3 x 3ft SPS dominated tank

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Can you tell us more about your Abyzz A200 return pump? Do you have an ATO if the return pump is returning water at different rates?

After trying various pump ranging from Eheim, Aquabee, Reef Octopus...etc, none even close to abyzz. It is extremely silent. Highly recommended if you have additional budget. I did not have issue with ATO because the time interval for wave is too short for ATO to kick in. I can see the indicator light blinking. Fyi, i m using tunze osmolator.

 

[prox]

Nice tank and pics! What settings you running your radions at? Have any updates pics?

I am running it on vivid mode(avaible via radion web based config). Currently battling with aefw..will update pics soon

 

[prox]

Wow, Just WOW!
Im in love with the simplicity and beauty of this tank!
Keep up the great work and pictures.

On a side note, when did you realize you had to start dosing? Im not familiar with dosing and reactors so please excuse me if its a noob question.

Weekly water parameter check. For now, i did 2x weekly water change. As such, i m not dosing anything atm

 

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Some updated pic...I know it is long overdue..sorry guys :icon_cool

Currently battling with aefw which consume 70% of my SPS. Expensive lesson learned. Nevertheless, remaining corals are doing alright now and no new corals until everything stabilize again.

Tank inhabitants consist of:

1 x Yellow tang
1 x Blue eye tang (aka 2 spot bristletooth tang)
2 x Black ice clownfish
9 x Blue eye anthias (lyretail anthias)
2 x Dispar anthias
3 x Orchid dottyback
1 x Cleaner wrasse
2 x Cleaner shrimp
? x Turbo snails
4 x RBTA
SPS, Acans, Chalice, Xenia, Fiji pipe organ, Golden clove.

Top shot.

Additional compartment to to keep sump area as clean as possible for easier maintenance.

2 x Ecotech radion power supply (bolted to the center wood support)
1 x Ecotech battery backup (bolted to the back portion of wood support)
Mixing tank and top up tank are on the bottom section.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

WOW looks great!! One problem though. We need bigger pics! HA!

 

[jedidad]

Beautiful cube. I will be following along. How are you treating aefw?

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[Zack]

Man, hate to hear about the aefw.. did u do an in tank treatment?

 

[LILBUDDHA]

Man, hate to hear about the aefw.. did u do an in tank treatment?

+1 Such a great build too . Top on my list for WOW factor.
Zack , I don't think there is a in tank treatment for AEFW . U may be referring to FWS ? The ZEO FWS seem to work for full blown zeo users but mixed to nil results for non zeo -heads. The name is misleading since it called flatworm stop. The bottle says it's it helps get rid of ... GO FIGURE
It would be interesting to know the OP's outcome and how he is combating the issue since i'm sure I saw a Zeovit reactor in there.

 

[MarvinsReef]

clean looking tank. good luck with your battle with AEFW.

 

[prox]

I removed badly affected corals and kill it off with freshwater dip so AEFW die too. Got so angry with it. :mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:

Those that are not so badly infested are removed and frag-ed. Healthy pieces are then dip into Flatworm Exit (Fauna Marin) /and Coral RX on alternate day basis for couple of days. Daily monitoring to check on AEFW. Corals are currently residing at my friend's holding tank. Expensive corals are rescued before further damaged are done so I am going to let it grow in holding tank. I think he has over 10 wrasses in the tank too. I did a weekly visit and corals seem to be doing great now.

As for the tank, I did not dose anything. Just let AEFW die naturally from starvation.

 

[LILBUDDHA]

That sounds like a plan that works .
Its great that u have a friend with a holding tank and a lot of wrasses.
I look forward to more updates and when u reset the tank with SPS again .:thumbup:

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Update:
added very shallow sand bed to my tank yesterday with 3 sand shifter starfish. Removed 3 acros and dip into coral RX which killed off over 10 AEFW. Currently no acro in my tank and hopefully AEFW will starve to death.

cute couple in my tank.

 

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Full tank shot with newly added sand.

 

[ultracoralsinc]

Clean! what did you use for the bottom? a mat? or straight glass?

 

[ultracoralsinc]

scratch that post ^ .. i see you have added sand!!

 

[brosario28]

great organization, looks great!

 

[jedidad]

Looking realy good. I hope that fixes your aefw problem. What kind of clwns are those? They look loke phantoms but they have an orange face. I really like them.

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[Lilmatty5dimes]

Agreed those clown are some of the best I've seen. Love your whole set up


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[prox]

It is known as Black Ice Clown or Black Ice Snowflake Clown. It is a cross breed between Snowflake x Black Ocellaris.

 

[fixedwing]

Love the tank. Is there a reason why you added sand. I'm starting a 70 rimless shortly and want to go BB.