Extra aquarium

Yesterday I made our second aquarium ready, the one that was our fish tank during the rebuild and later became quarantine tank for the Toadstool coral when it was in bad shape will now function as a fragment tank. Reason for this is because our newest Kenya Tree is throwing around new fragments in high speed. We have one settled on a small rock, later I put two others in a small glass in our RSM with some rocks underneath, but then we also got a mushroom loose and I didn’t want to put them together. So I decided to rebuild the 60 litre aquarium.

The pump and filters are removed because of the polluted water from the Toadstool. I bought a new small pump, an Eheim 300 pump, for circulation. The pump should be able to pump 300 litres per hour, but it doesn’t seem enough. I filled the bottom with 3 litres of sand for bacteria to move in and the rest is running on water from the RSM combined with some newly made salt water. My wife smashed the rock on which the Toadstool used to be to pieces which are now scattered across the sand for corals to attach to.

Yesterday evening I also noticed another piece of Kenya Tree ready to depart, I took it of and put it in the fragment tank, so it is the first inhabitant for this tank. Corals will only remain there until they attach to a rock, when they have done so they will move to the RSM until they find a new owner.

I am thinking about putting in a heater since the water seems to be a bit cold still…but I’m not yet sure about this. Also something I am thinking about is moving any Asterina sp. I find in the RSM to this aquarium. For as far as I saw only few are aggressive against corals, but I didn’t notice the ones in my aquarium bother with corals. And the others eat algae, detritus and dead/dying organism. Since they are easy to keep (most of them are still alive after throwing them into a bucket with water) they might be a great addition for this aquarium in keeping algae and detritus to a minimum.