EvolutionZ's Floating Reef

[Evolutionz]

Hey fellas! its been a long time since i updated this thread. Mainly due to being busy serving the nation! for the past few months i did not touch the tank much and occasionally did not even do WC for up to 2 weeks. Now that i've more time, i decided to do a bigger WC (20%) and remove all the biomedia in my sump to wash!

my sump before cleaning

got to work and boy, check out the amount of detritus trapped among the rocks/equipments

1 big pail and 1 small pail worth of live rocks. and small amount of marine pure blocks, biohome plus and sera siphorex mini. the main bulk of my biomedia is the 8kg worth of liverocks. The LRs had a huge growth of sponges! that connected all the small pieces together, a pity i had to break them so that i can remove them. 

After water changes and washing of biomedia done (using tank water of course!) Now you can see the wall's on my sump are pretty dirty and this is actually where i cultivate algae. i can all sorts of hair algae and cyano growing in this tank. but growth in main tank is very minimal. i guess the magic to a high nutrient tank is to know how to channel growth of algae to where you want it to be... My chaeto also grows extremely fast.

Now here's some pictures of the main tank

 

green wall of ultra lumi GSP!

FTS: 

thanks for viewing!

[Evolutionz]

wrong pic!

[Darren Sim]

Nice corals ! Can i know where you bought all your corals from?

[hansolo]

Does your cheato get sucked into your skimmer/reactor inlet?

[Evolutionz]

Nice corals ! Can i know where you bought all your corals from?

Hi thanks! if you're talking about those LPS, mainly from Ah beng, iwarna or pinnacles

Does your cheato get sucked into your skimmer/reactor inlet?

it does but very seldom, mainly because my chaeto grows in clumps, usually very clean even when i harvest out.

[ahchris]

Keep the photos coming!

[Evolutionz]

Last update before i decom this LPS set up. Will be converting back to full SPS soon after. please stay tune!

 

[hansolo]

ORD Loh!

[Darren Sim]

Bro, can you pm me the price of your tank? And made by who? 

[leong_rei]

Omg bro u going to change tank again ??

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[Evolutionz]

ORD Loh!

1 more year ;(

Bro, can you pm me the price of your tank? And made by who? 

tank is about 1k. made by CRA

Omg bro u going to change tank again ??

 

 

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no bro, just sell off all the lps and buy SPS lol

[josephwzr]

When u selling?

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[Evolutionz]

Hi guys! finally im updating my thread! its been sometime and im coming backing to SPS! sold away most of my LPS, still keeping some zoas, lps and anemones. but this tank's gonna be mainly SPS!

my new toy, when i first joined the marine scene, i got myself a maxspect razor. i was able to get awesome sps coloration with this but as time goes by, i got really sick of the shimmer! i wanted a pure T5 fixture. and a good want. so i got myself an ATI 6x39w non-dimm

Upon opening, im glad i got myself a brand new set.. those reflectors are damn reflective!

Current combination is 3CP, 3BP..

So, due to having false ceiling for most part of my ceiling, had no choice but to drill the wall. special thanks to my dad who helped me do most of the work!

lights on

damn this fixture is bright! i could literally grow SPS on anywhere! im finding the 3 CP, 3 BP combo abit too blue. i on 4 tubes only for now (3CP, 1 BP) and i find this just nice! 

Current FTS, i do have a couple of frags right now. running AIO and rowaphos  trying to bring down Po4 to suitable level before going for more colonies/frags.

Thanks for viewing!

[Darren Sim]

Awesome light set ! I also have this light set too. Cant wait to use it too. You might consider adding this combination too 3CP 2BP 1PP (purple plus) 

[Evolutionz]

Awesome light set ! I also have this light set too. Cant wait to use it too. You might consider adding this combination too 3CP 2BP 1PP (purple plus) 

hey bro Thanks! 

[Evolutionz]

Some updates!!! 

for the past 1-2 weeks have been working hard trying to bring down nutrients, meanwhile SPS are looking great! Except for a few of them having burnt tips (all were from a single owner though), my kh was stable.

Nutrients measured are:

kH: 7.3-7.6 (salifert)

ca: 380 (Salifert)

Mg: 1300 (Salifert)

po4: 0.12 (using Hanna ULR checker, down from 0.55 from 2 weeks ago)

K: 350( salifert) 

Nitrate: 5ppm (salifert)

I am running around 300ml of AIO bio pellets with the out put directed at the input of my Skimz SM121 skimmer.. also tuned to produce wet skim, i noticed after using AIO, my skimmate was much more dirtier, smellier and darker in color. 

Here's some pictures of my current SPS, pretty difficult to take top down shots after changing to T5..

This is supposed to be a blue luminous sps from a friend.. turned brown for now

Bought when itwas still yellow, turning greenish probably due to my high nutrients

Ice fire frag and pac man frag\

Left badabing, right red stag

 

desert  millie?

red milie

Watermelon millie, color holding well

red millie turned green

SSC turned brown frag.. gaining back its green in my tank

Zoas corner, and a newly bought red-dragon look a like colony

FTS

A good friend of mine came over to my place with his apogee meter and helped me measured my PAR levels in the tank. im really surprised im getting ~300 PAR on both side of the corner sandbed. middle rock scape area gets a good range of 450-800 PAR. the shaded area under my floating rock scape was getting 33 par. However, right now im only turning on 4 tubes (3CP, 1 BP) for 10 hours and all 6 tubes will only be on 2 hours a day. with only 4 tubes, an average drop of 200 PAR is observed. this shows how strong 2 blue plus tubes are..

My sump. currently dosing 3 parts, dosing Microbelift special blend bacteria and nothing else. 

 

Thanks for viewing!

[Evolutionz]

missed out the PAR picture

[SubzeroLT]

Definitely very healthy PAR levels. Tank is looking good!

Any thoughts of using an recirculating biopellet reactor? Or the FR30 is good enough?

[reef garden]

The aquarium looks really amazing.

By the way, may I know if your rose bud tip anemone has ever devoured your fishes? My anemone grew so large that it killed my yellow tang followed by my purple tang in the span of a month. I saw both the fishes being swallowed. Now I fear for my other big fishes.

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[Evolutionz]

[Evolutionz]

Definitely very healthy PAR levels. Tank is looking good!

Any thoughts of using an recirculating biopellet reactor? Or the FR30 is good enough?

Thanks man! im actually waiting for someone to sell the skimz RR cheap haha. though the FR30 is serving me well!

The aquarium looks really amazing.

 

By the way, may I know if your rose bud tip anemone has ever devoured your fishes? My anemone grew so large that it killed my yellow tang followed by my purple tang in the span of a month. I saw both the fishes being swallowed. Now I fear for my other big fishes.

 

 

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Thanks man! My RBTA hasn't killed or eaten any fishes, the one on the right is the mother anemone, thats practically how big it gets.. my golden midas sleeps just beside it and has been sleeping beside for about a year.

[Evolutionz]

previous video was shot with only 3CP 1 BP on. here's one with all 6tubes on, remember to watch in 1080P 60FPS.

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[Evolutionz]

Nitrates finally at 0 but po4 is still high at 0.1.. started using Aquaparm Sorb4 ( highly recommanded by friends) to replaced my expired rowahpos. lets see how 50g (recommanded dosage) in a filter bag does in reducing po4!!

 

one thing for sure its much cleaner and bigger in size compared to rowaphos.

 

some new stuff

 

 

 

my zoas garden

 

i also started dosing AF Pro bio S and found great improvement in PE! great product.

[Darren Sim]

Seen it in person. Super impressive! 

[RyHaN]

nice!!!