Brain coral Pancho.Good video Shaun, what is the pink/red coral in the bottom center?
Patience! LolBeautiful.
but it looks like it needs a couple of Triggers, Melanurus, Diamond, Tamarin and Yellow Wrasse. Four Royal Grammas and a Splendid Dottyback. Best get them before they shut all the shops.
Beautiful.
Were the Wrasses still sleeping in the sand? I only saw one.
Well, what are you waiting for? Order online!Thank you, I only have one in this system at the moment
I’m just awaiting for the madness to calm down and then I’ll go shopping.Well, what are you waiting for? Order online!
Really nice video Shaun !I hope your all well and keeping safe in the current situation we all find ourselves in.
The new tank is around 3 1/2 months old at this stage, all parameters are stable and for those interested the last test results are as follows:
Nitrate 2ppm
Phosphate 0.05ppm (rowaphos will be changed this week as the target is just above zero)
Alkalinity 7.8 dKH (target Around 8-8.5 so turned up another 2 litres/day on the Twin Tech)
Calcium 465 ppm
Magnesium 1425
i haven’t started water changes yet, other than around 5 litres per day to maintain water movement through the Apex DOS unit. I’m aiming for a nitrate target of around 5 so I’m Just balancing everything out and still have an additional 16 litres of Seachem Matrix and 4 litres of De Nitrate to add when needed in addition to the 10 litres or so already in.
I haven’t installed the additional Abyzz a200 yet. I’m holding off, because I’m about to start testing the Teco 2000e chiller and the flow requirement is only around 600-800 lph. I think the main Abyzz a200 will be able to cope with that without affecting the flow through the sump to much. If I don’t need the additional flow, it means there is just one single pump to maintain in the whole system, which is also super reliable with a 10 year warranty. I will just keep the backup a200 ready in case of any issues and swap them around every year or so.
The X Filter 1.7 with 25 micron filter roll is absolutely brilliant and keeps the sump spotless, nutrients down, and of course the waters crystal clear. When I buy some more roll I might actually go back to the 32 micron as it lasts longer.
The Deltec Twin Tech calcium reactor is brilliant. It maintains all the foundation element levels in line and all you do is press a button to amend the flow through it. That’s it and it just, well, works. I just amend the flow according to alkalinity requirements.
All the corals including SPS are growing at an incredible rate (doubling in size) and this Just shows that if you can maintain the correct parameters you can keep SPS in a new system if anyone has any doubts. But you MUST maintain and monitor the parameters
Rowaphos. I can’t recommend the use of this stuff enough, especially in a new system. If you can keep phosphate below 0.03 you will avoid many unwanted issues and that was the plan from the very start. Ive been running around 1kg (yes that’s a lot) from the very start, but it means I can change it less. I’m probably going to reduce the amount to half that and just change it more often and then once I find the right spot I don’t need to test for phosphate as often.
In the S650 I use around 250g of rowaphos and just change it every 2 weeks and hardly ever test for phosphate in that system. I can tell by the look of the tank when it’s ready for a change.
So everything’s running to plan and here’s a short video. As usual, this doesn’t give the full beauty if the actual real system but I hope you’ll enjoy it....
Thank you PanchoReally nice video Shaun !
Good to know you experience with CaRx , are you planning to adopt CaRx also for S-650?