FuEl's 5 gallon pico reef

[FuEl]

cool ... bro, what's in ur HOB ?

Biohome, Ultra PowerPhos 0.04 and zeolites.

[poomoon]

Biohome, Ultra PowerPhos 0.04 and zeolites.

Thanks bro. Planning a pico as well ...

[ReefzLover]

Bro may I know wad else u dose ?

[FuEl]

Bro may I know wad else u dose ?

1 drop of Ultra Min S and 1 drop of Ultra Bak once every 2 days. For 2 part I am using TLF C-Balance. That's all I don't dose anything else.

[ReefzLover]

Okok! Thanks! How about your dosing pump? Dosing the 2 parts ?

[FuEl]

Okok! Thanks! How about your dosing pump? Dosing the 2 parts ?

Using bubble magus dosing pump. Might upgrade to a german brand in future, I feel it is slightly more accurate in terms of dosing. For bubble magus if you set 8ml dose 4 times over 24 hours, each time dosage is usually less than 2ml. Yes dosing C-balance Part A & Part B. Will switch over to Fauna Marin Balling light, once I have the funds. That way trace elements (Ultra Trace B ) can be dosed together with the 3 parts and fully maximize the capabilities of the dosing pump.

[ATcraz]

May i know where did u buy the Dicordipinna griessingeri?

[FuEl]

May i know where did u buy the Dicordipinna griessingeri?

Coralfarm. Not an easy fish to keep. It will need ample amounts of copepods. Feeding baby brine shrimp long run will not do, even when they are enriched.

[FuEl]

More than 2 months since I went skimmerless. Colors still holding well. Daily dosings of Phycopure along with my Ultralith dosing regime.

[FuEl]

Close ups.

Middle stag almost hitting my water surface.

My fav tenuis.

[yikai]

the birdnests and your evil montipora have amazing growth.

[desideria]

wow fuel... nice SPS in 5 Gallons!!

[tansh]

Very colourful and nice nano SPS tank

[pokmingsheng]

wow.. 5G??

lots of time and dedication must have gone into that pico!

[FuEl]

wow.. 5G??

lots of time and dedication must have gone into that pico!

5 mins a day is all it takes. Good thing about pico tank is that it is very easy to change water.

[dryDiver]

hi Junkai, any updates on ur sponge

[lubina12]

Nice Pico...Stunning !!

[puppet]

very impressive

[cool guy]

Hapi bdae bro...

[peacemaker]

Happy Birthday!

[poomoon]

[Zac]

Hi bro may I ask a question, my sps don't seems to be holding the colors well, I have all params in check I dose calcium mg and kh in lab grade powder form. Iam running MP 10 in my 28g led jbj. N03 and p04 undetectable .hmm..

[FuEl]

Thanks for the well wishes guys.

Hi Zac, are you dosing manually or with dosing pump? If you are running dosing pump it is better to dose more intervals per day, it depends on the volume of the solutions you need to dose a day. More frequent doses mean that parameters will fluctuate less.

Light spectrum also plays a part, try to include some blue spectrum to help pull out the colors.

Other ways to manipulate color will depend on the trace elements you dose, along with frequency.

I'll update my tank pic in a few hours.

[Zac]

Thanks for the well wishes guys.

Hi Zac, are you dosing manually or with dosing pump? If you are running dosing pump it is better to dose more intervals per day, it depends on the volume of the solutions you need to dose a day. More frequent doses mean that parameters will fluctuate less.

Light spectrum also plays a part, try to include some blue spectrum to help pull out the colors.

Other ways to manipulate color will depend on the trace elements you dose, along with frequency.

I'll update my tank pic in a few hours.

Thanks for the advice and happy belated Birthday

Any recommendations as to which trace element to purchase ? Iam dosing manually at the moment will be getting a dosing for my next addon. When u mention dosing frequency do you mind to elaborate or is there a link which I can learn more about dosing ? Thanks in advance.

[FuEl]

Thanks for the advice and happy belated Birthday

Any recommendations as to which trace element to purchase ? Iam dosing manually at the moment will be getting a dosing for my next addon. When u mention dosing frequency do you mind to elaborate or is there a link which I can learn more about dosing ? Thanks in advance.

You can try Fauna Marin Power Trace 1-4. This is available from either MarineLife (only 250ml bottle in stock) or Iwarna (both 250ml and 500ml bottles in stock). The dosage is a maximum of 10ml/100L per week. This dosage can be lower depending on your nutrient concentration and your amount of corals. For your JBJ 28 Gallon tank, your maximum dose will be about 10ml per week after taking water displacement by rocks, sand, etc. You start with around 2.5ml per week and slowly increase the dosage while observing how the corals respond. So a single 500ml bottle will last you more than a year. That's about $11 per month on trace elements if you get Power Trace 1-4 in 500ml bottles.

Dosing frequency simply means splitting up the dose needed to maintain your Ca/kH/Mg levels into many smaller doses. For example for my 5 gallon pico tank, I am currently dosing 16ml of Part A & 16ml of Part B a day. I split this dose into 24 dosing intervals, meaning each dose at any one time is around 0.66ml. If I only set 4 intervals to dose this amount, each dose will be 4ml. 4ml of sodium bicarbonate into 5 gallons of water at one shot will cause a sharp rise in kH and such shock to corals do not promote optimal growth.

You can opt for Balling Light Method, the trace elements are added in to you Ca/Mg/kH solutions and you do not have to dose the trace elements individually anymore.

http://www.reef-support.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4