Roidan's Reef (I)

[roidan]

nice tank... how much u get the bubble for.. quite ex??

cant really remember...got them from T95 a few months back for the greenish specimens ..as for the center piece...was with me over a year already.....

should be market price lor..wun be too expensive..

[ah^siao]

nice sailfin tang u got there.. btw how u feed your bubbles?

[roidan]

wow ths is what i call a cool tank... very very cool ... hope someday can setup a 6 ft also..hehe

well done bro ...........

not cool lah.. AT's sps type of tank is cool....mine is just rojak-tank...watever i like just put in..hehe

thanks for the compliments anyway

[roidan]

nice sailfin tang u got there.. btw how u feed your bubbles?

i seldom feed them....think they get most of their nutrition from food although i do feed them prawns sometimes when i am feeding my anemones and have spare around.hehe

[roidan]

[ah^siao]

i saw some ang moh tanks.. they got new tanks.. yet keeps acro.. mayb wad u siad is true.. good water parameters?

[roidan]

i saw some ang moh tanks.. they got new tanks.. yet keeps acro.. mayb wad u siad is true.. good water parameters?

new tank quite hard to keep acro..because the acro have to fight off the algae phases in the tank which may cover its polyps...so normally better wait till all the algae phase gone...or your macroalgae have a strong foothold on the tank nutrients before you try going major sps lor...

i only got 1 right perched on the left top to try...as the ahpek told me to take coz that time so many...

well, whether your algae phase over or not...maybe cant really tell...but at least make sure ammonia, nitrites and phospates are zero and nitrates as low as possible, even zero before you spend all your money buying those nice sps frags lor...

[roidan]

very fast swimmer....but genna harass by some of my chromis in the 4ft...caught some of them out and put them in the sump...lol

[ah^siao]

is it that a big refugium with lots of macroalgae helps?

[roidan]

is it that a big refugium with lots of macroalgae helps?

probably....

i am running one now..i have all kinds of funny algae growing in the refugium..but the main tank very clean..even the diatoms were on the wool compartments in the refugium which i religously take out to wash every 2 days....

i think watever nutrients from the system is absorbed by the macroalgae in the refugium before it wrecks havoc in the main tank...

and my macroalgae growing quite fast...thats why the nitrate test done a few days ago was very very low....

get a good skimmer to skim as much stuff as you can...then after that let the macroalgae trap the rest...be it phospates...nitrates..or watever..

and for the macroalgae to absorb and grow fast, u need strong lights.....i actually wanted to put a 150W MH to light the refugium also..but dun really like the idea of the heat enclosed in the cabinet...so i went T5s and the macroalgae, clams and rics in there are loving it.

[ah^siao]

hmmm too bad my sump the refugium very small.. do u on the refugium light 24/7?

most of my red algae most concentrate in my refugium..

in the main tank.. hardly anymore

[roidan]

i do reverse photoperiod....meaning when the main tank starts to dim off ....the refugium starts its day cycle...

i tried 24 hours last time in my 2ft refugium...pretty ok....but it seems that some dark photoperiod is good for the macroalgae also...there are some topics here last time about it....

some bro here mentioned the dark phase is needed for the algae to engage in some cellular activity that completes the growth phase

[ah^siao]

wad do u mean?

hmmm do u keep anything alive in your sump? like cleaner shrimps? boxing shrimps?

i got one harquline inside.. female one..not sure the one in my tank male or female.. scared fight

[roidan]

alive? yeah..clams and ricordias lor..clams are pretty much alive mah..hehe

[roidan]

i seldom feed them....think they get most of their nutrition from food although i do feed them prawns sometimes when i am feeding my anemones and have spare around.hehe

from light i mean..not food...

food are just supplements once in a while...mainly they need light

[ah^siao]

yeah true..

hmmm wad types of marcoalgae u got inside your refugium?

ask ya a question.. once u pull out the algae. how do u make it attached back onto a rock?

[roidan]

u go search backwards..i posted pics of the types of macroalgae sometime back...

if its those caulerpa type...you wrap the algae around the rock or just put the rock on some parts of the algae and soon you will find the algae hook up on the rocks....

[ah^siao]

coraline algae also good ar?

those found on live rocks...

[roidan]

yeah..they are good...adds colour to the tank mah..but they dun really take up much nutrients..and even if they do...at too slow a rate already...

they use up your calcium though

[ah^siao]

which are the best types?

i need some for my refigium le

[roidan]

no best types lah..i think u just trial and error till u get one that can thrive in your system....everyone's system is different...but you can stay away from those grape species lor..nice to look at..but create a small mess when they decide to crash......

but your system may be able to support it though...so just try abit here and there and then when you get one type that really grow alot and never melt away..then it's the macroalgae for you..

[Maxima]

tank view today

Hi Rodian, saw the 2 purple queen Anthias in your post of tank shots, did you managed to feed it? Juz curious

Max

[roidan]

Hi Rodian, saw the 2 purple queen Anthias in your post of tank shots, did you managed to feed it? Juz curious

Max

yeah...actually 6 of them....2 with yellowish stripes..4 totally purple..

they have been eating on cyclopeeze, hikari daphnia, small Hikari mysis, even the brine shrimp provided the size is small....

i even bought the zooplankton from PR to standby...but in the end never got to use it....

as i mentioned in the thread...they hid for close to a week behind the rockworks before they came out to roam...

[roidan]

coming soon, all the corals in tentacles mood

[ah^siao]

wad is coming? gozilla?