Anirban's Aquaforest journey

[Anirban]

That will be the 130 custom

For me it will be something more than 500G shallow and possibly squarish in dimension with peninsula style. My wife after looking at all the mess I created since last few years already granted me with a fish room.;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious

 

[jsker]

For me it will be something more than 500G shallow and possibly squarish in dimension with peninsula style. My wife after looking at all the mess I created since last few years already granted me with a fish room.;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious

You are a luck man. I had the same aspiration and they were overruled. The 130 custom will be a compromise

 

[Anirban]

You are a luck man. I had the same aspiration and they were overruled. The 130 custom will be a compromise

LOl...not really. First I need to find the right house for it to start.....

 

[jsker]

LOl...not really. First I need to find the right house for it to start.....

I asked and I wanted to have a 96 x 24 x 24 between the master and the main room and that was a no. That would have been sweet.

 

[Anirban]

I asked and I wanted to have a 96 x 24 x 24 between the master and the main room and that was a no. That would have been sweet.

Mine will be 96x60x26 or 84x60x26...with a Bashsea custom sump, reactor and Lifereef skimmer. The stand possibly from Framingtech and aquarium will be acrylic either from advance acrylic or Bashsea.

 

[UNCFAN]

Whats up? I am there and actually we are there. Somehow I stopped getting notice of my own thread. The brown thing comes with imbalaced nutrients not from components. I will need to know what goes in the tank and how you export nutrients.

Good Morning - I will try and answer your question because I would really like to use AF products but the brown junk bothers me. What goes in my tank: I feed rather lightly every other day for my fish and I don't dose anything for corals other than trying components 1-2-3. I export nutrients via a skimmer. Not sure if I gave you want you need but any help would be appreciated.

 

[Anirban]

Good Morning - I will try and answer your question because I would really like to use AF products but the brown junk bothers me. What goes in my tank: I feed rather lightly every other day for my fish and I don't dose anything for corals other than trying components 1-2-3. I export nutrients via a skimmer. Not sure if I gave you want you need but any help would be appreciated.

Hey, nice to see you back. What kind of brown junk you are talking about. Is it some kind of algae? Can you post a picture of your tank and all major parameters including nutrients.

 

[UNCFAN]

Hey, nice to see you back. What kind of brown junk you are talking about. Is it some kind of algae? Can you post a picture of your tank and all major parameters including nutrients.

The best I can describe is a brown slim that went all the way around my tank all four sides at the top of the tank under the lip of the tank. I stopped using components 1-2-3 and the brown slim went a way. I am back to BRS 2 part dosing. ALK = 9.0, CALCIUM = 490, MAG = 1350. I feed the fish Hatchery Diet pellets a small amount every other day and mysis shrimp once a week. I've fed this product and routine for years.

 

[Anirban]

The best I can describe is a brown slim that went all the way around my tank all four sides at the top of the tank under the lip of the tank. I stopped using components 1-2-3 and the brown slim went a way. I am back to BRS 2 part dosing. ALK = 9.0, CALCIUM = 490, MAG = 1350. I feed the fish Hatchery Diet pellets a small amount every other day and mysis shrimp once a week. I've fed this product and routine for years.

Do you dose any kind of bacterial products? Also whats the range of your NO3 and PO4 in the system?

 

[UNCFAN]

Do you dose any kind of bacterial products? Also whats the range of your NO3 and PO4 in the system?

I do not use any bacterial product - I did try the AF products Build, Amino Acid, Vitality and Energy dosing as recommended. My tank is a 125 gallon mixed reef - mostly LPS, few SPS and some softies. My NO3 measures O using Salifert tests and PO4 measures .02ppm using Hanna checker. When I used components 1-2-3 I started with 1/2 the recommend 50ml/27 gallon.

 

[Anirban]

I do not use any bacterial product - I did try the AF products Build, Amino Acid, Vitality and Energy dosing as recommended. My tank is a 125 gallon mixed reef - mostly LPS, few SPS and some softies. My NO3 measures O using Salifert tests and PO4 measures .02ppm using Hanna checker. When I used components 1-2-3 I started with 1/2 the recommend 50ml/27 gallon.

Ok, first thing you can dose the 123 the brown slime is not due to it. Its because of the low imbalanced nutrient with amino and vitamin dosing. You need to balance the nutrient first and then you can dose the amino or vitamin. But you can dose 123 without dosing the other stuffs.

 

[UNCFAN]

Ok, first thing you can dose the 123 the brown slime is not due to it. Its because of the low imbalanced nutrient with amino and vitamin dosing. You need to balance the nutrient first and then you can dose the amino or vitamin. But you can dose 123 without dosing the other stuffs.

Excellent - should I start out not dosing the full amount of 1-2-3 or just dose the 50ml/27gallon from the start. Thanks again you've been very helpful and your good looking tanks shows that.

 

[Anirban]

Excellent - should I start out not dosing the full amount of 1-2-3 or just dose the 50ml/27gallon from the start. Thanks again you've been very helpful and your good looking tanks shows that.

Yeah, you can dose 123 but start slow with with half the recommended dose and slowly increase after every 24 hours cycle after testing your Alk each day.

 

[Anirban]

Update time:

Everything is doing good. Colours are great too. I still think there is a scope of improvement. Recently I was in Bubbas and FarmerTy thread. While we were discussing over the effect of lower wavelength blue light specially UV and coral colours and growth we discussed about the new Orphek light bars and I was certainly interested in trying them out. I contacted Orphek and James their representative was prompt enough to answer all my queries. But in the process while I was discussing all these I figure out the light will be very blue compared to my taste. So I asked for few modifications in diode. After long list of emails over a day we decided to go with this array of diodes in two 24" bars
"380 410 380 430 410 380 410 430 380 410 380 430 410 380 410 430 380 410".
I will update about these lights once I receive them but I tried to cover majority of lower blue and UV spectrum within the diode option.

Ok talking part is done, now picture time.....


RMF acid trip milli

 

[Anirban]

Unknown from Fraghouse corals

WWC Aquadelight

Aqua SD rainbow

 

[Anirban]

Couple of Battle corals

Bubblebath unicorn

Backdraft of the movie (that disc is 4 inch)

 

[bubbaque]

Corals are looking great! How long have you had the bubblebath? Is the unknown different than an acid trip? Colors in the pic look similar.

 

[Anirban]

Corals are looking great! How long have you had the bubblebath? Is the unknown different than an acid trip? Colors in the pic look similar.

Bubblebath precisely a year. It slept for first few months and then started growing at a good pace and now recently shooting out branches.
The unknown came in one of fraghouse order and look very close to the rainbow milli or the acid trip but I still call it unknown....

 

[Anirban]

Some more ...

RMF psychoberry

Look at this beauty...

FHC Chitty chitty bang bang

Matt V Alias

WWC Hollywood dreams

 

[Anirban]

Now some usual suspects...

WWC Anacropora

Tyree rainbow and Jason fox stylo living together happily ever after. Can you guess who is whom?

Milka stylo