47G SPS...Revamp

[M007]

Some lovely Acro you have there

 

[MichaelW]

Great colors buddy. Top quality photos. I would like a quick recap of current params and any extra dosing you are doing right now.
All looks good.

 

[ryanrid]

Nice colours captain

 

[jackson6745]

The tank is making it to the next level Keep it up. Very impressed. Photo quality is awesome.

 

[cFloor]

Looking sooo good! Amazing colors, good growth and that FTS is just awesome. Good stuff buddy

 

[jrpdriver]

Very nice, I cut some Pink Lemonade frags and a couple of them got that blue ring on the new encrusting growth, still not sure what causes it. Great job on the colors and the photots

 

[.Pandy.]

Incredible SPS, and photography to go with it.

 

[rovster]

Amazing!!!!! That bubblegum mille is off the chain!!!!!!!

 

[reefmutt]

Holy crazy colored corals, Batman!!!
Absolutely stunning!!!
I'm going back to look at them again!!!!

 

[Reefvet]

Many polyps have turned almost a deep red......Bubblegum Millepora - that white patch is actually light blue but on the photo is mostly blown out.

That coloring suggests you have nice high levels of potassium/iodide/iodine.

Whatever you're dosing, you're near the max you want to use. I'd bet you've probably done less maintenance in the last 3-6 months, i.e. media have run longer, smaller water changes, less siphoning of the sand.

You're out of ionic balance but in a good way :bounce3:

Frags; the older frag grew when I began to feed the tank crazy. The frag behind is a new cutting from one of the colonies which hasnt quite picked up the green pigment (old tissue takes longer to colour up? I dont know).

The encrusted frag has been getting less light from fewer bulbs, simply by proximity & angle to the bulbs, so the par is lower and the spectrum more limited. It's also getting a more laminar flow being near the back wall of the tank and it's been there a while.

Your powerheads are pointed into the tank from the sides and corners and they create more turbulence there as they push water into the center. The flow is more uniform at the back wall of the tank as it creates a barrier to the turbulence. That's what we call 'barrier effect' in the lab. A pretty obvious term but an effect that's often not recognized because the turbulent flow is very visible at the surface and on the sand. In a small tank that influence is very dynamic because there's less dissipation of energy from the powerheads before they are unified by the barrier.

The darker frag grew in more turbulence and more white light. Notice the difference in the corallites, they're growing at a tangent and longer. It will take it several months to get any green growth but if that's what you want then leave it right where it is. :idea:

 

[bdehlin]

Wow! Those colors are great!

 

[sahin]

true color, true performance.... Excellent!!!

Wow Sahin, ridiculous! Things look amazing, super colors and the corals like +++ healthy!

Those colors! :inlove:

Beautiful photography as usual, great shot of the mandarin. Love them but I doubt I'll own one in my current tank, too many wrasses on my wishlist that'll compete.

Photos, I fell out of my chair!

Things are looking really great Sahin, good job! Love the photos and the closeups. I think it's hilarious how you more experienced reefers are somehow able to fit more acros in a 47 gallons than I can in my 150.

The tank is still stunning Sahin. I particularly enjoyed how you captured the fish poo in this picture.

Beautiful Sahin! Loving the red planet and your chubby mandarin!

very nice !

He appears to only have one at the moment.

Some lovely Acro you have there

Nice colours captain

The tank is making it to the next level Keep it up. Very impressed. Photo quality is awesome.

Looking sooo good! Amazing colors, good growth and that FTS is just awesome. Good stuff buddy

Very nice, I cut some Pink Lemonade frags and a couple of them got that blue ring on the new encrusting growth, still not sure what causes it. Great job on the colors and the photots

Incredible SPS, and photography to go with it.

Amazing!!!!! That bubblegum mille is off the chain!!!!!!!

Holy crazy colored corals, Batman!!!
Absolutely stunning!!!
I'm going back to look at them again!!!!

Wow! Those colors are great!

Thanks guys. Still not feeling 100% and have been slack on tank maintenance etc.

Here are current water parameters:
S.G.: 1.026 (Deltec Refract. Calibrated with Salifert 35ppt Solution)
Ca: 420ppm (API)
Alk: 7.5dKH (Salifert)(dipped last week to 6dKH as I was unwell and not testing)
Mg: 1250ppm (Salifert)
K+: 400ppm (Salifert)
PO4: 0.02ppm (Elos Merck HiRes Kit)
NO3: 0.2ppm (salifert)
Temp: 79-81'F

That coloring suggests you have nice high levels of potassium/iodide/iodine.

Whatever you're dosing, you're near the max you want to use. I'd bet you've probably done less maintenance in the last 3-6 months, i.e. media have run longer, smaller water changes, less siphoning of the sand.

You're out of ionic balance but in a good way :bounce3:

The encrusted frag has been getting less light from fewer bulbs, simply by proximity & angle to the bulbs, so the par is lower and the spectrum more limited. It's also getting a more laminar flow being near the back wall of the tank and it's been there a while.

Your powerheads are pointed into the tank from the sides and corners and they create more turbulence there as they push water into the center. The flow is more uniform at the back wall of the tank as it creates a barrier to the turbulence. That's what we call 'barrier effect' in the lab. A pretty obvious term but an effect that's often not recognized because the turbulent flow is very visible at the surface and on the sand. In a small tank that influence is very dynamic because there's less dissipation of energy from the powerheads before they are unified by the barrier.

The darker frag grew in more turbulence and more white light. Notice the difference in the corallites, they're growing at a tangent and longer. It will take it several months to get any green growth but if that's what you want then leave it right where it is. :idea:

Apart from last couple of weeks I've been dosing weekly 10% or more water changes. I did start to use Tropic Marin salt some months ago; was using D&D before that. Changed as I was tired of the brown crud left in the bucket.

FWIW; I was using the Fauna Marin complete Balling system before and never obtained the green in the Red Planet like now.

The other main change in the past 3-6 months is having stopped all GFO usage, stopped the Prodibio and have been feeding the tank like CRAZY.

I'm sorry you haven't been well lately buddy, hope you're on the mend

Everyone knows that aussies get ripped off the worst for everything to do with reef keeping so stop ya whining Sahin and Shih.........

Are you a noodle stacker Sahin or do you just have them all jiggly wiggly together ?

Thanks mate, feeling bit better and am on the mend.

Bloody Aussies get LPS and SPS colonies for cheap...we get leftover frags for high $$$'s.

The noodles are all jiggly wiggly together mate. I cant be ar$ed to arrange the hundreds of them all inline with the earths magnetic field...

Where are the brown turds? I cannot see any:spin3:!

I still have at least 4 complete brown turds...though one of them has started to get a green base and the new growth is blue.

stunning...these corals are looking like perfection....I must ask, with the High Par your corals are probably getting, how did you achieve the green in the red planet?

Most of my acros get 350 PAR. A few of them as high as 450. However, in the past I've found my corals to do just as well under 200-250 PAR average.

Water quality and nutrition IME is far more important once you hit decent (200+ PAR levels).

I've had the Red Planet for about 3 years...this is the first time I've really managed to pulled the green pigment. IMO its down to all the food I've been chucking into the tank.

Hi Sahin, your corals are so healthy with nice PE and vibrant colors. I especially love the Bubble Gum Millie.

By the way, have you posted somewhere your par values of your tank?

Thanks Bernie. I posted the parameters above.

Great colors buddy. Top quality photos. I would like a quick recap of current params and any extra dosing you are doing right now.
All looks good.

Parameters posted above my friend. Coral Vitaliser/AquaVitro Fuel/KZ Amino Acids. Though I have stopped dosing for the time being. Coral Vitaliser/AquaVitro Fuel/KZ Amino Acids are very good at providing the corals energy/food. However, use too much too often and the corals darken up.

Ive been feeding the fish like crazy and still feed a lot. That should do for now. Just waiting on the smaller frags to grow.

 

[naecO.rM]

Hi,
Great tank and great history!
Thanks for your topic mate!
What the food menu do you use now for the fishes and how often do you feed them?
Thanks.

 

[plyle02]

Wow,
Sahin, the recent photos are sweet, your trending in the proper direction, the colors look amazing, great job buddy

 

[fessoclown]

looking so good, great pictures! (Been lurking in your thread for a long time)
Truly inspirational. Looks like you are officially out of the "brown club" despite a couple of hold-outs!
I am firmly embedded in that club at the moment and it is nice to see there is hope!

 

[sahin]

Hi,
Great tank and great history!
Thanks for your topic mate!
What the food menu do you use now for the fishes and how often do you feed them?
Thanks.

Thank you for the compliment.

Daily Food Summary:

Via Eheim autofeeder x 3 serving a day: Mixture of different flakes -
Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef Flakes
Ocean Nutrition Spirulina Flakes
New Era Algae Flakes
New Life Spectrum Marine Formula Pellets

Manually:
1-2 cubes Brine Shrimp
1-2 Cubes Mysis
Small pinch size amount of seafood mix (my buddy made a version of seafood which is very similar to Rods Reef Food or Roggers Reef Mix

Wow,
Sahin, the recent photos are sweet, your trending in the proper direction, the colors look amazing, great job buddy

Thanks buddy. Yeah, I need to keep things going as they are and not make any big changes of mess anything up.

looking so good, great pictures! (Been lurking in your thread for a long time)
Truly inspirational. Looks like you are officially out of the "brown club" despite a couple of hold-outs!
I am firmly embedded in that club at the moment and it is nice to see there is hope!

Thanks man. You know what, it took a long time, but I guess I am. Now I only have 3 turds remaining. All the rest either have really nice colour or are decent enough and getting better.

Equipment Update: So, a while back I made a thread and asked about which doser to buy to replace my Fauna Marin doser which served me well for many years, but the screen had become faulty.

This was the doser: basically a rebranded GHL unit.

Introducing the Kore 5th Doser

This unit appears to be very well made. I love the magnetic stirrer; I am going to setup the unit to dose the following in the next few months:

1. Calcium
2. Bicarbonate
3. Fauna Marin Colour Element A
4. Fauna Marin Colour Element B
5. Fauna Marin Colour Element C

I am going to introduce the Colour Elements in a few months to tweak colours.

Loving this doser. I bought the kit with the temp sensor, auto top off and water changer. Next year I plan to upgrade and the auto top off will be handy used to top off a frag tank or back up system.

Next I have the Neptune Apex on my mind. I had a chat with my boss at work and if I put in a little extra effort, I will be in line for a nice bonus. So, I am going to treat the tank (myself :lol to another tank toy.

 

[MichaelW]

Wow that's a lot of food for that size tank. Where does is all go?! Doser looks awesome. Are you talking about faua marin color elements (red, blue, green) or do you meantrace 123 that go in balling lite? I have been interested in adding color elements.

 

[sahin]

Wow that's a lot of food for that size tank. Where does is all go?! Doser looks awesome. Are you talking about faua marin color elements (red, blue, green) or do you mean trace 123 that go in balling lite? I have been interested in adding color elements.

This is the FM Colour Elements product:

Not sure on dosing though...Krzysztof Tryc uses it occasionally on his amazing reef.

 

[naecO.rM]

Sahin,
Thank you for the answer .
The food menu is awesome!
What filtration method do you use now to keep NO3 and PO4 at the low level?

 

[MichaelW]

This is the FM Colour Elements product:

Not sure on dosing though...Krzysztof Tryc uses it occasionally on his amazing reef.

Yeah same ones I'm talking about. His reef is why I have been interested in all in one biopellets and the fauna marin color elements. One of the best reefs out there