EvolutionZ's Floating Reef

[EvolutionZ]

Updates:

Went for a week long holiday, came back realised AIO Biopellet reactor is off-ed. Dosing container (Ca, kH) Both empty, which i forgot to replenish before i left! Luckily things were fine when i got back, just loads of algae and kH was at 6+.

Did a 30% WC to 'balance' everything.


New addition, 8 pieces of Red spot cardinal, they started feeding on frozen rotifers hours after adding in. Was told their survival rate are low, fingers crossed


Some new additions

Baby RBTA


Strawberry fields


Optic Fibre pocci


Despite the issues above, noticed new growth tip from this blue tip green stag!


Some old stuffs..

Sunset Monti, Shifted this frag many times and guess what, turns out it prefers the sandbed most!


Red Planet


Old purpleish-green color is returning to this old frag!


Aussie duncan

[EvolutionZ]

Full tank shot! As you can see, im battling tons of algae now! I probably used too little AIO Biopellet (150g?) thus po4 is not being reduced efficiently. I started rowaphos today with a TLF phosban 150 reactor and will be reverting back to Vinegar dosing + Rowaphos. Strange enough, salifert been reading 0.1 no3 and 0 po4 all the while. I do know salifert's po4 test kit cannot be trusted though!


Thats all for today. Thanks for viewing!

[Jabby]

Great update as always. Nice, great effort.

[longyi]

Very nice update and see alot of nice pics too.
Go for holiday enjoy good good, come back work hard hard on maintainance.

[EvolutionZ]

Originally Posted by longyi

Very nice update and see alot of nice pics too.
Go for holiday enjoy good good, come back work hard hard on maintainance.

Thanks! Indeed! Battling algae. Going for long long 'holiday' at an island soon liao

[Shawnsp]

Originally Posted by EvolutionZ

Thanks! Indeed! Battling algae. Going for long long 'holiday' at an island soon liao

Remember to top up ur dosing container and enjoy ur island holiday..

[EvolutionZ]

Update:

Its been a week since i started running Rowaphos and its been 4 days since i stopped running AIO Biopellets. Friend was kind enough to help me test my po4 with a Hanna checker and astonishingly, my po4 is at 0.11ppm! Cant image the po4 level 1 week before (Which i've yet to start rowaphos).

Now for some coral pics!

A Pretty crocea!


I've noticed some color changes after i stopped AIO and started rowaphos.

Blue tip are starting to appear on my ice fire


Desalwi's green is coming back


Purple bonsai's purple is coming back too


Bali slimmer previously was almost brown!


Brown-ed out SSC


Recently acquired SSC also browned out!


Luckily color of my fav SSC is still not too bad


Loving this blue tenius, my first 'test water' frag for this tank turns out the be a beauty, should've bought a colony instead!

[EvolutionZ]

2 new addition from auzzie




As you can see from the coral pictures above, you can spot a great amount of green hair algae, brown algae and some cyano. Bought a sea hare hoping it will do some good!

I've also been stocking up pretty fast and should be stopping collection of anymore fishes!

Fish list now :

1 x True perc
4 x Blue Eye Anthias
2 x Dispar anthias
3 x Red spot cardinal (Damn, 5 died! 1 a day!)
1 x Mandarin
1 x Fairy solon wrasse
1 x Melanurus Wrasse
1 x Fork tail Blenny
1 x Midas Blenny

Clean Up Crew:

6 x Sand-sifting star
10 x nassarius snail
4 x Astrea Snail
4 x Turbo Snail
4 x Spiny astrea snail
2 x Red leg hermit crab
1 x Abalone
1 x Sea Hare


Total of 16 fishes! Most of them are small (1") only the mel and solon wrasse are bigger. Most are on TDO pellets only some new additions are yet to be trained.

FTS


Thats all for now! Thanks for viewing!

[EvolutionZ]

Originally Posted by Shawnsp

Remember to top up ur dosing container and enjoy ur island holiday..

yah loh, 2 weeks 'holiday' no top up sure come back become white christmas

[longyi]

Very nice pics, your coral reef growth has improve alot and look amazing.
Good job done and enjoy your holidays.