New west reefer Tank

[Clement Chen]

I have recently moved to the west into my new BTO, of course new home must have new tank!

Here are some of the details of the tank. 1372mm x 400mm x 500mm with 12mm glass and front and one side crystal clear glass.

Frame and tank from Aquarium Artist Vincent. Rest of the cabinet by my ID.

 

 

[Clement Chen]

This was started back in October 2019 and lots of up and down since.

In January was a sad case, made a mistake of adding 2 small fishes without QT. All my other fishes were Quarantined. Velvet entered my tank and wiped out all the fishes except my leopard wrasse. 

This was my tank before the velvet attack.

 

[Clement Chen]

Equipments 

Lights: 2x AI hydra 32hd

Skimmer: reef octopus essence

Return pump: sicce adv 7.0

Chiller: Teko tk1000

Calcium reactor: reef octopus bh1000 pulled by Kamoer fx stp pump

Some more pics before the velvet outbreak.

 

 

[Clement Chen]

Some pics of my tank. After the velvet was a outbreak of hair algae as no tangs to eat it up. Now still got a few places that is growing. Waiting for this CB to finish to get some fishes!

Tried sea hare but it disappeared after a few days sadly.

 

 

[Clement Chen]

Current fts. Still a work in progress. Using aqua forest reef salt. Bought a bucket of tropic marin try. Also regretted putting sand in. Now doing step by step removal of sand.

[soggycookies]

lovely bird’s nest colony and love that toadstool. where did you get it from if you don’t mind me asking?


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[Clement Chen]

The bird nest with me about 3yrs. Grown from a frag. The toadstool about 6 months from a frag bought from sea life.

Here's my previous tank about 2yrs back

[Admiraltian]

On 4/23/2020 at 5:36 PM, Clement Chen said:

Current fts. Still a work in progress. Using aqua forest reef salt. Bought a bucket of tropic marin try. Also regretted putting sand in. Now doing step by step removal of sand.

Nice tank, bro. Why regret adding sand?

[Clement Chen]

Very hard to maintain. I have sand sifting star narcissus snails. But still found some parts of the sand harden. Den build up of detritus 

[Harlequinmania]

you build the whole room for the tank itself ? Awesome.. 

[Admiraltian]

5 hours ago, Clement Chen said:

Very hard to maintain. I have sand sifting star narcissus snails. But still found some parts of the sand harden. Den build up of detritus 

I see, think for reef tank better to chose bigger size sand or coral chips to prevent it from flying around since most reef tank esp with sps need strong flow. With sand it become a maintenance issue.

[Clement Chen]

Changed water and took some top down shots

Teal milli

red dragon

ssc

pink pucci

[Clement Chen]

Forgot to add 1 more devils whip

[Clement Chen]

Have been battling with hair algae. My nitrates are undetectable with delivery test kit and using hanna ULR phosphorus test kit phosphate is at 0.021ppm. However hair algae is continuing to grow. The low readings could be due to the consumption of nutrients from the hair algae.

Did some research and found out that fluconazole helps with some types of hair algae. I tried it years ago in my old tank on bryopsis and it worked wonders. So I decided to give it a try. Ordered a bottle from reefmarketsg and it was just delivered. 

the whole bottle contains 10 capsules. 1 capsule is recommended for 40L. Hence for my tank of about 350L I used 9 capsules.

I removed the cup of my skimmer and turned off my media reactor. I mixed the powder in a small cup of tank water and poured it straight to my main tank.

[Clement Chen]

I will monitor every 2-3 days and update here to see if this treatment works. For bryopsis they said to leave it for 14 days and for hair algae 21 days.

Even hair algae is growing on my sps body.

This is day 0 before dosing.

[Clement Chen]

Day 3 update. I find that there is less algae growth on the front of the glass. Usually have to clean after 1 or 2 days as my tank directly faces the sun. 

The hair algae seems lighter in colour. Not sure is it just the lighting. Fingers crossed that hopefully the treatment works. 

[soggycookies]

Day 3 update. I find that there is less algae growth on the front of the glass. Usually have to clean after 1 or 2 days as my tank directly faces the sun. 
The hair algae seems lighter in colour. Not sure is it just the lighting. Fingers crossed that hopefully the treatment works. 

ime when hair algae starts to turn white and fine like this it’s gradually dying off. keep at it bro! with additional manual removal the spread should eventually stop


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[Admiraltian]

Seem like the algae is slowly dying off like what bro soggycookies Juz mentioned. Good job 

[reefdan]

Hows is your treatment going along? I have tons of GHA to clear...2 sea hares working too slowly...they selectively pick those shorter ones to eat

[Clement Chen]

So far not much changes to the hair algae. I noticed the algae on the back glass has subsided quite a lot. Also my rbta has been closed since treatment. Hopefully it will open soon. 

Will post some pic updates in a few days time

[soggycookies]

So far not much changes to the hair algae. I noticed the algae on the back glass has subsided quite a lot. Also my rbta has been closed since treatment. Hopefully it will open soon. 

Will post some pic updates in a few days time

seems like anemones are far more sensitive to chemical changes from even these ‘reef-safe’ products than coral.. but i believe as long as you don’t see your anemone expelling its symbiotic algae which could bleach it(like one of mine did after i dosed polyplab medic to the main display and some of the globules landed on it), it should be alright

 

 

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[Clement Chen]

Day 6 update

Can see that the gha are dying. It is thinner and shorter. Those on the underside of rocks see no changes. No manual removal have been done so far. Results look promising so far!

[Harlequinmania]

This is a miracle product I didnt believe my bryopsis algae issue can be solve using one dose as well.. haha

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[Clement Chen]

Day 12 update

Most of the gha on top of the rocks have gone. Very little left. However the gha on the underside of the rock for some reason still very long.

Have ordered another bottle and plan to do a water change and add more to replace the lost medication. So far its been quite effective.

[CalvinKlein]

Fluconazole works wonders. It took 14 days to rid of bryopsis in my tank but hair algae still remained.

I stopped using fluconazole and switched to Vibrant instead as I also had bubble algae. Do continue to update, would be nice to have a before/after shot for comparison after the medication.