos y, lo que es más importante, era lo suficientemente simple como para ir al baño todas las semanas. Usé el método de transferencia de tanque (TTM) para actualizar, y usé LR curado establecido (~5 años) de sistemas más antiguos como biofiltro. Solo el LS era nuevo, pero lo sembré con una pequeña taza de LS de mi picoreef. 

 

El nuevo nano ahora se encuentra en mi habitación y la temperatura. baja hasta los 25 ºC (noche) y los 30 ºC (tardes muy calurosas). El swing parece salvaje, pero mi pico funcionó a la misma temperatura. rango (más o menos), y hasta ahora los animales no tuvieron ningún problema con la temperatura. 

 

Especificaciones:

 

tanque 10.23G

18" x 12" x 11"

Sin aros

Vidrio de cristal de 6 mm

 

Equipo:

 

Placa de cocción Dophin H300 (440 l/h)

Aqua Knight Spectra M029 (30W)

Jebao SOW-4 Wavemaker (4000L/Hr)

 

Medios de comunicación:

 

Carbón activado

Filtrar hilo dental

 

Rocas:

 

LR establecido tomado de mi anterior picorreef de 2.6G, refugio de 60G y nanocubo de 10G en la biblioteca

 

 

Arena:

 

Arena viva de aragonito de 4,5 kg --> sembrada con una taza pequeña de LS extraída del lecho de arena de mi picoreef 2,6G

 

 

Agua:

 

Agua del grifo + Declorador (Nutrafin/Prime)

 

Sal:

 

RPM Fritz

 

Pescado:

 

Ninguno por ahora. 

 

Invierte: 

 

(¡Mis monstruos! ¡también conocidos como Critters of Chaos!) 

 

2x caracoles turbante

1x Camarón con bandas de coral amarillo (Stenopus cyanoscelis) - Shrimpy - 05/02/2021

1x Camarón Saron ( Saron marmoratus ) - Harvey -  06/09/2020

1x Cangrejo ermitaño - Geralt - 15/12/2021

Caracoles Hitchiker Collonista

Hitchiker Microbrittlestars

Hitchiker Espagueti Gusanos
Hitchiker Stomatella Caracol

Lapas autoestopistas

 

Corals:

 

MSF (7 tipos) :

Pavona Roja

Garf Bonsái Acropora Valida

Incendio Forestal Montipora Digitata

Esponja Montipora Amarillo Neón/Morado

Chile Montipora

*Montipora morada/verde desconocida

Leptoseries Jack-O-Lantern

 

LPS (12 tipos) :

Lluvia de meteoros Cyphastrea

John Deere Leptastrea

Leptastrea naranja

Favia de Navidad

Blastos gris violáceo

Cordón Blasto Whiplash Púrpura / Azul

Arcoiris malayo Acans

Bastón de Caramelo/Trompeta Verde

Red Fungia

Coral Cerebro Lobo Rojo/Azul

Coral Cerebro Arcoíris

Coral Duncan

 

 

Coral Blando (4 Tipos) :

Pólipos de clavo de naranja

Coral de cuero de seta venenosa de sauce llorón verde

Pólipo estrella verde metalizado

Pólipo estrella verde neón

 

 

Zoanthis & Palythoas (35 Tipos/Morphs) :

Púrpura Death Palys

Nuclear Death Palys (Azul/Verde Morph)

Nuclear Death Palys (Verde/Amarillo Morph)

Rainbow Infusion Palys

Palys verde metalizado

soleado ds palys

Palys de implosión verde

Capitán América Palys

Vampiro en Drag Zoas

Tormenta de fuego Zoas

Zoas de fuego y hielo

Zoas Rojos de Kedd

Rey Midas Zoas

Polvo de hadas Zoas
Gold Maul Zoas

LA Laker Zoas

Zoas mascador de traseros

Increíble Hulk Zoas

Armadura del diablo Zoas

Monstruo Púrpura Zoas

arcoiris yoda zoas

rubia zoas

Avispón Azul Zoas
Avispón Rojo Zoas

Avispón Púrpura Zoas

Zoas Rasta

Zoas azul pavo real

Empacadores de Green Bay Zoas

Gorila Pezón Zoas

Zoas verde menta

Rojo PE Zoas

Zoas PE rojo (Morph de tamaño XXL)
*Zoas marrón/rosa no identificado

*Paly granate/rosa/beige no identificado

* Zoas Starburst Púrpura/Azul/Verde no identificado

*Zoas rosa/verde/beige no identificado

 

Hongos (20 Tipos) :

Seta Discosoma Verde Azulado Seta
Discosoma Leopardo Verde

Champiñón Discosoma Superman

Hongo discosoma sandía

Hongo discosoma rojo/verde

Hongo Discosoma Ironman Hongo
Discosoma Rojo

Seta Discosoma Azul

Hongo discosoma verde con manchas amarillas Hongo
discosoma rojo con manchas azules

Seta Rhodactis verde/verde claro Seta
Rhodactis de incendios forestales

Hongo Rhodactis Tricolor

Hongo Rhodactis Violeta

Seta Rhodactis Tricolor Naranja/Azul/Beige

Hongo Ricordia Yuma Verde Púrpura

Verde azulado/naranja Ricordia Yuma Mushroom
Rainbow Yuma Mushroom

Hongo Yuma Amarillo

Hongo peludo azul

 

 

Recuento actual de corales: ~ 78  Tipos/Morphs/Variedades 

 

 

*TBA:

 

Ganado:

 

Pescado

Cangrejo Ornamental
Corales Surtidos

Macroalgas variadas

 

Fotos:

 

Depósito vacío el 16/11/2020:

 

 

Post-TTM el 16/11/2020:

 

 

FTS el 17/11/2020:

 

 

Topview FTS el 17/11/2020:

 

 

FTS el 12/12/20:

 

 

Topview FTS el 12/12/20:

 

 

FTS el 01/09/21:

 

 

FTS el 02/09/21:

 

 

FTS el 20/03/21:

 

 

FTS el 23/04/21:

 

 

FTS el 25/05/2021:

 

 

FTS el 15/07/21:

 

 

FTS el 09/10/21:

 

 

FTS el 16/10/21:

 

 

FTS el 15/11/21 (*1 año de edad) :

 

 

FTS el 16/12/21:

 

how did it go with the spectra lamp? 

I'm thinking of getting one for my 12 gal nano

[Snow_Phoenix]

3 hours ago, Luis Agüera said:

how did it go with the spectra lamp? 

I'm thinking of getting one for my 12 gal nano

It is quite good for the price. If your tank is not too high, the light is more than sufficient to grow all sorts of corals, including SPS. 😊👍

[Snow_Phoenix]

Harvey had a good molt today: 😊

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geralt enjoying the peak of the garf bonsai, which has almost returned to full color: 🥰

 

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Look at how thick and murky this algae film is...🤮

 

[Snow_Phoenix]

Woke up this morning, and yep, the tank's in trouble. 😔

 

Half of the pavona is gone - a few more pieces look peaky as well. 😔

 

I want to do an emergency WC, but I can't. When I got out of bed today, I had severe pain extending from my left upper back and it flowed down to my left upper arm. I can't use my arm properly - left shoulder joint screams bloody murder if I try. 😕

 

I think I slept wrongly. Either that, or overusing both my arms for the last few days to clean various tanks/enclosures & watering the uber large garden (the garden hose is quite heavy and I have to physically haul it around from one section of the garden to the other during watering - as opposed to just dragging it) took its toll. 😕

 

So no choice but I have to rest this one out and leave the tank alone for at least a day. I can still mop up some of the film using tissues using my good right hand, so I'll do that this evening. 

 

I think the film is blocking light from reaching the corals below - tank looks quite dim despite the brightness of the lights almost at max. When I had cyano, this film was virtually non-existent. Now that the cyano is gone, it appears this particular algae has become the dominant algae strain in the tank. Quite possibly due to lack of diversity in microfauna too. Need to seed the tank with some critters & *maybe macro somehow. 🤔

[debbeach13]

Jeez you just cannot catch a break. As always take care of you first. On a different subject I was wondering the other day. Are you still writing? 

[Snow_Phoenix]

52 minutes ago, debbeach13 said:

Jeez you just cannot catch a break. As always take care of you first. On a different subject I was wondering the other day. Are you still writing? 

Writing is at a standstill, unfortunately. Although my head is teeming with ideas. Just can't seem to get it written down or work. I'm still having a lot of difficulty and trouble getting my first book published. It's...dejecting to be rejected over and over, tbh. And definitely wearing me down. 

[debbeach13]

9 minutes ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

rejected over and over, tbh. And definitely wearing me down. 

I can only imagine the frustration you must feel. I know you are strong and will persevere.