EvolutionZ's Floating Reef

[Evolutionz]

Yet another update...

SSC totally browned out.. hoping to see it turn back to its former glory (my avartar's pic) in the future!

This however, has been turning into a beauty

I got myself this super cool looking sky blue staghorn.. its huge!

Top view showing most sps in my tank

Totally brightens up my entire tank! i'm only hoping i can hold the sky blue color now!

[schnitzer44]

Very nice skyblye staghorn there..i am sure somehow or rather it became the centrepiece if your tank.. Whenever i need to get inspired to go into sps, your thread automatically cones up! Haha

[ReDDeviLs]

the Stag really makes a difference to the overall look bro!

i dont think the blue eye anthias turning into an alpha male so soon.

if im not wrong the male blue eye is this red in color. also known as lyretail anthias.

can read more about anthias here. i personally felt this is a good article.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-12/hcs3/index.php

[Evolutionz]

Very nice skyblye staghorn there..i am sure somehow or rather it became the centrepiece if your tank.. Whenever i need to get inspired to go into sps, your thread automatically cones up! Haha

Yes indeed! Its my centre piece now! Thanks bro!

the Stag really makes a difference to the overall look bro!

i dont think the blue eye anthias turning into an alpha male so soon.

if im not wrong the male blue eye is this red in color. also known as lyretail anthias.

can read more about anthias here. i personally felt this is a good article.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-12/hcs3/index.php

Indeed it did! Yeah i did read that they will take time.. the 2 larger blue eyes has been fighting for some time already.. Thanks for the link!

[solasido]

Very nice staghorn you have.

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[Evolutionz]

Thanks bro!

[Evolutionz]

Here's an update before im going for 'holiday' on a famous island in singapore tomorrow!

I was looking at some photos when i first started this tank and first started filling it up with SPS and its about 2 months since all these happened.. Due to this being a new tank (started stocking/bringing back SPS less when tank's less then 1 month old) and i was battling high phosphate (probably leaking from those rocks), most of my SPS turned brown or wasn't as brightly colored.. Finally im seeing some difference after removing AIO Biopellets and going back to what i used to and had great success, which are vinegar dosing and Rowaphos.

My current Parameters:

kH 7.6-8.2

Ca 400-410

Mg 1700 (Yes 1700! Maintaining at this level to reduce algae growth and encourage coraline, slowly reducing now by doing WC weekly)

Potassium 390-400

No3 : 0ppm

Po4 : 0.02-0.1 (my hanna checker gives a varied result)

Im also back on Red sea Salt (Normal) instead of Skimz, im seeing more PE after the switch (using red sea for 10% WC Weekly). Not sure if it is due to the salt though...

Now here's some before and after photos of some SPS showing a 2 month time gap.

Bali Green slimer, fresh from a culturing farm

Now, Grown quite alot!

Purple bonsai

I lost the purple totally for about a month and im seeing that the purple are coming back

I cant wait for it to return to it's former glory...

Radioactive birdnest

amazing growth in just 2 months

Blue tenius, i wasn't prepared to buy a big colony back then and saw a small frag accidentally fragged off, bought that instead.

It has turned out to be a true beauty! regretting not getting the colony..

A pink based birdsnest with greenish polyps..

Strange enough, it looks totally different now

SSC and blue tip green stag..

SSC lost its color but its slowly regaining back, seems to be branching out!

blue tip green stag is growing pretty fast too.. encrusting and branching at the same time

The rest shows the update of my SPS now..

Sun set monti

True optic Fibre

Aussie spathulata

Red planet

Purple bonsai, yes its the same as the one above! the colony was encrusting very well on a piece of rock before i decommed the old tank, i had to seperate colony from the base and found it a pity to throw the base away.. So i fragged it up and this the main piece! Its starting to branch out too!

red stag, base is turning green

My fav sps, a unique SSC..

Color's pretty bad now.. cant wait to return to its former glory in my old tank.

Strawberry Field

Aussie Duncan

Crocea Clam

Hardworking sea hare! Look at how small their eyes are!

Will be uploading some videos !

[ahchris]

Everything looks great! Enjoy your special holidays on that famous island yeah!!!

[Evolutionz]

Missed out some stuff, Extremely happy with my Curve 7!

As i will be away most of the time from now on, i decided to make things easier for my dad who will be helping me dose my zeovit and Fauna marin Color elements, zeovit has been labeled and are easy to dose (2 drops each time).. FM CE will be more troublesome as im dosing 3ml and 2ml of ultra organics. To make things easier for my dad, i found these cute little containers in Daiso. The wine shape container holds 3ml and the fish shape one holds 2ml.

When packed like this, my dad can simply take the containers out and squeeze into the tank. I don't have to worry about him forgetting which is which and risks of overdosing.

[Evolutionz]

Everything looks great! Enjoy your special holidays on that famous island yeah!!!

Thanks bro! appreciated it!

[Evolutionz]

A video update, remember to watch in 1080p

this video is with all pumps turned off..

[Patrick]

You have one of the nicest reef tank bro! Congrats!

[SubzeroLT]

Lovely tank.

All the best in the small island. The country thanks you.

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[asg]

Nice SPS growth bro.

Just to share from my exp of multipy trips away from tank. i find it safer to dose half and feed half when main care taker for the tank is away. This allows more buffer for whatever accumulation of whatever.

A missing fish or fallen coral or dying coral couple with unfinished food/ unutilized trace element over weeks can end the tank in a really headache position when no immed attention is avail ah.

[Evolutionz]

You have one of the nicest reef tank bro! Congrats!

Thanks bro!

Lovely tank.

All the best in the small island. The country thanks you.

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Thanks for your well wishes!

Nice SPS growth bro.

Just to share from my exp of multipy trips away from tank. i find it safer to dose half and feed half when main care taker for the tank is away. This allows more buffer for whatever accumulation of whatever.

A missing fish or fallen coral or dying coral couple with unfinished food/ unutilized trace element over weeks can end the tank in a really headache position when no immed attention is avail ah.

Thanks for the advice, i've been 'training' my dad into dosing the tank and he's been doing good! Even taught him how to glue back fallen SPS

[daveyy]

Extremely beautiful 3 ft tank, may I know how much you bought those tonga rock (/kg and at where)? Did you hack them into smaller piece for your scaping purposes? If yes, may I know how? Chisel?

[Damianiac]

Extremely beautiful 3 ft tank, may I know how much you bought those tonga rock (/kg and at where)? Did you hack them into smaller piece for your scaping purposes? If yes, may I know how? Chisel?

Morning bro, lck201 has many

[Evolutionz]

Its been sometime since i last updated! Thing hasn't been going too well as green hair algae continues to thrive on my rocks! only recently i started using Fauna Marin Ultra phos instead of Rowaphos then things starts to get better!

As im only usually home 2 days a week, tank is mostly maintained by my dad.. i still continues to do 10% WC weekly.

Growth is good but color is not there yet.. nowhere near my old set up.

this large coloy of sky blue stag has lost most of its color couple weeks back, color started coming back from the tip onwards.. Hopefully in the near future it can color up back to its former glory! Its been growing really well though!

purple bonsai

bali slimer

radioactive birdsnest

interestingly this unique smooth skin tabling acro is not tabling in this tank

and one of my blue eye anthias turned male! Sadly it killed 2 other blue eye anthias.. leaving the last female alone..

FTS

Thats all for now!

[asg]

Bro u also weekday traveller ah? Or NS?

[Evolutionz]

NS!

[Ian Fun]

Dude, this is an incredible build! I'm looking for ideas for my next tank project and i hope you dont mind if I hit you up soon about some ideas/tips!

[lotu112]

Cool vid.

[M&M]

Such a nice set up of the rocks. I wish I had done that to my tank. Too late now

[daveyy]

bro, can i know where you buy the spiny star astrea? try looking at LFS but can't seems to find them.

[SubzeroLT]

Aquamarin has spiny star astrea. I've purchased from them on several occasions.