EvolutionZ 65 SPS dominated shallow reef

[evolutionZ]

Hey Evo I'm going to be doing a shallow reef soon and would love some tips on setting one up, things like aquascaping to get the best flow and max space for corals to be placed and stuff like that. Any tips greatly appreciated:beer:

sure! feel free to pm me if you have any question, i will try my best to help!

 

[Fishy 1]

sure! feel free to pm me if you have any question, i will try my best to help!

Cool thanks:beer:

 

[theaquareef]

Holy cow very nice tank you have man. Those colors are quite amazing. Very solid! You posted a pic of your red milli and said "FM CE is really coloring up this fella" Just wondering what your referring to . Thanks
Kyle

 

[evolutionZ]

thanks! im referring to Fauna Marin Color Elements.

 

[theaquareef]

Right on, Thanks man. Keep up the great work!

 

[ChouDawg]

Absolutely stunning tank, so glad I stumbled upon it...love the transformation photos, it's insane how much SPS can change from frag -> mini colony in the right conditions. I'm seeing very similar transformations in my bonsai and miyagi pieces so it's cool to kind of get a glimpse into what they will hopefully become. I don't think I saw it mentioned earlier but what camera are you shooting with and how do you prefer white balancing your shots to get those great SPS colors to come out without looking overly "blue" Do you change your Razor levels to get it more camera friendly or shot at whatever part of the cycle you're on?

 

[evolutionZ]

Updates:

Helping a fellow reefing friend hold his SPS while he upgrade his tanks, heres some picture of his gems (not mine!)

Blue dragon


Strawberry fields


red dragon


SSC field


the rest are mine!

still my fav, purple bonsai


tri-color valida


my own ssc


unknown green acro tabling really well!


aussie duncan


My RBTA splitted moments after i took this photo!

 

[evolutionZ]

my lovely dispar trio


yellow tang


FTS


top view

 

[dtum]

Beautiful shots.

What kind of lighting did your friend use?

 

[evolutionZ]

Here's a new update! the past few months has been really hectic and my tank got neglected. it went through phrases where i did not do water change for a whole month, the kh & ca dosing bottle was empty (kH was at 6 at it's lowest!) and failure to clean skimmer and pumps. All these led to bad water (nitrate peaked at near 20) and some SPS died while some lost it's color. its been a few weeks of recovering and they appears to be stable now.

Start off with one of my personal favorite. This has been with me since it was just 1" big. now its almost palm size. However i started noticing it was having this red patch of cyano (seen in pic below), i thought nothing of it and conitnued my hectic schedule. Not until it was too late to save then i found out that the underside had totally STN-ed. It was beyond salvage..


Well thought the tabling part died off, im glad that the base of the colony survived! im back down to a tiny frag but im so glad i still have a piece of this unique sps.


If you guys have seen my previous pages, i showed a photo of my lime green monti on my return pipe. This fella STN too within 12 hours, i managed to save couple of frags and glued them together, excited to see them grow in the way i glue them!


Back to the rest of the surviving frags!

My first SSC, finally i see branching growths!


another SSC, from the wild, colors getting good


red planet, boy they grow fast!


purple or blue?


blue tip green stag, well... this fella lost most of the blue!


amazing blue dragon (Not mine!!!)


Teal millie

 

[evolutionZ]

sunset millie


purple valida


all time fav, purple bonsai


forever not growing ice fire. Lost most of it's color..


i've been out of clams for a long time and this fella brought me back!


End this update with a FTS




Thanks for viewing!

 

[Fishy 1]

That sucks about the recent troubles. But the colors are still amazing on most of the ones you showed. Keep it up bud

 

[JN93]

The colors of ur tank is amzing, hows the growth under those lights?

 

[StaySalty]

Absolutely stunning. CoralVue should use your tank as their advertisement tank for the Maxspect. I thought the reason I wasn't getting good growth and color was because of my lighting (im also using razor) but this thread clearly shows it's not the lights. I'm not even doing an sps dominated tank (doing mixed).

Im running the 16k 160 watt Razor on my 92 corner. I'm using the mounting legs, so about 7 inches off the water surface. And I'm also using the 120 degree reflectors instead of the standard 90. This is my current lighting schedule:

(09:00) A: 0% B: 0%

(10:00) A: 44% B: 70%

(12:00) A: 57% B: 100%

(16:00) A: 57% B: 100%

(19:00) A: 44% B: 100%

(20:30) A: 0% B: 0%

So I have a total photoperiod of about 9 hours, only peak for 4 hours though. About a month ago, I got water params in check. Ca (430), Kh (9), and Mg (1350) are pretty solid, this did give me some improvement. I haven't really had issues with PO4 and NO3 in a long time now.

Do you think I should work on increasing the intensity/length of the photoperiod at all?

 

[markalot]

We need updates!

 

[evolutionZ]

Things has been busy for me and im actually decomming this tank! Im actually downgrading (sort of upgrading too) and will be posting a new thread once the tank arrives!

 

[markalot]

Sorry to hear the tank is coming down. Hope busy means good things.

 

[Fishy 1]

Sorry to hear that. What are you down/upgrading to?

 

[GroceryGetterS4]

Amazing looking tank!

 

[evolutionZ]

Thanks guys, Im downgrading to a 3ft. Slightly smaller but overall an upgrade because i finally can have a proper sump and coast 2 coast overflow (bean animal). Tank's coming in a week and ill post a new thread!