A Smart? Aquarium in Taiwan...

[shih87]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5dcKKRakk

A strong typhoon hit the entire Taiwan just now so my flight delay one day to London... but nothing I want to do on this kind of weather.... I was plan to swap to AF component a,b,c these days, but looks like should delay a few days....Worry lost power soon...

 

[shih87]

That birdsnest is the same as what everyone here calls ponape birdsnest, mine will only get that in lower par and low nutrients. Yours looks great! That yellow tip blue polyp austera is crazy under all that light and I am assuming the copper sulphate helps keep the branches so light colored. Never seen one so light and bright. I do love them with nutrients in the tank too but that's different for sure . That "wd" tenuis is going to be beautiful. There are a number of color variants coming in that are similar or close to the same as the Walt disney and all of them look great under normal lighting. There is no need for people to blast them with blue led light like they do here. Mine gets a nice sky blue on the underside of the branches and looks similar to yours. Post a pic when it starts growing if you would.

well said...

I am also excited if that WD turn to the way I expected. Stay tuned.......

 

[reefmutt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5dcKKRakk

A strong typhoon hit the entire Taiwan just now so my flight delay one day to London... but nothing I want to do on this kind of weather.... I was plan to swap to AF component a,b,c these days, but looks like should delay a few days....Worry lost power soon...

Wow!! That is scary!
The tank is looking beautiful Shih. Very curious to see your transition to AF/KZ hybrid. I think you will do a great job combining the two.
Good luck with the typhoon!

 

[shih87]

months ago LFS told me this is so call "Pikachu" but it was really really pale. So I only left it on a corner of my tank and did not pay attention a while.....Today's typhoon keep me home so I take a good look of tank and found it now turn more like a Pikachu

Good thing to spend a whole day to exam my tank (oh, I postpone my UK trip to next week)
This one has clear bite mark, but with CoralRX and strong current can't kick out anything.... Not sure what to do next....

 

[shih87]

Wow!! That is scary!
The tank is looking beautiful Shih. Very curious to see your transition to AF/KZ hybrid. I think you will do a great job combining the two.
Good luck with the typhoon!

It is so serious so they just announced tomorrow still off school/office....

I am not sure how thing turn when I swap bacteria, but swap trace elements additives should be fine. I hope.....

Only time can tell...I will keep my fingers crossed

 

[reefmutt]

months ago LFS told me this is so call "Pokemon" but it was really really pale. So I only left it on a corner of my tank and did not pay attention a while.....Today's typhoon keep me home so I take a good look of tank and found it now turn more like a Pokemon

Good thing to spend a whole day to exam my tank (oh, I postpone my UK trip to next week)
This one has clear bite mark, but with CoralRX and strong current can't kick out anything.... Not sure what to do next....

Beautiful shots!
Do you have peppermint shrimp?
Maybe try a mitratus butterfly. I wonder if mine would eat aefw, the way he looks at and pics at corals. He doesn't do any damage..

 

[africangrey]

I heard Typhone Megi has covered the entire Taiwan, hope everyone make out safely and Shih's aquarium has back up generator to sustain the oxygen demand.

 

[shih87]

Beautiful shots!
Do you have peppermint shrimp?
Maybe try a mitratus butterfly. I wonder if mine would eat aefw, the way he looks at and pics at corals. He doesn't do any damage..

I don't have peppermint shrimp, but have six line wrasse, mandarin goby, etc...I hope they did their job well...
I will dip CoralRX 7 days later, just in case....

I heard Typhone Megi has covered the entire Taiwan, hope everyone make out safely and Shih's aquarium has back up generator to sustain the oxygen demand.

Yes. I have a backup battery able to keep one tunze run for at least 12 hours. Hope I don't need to use it.

 

[shih87]

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[africangrey]

Is your success attributed by Zeovit or AF?

 

[tripdad]

Absolutely gorgeous corals and photo's! Tank is looking great, hope you and your family stay safe and well during typhoon.

 

[shih87]

Is your success attributed by Zeovit or AF?

I am not sure it should be call "success" but so far my tank performance is attributed by KZ system for sure.... I hope mixing KZ and AF can perform better later.

Absolutely gorgeous corals and photo's! Tank is looking great, hope you and your family stay safe and well during typhoon.

Thank you.

As you may not know, there are still many reefers in Taiwan suffer over 48 hours power outage due to typhoon Magi. Coral start dying and other sad thing happen.

I have tried both Tunze safety connector and Ecotech battery backup to prevent power outage especial for the scenario when power fail but I am NOT around. Both products work but either expensive or having compatibility issue with Apex power bar. So"¦"¦. one of my friend custom made a Power Guardian for me. It is specific for my Tunze wave maker unit but can use for any kind of pump with adapter change.

From now on, I only need to replace a car battery every 24(?) months with the solution much cheaper than Ecotech battery and less compatibility issue than Tunze safety backup.

Connect to Tunze adapter. 12.0v

Connect to a car battery 12.8v

 

[seachange]

This power guardian is custom made from your friend? Not for sale?


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[AkoAung]

wow look at this. Red dragon getting blue tips! I don't think I've seen this anywhere else before. I know typically it likes lower intensity of light but it might be liking where it's at best.
can you tell me how far it is from water surface and the height of water to the light bulbs?

Also love the yellow acro by the way. How long have you had it? We see that acro in maricultured mini colonies often in Canada but they often turn green in our tanks so very few of us ever try keeping them.

 

[vinhle00]

forget the red dragon what is that orange thing next to it :0!

 

[biecacka]

Great looking tank my friend. How do you like the bk250? I went with the 200 on my 240 and love it. Is your skimmer consistent? It looks to be as your tank is amazing

Corey

 

[Wally.B]

Hi Shih,

I just read through your whole thread. Amazing setup, spectacular tank. Great automation!!

After a struggle with Hair Algae (after playing to much with Coral OVER Feeding, and too much RED LED light), I decided to custom build a new Sump with a built in Algae Scrubber.

Now with Scrubber running and Limited Red Light in tank, I have algae under total control. However I think I've built a too good scrubber, and I'm running very low on nutrients since corals are fading. These are just small frags since I lost pretty well everything over last while (many reasons).

I'm tackling the low nutrient problem with extra fish feeding, Some Coral Feeding (AF Coral Food, PolyBooster), and tuning down the scrubber...but want to go further.

So I've now just built a Audiuno DIY doser, and the number of dosing pumps I can add is unlimited. I'm Starting with 7 pumps (but two will be used for other tank Calc/Alk). So for this new startup tank, I have allocated Pumps as below:
(Pump 1) AquaForest Component 1,
(Pump 2) Component 2
(Pump 3) Component 3

I have 2 Pumps spare, and would like to use them for some additives. Some KZ and some AF (have a bunch I've collected over time in my cabinet. Not expired yet).

The question I have is how do you dose your additives when you can dose automatically? VS manual dose drops.

Do you calculate the number of drops of each additive/per month. Mix into some RO (eg 2 litres), and then dose that whole amount over a month?

Any advice on certain additives you never mix into the same RO diluted container?

 

[shih87]

wow look at this. Red dragon getting blue tips! I don't think I've seen this anywhere else before. I know typically it likes lower intensity of light but it might be liking where it's at best.
can you tell me how far it is from water surface and the height of water to the light bulbs?

Also love the yellow acro by the way. How long have you had it? We see that acro in maricultured mini colonies often in Canada but they often turn green in our tanks so very few of us ever try keeping them.

forget the red dragon what is that orange thing next to it :0!

I am sure the blue tips are more white balance result, end of more blue than it should be. My Red Dragon did seem like has blue tip even human eye from a distance, but close look it really not.

The right one is a Milli I believe, which also quite cheap. It s a relative new coral about 5 months old. I moved it to this new position after May.The color is strong yellow-orange. I was also surprised it keep orange still, hope it won't turn green.

 

[shih87]

Great looking tank my friend. How do you like the bk250? I went with the 200 on my 240 and love it. Is your skimmer consistent? It looks to be as your tank is amazing

Corey

I assume you meant my old Bubble King Double Cone 250? It is very stable skimmer and never need to worry unexpected thing happen. Very consistent the way I see.

I swap to Bubble King Deluxe 300 since I decide to buy myself a gift when visit US, and because its even quiet pump equipped. But the BK 250 is a good skimmer and that is why I keep it as backup skimmer even many reefers in Taiwan asked me to sale to them.

I am not sure if you aware that I also have a BK double cone 200 for my old tank. I keep that as well.... Don't know why.... Haha

 

[shih87]

Hi Shih,

I just read through your whole thread. Amazing setup, spectacular tank. Great automation!!

After a struggle with Hair Algae (after playing to much with Coral OVER Feeding, and too much RED LED light), I decided to custom build a new Sump with a built in Algae Scrubber.

Now with Scrubber running and Limited Red Light in tank, I have algae under total control. However I think I've built a too good scrubber, and I'm running very low on nutrients since corals are fading. These are just small frags since I lost pretty well everything over last while (many reasons).

I'm tackling the low nutrient problem with extra fish feeding, Some Coral Feeding (AF Coral Food, PolyBooster), and tuning down the scrubber...but want to go further.

So I've now just built a Audiuno DIY doser, and the number of dosing pumps I can add is unlimited. I'm Starting with 7 pumps (but two will be used for other tank Calc/Alk). So for this new startup tank, I have allocated Pumps as below:
(Pump 1) AquaForest Component 1,
(Pump 2) Component 2
(Pump 3) Component 3

I have 2 Pumps spare, and would like to use them for some additives. Some KZ and some AF (have a bunch I've collected over time in my cabinet. Not expired yet).

The question I have is how do you dose your additives when you can dose automatically? VS manual dose drops.

Do you calculate the number of drops of each additive/per month. Mix into some RO (eg 2 litres), and then dose that whole amount over a month?

Any advice on certain additives you never mix into the same RO diluted container?

I did not accumulate for one week for what KZ recommend to dose daily.There are certain KZ products that I still dose manually, such as CV, Amino, Bak, and Iron. They either need shake before dose or not mix well with distilled water (note I don't mix them with RD water). Others, yes, it is fine to dilute to 1:3 or 19:1 depend on volume. I consider 14 drop = 1 ml with KZ bottle, and that is how I calculate dosing volume per day.

I use 400 ml bottle (http://www.muji.tw/item_detail.aspx?CatID=17&PdtID=95&CodeID=4945247506761&NumID=0) to keep dilute solution and connect to dose pump.

Hope I did answer some of your questions here.

Cheers,