My Reefing Chronicles 2

[Admiraltian]

12 hours ago, danano said:

Sorry to hear about the AEFW bro. Suggest continue monitoring for signs. Dip anything that you suspect might be infested. And glue down the eggs if there are any. Just my two cents.

Thanks for sharing the tank and coral pics, it's looking up 

Thanks for the advise and for patronizing my thread. Will continuing sharing and update my thread. 

[Admiraltian]

Amid circuit breaker period and also Labour day, on a rainy cold nite, it’s so boring..... so fortunate still can admire my tank....lol

Just taken this night shot with my iPhone with yellow filter.

[Admiraltian]

Night shot doesn’t do justice to my tank....tune up my whites & intensity. Shifted away that frag rack that in the way too.

[Darren Sim]

Very nice clam. Where you got it from?

 

[Admiraltian]

Small crocea from AM from 1-2yrs back, big squamosa from SA like 4-5yrs ago. 

[yakh0o]

45 minutes ago, Admiraltian said:

Small crocea from AM from 1-2yrs back, big squamosa from SA like 4-5yrs ago. 

wow~ can keep them for so long! thumbs up!

[Admiraltian]

11 hours ago, yakh0o said:

wow~ can keep them for so long! thumbs up!

Yes, definitely possible if u take good care of it.

[Admiraltian]

Some photos to share taken during my last water change...

Rbm doing well after after Aefw attack.

Some of my frags that I’m nursing back to health.

Once I think they are ready I glued them to my main rock and monitor them.

This seem to be holding its color but not really popping like it shd. Continue to monitor...Bali sc getting better than when I got it. Tips look more luminous and body getting pinkier.Red stag getting green polyps.Is this suppose to be devil’s whip?Blueberry diesel Healing frags stands together and united.

Bought as badabing but the color turns out differently. Hmmmm....oh well, still look nice though.

[Admiraltian]

Taking some free time today to hook up the new jebao slw-20m. This version comes with WiFi controllable app. Not too bad quality for that price I’m paying.Adjustable rubber adaptor for the magnet for angle tilting of ur wavemaker.

Only has the WiFi controller and that’s it. Don’t even have the power adaptor. Save space imo.

Running on classic mode at the moment. App is easy to use.

 

 

[Admiraltian]

My settings:

 

[Peanut8787]

Very nice tank you have there 

[Admiraltian]

1 hour ago, Peanut8787 said:

Very nice tank you have there 

Thanks for the compliments and support.

[Admiraltian]

On 1/1/2020 at 9:10 PM, Admiraltian said:

Added in a single tube fixture of T5HO. Brand is Helios, made in China and also ordered through Ezbuy. Let’s see if it’s help to reduce dark spots, shimmer and help to brighten up the corals on the back of my tank.

Actually added another single tube Helios T5 fixture to the front of my tankshortly after adding the first one to the rear of my tank. Forgotten to update here. Color has improved from my observation.

[Admiraltian]

Took some shots earlier with my camera phone. Color and health of sps improved nearly a month after the purge in the tank aefw treatment.

My fav sps corner is here.

SSC color returned to normal from the dull darkened red tips to pink tips again.

 Red planet always forgotten at this spot.

Special looking tenuis!!

Lime in the sky with Pikachu!!

Another hyacinthus!!

Not sure the ID but look like tabling microclados type.No ID too but encrusted very fast and furious but showed little vertical growth.Initially looked like Ponape has transformed to a more pinkish color birdnest.

That’s all for today update.

[Joe_P]

10 hours ago, Admiraltian said:

Actually added another single tube Helios T5 fixture to the front of my tankshortly after adding the first one to the rear of my tank. Forgotten to update here. Color has improved from my observation.

Nice!  these single t5 tubes available in 80w or 5ft size? And running on electronic ballast? 

 

[Admiraltian]

9 hours ago, Joe_P said:

Nice!  these single t5 tubes available in 80w or 5ft size? And running on electronic ballast? 

 

Hi bro, I never see any electronic ballast on it and the longest they have is 120cm fixture.

[Admiraltian]

Added another wavemaker and remove both my OW50 series as they are too bulky and not aesthetically pleasing. However they are real workhorse beasts!!  This time around I added a SLW-30M instead as the SLW-20M seem kinda weak for its rating. Part of my plan to upgrade and improve the flow in my tank and reduce deadspots.

[soggycookies]

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Added another wavemaker and remove both my OW50 series as they are too bulky and not aesthetically pleasing. However they are real workhorse beasts!!  This time around I added a SLW-30M instead as the SLW-20M seem kinda weak for its rating. Part of my plan to upgrade and improve the flow in my tank and reduce deadspots.

Are these jebao wavemakers you’re referring to? I agree, their pumps are really good at pushing a lot of water. i’m still using a RW-20(one of the much older models) and it hasn’t failed me yet. The main downside is it’s definitely much noisier than other pumps, at least ime. i used to have 2 rw-8s running at max speed which was a better option for creating more turbulence, but their controllers didn’t survive till today so i’ve replaced them with a maxspect gyre instead and cranked the rw-20 to near-max speed.

 

 

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[Admiraltian]

9 minutes ago, soggycookies said:

Are these jebao wavemakers you’re referring to? I agree, their pumps are really good at pushing a lot of water. i’m still using a RW-20(one of the much older models) and it hasn’t failed me yet. The main downside is it’s definitely much noisier than other pumps, at least ime. i used to have 2 rw-8s running at max speed which was a better option for creating more turbulence, but their controllers didn’t survive till today so i’ve replaced them with a maxspect gyre instead and cranked the rw-20 to near-max speed.

 

 

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Yes, Jebao ones. Just trying the WiFi models for the first time. So far so good. 

[Admiraltian]

Lime in the sky, lime in the sky, can u dun try to reach for the sky??? U can only live underwater

See lah, see lah...See what happens when u guys dun practice social distancing...

Trying out new stuff...

 

 

[Admiraltian]

Frags growing well on my rack as I’m able to raise it to the highest point in my tank for it to get maximum light explosure.

Other random shots...

Luv the orangey polyps 

 

This one still on the road to recovery...

Noticed the new branch is different in color tone.

Another shot using different camera, not so orangey this time.

 

WD no1

WD no2. Ssbd haha

One of my fav stags, red body with golden yellow to greenish tone polyps.

A.Nana growing and branching out well after Aefw attack. 

[Admiraltian]

This Spat has nice mixture of blue & green all around.

Mother colony look so different when I’m unable to grow it under high lights. Plus the flow is making it to branch out weirdly.

[Evolutionz]

Looking great bro! Glad to see that you are still reefing! How's the Jebao SLW-20 so far? 

[SaltySpivia]

Just finished reading your thread from pg 1 to pg 14, 

This is a bad hobby where we face failures but as long as you climb back after falling down, we will be taught with alot more new experiences, cheers to your tank, i'm thinking of getting r80 to try as well, but i have learnt to slow down, gonna do a 3 months cycle for my tank, now still doing initial cleaning, and i love your entire tank layout, was thinking should I change my main tank or just keep it and ignore it  big headache, maybe i should talk to you to find out the cost for just your main tank

[Admiraltian]

13 hours ago, Evolutionz said:

Looking great bro! Glad to see that you are still reefing! How's the Jebao SLW-20 so far? 

Good to see u back too, bro. So far for my tank size, the slw20 kinda weak and can’t be use as the main wave maker so I push it down to the left bottom corner near the back to sweep up detritus instead. Got another slw30 to use as main one and aim it at my sps on the top left corner. Hope this helps.