Tofu's 4ft Reef tank

[reef garden]

Very awesome tank! I could never ever get sps to color up on any of my previous tanks. They all turn brown on me

I'm not the sps expert in this but browned out sps is usually an indication that the lighting levels are insufficient or the nutrient levels are too high?

[james72]

Actually po4 too low can also bleached out sps.....

Cheers,

James

[yellowtang]

Actually po4 too low can also bleached out sps.....

Cheers,

James

Correction: Sudden too low po4 can bleach or rtn the Sps. Low Po4 is good for Sps, but not a sudden drop in Po4. As a matter of fact, Sps hates sudden drastic change, whether be it flow, PO4, light, Ca or Kh. Some Sps are more forgiving than others. Some are very sensitive, a good example is Aussie echinata .

Home grown Sps , months or years in the tank are more tolerant to swings in the conditions . They are worth looking at to buy .Mine are fine examples... Haha...

Cheers

Yt

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[Mike Tan]

what can you suggest are the most tolerant/easy sps that are more likely to stay colored up? bird's nest? monti? soory, I'm total sps newbie here, just researching for future reference.

I don't have any calc od kh dosing though.

[yellowtang]

what can you suggest are the most tolerant/easy sps that are more likely to stay colored up? bird's nest? monti? soory, I'm total sps newbie here, just researching for future reference.

I don't have any calc od kh dosing though.

Green coloured Digi, Monti, Birdnest, Pocci

are all beginners Sps. They might browned out but won't die or stn.when they colour up, you can try other types of Sps.

Cheers

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[yellowtang]

Sorry Tofu, this is your tank tread. I shouldn't be taking too much.

Yt

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[tofubox]

Sorry Tofu, this is your tank tread. I shouldn't be taking too much.

Yt

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Haha, aiya no issue, good to have pro advice, i oso can learn.

[tofubox]

A shot of some of my corals from other reefers. Still have a couple more on the other rocks. Hope i can colour them up!

[james72]

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[james72]

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[james72]

YT, I learn abt this low po4 bleach thing from mike pallette video (its one of the video posted lately in my thread). He mentioned po4 is the energy building blocks for corals. If po4 is too low(<0.01) or zero, growth will slow down and eventually starts to bleach. Which kind of make perfect sense to me as I also notice the sps seems happier with a little po4 then no po4. The colours are deeper too.

Ps: tofu, sorry for invading your thread

Cheers,

James

[tofubox]

No problem, u guys can carry ur discussion here. I also curious about po4. I heard as low as possible is always best, but never zero I guess.

[yellowtang]

YT, I learn abt this low po4 bleach thing from mike pallette video (its one of the video posted lately in my thread). He mentioned po4 is the energy building blocks for corals. If po4 is too low(<0.01) or zero, growth will slow down and eventually starts to bleach. Which kind of make perfect sense to me as I also notice the sps seems happier with a little po4 then no po4. The colours are deeper too.

Ps: tofu, sorry for invading your thread

Cheers,

James

Kind of right, James. That's why ulns like zeovit or fauna system strive to have 0 PO4 and then use their prescribed food to control the sps growth and colour, without which they will bleach and die. And these systems usually keep very little fish do as to keep the nutrient down.

Personally, I like to keep many fishes, feed them well so that they shit well, and the sps live well. But the nutrient exporters must be there.

Cheers

YT

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[Copperband]

Tofu.... Started zeospur ?

[tofubox]

Tofu.... Started zeospur ?

Hey bro, nope not yet. At the moment dont see the use of it yet. Corals already quite bright looking.

[Copperband]

Thats the pinnacle chemical of zeovit.... Very addictive though....magic happens overnight...

[surreal1228]

TS will post some new way of taking photo soon. Lol

[tofubox]

Found a new way to take photos using my phone cam without any editing.

This is the raw image without any filter or edit. Taken under just pure led. Usually had my t5s on when taking, always turned out blueish.

The bad side is, I can't capture red, pink and brighter blues, like rose mille, blue lokani, ice fire echinata, etc.

Pls ignore the stag on the right, recently got it from iwarna which already had parts of its tissue blown off by direct flow from wavemaker. Hope it recovers.

Also notice plenty of new growth on my blue stag. Rainbow stylo has also coloured up really well in the new tank. Cream birdnest in the middle recently grew a fair bit and sting a coral close by.

So far no casualties. But hope i didn't just jinx myself!!!!

[tofubox]

Christmas still far, but got myself a little tree. Nice hammer from a good friend

[harlo]

Nice hammer. Really looks like a tree.

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[Admiraltian]

Nice branching hammer.

[asg]

Nice hammer shape there.

[Snoopyhamburger]

[tofubox]

Came down in the middle of the night to look at my tank. Was surprise to see my cardinals actually swimming around and inside the elegance coral. They just swim in circles and go in once a while, kinda like hosting corals that clowns do.

Anyone had such experience before? Its the first time i've seen such a thing happen. I know clowns do host elegance corals, and i also did a search on google. Seems like only banggai cardinals are capable of such thing.

Hope the elegance won't eat them!

If u look closely, u can see 2 or 3 of them inside.

[dinGdinG]

Christmas still far, but got myself a little tree. Nice hammer from a good friend

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Best Hammer I have seen so far, had the honour to view the real thing too~!