AJ_TSin's 47g Shallow Rimless

EW_Fish · Aug 17, 2014

kingator said:
Your temp in that system has to be high with all that heat u have in there
Man love it ,

Tell me about it. Very nice selection of corals

AJ_Tsin · Aug 18, 2014

EW_Fish said:
Tell me about it. Very nice selection of corals

Lol thanks. 78 degrees for the record.

jackson6745 · Aug 19, 2014

This is coming along really nicely. Keep it up!!!

AJ_Tsin · Aug 19, 2014

jackson6745 said:
This is coming along really nicely. Keep it up!!!

Thankyou. It means a lot. Glad to share here on R2R

AJ_Tsin · Aug 19, 2014

Here a couple more shots from new additions yesterday. Side shots instead of top down.

Shazam seems to be settling down and polyps are coming out. Still looks a bit beat up but I think all will be well.

RR Canada Shazam

RR Canada Pink Cadillac

RR Canada Ultimate Orange Passion

Also Jay gave me this random piece. I was asking him about RR USA's D-Day and he suggested I take a piece of this to see if I can color it up. It seems to be same species and similar to D-Day but he's not sure if it is. Time will tell, looks like it could be a cool coral and potentially a future signature.

RR Canada Unnamed?

zibba · Aug 19, 2014

Great collection and display of the same. This is a fun thread to watch. Following!

coral reeftank · Aug 19, 2014

All your frags seem to be doing great.

AJ_Tsin · Aug 19, 2014

zibba said:
Great collection and display of the same. This is a fun thread to watch. Following!

Thanks glad its interesting for peeps to follow along.

coral reeftank said:
All your frags seem to be doing great.

Thanks guys. Everything is doing well for sure at the moment.

brandon85 · Aug 19, 2014

sick stuff man, love that ultimate orange passion !

AJ_Tsin · Aug 19, 2014

Thanks Brandon. Pretty happy with how this is shaping up. I am starting to see upwards growth on many of these frags as well. It is slow and steady but its there.

It is really quite interesting starting a reef with only frags and getting many of them close to each other in timing. I know many people do not like the whole tiny frag aspect of coral collecting, but this approach is much more like planting a garden rather then hiring a landscaper and filling a yard.

To each his own, but as I have started and taken down several reefs over the years the patience game and watching things grow is the fun part now.

Oscaror · Aug 20, 2014

AJ_Tsin said:
Thanks Brandon. Pretty happy with how this is shaping up. I am starting to see upwards growth on many of these frags as well. It is slow and steady but its there.

It is really quite interesting starting a reef with only frags and getting many of them close to each other in timing. I know many people do not like the whole tiny frag aspect of coral collecting, but this approach is much more like planting a garden rather then hiring a landscaper and filling a yard.

To each his own, but as I have started and taken down several reefs over the years the patience game and watching things grow is the fun part now.

I prefer Frags over colonies. You get to watch them grow and you can control their growth. But buying colonies does have the benefit of the occasional acro crabs.

AJ_Tsin · Aug 20, 2014

Oscaror said:
I prefer Frags over colonies. You get to watch them grow and you can control their growth. But buying colonies does have the benefit of the occasional acro crabs.

True yea I definitely don't have any acro crabs...

AJ_Tsin · Aug 22, 2014

Since adding the actinic bulbs and and lowering PAR a bit as a result, colors are getting even better.

Here are some photos with 1x ATI Blue+ and 1x ATI Actinic which is what I am running as my "sunrise/sunset" combo.

Wolverine is finally getting a blueish sheen on the tissue to compliment the yellow.

Also this Mariculture Mille is quickly turning into something pretty awesome.

coral reeftank · Aug 22, 2014

All your acros seem to be responding good to the change in bulbs.

Andyf30 · Aug 22, 2014

Hey AJ, so based on your new bulb combo, what would you suggest for a 6 bulb fixture? And what you recommend as far as height above the water for an 18" deep tank.

AJ_Tsin · Aug 22, 2014

coral reeftank said:
All your acros seem to be responding good to the change in bulbs.

Seems like it, except I broke a cardinal rule and also began feeding more recently, so its unclear wether its the lighting or food or both. Plan is to leave things as is for a month see if colours peak with this configuration and amount of food, if and when they do I will begin lowering the light again and see if it makes a difference.

Andyf30 said:
Hey AJ, so based on your new bulb combo, what would you suggest for a 6 bulb fixture? And what you recommend as far as height above the water for an 18" deep tank.

Its hard to say. I like the 20K look I have and it will help with color but likely slow down growth a bit. If you wanted something comparable to what I am running I would go 4 Blue+ 1 Purple + and 1 Actinic.

I have no idea what to recommend for height, I run ULNS so it is significantly easier to burn corals when the nutrients are very low. I would start with maybe 15" and raise or lower accordingly.