3 x 3ft SPS dominated tank

[mengyang_neo]

Very difficult to take pic under deep blue...I can't get the color right yet.

Yup no easy to get a good picture to show the colour but can see the poly extension is very good.

[JeffL]

Nicely taken photos!

[reby]

Hi whats the thickness of ur class? 12mm or.....?

[PROX]

12mm.

[PROX]

Few more macro attempt under royal blue lighting...

Tonga Pink Montipora

Montipora Setosa

Ice Fire Echinata

[sunnymau]

Nice pic, quite sharp and good white balance.. However I will consider those pics as close up, not yet macro.. can play cheat abit by cropping in to highlight the polyps and get macro feel

[PROX]

Yea..not 1:1 macro yet cause I am still playing with WB and try to get actual color captured by the camera...any good tips?

[sunnymau]

my try..

Can get closer though..

[sunnymau]

my lens only 90mm, cant get that close..

thinking of getting 180mm-200mm macro...

[sunnymau]

Yea..not 1:1 macro yet cause I am still playing with WB and try to get actual color captured by the camera...any good tips?

For WB try to set it by having a white paper under your lighting and set it manually, or you adjust the preset WB as close as what you see and shoot with RAW format and adjust using photoshop..

[PROX]

The white paper should be in the tank?

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[sunnymau]

no need, as long the light has a good coverage over the white paper.. btw what lighting are you using? mh or led or t5?

[PROX]

Some updated pic...

Currently battling with aefw which consume 70% of my SPS. Expensive lesson learned. Nevertheless, remaining corals are doing alright now and no new corals until everything stabilize again.

Tank inhabitants consist of:

1 x Yellow tang

1 x Blue eye tang (aka 2 spot bristletooth tang)

2 x Black ice clownfish

9 x Blue eye anthias (lyretail anthias)

2 x Dispar anthias

3 x Orchid dottyback

1 x Cleaner wrasse

2 x Cleaner shrimp

? x Turbo snails

4 x RBTA

SPS, Acans, Chalice, Xenia, Fiji pipe organ, Golden clove.

Top shot.

Additional compartment to to keep sump area as clean as possible for easier maintenance.

2 x Ecotech radion power supply (bolted to the center wood support)

1 x Ecotech battery backup (bolted to the back portion of wood support)

Mixing tank and top up tank are on the bottom section.

[Nonza]

Love the dimensions! Do the trio of orchid dottybacks fight amongst themselves?

[PROX]

They did at first but nothing serious except a little torn tail (only 2 fight among each other leaving the 3rd one alone). However, they seem to get along now and I don't see any torn tail anymore. Probably got bored of fighting.

[Nonza]

Good to hear! Hopefully someday i'll give that a try. Have you considered a wrasse that MAY help with AEFW?

[PROX]

i kept 3 yellow wrasse and it is not helping at all. I am starving aefw now and will be more careful before adding new sps.

[Nonza]

Yep, no guarantee that wrasse will eat AEFW. Good luck with the AEFW, and look forward to updates

[honkit]

The most effective way to get rid of flatworms would be to indivdually dip each and every one of your SPS corals in a CoralRX or Coral Revive solution and baste them daily after you put the corals back into your tank. Wrasses are a hit or miss thingy.

[johnmariados]

Some updated pic...

Currently battling with aefw which consume 70% of my SPS. Expensive lesson learned. Nevertheless, remaining corals are doing alright now and no new corals until everything stabilize again.

Tank inhabitants consist of:

1 x Yellow tang

1 x Blue eye tang (aka 2 spot bristletooth tang)

2 x Black ice clownfish

9 x Blue eye anthias (lyretail anthias)

2 x Dispar anthias

3 x Orchid dottyback

1 x Cleaner wrasse

2 x Cleaner shrimp

? x Turbo snails

4 x RBTA

SPS, Acans, Chalice, Xenia, Fiji pipe organ, Golden clove.

Top shot.

Additional compartment to to keep sump area as clean as possible for easier maintenance.

2 x Ecotech radion power supply (bolted to the center wood support)

1 x Ecotech battery backup (bolted to the back portion of wood support)

Mixing tank and top up tank are on the bottom section.

Very nice tank bro, I like the range of colors in the 1st shot!

[PROX]

@honkit - Almost all of corals are dipped into Coral RX or FM Flatworm Exit. Majority are bought from fellow reefers in frag form. My mistake is to add the mariculture colony specimen without dipping into either solution. It looks healthy and recover from shipping (over a week in LFS) and I assume that piece is safe from pest. Obviously I am wrong and that piece introduce aefw into my tank. Little do I expect to get hit by aefw. I keep on meddling with light intensity, thinking that my corals bleach due to light issue which escalate the damage to higher level. Well, I take it as expensive lesson and will be more cautious before adding in new corals.

[honkit]

Sorry to read about your experience with the maricultured piece. Personally, I find maricultured sps corals to have even more pests and unwanted algae than the wild colonies. That's why the no exception rule is applicable to each and every of them when it comes to dipping and basting - let the wrasses do the rest.

[PROX]

I have added 3 yellow wrasses but they died for no apparent reason that I can think of. Eating healthy and just died out of sudden. Will try my luck again and add few more. Any particular wrasse that you can recommend?

[honkit]

Try a radiant wrasse - these are known and documented pest eaters.

[peacemaker]

This is just my personal experience, but when I kept Yellow Wrasse in a bare bottom tank, they don't do well and die for no apparent reason like you mentioned. However, they survive pretty well when I kept a sandbed. Perhaps they can get stressed when they do not have a substrate to burrow into...?