Anirban's Aquaforest journey

Hair Algae Wizard · Feb 4, 2020

So sorry to hear about your tank, but happy to see you are jumping back in. I have a ton of dry rock I'm not using, happy to give it to you to get you started back up. Only issue would be shipping it.

Anirban · Feb 4, 2020

Hair Algae Wizard said:
So sorry to hear about your tank, but happy to see you are jumping back in. I have a ton of dry rock I'm not using, happy to give it to you to get you started back up. Only issue would be shipping it.

Thanks mate. I really appreciate the help. I collected over 200lb of natural rocks for the new tank and I am cycling them just over a year now. I used various types of bacteria to cycle them.

vetteguy53081 · Feb 4, 2020

Berlibee said:
Welcome back! I can't wait to start my new Aquaforest build as well. Good luck!

Love aquaforest ! You'll go through a bit of it, but it works !!

Anirban · Feb 4, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
Love aquaforest ! You'll go through a bit of it, but it works !!

Its the one product line which is with me since last 4 years and its working rock steady.

Anirban · Feb 24, 2020

Hello everyone,

Its been little over 3 weeks since I restarted the tank. Everything looks smooth for now. As I mentioned earlier I planned a refugium for this tank. I got some chaeto from one our member here. He sent me a ton of chaeto for free. This is possibly one of the reason I like this forum so much. I added most of my fishes for this tank last week. There are 2 interesting observations to mention. pH of this tank is running pretty nicely. It stays between 8.1-8.2 on average and I think this is partially due to the chaeto as I run the refugium on reverse light cycle with the tank.

The other interesting part is my phosphate. Like my all other tanks this one is also bare bottom with very little rocks in the display as I like minimalist rockscape. I seeded the tank AF pro bio S and bio S but now I am not dosing them daily. i am dosing 2 drops of each once a week. But interestingly there is no phosphate registering in my Hanna low range checker. I know there is possibly some PO4 which it can not detect but still its pretty low. I have currently 7 fishes in the tank and I feed them 3 times a day with variety of frozen food. There is no ammonia, no nitrite and a very less amount of NO3. It seems the fuge is working well. I will know more in coming months but its nice to not worry much about these issues for now.

Anirban · Mar 12, 2020

Update time,

Tank is running pretty smooth.

Parameters:
dKh: 136-140ppm (7.5-7.8)
PO4: 0 Hanna low
NO3: 2-5 ppm aquaforest NO3 test

I am not measuring the other things currently but will start doing it in a month time.
Weekly water change is good and i am dosing 10 ml of AF component 123 to hold everything steady. I generally add 4 drops of AF probio s weekly after water change but nothing after that.

Now, the more interesting part. As I mentioned earlier that I want to do this tank differently. So, I am focusing mainly on high in and high out. my current fish stock is,

2 paired clowns
Carpenter fairy wrasse
Blue throat fairy wrasse
Yellow captive bred tang
Desjardini sailfin tang
Spotbreast angelfish

I fed the fish 5 times a day 2X mixture of pellet and 3X frozen food.
I am running a chaeto fuge which is growing pretty well and keeping my tank clean.

Now for the acros. I decided this tank will be deepwater/smooth skin/tabling acros dominant with favias and nothing else. Possibly couple of tenuis or efflo but thats all. i made a list and started collecting few. I still have a long way to go but will keep it updated with all new ones. Currently I have,

Vivid Confetti
SC Orange Passion
Ultimate Efflo
Aris Avalanche
Princess Disastah Granulosa
Superman Table
BC aquatic man table
RR Northern Crush
CC Retina Blaster Suharsoni
Z's Prize
Vivid kiwi strawberry

Anirban · Mar 30, 2020

Time to update the list...

Bought few from living reef orlando during their sale. The updated SPS list..

Vivid Confetti
SC Orange Passion
Ultimate Efflo
Aris Avalanche
Princess Disastah Granulosa
Superman Table
BC aquatic man table
RR Northern Crush
CC Retina Blaster Suharsoni
Z's Prize
Vivid kiwi strawberry
JKR Rainbow
LRO Xtreme Pacman
WWC Little Red Ferrari
LRO Hottie Habanero
Gregs Unicorn
CB Malificent
Banana Lokani

I am also collecting Favias and will update the list soon. The tank is running strong and its drinking 15 ml of each component daily. Will update the parameters tomorrow.

reefaboo · Jun 26, 2020

Anirban said:
Time to update the list...

Bought few from living reef orlando during their sale. The updated SPS list..

Vivid Confetti

SC Orange Passion

Ultimate Efflo

Aris Avalanche

Princess Disastah Granulosa

Superman Table

BC aquatic man table

RR Northern Crush

CC Retina Blaster Suharsoni

Z's Prize

Vivid kiwi strawberry

JKR Rainbow

LRO Xtreme Pacman

WWC Little Red Ferrari

LRO Hottie Habanero

Gregs Unicorn

CB Malificent

Banana Lokani

I am also collecting Favias and will update the list soon. The tank is running strong and its drinking 15 ml of each component daily. Will update the parameters tomorrow.

pic of Gregs Unicorn ? i aquired a piece recently .. wonder how it does in high / medium light

Anirban · Jun 26, 2020

reefaboo said:
pic of Gregs Unicorn ? i aquired a piece recently .. wonder how it does in high / medium light

Lol... the unicorn is still sleeping

. Its a small tiny green frag. The tank is still new so not much of growth. Will see if its encrusted.

revhtree · Jul 17, 2020

Anirban said:
Lol... the unicorn is still sleeping . Its a small tiny green frag. The tank is still new so not much of growth. Will see if its encrusted.

How's everything going now?