markalot
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What about this one Matt? When I bought a frag from this wild-collected Acropora lokani it looked like below:
Now it is looking like this:
Oh my, look at that. I love Lokani's.
My 65G Shallow Reef Tank
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Oh my, look at that. I love Lokani's.
reefmutt
Active member
After a very long waiting in suspense, I have finally found an online retailer and ordered my Salifert Potassium test kit this afternoon. Sigh of relief.... It will be isnteresting to find out the potassium level in my tank as I have been dosing without measuring.
BTW, here are two photos I took last night under full light:
Bulent, these are fantastic.
The colours are absolutely perfect.
I covet them as well!!
I'm very covetous, it appears....
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Thank you Mark.
Bulent, these are fantastic.
The colours are absolutely perfect.
I covet them as well!!
I'm very covetous, it appears....
Thanks Matt. It seems that covetousness is contagious because I covet all your corals too. I am constantly on a look out for the same corals that you have here in the UK without much luck (so far).
:beer:
SpSChief85
New member
That ice fire looks so freaking amazing..
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Sahin and Chief,
Thank you very much.
By the way folks, look what I received in the post today:
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DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
No, they are not. The UK distributor received the new stock two weeks ago. The test kit finally started to appear on retailers' shelves but only slowly. I knew they were on their way long before the UK distributor knew about it because I was in touch with Habib (CEO, Salifert).
There is even a claim that it had already arrived at shops in Canada (look at post no 99 in this thread), but the poster claimed that the packaging was very different, which is clearly not the case. If you need the test kit and cannot find it, then I posted the web address of the UK retailer from which I bought my test kit. This is in post no 103 in the same thread.
I hope this helps.
I am about to measure my tank water's potassium level :hmm1:.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Whoa....Im glad they are coming back!!!! What was your potassium value?
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
I calibrated the test kit twice with Fauna Marin Multi-reference solution. It measured the potassium level ~20 ppm too high. I then measured my tank water and I got a reading of 420 ppm taking the correction into account. I really did not know what to expect. So I am very happy with the test result.
12th August 2015 was the last time when I tested potassium. I have been dosing 20 ml FM Ultra Easy K every week religiously ever since. Historically my potassium levels were always quite low (~350) when my tank had a persistent cyano problem. It appears that with the departure of the bacteria, the potassium levels have stabilised.
Cheers
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Thats a great value to be at! I try to keep the value above 400(434 was my last reading I think) as my attempts at keeping the value between 390 and 400 resulted in a couple of drop-outs where the value dipped quickly to 370-380. Its all good above 400, preferably between 410 and 450.
maxxII
Super Housemonkey!
I just found this thread and read all 19 pages in one sitting.
Like others, I'm stunned by your tank. The size of your acro colonies makes your tank look much larger than you claim it is.
I also cant believe you have as many fish in it as you do without issues. I'm restarting my 120 gallon, (48 inches x 24 inches x 24 inches) and am thinking I'm trying to cram too many fish in it with less than you have right now....
And I also thought my tank was too small for more than one or two Genicanthus angels at most.
Bravo Bulent, your tank is most impressive.
Like others, I'm stunned by your tank. The size of your acro colonies makes your tank look much larger than you claim it is.
I also cant believe you have as many fish in it as you do without issues. I'm restarting my 120 gallon, (48 inches x 24 inches x 24 inches) and am thinking I'm trying to cram too many fish in it with less than you have right now....
And I also thought my tank was too small for more than one or two Genicanthus angels at most.
Bravo Bulent, your tank is most impressive.
reefmutt
Active member
It's funny because just before I left for Cuba, I was talking to a distributor who is in touch with Habib regularly, and he hadn't heard anything about a new kit... Anyways from what I hear, Habib is notoriously cryptic...
Good to hear it's back!!
Thanks for the info, Bulent.
Good to hear it's back!!
Thanks for the info, Bulent.
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Hi mate,
Thank you for your praise. I also appreciate your taking to time to read my journal.
I am very attached to my staghorns. I have considered halving their sizes or even removing them altogether to create some space for new frags. However, I have so far refrained from doing so because I do not think my tank will look the same without them. I think I have emotionally attached to my corals. I am not sure if this is a good thing or not.
As for the genus Genicanthus, I tend to get very small and female specimen to ensure that they do not fight with each other. It has worked so far. I am still looking for a very small female G. watanabei for the same reason because my earlier experiment with a fairly larger specimen did not work out.
I think having a lot of fish is a good thing for corals as long as you can handle the nutrient load. My corals seem to appreciate my fish feeding time by showing good polyp extension.
I have never met Habib, but communicated with him quite a few times in the past. He was very helpful to me when he was a sponsor of a UK forum. He even taught me how to get proper readings from his iodine test kit when I was getting zero readings all the time, not to mention sending me a complimentary reference solution for his Ca test kit, which he said was more expensive than the test kit itself. He also shared quite a few research articles.
You may have a point about him being cryptic though because one of the contributors to the Potassium thread mentioned that he was about to launch a Potassium Profi test kit which will have a much higher resolution than the recently relaunched old test kit. For me, I will be happy with what I have got. I am not fussed about higher resolution.
On a different matter, a fellow reefer brought me an A. humilis frag (0.75" X 0.5") as a gift when he visited me last Friday to collect a frag from me. Apparently, the humilis is supposed to be solid blue. The previous owner gave up on the coral after failing to pull the blue colour. My fellow reefer did not do any better either. Below is a picture of the tiny frag:
The first attached photo is the picture of the mother colony in the dealer's tank and the second is how the coral looked before its frag ended up in my tank.
I am going to have to find a very bright spot with very strong water flow to encourage good growth and hopefully good colouration.
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aggie13reef
New member
This is how I feel sometimes! :lolspin:
reefmutt
Active member
Me too!!!
I'm leaving Cuba tomorrow and I can't wait to get home and see my tank..
I've been rearranging my scape in my head, in anticipation of getting back. I actually put together a frag order while I've been down here so I'll have to remove/move some old stock..
The problem is always that I never want to remove anything because I want to see how it will turn out, when it grows...
Makes for a crowded tank...
I'm leaving Cuba tomorrow and I can't wait to get home and see my tank..
I've been rearranging my scape in my head, in anticipation of getting back. I actually put together a frag order while I've been down here so I'll have to remove/move some old stock..
The problem is always that I never want to remove anything because I want to see how it will turn out, when it grows...
Makes for a crowded tank...
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
It is good to know that I am not alone feeling this way.
The recently purchased Acropora desalwii is still on the sand bed.
I am in the process of cleaning my Tunze nano streams, which means that some corals are receiving very excessive water flow as some of the counter currents are absent due pump shot downs. The desalwii is one of them and yet its polyp extension as impressive as ever. Perhaps the flow is not a negative issue for this coral.
Its new growth tips are now of blue colour. They were purple when I first purchased it, but I am not complaining. I will be happy if the blue remains as I prefer it to purple. Moreover, green pigmentation on the coral has increased since last month. It was creamy green when I first purchased it. I have begun to wonder of the coral can handle a lot more light intensity than I thought was possible. The coral currently receives ~270 mmol/m2/sec PAR on the sand bed.
The desalwii on 29th January
The desalwii on 27th February
The recently purchased Acropora desalwii is still on the sand bed.
I am in the process of cleaning my Tunze nano streams, which means that some corals are receiving very excessive water flow as some of the counter currents are absent due pump shot downs. The desalwii is one of them and yet its polyp extension as impressive as ever. Perhaps the flow is not a negative issue for this coral.
Its new growth tips are now of blue colour. They were purple when I first purchased it, but I am not complaining. I will be happy if the blue remains as I prefer it to purple. Moreover, green pigmentation on the coral has increased since last month. It was creamy green when I first purchased it. I have begun to wonder of the coral can handle a lot more light intensity than I thought was possible. The coral currently receives ~270 mmol/m2/sec PAR on the sand bed.
The desalwii on 29th January
The desalwii on 27th February
Galaxyreef
New member
Nice tank mate!
