EvolutionZ's Floating Reef

[Firestarter]

May I know what bulbs are you using for your Aquazonic T5?

[Evolutionz]

I'm using one ATI Blue+ and one a purple+

[Firestarter]

Thanks for the info. Any improvement in colour after supplementing with T5? Thinking of adding T5 to my LEDs as well.

[Evolutionz]

Well I started this tank with led + t5 and colors are ok so far, my old tank's t5 probably hung too high up so I don't see any great improvement.

However for this tank, the t5 fills up many shadows caused by the razor and the t5 alone is able to lit up the tank pretty decently.

[Evolutionz]

Updates:

Went for a week long holiday, came back realised AIO Biopellet reactor is off-ed. Dosing container (Ca, kH) Both empty, which i forgot to replenish before i left! Luckily things were fine when i got back, just loads of algae and kH was at 6+.

Did a 30% WC to 'balance' everything.

New addition, 8 pieces of Red spot cardinal, they started feeding on frozen rotifers hours after adding in. Was told their survival rate are low, fingers crossed

Some new additions

Baby RBTA

Strawberry fields

Optic Fibre pocci

Despite the issues above, noticed new growth tip from this blue tip green stag!

Some old stuffs..

Sunset Monti, Shifted this frag many times and guess what, turns out it prefers the sandbed most!

Red Planet

Old purpleish-green color is returning to this old frag!

Aussie duncan

Full tank shot! As you can see, im battling tons of algae now! I probably used too little AIO Biopellet (150g?) thus po4 is not being reduced efficiently. I started rowaphos today with a TLF phosban 150 reactor and will be reverting back to Vinegar dosing + Rowaphos. Strange enough, salifert been reading 0.1 no3 and 0 po4 all the while. I do know salifert's po4 test kit cannot be trusted though!

Thats all for today. Thanks for viewing!

[Siowaro]

looks great bro!! stock up with good pace too.

[vogel88]

Updates:

Went for a week long holiday, came back realised AIO Biopellet reactor is off-ed. Dosing container (Ca, kH) Both empty, which i forgot to replenish before i left! Luckily things were fine when i got back, just loads of algae and kH was at 6+.

Did a 30% WC to 'balance' everything.

New addition, 8 pieces of Red spot cardinal, they started feeding on frozen rotifers hours after adding in. Was told their survival rate are low, fingers crossed

Some new additions

Baby RBTA

Strawberry fields

Optic Fibre pocci

Despite the issues above, noticed new growth tip from this blue tip green stag!

Some old stuffs..

Sunset Monti, Shifted this frag many times and guess what, turns out it prefers the sandbed most!

Red Planet

Old purpleish-green color is returning to this old frag!

Aussie duncan

Full tank shot! As you can see, im battling tons of algae now! I probably used too little AIO Biopellet (150g?) thus po4 is not being reduced efficiently. I started rowaphos today with a TLF phosban 150 reactor and will be reverting back to Vinegar dosing + Rowaphos. Strange enough, salifert been reading 0.1 no3 and 0 po4 all the while. I do know salifert's po4 test kit cannot be trusted though!

Thats all for today. Thanks for viewing!

stunning!

[Edmund Koh]

Bro, keep up your water change every 3-4 days for at least the next 1-2 weeks to ensure everything in the tank goes back to balanced mode

Everything looking really good too ^.^

[Evolutionz]

Bro, keep up your water change every 3-4 days for at least the next 1-2 weeks to ensure everything in the tank goes back to balanced mode

Everything looking really good too ^.^

Thanks, rest assure everything was back to normal after the 30% WC and topping up the rest of the big 3.

[Evolutionz]

Update:

Its been a week since i started running Rowaphos and its been 4 days since i stopped running AIO Biopellets. Friend was kind enough to help me test my po4 with a Hanna checker and astonishingly, my po4 is at 0.11ppm! Cant image the po4 level 1 week before (Which i've yet to start rowaphos).

Now for some coral pics!

A Pretty crocea!

I've noticed some color changes after i stopped AIO and started rowaphos.

Blue tip are starting to appear on my ice fire

Desalwi's green is coming back

Purple bonsai's purple is coming back too

Bali slimmer previously was almost brown!

Brown-ed out SSC

Recently acquired SSC also browned out!

Luckily color of my fav SSC is still not too bad

Loving this blue tenius, my first 'test water' frag for this tank turns out the be a beauty, should've bought a colony instead!

2 new addition from auzzie

As you can see from the coral pictures above, you can spot a great amount of green hair algae, brown algae and some cyano. Bought a sea hare hoping it will do some good!

I've also been stocking up pretty fast and should be stopping collection of anymore fishes!

Fish list now :

1 x True perc

4 x Blue Eye Anthias

2 x Dispar anthias

3 x Red spot cardinal (Damn, 5 died! 1 a day!)

1 x Mandarin

1 x Fairy solon wrasse

1 x Melanurus Wrasse

1 x Fork tail Blenny

1 x Midas Blenny

Clean Up Crew:

6 x Sand-sifting star

10 x nassarius snail

4 x Astrea Snail

4 x Turbo Snail

4 x Spiny astrea snail

2 x Red leg hermit crab

1 x Abalone

1 x Sea Hare

Total of 16 fishes! Most of them are small (1") only the mel and solon wrasse are bigger. Most are on TDO pellets only some new additions are yet to be trained.

FTS

Thats all for now! Thanks for viewing!

[ReDDeviLs]

update us on the cardinals bro.

[Evolutionz]

The cardinals were doing great and even eating on TDO pellets, but as per what coral farm auntie predictions. I would only have half or less than half left, I believe my waves were too strong and out of 5 which died. 3 bodies will found, 2 totally missing. The remaining 3 are doing good after I adjusted my wave maker position

[asg]

yo bro, dont mind if i ask what the name of you new aussie SPS (the light blue one, top of the photo)

As for the algae, since you are doing large WC, why not blow them off the LR then siphon them out during the WC?

[Evolutionz]

yo bro, dont mind if i ask what the name of you new aussie SPS (the light blue one, top of the photo)

Aussie SPS.jpg

As for the algae, since you are doing large WC, why not blow them off the LR then siphon them out during the WC?

Hey, Believe me, i have no idea what's the name! I do know the name of the other aussie piece which is a A. Spathulata.

Im only doing 10% A week now which i do what you mentioned. i also blow them off daily and they all get trapped in my filter sock. The algae have been greatly reduced since the start of using rowaphos.

[asg]

Hey, Believe me, i have no idea what's the name! I do know the name of the other aussie piece which is a A. Spathulata.

Im only doing 10% A week now which i do what you mentioned. i also blow them off daily and they all get trapped in my filter sock. The algae have been greatly reduced since the start of using rowaphos.

Bro, sorry ah, cos I think I also have a similar frag (yours is a lot more beautiful). Do you think yours are like those in the link?

Acropora Prostrata Blueish

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https://sg.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A2oKiHCUzcVUHhEAHKcl4gt.;_ylu=X3oDMTIzM3Y4cTZtBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM5ZDlkNmZjMWUxNGFmMThkMWE5NjFlODBmNDM1ZTg2ZARncG9zAzI0BGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsg.images.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dsps%2Bprostrata%26fr%3Dyfp-t-712%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D24&w=640&h=480&imgurl=www.aquariaveldhuis.nl%2Fdomeinen%2Faquariaveldhuis%2Fwww%2Fproducts_pictures%2Fenlarged%2FAcropora-prostrata-blueish-ACROPORA-Aquaria-Veldhuis-Vijver-Centrum-Enschede.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aquariaveldhuis.nl%2Findex.php%3FproductID%3D18132&size=48.7KB&name=Acropora+%3Cb%3EProstrata%3C%2Fb%3E+Blueish&p=sps+prostrata&oid=9d9d6fc1e14af18d1a961e80f435e86d&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t-712&tt=Acropora+%3Cb%3EProstrata%3C%2Fb%3E+Blueish&b=0&ni=21&no=24&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11nht6l1a&sigb=13bknshtm&sigi=14v0gvif0&sigt=111hgu8p6&sign=111hgu8p6&.crumb=86eSa2JyOLa&fr=yfp-t-712&fr2=piv-web

[Evolutionz]

Cant seem to open the image but mine is definitely not prostrata, Prostrata are more similar to Milipora.

[asg]

Oki, thanks bro. I will continue go look see look see whether can id it or not.

[fishcake]

Hi evolutionz.was wondering how you got your crocea to latch onto the thin rock. I have tried placing my crocea on rocks but it does not seem to latch on and keeps falling off.

[Evolutionz]

I guess I was lucky, I placed it there and it immediately placed it's foot there. Didnt budge!

[Evolutionz]

Updates:

A couple new SPS frags :

Royal Blue millie

Red stag

Interesting yellow/green acro with red polyps

Mermaid

Rainbow tenuis

20K Lokani

Some fishes:

Soon-to-be alpha male Blue eye anthias, been fighting with another blue eye of similar size and this fella's winning!

Carpenter's flasher wrasse, really active fella!

Midas blenny

Solon fairy wrasse

Big fat Melanurus wrasse

my 3 surviving red spot cardinals

I also switched to the Gyre XF-130 a week ago and im loving it!

[Angel Keeper]

Ooh... Red stag!

Angel Keeper

[Whiskie]

Hi. May I know what is the sps at the bottom right of Mermaid? Thanks.

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[sanjaypills55]

Great photography skills..Bro, what camera are you using?

[Evolutionz]

Ooh... Red stag!

Angel Keeper

Very deep red! Hope i can hold the color!

Hi. May I know what is the sps at the bottom right of Mermaid? Thanks.

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Its a recently aquired aussie acro

Great photography skills..Bro, what camera are you using?

Thanks but its far from great! im using Sony A550 + 50/f1.8 prime lens.

[sanjaypills55]

Can always notice the high quality of DSLR pictures