A Smart? Aquarium in Taiwan...

[shih87]

Tank has been set up over 3 months but till now I have my dosing system ready. I was struggle where to put these bottles close enough to my GHL but not occupy rest of space in working area. So, there you go, I can put them on side door ;-)

Left: KZ Start3(25%), BWA Ferrion(100%), KZ Xtra(100%), KZ AA (5%)

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door close

Right side: MgCl2(500g/L)丶CaCl2(300g/L)丶baking soda(300g/4L)丶KCl(250g/L)

door close

dose to sump

 

[Bilk]

Shih, seeing that you have a dedicated container for Fe (iron), can you explain your dosing regimen and what supplement you are using? What testing kit do you use for Fe? Also, what positive effects have you witnessed from regularly dosing Fe?

 

[sahin]

How does the Iron affect your SPS colours? Which test kit are you using to determine levels? Thanks.

 

[shih87]

Shih, seeing that you have a dedicated container for Fe (iron), can you explain your dosing regimen and what supplement you are using? What testing kit do you use for Fe? Also, what positive effects have you witnessed from regularly dosing Fe?

How does the Iron affect your SPS colours? Which test kit are you using to determine levels? Thanks.

Due to KZ Iron concentrator is hard to well mixed with distilled water (other KZ solution are fine to dilute), so I choose BWA Ferrion which dosing volume unit is ml, not drops;-)

I use RedSea Fe test kit, but it is just a reference. I rather watch my algae grow and green color on my strawberry cake to decide if I should increase or lower my dosing volume. Throw me your suggestion if any, please.

Below is definitely NOT the strawberry cake color I would expect....I will post again once it turn to true bright green and red color.

 

[shih87]

Just got my GHL new part. Time to fix my GHL screen dead pixels...

From that

To this...

 

[glaukos]

Shih you have done an amazing job with that stand!
I envy so badly,your organizing skills buddy,wish i could do it too

 

[Aleks677]

Awesome! All very high quality and well thought out.
I look forward to updates.

 

[AhmedLFC]

nice work man corals looking great. How are you Anthias doing?

My colours just now starting to ping

 

[shih87]

Shih you have done an amazing job with that stand!
I envy so badly,your organizing skills buddy,wish i could do it too

Thanks. I believe every one can do better than me.... I just need something to kill time ;-)

Awesome! All very high quality and well thought out.
I look forward to updates.

Sorry for late update. I was busy on boss new assignments these days...

nice work man corals looking great. How are you Anthias doing?

My colours just now starting to ping

Anthias looks ok, but three times a day feeding them drive me crazing. I will make my auto feeder fully ready soon"¦

Except youtube video, I can't find your link in RC forum, can you share link to me? Thx"¦.

 

[shih87]

It is time to glue my birdsnest to rock to avoid it repeatedly drop to sandbed….:headwally::headwally::headwally:

New look ...

 

[Art13]

Due to KZ Iron concentrator is hard to well mixed with distilled water (other KZ solution are fine to dilute), so I choose BWA Ferrion which dosing volume unit is ml, not drops;-)

I use RedSea Fe test kit, but it is just a reference. I rather watch my algae grow and green color on my strawberry cake to decide if I should increase or lower my dosing volume. Throw me your suggestion if any, please.

Below is definitely NOT the strawberry cake color I would expect....I will post again once it turn to true bright green and red color.

That strawberry is one of my favorite acro's and i was reading a thread on them that in high light they will lose the green color and lighten up, and get the deeper colors when they are in a less lit area. I personally can not test that or have no firsthand knowledge with that, as i don't have one right now, but maybe something to look into?

 

[shih87]

That strawberry is one of my favorite acro's and i was reading a thread on them that in high light they will lose the green color and lighten up, and get the deeper colors when they are in a less lit area. I personally can not test that or have no firsthand knowledge with that, as i don't have one right now, but maybe something to look into?

I may give it a try, thanks.

 

[shih87]

Got these 4 coral for ~US$15. They left at corner in LFS tank, I pick them back. US$15 for 4 coral plus tons of flat warm, eggs, and their bites"¦. I hope CoralX and my brush clean all of them"¦.

Latest FTS...

 

[david76]

Wow! very nice setup and beautiful aquascaping! I like this FTS...very natural and realistic. And nice colors too... Congratulations!

 

[sahin]

Got these 4 coral for ~US$15. They left at corner in LFS tank, I pick them back. US$15 for 4 coral plus tons of flat warm, eggs, and their bites"¦. I hope CoralX and my brush clean all of them"¦.

Hello buddy. Personall, I wouldnt have risked my tank with those corals. Did you QT them for a couple of weeks? There is possibility the small/tiny AEFW's bury themself within the tissue. Dont mean to scare you, but to increase safety, I would take them out after 2 days and dip and baste them. Let them recover and repeat.

Hope all goes well. I hate AEFW so much. :headwallblue:

 

[shih87]

Wow! very nice setup and beautiful aquascaping! I like this FTS...very natural and realistic. And nice colors too... Congratulations!

Thanks. I do enjoy this phase of buying and adding new corals :lol:

Hello buddy. Personall, I wouldnt have risked my tank with those corals. Did you QT them for a couple of weeks? There is possibility the small/tiny AEFW's bury themself within the tissue. Dont mean to scare you, but to increase safety, I would take them out after 2 days and dip and baste them. Let them recover and repeat.

Hope all goes well. I hate AEFW so much. :headwallblue:

Hmmm now you scare me, especial after your AEFW study early this year. Maybe I should take it out and dump it ... I don't have a QT tank as for now....:sad2:

 

[shih87]

Does this look right to you!?


02.16.2015

04.21.2015

 

[Elton Wng]

Can I ask you do the same thing on my tank?

 

[AkoAung]

wow nice readings. your colonies are growing well from just those two pics.

 

[shih87]

Can I ask you do the same thing on my tank?

You can have the PAR reader, but I can't give you a hand since I will always busy on playing video game with your son when visit...

wow nice readings. your colonies are growing well from just those two pics.

Staghorn and just a few did grow well, but most ... still waiting for them awake and grow...

In fact, I am not sure I have mentioned this before. My old Redsea KH test kit are expired long time ago, so my KH were actually 11.0 dKh :mad2:
I start lowering my KH since two weeks ago, now I gradually lower it to 9.6, still a long way to drop to 7.5 dHK, my desired KH value. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: