EvolutionZ 65 SPS dominated shallow reef

[evolutionZ]

another update !

my current fav! bonsai purple.


i had this green stag for a long time and was a boring piece of sps, recently started dosing brightwell iodion and to my surprise, it started growing and not only that, it was blue!



my teal & sunset millie


lime tenuis


red millie turned brown slowly comeing back


interesting teal stag which was brown when i got it!


SSC! growing steadily, hopefully will encrust fully soon!


red dragon & sunset monti.

 

[cpllongjk]

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[Arkayology]

How is that ruby red dragonet doing in your tank? It looks bigger than most that are coming in. Is it eating?

The SPS look awesome btw. I really like the deepwater you have.

 

[AbrahamS]

Awesome tank bro! Wich aditives and salt are you using ?

 

[evolutionZ]

How is that ruby red dragonet doing in your tank? It looks bigger than most that are coming in. Is it eating?

The SPS look awesome btw. I really like the deepwater you have.

the dragonet was doing great for a couple weeks but found it on the floor one day, didn't know they could jump. thanks!

Awesome tank bro! Wich aditives and salt are you using ?

thanks! i uses red sea coral Pro salt and as for additives, mainly :

Grotech ABCM
polyplab Polyp-Booster
Fauna Marin Reef vitality
Zeovit Coral Vitalizer

 

[AbrahamS]

wow but thats an insane progress i wish mine could be like yours some day! congratz! on that tank keep going and posting!

 

[sahin]

Looking superb! :thumbsup: Wow, what a nice tank.

This is a nice coral: I have the same thing in my tank, and all the tips are sky blue! Very nice.

Can you please share your thoughts on the FM Vitality? What does it do for your tank?

Also, how much rocks do you have in your tank in total?

Thanks.

 

[arron209]

Very nice! You have a great variety of colors. How often and how much are you dosing MicroBacter 7? Also what are your thoughts on it?

 

[evolutionZ]

wow but thats an insane progress i wish mine could be like yours some day! congratz! on that tank keep going and posting!

thank you so much!

Looking superb! :thumbsup: Wow, what a nice tank.

This is a nice coral: I have the same thing in my tank, and all the tips are sky blue! Very nice.

Can you please share your thoughts on the FM Vitality? What does it do for your tank?

Also, how much rocks do you have in your tank in total?

Thanks.

mine didnt grow at all for a long time! suddenly decided to sprout blue tips.

i have some frags (usually small to tiny ones) that refuse to grow until i dosed FM vitality, they look off (but slow), as for other corals their growth rate does seem to increase. However, if you have an unhealthy acro, dosing vitality will most likely make it RTN/STN.

i have about 50-55lbs of rocks inside.

Very nice! You have a great variety of colors. How often and how much are you dosing MicroBacter 7? Also what are your thoughts on it?

thanks! im dosing 10ml once a week, initially bought to battle cyano, but end up dosing FM bakto blend and the result was amazing, i continued dosing MB7 hoping to increase benificial bacterias.

 

[evolutionZ]

Some picture updates :

just fragged a few small branches out from this smooth skin acro. seems to be everyone's fav!


had a pretty huge deep red colony but recently decided to RTN, im left with this 2" fella.


red millie growing really fast after encrusting fully!


purple valida


birdnest corner


radioactive birdnest


insane coloration after moving it nearer to the lights! i bought this fella months back as a totally brown coral with faint green polyps!



first bought


blue tenuis bought brown looking good


recent addition, ice fire echinata.

 

[evolutionZ]

sump tank: very tempted to change into a refugium with many different macro algaes and probably couple of sexy shrimps with nano fishes, but my chaeto is growing so well and pulling nutrients away i am contemplating!

 

[glaukos]

wow....amaaaaaaazing photos and corals,evolution!
Welldone!!!The colors are awesome!
Love the first acro too!!!
Thanks for sharing

 

[evolutionZ]

wow....amaaaaaaazing photos and corals,evolution!
Welldone!!!The colors are awesome!
Love the first acro too!!!
Thanks for sharing

Thanks!! Still not doing good enough! Currently having problems with red color and my a.abro (kit kat) appears to be stn-ing from the back (not lit area)!

 

[evolutionZ]

continueing from previous updates, i know its a SPS thread but would like to show some other corals in my tank!

first off an sps first, the blue tip green stag is growing very well!


sunset millie


my lovely true perc with their home. RBTA when its bought about a soda can size!


some zoas

 

[evolutionZ]

Some new catch!

red stag


ice fire echinata


no idea what's this but its a unique fella!



any id?


my way of hiding the return pipe.


optic fibre


fastest growing millie i have


radioactive bn


FTS


top tank shot


thanks for viewing.

 

[evolutionZ]

Im bad at taking photographs of fishes so i just took a video of my tank, remember to set to 1080p for best quality.

yellow tang is getting too big for my tank! and its been chasing my copper band pretty badly, looks like it has to go live in the sump for a week.

my current stocklist for my 4ft 65g :

1x yellow tang
1x copperband butterfly
1x flame angel
1x yellow coris wrasse
1x dispar anthias
1x bi-color blenny
1x midas blenny
1x bangai cardinal
1x purple fire fish
1x fire fish
1x mandarin
2x true percular clowns


http://youtu.be/4TbOM0BgfsM

 

[sahin]

Tank is looking sweet!

 

[dtum]

What is your LED schedule, color mix and intensity. I know you talked about it before, but thought I'd ask for an update.
Also, what is your dosing like? And water parameters as of late?

 

[evolutionZ]

Tank is looking sweet!

thanks bro!

What is your LED schedule, color mix and intensity. I know you talked about it before, but thought I'd ask for an update.
Also, what is your dosing like? And water parameters as of late?

i've changed my lighting to this :

time : A%, B%

1200 : 0,0
1300 : 80,100
1500 : 30,80
1600 : 75,100
0000 : 80,100
0030 : 0,0

i wished the razor had more than 6 time points.

i dose ca and kh and vinegar via a marine magic dosing pump, i don't dose mg as it is kept high with my weekly water change.

my latest water parameters are :

using salifert :

no3: 2ppm (getting lower and lower with the huge growth of chaeto)
po4 : 0ppm
kH : 7.6dkh
ca : 420ppm
mg : 1410ppm
potassium : 410ppm

i figured i should stop dosing vinegar and let the chaeto do the work in nirate reducing, used to have 10ppm and at that point seems to have better color on sps then now. weird..

 

[dtum]

Thank you, your results are extremely impressive.