some photos

[Merriq]

Hi everyone.Im from Poland.
I read Reef Central from months.
I thing its time to show you some photos of my nonfoto corals.

AQ. Information
80x35x45cm - no sump

System parameters
Alkalinity:7
Calcium:420 mg
Magnesium:1300 mg
Temperature:26 celcius
Salinity:1024 PSU

Aquarium is actualy 1 year old.

LIGHTING
3x24 Watt T5 DIY lamp

2x KZ Coral Light
1x KZ Fiji Purple

Photoperiod: 10:30 am to 11 pm

FILTRATION
Deltec MCE600
100ml Rowa Carbon
200ml KZ ZEOvit

Water Circulation
Tunze 6025

Feeding
KZ Amino Acid LPS,KZ Coral Vitalizer, Tropic Marin - Pro-coral PHYTON, Tropic Marin - Pro-coral ZOOTON, Aquarium Systems - ZoPlan, Cyclop-eeze, GroTech - NutriMarine Instant, Mysis, Green Plankton, Red Plankton, Prawn Eggs

Suplementation
ZEObac, ZEOstart2, Kent Liquid Calcium, Kent Strontium & molybdenum

LIVESTOCK
I will upgrade later

 

[Merriq]

 

[Merriq]

Ps. Tubastrea is going better day by day.

now.


2 months ago

better photo I share you next time.

 

[Ricunger]

Nice pics!

 

[Merriq]

I heard that blueberry is very hard coral.. so plise give me some advices to keep it in good health.
and what about water flow, plise help

 

[Bfritzsch]

amazing Krypto!

 

[Merriq]

 

[WhiskeyReefer]

The green ones, are those sun corals or duncans, I have never seen a green shade like that...awesome what ever they are...

 

[Bluespot22]

are those yellow trumpet corals?

 

[sunfishh]

Wow wow wow
Nice tank Merriq
Can we see a full tank shot?

 

[GreatReefs]

Very nice colors!

 

[Merriq]

Hello and new photo

 

[PSam]

Great photos & beautiful animals!

 

[ekovalsky]

Awesome! What is that red gorgonian in the last picture you posted ? It is spectacular.

Merriq, I am also using Zeovit (four months into it) with most of the KZ supplements as well as several Fauna Marin micro foods which I feed to my gorgonians and each night. Everything is doing fine but my nitrates seem stuck at 25ppm. What do yours run ?

I used to stress over the No3 levels, but no so much these days as the corals look good and fish are fine including some non-hardy ones like moorish idol and copperband butterfly. Po4 is kept low using GFO product (Phosar-HC), like you I choose to disregard KZ recommendation to remove it. I also drip kalkwasser for top off water and run carbon continuously in a fluidized reactor.

I have actually had better luck with the blueberries than some others. There are two in my tank and they are expanded just about all day and are growing. Along with everything else, they seem to like my Vortech pumps running in pulse mode with a fairly low intensity standing wave. My nephthids are open most of the day now with this type of flow, before with random reef crest pattern they would usually only open at night. I have the same diodogorgia nodulifera (yellow with orange/red calices and white polyps) and after doing well for a while it stopped opening, and now I am fighting bacterial films and/or cyanobacteria each day. I fragged a few branches which are alive but that will probably be all that survives.

Not sure if it is only me, but I do get a lot of bacterial film with Zeo and try to blow off the gorgonians and also my sponges every day.

 

[PSam]

Love that orange / red gorg too. LFS by my office had similar one in yesterday with no name tag, orangey, red polyps. I'd love to know what it is. Here's the one they had.. I had to snap a shot to try and ID... beautiful, ~15" high.

 

[Ricecakeguy]

wow... those are some pretty ones...

 

[docalatamu]

now those are colorful gorgs! beautiful pics, thanks for sharing!

 

[dendro982]

Gorgeous tank, congratulations!

 

[sgwill122]

Beautiful pictures.

 

[stunreefer]

Re: some photos

Merriq, fantastic reef!

I believe this is probably the coolest coral I've ever seen:

I'd absolutely kill to have one!

It appears to be a back branching species of Tubastrea? I've seen black branching Tubastrea with black polyps, and army (dark) green polyps, but nothing as spectacular as yours!