My SPS webpage

[madmac]

For the past few nites, I've been working on an update to a webpage showing some SPS corals. There is a slide show there, made easy and here's a sample of the pics you'll see in there. I hope you'll like them. Please do provide me some feedback if you like it (not) or ways to improve it. Thanks all.

Fiji Tri-Colour

Tin's Blue Millie

Pink Pocci

Oh and here's the webpage : My Webpage

[Reefaholic]

Good job brother....

[subxero]

Impressive... great colours!!

[teo]

That dark pink stylo is really

Congrats nice site.

[wonder]

well done impressive color especially the red lobo

Is that a dark pink stylo or pocci. Looks to me a stylo

I remember the color looks much better in person for the dark pink. you must have dose your secret formula to get this color .

[flying carpet]

Your pocci is deep pink.

[giantbicycle]

Man!....Impressive...

[madmac]

Hi all, thnx very much.

Reefaholic bro, I most definitely think you need one too. Very hard to find all ur great pics.

Teo, Wonder, I think you guys are right. I think it should be Stylopora Pistillata and not a Pocillopora. Thnx somehow got confuse with bwt the two.

[Bob]

Stunning colours!

[eternal]

Nice Tank

[royal gramma]

awesome.

[Limpc]

Bro, you are my inspiration for starting SPS !!!

With such modest setup, you are able to achieve such stunning result.

If you could, pls include all chemicals/supplement used, water parameter and of course your best kept secrets lah.

Excellent !!!

[madmac]

Nice Tank

Thnx eternal.! You joined only a few days after I did and this is your fisrt post. I think you jus defined what the name means. No offense bro and

Welcome to SRC!

[madmac]

   

awesome.

Thnx Chris. How are you going, man.? And how's Jessie doing?

[iantoh]

Superb Colours bro!

And the blue milli has grown so much since i went by your place.

tin has generously passed on some of his blue millis to me too, so hopefully in time, mine will come close to yours in colouration!!

Could you tell us more about your two part dosing regime. if i remember a post of yours correctly, you dose baking soda for alk for two days, followed with calcium chloride solution on the third day, then repeat. Do you drip this supplement, or just pour in? and do you supplement mag or do your water changes take care of that?

thanks,

ian

[madmac]

If you could, pls include all chemicals/supplement used, water parameter and of course your best kept secrets lah.

Thnx Limpc,

I use Magnesium Chloride once every two weeks. I dose baking soda(from the market) and Calcium chloride(Aquaz sell them), as IanToh correctly stated above.

I test for Mg, Ca and dKH. The results ranges btw, forr Ca 330 to 460, dKH btw 7 - 9, Mg from 1080 to 1250. I don't do other test. Lately, because of Tin's corals in my tank, testing on the above is done once every week but before its once every month at month-end.

I skim very wet, can easily lose 25l of water per week from skimming alone. There is an auto topup (triggered on by a float switch in the sump) thatt tops up NSW(buys from Iwarna) to replace the loss water from skimming.

I lose about 1l of water from evaporation each day, and I replace the loss water by dissolving the additives in water and drip them using an old-seachem 1l container. Not using kalk anymore. Thats all thats used.

All the best in your SPS endeavours. I hope you'll jump in soon, always good to have company.

[madmac]

if i remember a post of yours correctly, you dose baking soda for alk for two days, followed with calcium chloride solution on the third day, then repeat. Do you drip this supplement, or just pour in? and do you supplement mag or do your water changes take care of that?

Hi Ian, thnx.

I use to pour them in the sump and go away, but I'm now dripping them. I've not noticed any detriment to the corals either way.

Not water changes, but sometimes when I feel like it needs done, then syphoning of detritus in the dead spots of the tank, about a 2l each time. This can go for twice a week sometimes. The water is thrown out.

How's your tank getting on?

[iantoh]

hi there bro,

that sounds like a good way to go, and pretty simple too. i thought of going the balling method previously, but manually setting up the drip took too much time for me, and i kept getting lots of precipitation within my pumps and on the sump sides, so i decided to go with the ca reactor. i realized thereafter though, that the precipitation was due to me neglecting to monitor my mag levels.. ah well..

i think its superb that youre having such good success with the dosing method. it speaks volumes for the part a part b methodology, and its working so well despite your tank's high ca and alk demand.

my tanks doing heaps better now- thanks for asking. after the episode where my chiller pump failed and my tank reached 34 degrees whilst i was at work, i lost quite a few of my sps colonies and my black cap which really saddened me, but thank goodness i sold away quite a number of sps the previous month as it was getting crowded.

since then, which was about a month ago, something kinda strange has happened. after the heat episode, the algaes in my tank died away, and coralline took over, such that most of my rocks are nice and purple now. and that has made me most happy.. hahahah... the things we get happy about man!

my blue milli, pink milli, and purple millis are all still with me and recovering their colour so thank goodness for that too. it quite shocked me though, to see so many of my sps pieces go either dreadfully white or dark brown after just several hours at 34 degrees. i wouldve thought rushing home at lunch wouldve reduced the stress. anyhows, ive since changed out all my Atman return and chiller pumps to aquabee ones, and my elec bill has gone down, as has my heat load. and my sunburst anthias and blackcap are doing well. really glad now, as i quite nearly decided to give it up.

cheers bro,

ian

ps: can i ask what source water do you use for mixing your salt mix?

[madmac]

hey thats good to know. in no time, you'll be back where you left off.

replacement seawater comes from Iwarna. I have a ro/di unit... abit underutilise, producing about 1l/day for the the additives solution.

[strat]

Wah Ivan very awesome man!!

Time to tank visit your house ...

[madmac]

Wah Ivan very awesome man!!

Time to tank visit your house ...

u say only...

[strat]

u say only...

Will contact you soon hor...

[M4rk4nth]

Hi where do you get pure Magnesium Cloride? all the supplements I see have some magnesium sulphate in it. thanks

[madmac]

PM you.

[Vfong]

Hi

Looks like U a SSun expert, my SSun is in trouble, a tiny little one

but it was blooming well. The large frag the biggest pincture now

looks like some white stuff around the edge,

So any expert can help.