A corner in Taiwan

Really like the the acro in the first picture. Can you tell me what it's called?

Sorry that I am not sure which one you refer to...

The one below I think it is Acropora loripes, but also can be Acropora Granulosa
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This one below someone once told me it is Acropora Speciosa, but I have doubt...
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Sorry, no good answer any...
 
Beautiful reef and mostly automated too! I am tagging along to learn.

Thanks!

Thanks. I will continue try hard on self-maintain tank (with help by dosing system and controller ;-)).
BTW, last weekend there were many places in Taiwan lost power due to storm, that remind me even my setup include a PC grade UPS may not keep my survive long enough. That will be my tank project. Welcome to throw some idea to me.
 
Thanks. I will continue try hard on self-maintain tank (with help by dosing system and controller ;-)).
BTW, last weekend there were many places in Taiwan lost power due to storm, that remind me even my setup include a PC grade UPS may not keep my survive long enough. That will be my tank project. Welcome to throw some idea to me.

I need to work on this issue myself. I have a small portable Honda generator and if I'm around, I figure I have a couple hours to crank it up and plug my main pump and a heater into it. If away on business, this isn't going to be much good.

Running just the pump and a heater on a UPS (battery backup) would be helpful for 4-24 hours of power depending on how large the UPS is.

After that, you are talking about a lot of money for a fully automated generator that will kick itself on in the event of a power failure. In that scenario, your equipment is protected until you run out of gas (a few days maybe?)

Anyone else know more about this?
 
Thanks, Alexandre. I learnt my KZ directly or indirectly from you and the reason I choose Zeovit, not how easy to success in color, but how easy to get precise feedback when in trouble. ZZ was not very success on me, but I just figure out that I might use it the wrong way. I usually separated Bak and ZZ dosing. In fact, I was on purpose dosing Bak in Zeovit reactor four hours before I dose ZZ+Snow+Biomat, and I might not dose enough. What is your suggestion of ZZ dosing volume? My tank is 120 gallon display tank with high SPS density, sump is about 40 gallon.

I do like my GHL dose system, there are a few reefers in Taiwan use up to 16 heads with Zeovit system. :lmao:

Hello shih87,
Thank you for the reminder and I'm happy to have helped a friend of the hobby.
As for ZeoZym I got success in fighting the Cyans when used so as follows:
Dosing the usual amount of ZEObak + Zeozym (recommended quantity for the total volume of water - I place a spoon dose to your volume of water) + 1 to 2 ml (optional) Coral Snow.
Let stand for 8 hours the mixture (in the refrigerator).
Apply with the skimmer off for 2 hours.
Used for one week and 30 days after the Cyan gone.

There is also a more radical treatment, if I may say so. I never did, but people who have achieved success with it.
3 teaspoons in 1 liter of aquarium water per 1000 gallons of system volume for the 1st day;
Then apply 1 teaspoon in 1 liter to 1000 liters of the system. It goes from 2nd to 7th day.
After the first week applied twice a week 1 teaspoon in 1 liter to 1000 liters of the system.
In this case there arises the Coral Snow, but let it sit for 8 hours in the refrigerator and apply to the skimmer off for 2 hours.

I know some people who failed to eliminate Cyan with this treatment. Therefore, each system is unique.
Note well the most delicate corals throughout treatment, as in the case of early rtn or stn stop treatment and adjust the dosage may decrease the amount of ZZ or even remove the Coral Snow.
Hope this helps.
A hug,
Alexandre George.
 
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I need to work on this issue myself. I have a small portable Honda generator and if I'm around, I figure I have a couple hours to crank it up and plug my main pump and a heater into it. If away on business, this isn't going to be much good.

Running just the pump and a heater on a UPS (battery backup) would be helpful for 4-24 hours of power depending on how large the UPS is.

After that, you are talking about a lot of money for a fully automated generator that will kick itself on in the event of a power failure. In that scenario, your equipment is protected until you run out of gas (a few days maybe?)

Anyone else know more about this?

Excellent information. One of the reefers in Taiwan suggest to go with the following device, but it won't automatic start like on-line or off-line UPS, isn't it? I am not sure about that. All my plan are around "what if it happen when I am not home"

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Hello shih87,
Thank you for the reminder and I'm happy to have helped a friend of the hobby.
As for ZeoZym I got success in fighting the Cyans when used so as follows:
Dosing the usual amount of ZEObak + Zeozym (recommended quantity for the total volume of water - I place a spoon dose to your volume of water) + 1 to 2 ml (optional) Coral Snow.
Let stand for 8 hours the mixture (in the refrigerator).
Apply with the skimmer off for 2 hours.
Used for one week and 30 days after the Cyan gone.

There is also a more radical treatment, if I may say so. I never did, but people who have achieved success with it.
3 teaspoons in 1 liter of aquarium water per 1000 gallons of system volume for the 1st day;
Then apply 1 teaspoon in 1 liter to 1000 liters of the system. It goes from 2nd to 7th day.
After the first week applied twice a week 1 teaspoon in 1 liter to 1000 liters of the system.
In this case there arises the Coral Snow, but let it sit for 8 hours in the refrigerator and apply to the skimmer off for 2 hours.

I know some people who failed to eliminate Cyan with this treatment. Therefore, each system is unique.
Note well the most delicate corals throughout treatment, as in the case of early rtn or stn stop treatment and adjust the dosage may decrease the amount of ZZ or even remove the Coral Snow.
Hope this helps.
A hug,
Alexandre George.


Thanks for the great inputs. I think this time I follow pretty similar to your guideline here, except one point that I am not clear here... What happen if after one week continue treatment with ZZ but Cyan still exist? Should I continue ZZ dosing daily or stop anyway. Thanks.
 
Excellent information. One of the reefers in Taiwan suggest to go with the following device, but it won't automatic start like on-line or off-line UPS, isn't it? I am not sure about that. All my plan are around "what if it happen when I am not home"

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Now you've got me thinking! I just found these articles about fixed standby generators with automatic transfer capability. This provides an automatic cutover in the event of a power loss and could be supplemented with a UPS. Yes, I know... It sounds expensive and is but I don't know just how expensive it would be for a smaller system.

http://www.smps.us/home-generators.html

http://www.baldor.com/products/generators/ae.asp

http://www.electricgeneratorsdirect...-Pick-the-Perfect-Home-Standby-Generator.html
 
Excellent information. One of the reefers in Taiwan suggest to go with the following device, but it won't automatic start like on-line or off-line UPS, isn't it? I am not sure about that. All my plan are around "what if it happen when I am not home"

Best would be to have just a bubbler or powerhead on the UPS. No need for light or heater in Taiwan. That will give you the most run time out of your UPS.

Back up generator is something you could teach your wife or local hobbyist friend to turn on when you're out of town. Just make sure you have enough fuel around with stabil or else the fuel goes bad. You should also rotate the fuel.

Has anyone thought of using a solar panel as a back up instead of a gas generator?
 
Best would be to have just a bubbler or powerhead on the UPS. No need for light or heater in Taiwan. That will give you the most run time out of your UPS.

Back up generator is something you could teach your wife or local hobbyist friend to turn on when you're out of town. Just make sure you have enough fuel around with stabil or else the fuel goes bad. You should also rotate the fuel.

Has anyone thought of using a solar panel as a back up instead of a gas generator?


If just powering a small pump, a large solar panel combined with a battery backup might be a really good idea. In fact, you might be able to have it running on your system all the time in conjunction with your primary pump. If you lost the primary pump, the solar powered pump would continue to run. Albeit the pump would probably be small and underpowered for normal use but if the solar panel could generate enough power to sustain it, you could just have it running perpetually. At least it would keep the tank oxygenated. Just thinking.
 
Now you've got me thinking! I just found these articles about fixed standby generators with automatic transfer capability. This provides an automatic cutover in the event of a power loss and could be supplemented with a UPS. Yes, I know... It sounds expensive and is but I don't know just how expensive it would be for a smaller system.

http://www.smps.us/home-generators.html

http://www.baldor.com/products/generators/ae.asp

http://www.electricgeneratorsdirect...-Pick-the-Perfect-Home-Standby-Generator.html

Wow!!! These look like industrial grade or US house only. I am not sure I can use it in Taiwan when most of people live in an apartment (New York style!? that is how I tell myself). However, I am still research like you, let's keep the momentum on this topic and thank for helping me on brainstorming.
 
Best would be to have just a bubbler or powerhead on the UPS. No need for light or heater in Taiwan. That will give you the most run time out of your UPS.

Back up generator is something you could teach your wife or local hobbyist friend to turn on when you're out of town. Just make sure you have enough fuel around with stabil or else the fuel goes bad. You should also rotate the fuel.

Has anyone thought of using a solar panel as a back up instead of a gas generator?

If just powering a small pump, a large solar panel combined with a battery backup might be a really good idea. In fact, you might be able to have it running on your system all the time in conjunction with your primary pump. If you lost the primary pump, the solar powered pump would continue to run. Albeit the pump would probably be small and underpowered for normal use but if the solar panel could generate enough power to sustain it, you could just have it running perpetually. At least it would keep the tank oxygenated. Just thinking.

Before I found a better solution, on-line UPS is my current plan (the old one expeired, plan to buy a new one soon). Or should I go with off-line UPS!?
I plan to place a Tunze 6105 on the same water level when power outage happen, I assume then the 6105 should generate some currents with lots of air bubbles since I will position it to have 1/4 inch above the water.
It should take care tank currents and keep it oxygenated.
What you guys think? Bad plan?


I used to have large solar system on roof when lived in Bay area,
but it only juice back to power company and give me credit on my electric bill.

Chris, do you have any particular solar device in your mind? Again, it might be difficult to use it in Taiwan, but I would still like to know.


Amazing tank, and amazing dosing setup!

Thanks, though still lots to learn and improve. The 4th set of GHL doser system is coming... once I found a space to put it. :lmao:
 
Chris, do you have any particular solar device in your mind? Again, it might be difficult to use it in Taiwan, but I would still like to know.

I wish I had more to offer but I've never owned a solar device myself. Now if all you are wanting is to run a small pump, then you can find an inexpensive off the shelf UPS and calculate how long it will run off of one charge. You should be able to get an affordable UPS that will run for several days and just run that pump off the UPS all the time. I'm going to look into this for my main pump (80watt) because I just need 24 hours max runtime. That will give plenty of time to have someone crank up the generator if needed for an emergency.
 
I wish I had more to offer but I've never owned a solar device myself. Now if all you are wanting is to run a small pump, then you can find an inexpensive off the shelf UPS and calculate how long it will run off of one charge. You should be able to get an affordable UPS that will run for several days and just run that pump off the UPS all the time. I'm going to look into this for my main pump (80watt) because I just need 24 hours max runtime. That will give plenty of time to have someone crank up the generator if needed for an emergency.

I used to prepare for about 4 hours power outage, but this time the typhoon damage many places power outage over 48 hours. I think I better prepare a UPS for 48 hours at least ;-(
 
Allow me show you how lucky I think Taiwan reefers are... The quality of frozen brine shrimp & rotifer IMO much better than what I used to get in US ;-) with a very reasonable price (pretty much half price than US)



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I wish I had more to offer but I've never owned a solar device myself. Now if all you are wanting is to run a small pump, then you can find an inexpensive off the shelf UPS and calculate how long it will run off of one charge. You should be able to get an affordable UPS that will run for several days and just run that pump off the UPS all the time. I'm going to look into this for my main pump (80watt) because I just need 24 hours max runtime. That will give plenty of time to have someone crank up the generator if needed for an emergency.

I used to prepare for about 4 hours power outage, but this time the typhoon damage many places power outage over 48 hours. I think I better prepare a UPS for 48 hours at least ;-(

Humm.... I am a bit confuse which one I should get? An on-line UPS or an off-line UPS? I originally thought that of course an on-line one, but my friend told me off-line fit my goal better!? Any advice?
 
Would use Aquastik cause skimmer go crazy?

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I used to glue my corals but there is one coral keep fall down to sand bed, so I give Aquastik a try. However, I immediately found my skimmer (Bubble King Double King 200) bubble went sky high and overflow happen. I took all Aquastik material out (after just about 30 minutes in tank) but that did not stop overflow. I keep my skimmer run for overnight, it getting better but from time to time the overflow happen. My BK skimmer run for at least 18 months, it always very stable, I don't even need to worry it during my out of town days.

Since I have another trip coming, I can't let the skimmer in such unstable state. I suspect even my tank run normal, but during that 30 minutes, enough oil (?) attached to my skimmer body!?
Anyway.... I decide to take it out from my sump, clean the body and its pump.

The body is quite dirty after I cleaned it just two months ago (1st May, 2013)
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Pump also dirty outside but the core seems not too bad (last clean date was 1st May , 2013)
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10 minutes after clean, problem seems solved
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