our 200 gal system
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Machiel
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Our Arcopora sp. are still struggling, they stopped bleaching but they are still green instead of their natural coloration.
This week we started using LED lightning on our fragpart of the sump, its a 60cm bracket with 120 white and 60 blue LED's. Sofar we dont have any experience with LED lightning so we hope it's gona work. It should provide the same amount of light as 150w HQI and uses only 9.8 watts electricity.
Our latest addition to the tank is a quit large limegreen Cynarina for only 60 bucks. I'm falling in love with LPS
Our Arcopora sp. are still struggling, they stopped bleaching but they are still green instead of their natural coloration.
This week we started using LED lightning on our fragpart of the sump, its a 60cm bracket with 120 white and 60 blue LED's. Sofar we dont have any experience with LED lightning so we hope it's gona work. It should provide the same amount of light as 150w HQI and uses only 9.8 watts electricity.
Our latest addition to the tank is a quit large limegreen Cynarina for only 60 bucks. I'm falling in love with LPS
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Machiel
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This week we changed the HQI lightning bulbs from 2x 14.000 Kelvin to 2x 20.000 Kelvin.
We like the change of color, the colors of our zoa fields are coming out a lot better. I also hope it will affect the growth of SPS positive too, time will tell
Yesterday we bought some nice Montipora's like the tuberculosa (rainbow monti) and digitata and a a nice bright orange Acanthastrea lordhowensis. (See pics)
Allso an overview included
We like the change of color, the colors of our zoa fields are coming out a lot better. I also hope it will affect the growth of SPS positive too, time will tell
Yesterday we bought some nice Montipora's like the tuberculosa (rainbow monti) and digitata and a a nice bright orange Acanthastrea lordhowensis. (See pics)
Allso an overview included
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engineeronh2o
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Great fish choices. I need to bust out a wall, but I don't think the wife would approve!
Last Version
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Very nice..tank
Machiel
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Thank you very much Todd, work is finaly paying off.
According to the LFS where I bought it, it's a Montipora tuberculosa but it also looks like Montipora nodosa to me. Its an encrusting/massive coral.
Machiel
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It was my wife who told me to start with a reeftank
She is as much addicted as me...Thanks
Machiel
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Thanks Last Version, good to hear from a reefer with such a beautyful tank!
Machiel
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I bought an other encrusting/massive Montipora yesterday. It was in the 20 bucks corner because of coloration loss. It should be pink or blue and I wonder how long it will take to get its color back.
We allso tested our waterquality in a lab:
Ca 490 ppm
Mg 1310 ppm
KH 8.2
pH 8.0
Fe 0.03 & 0.04 ppm (meassured 2 times)
SiO2 0.13 ppm
SO4 2090 ppm
NH4 0.03 ppm
NO2 0.03 ppm
NO3 2.5 ppm
PO4 0.0 ppm
Does anyone notice a problem with these stats?
We allso tested our waterquality in a lab:
Ca 490 ppm
Mg 1310 ppm
KH 8.2
pH 8.0
Fe 0.03 & 0.04 ppm (meassured 2 times)
SiO2 0.13 ppm
SO4 2090 ppm
NH4 0.03 ppm
NO2 0.03 ppm
NO3 2.5 ppm
PO4 0.0 ppm
Does anyone notice a problem with these stats?
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Machiel
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We just bought 8 gorgeous corals, 1 Symphyllia sp. (green, mint green etc.) 3 Acropora sp. for a steal, 1 Montipora verrucosa (white with blue/purple polyps), 1 Montipora sp. plate (purple) both also for a steal and all sps are nice and big and beautyful colored.
We bought also a Scolymia sp. which is greenish with a little blue mixed into the green.
I'll post the photo's when the lights turn on again, its 1:22 am here
We bought also a Scolymia sp. which is greenish with a little blue mixed into the green.
I'll post the photo's when the lights turn on again, its 1:22 am here
joel sandoman
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Looking good!
Machiel
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It has been a few bussy weeks
@Joel Sandoman, Thanks! We keep trying to make it look better and better every week
@Euod, Thank you for your kind comment We had the C. eibli x C. heraldi for 2 months, then it began destroying our new sps corals. By then someone offered us double the amount of money we payed for the fish and accepted it.
At this moment I realy regret that decision because it was realy one of a kind dwarf angel...
We bought it at our local LFS for a very reasonable price.
At last, we bought several new corals the past weeks and we decided to go full nano when it comes to the new fish we are going to add. That also means that we have to sell our larger fish who might scare the small fishes like Trimma's, Eviota's etc.
Yesterday we added a group of 25 Apogon parvulus, we got them directly from the airport so they only acclimated in our tank which is very good in this case (I think). We took our time acclimating them to our tank and so far we didn't loose a single fish. I wonder how many will survive overtime because its known that this is a very fragile fish
Today we sold our pair sleeper goby's Valenciennea muralis and our large Ecsenius stigmatura. Some more fish will folow, basicly we will have only small nano fish exept for a single Anampses meleagridis (cuz im so attached to it ) and a small yellow sailfin tang.
Ok, less talking more pica's
@Joel Sandoman, Thanks! We keep trying to make it look better and better every week
@Euod, Thank you for your kind comment
We had the C. eibli x C. heraldi for 2 months, then it began destroying our new sps corals. By then someone offered us double the amount of money we payed for the fish and accepted it. At this moment I realy regret that decision because it was realy one of a kind dwarf angel...
We bought it at our local LFS for a very reasonable price.
At last, we bought several new corals the past weeks and we decided to go full nano when it comes to the new fish we are going to add. That also means that we have to sell our larger fish who might scare the small fishes like Trimma's, Eviota's etc.
Yesterday we added a group of 25 Apogon parvulus, we got them directly from the airport so they only acclimated in our tank which is very good in this case (I think). We took our time acclimating them to our tank and so far we didn't loose a single fish. I wonder how many will survive overtime because its known that this is a very fragile fish
Today we sold our pair sleeper goby's Valenciennea muralis and our large Ecsenius stigmatura. Some more fish will folow, basicly we will have only small nano fish exept for a single Anampses meleagridis (cuz im so attached to it
) and a small yellow sailfin tang.Ok, less talking more pica's
