A R2R Reef Spotlight: Bring the Reef Home By Joseph Chi

[Charles Gibson]

Wow

 

[Birddog]

Unbelievably beautiful and humbling.... I can only hope to have your skills someday!

 

[vetteguy53081]

BEAUTIFUL TANK, DESCRIPTION AND LAYOUT. IF I CAN KEEP MORE THAN ONE ACRO ALIVE, I'D BE THRILLED !!!!
A tank system Well done !!!

 

[fengshuicorals]

Cool tank, currently setting up a tank of my own at home 75 gal mixed reef.

 

[Maritimer]

Very nicely executed - a tank worthy of being featured!

Very cool to watch the video, and to see the tank unfolding over time, liverock to frags to adolescent colonies to mature growth needing to be pruned and managed.

You've managed well.

~Bruce

 

[The Bungulo]

how do you keep those marbled shrimp in the tank? dont they eat coral polyps?

 

[Black Pearl]

Awesome, Simply Awesome

 

[120reefkeeper]

Beautiful system, great layout. I look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas next year!

 

[Aslam Abraham]

Really beautiful reef.
Always checking your video on youtube.

 

[thetedinator]

Very nice!

 

[b3ja]

Awesome!

 

[Urbanknight]

outstanding work and a beautiful reef!

 

[leicalux]

Way to go Bro !!!

 

[Bob E]

Very Nice

 

[shih87]

Thank you Joseph for sharing your beautiful reef with us!

Thank R2R give me chance to share.

 

[shih87]

Beautiful tank! I'm absolutely drooling over here looking at the stand design and SPS growth.

I couldn't help but point out your comment on the improved version of Apex AFS with weight sensor and MQTT enable. Might you expand on this?

It is two of my friends design when I told him I don't like a AFS sit on my rimless open top tank and no alarm when empty food, so one friend design a holder to help AFS integrated to my ATI light system, and other friend build a weight sensor to measure food weight, MQTT for configuration, and text message for empty food alarm.

 

[shih87]

looks fantastic! great work
the neptune auto feeder cone have you made this yourself looks very clever

Thanks. As mentioned, it was done by my friend who used a 3D printer ;-)

 

[shih87]

Can you go into the Zeovit aquaforest combo you use?

Something like below... Hope it help

1. Salt - Af Reef Salt 0.75 + KZ Reefer Best Coral Salt 0.25
2. Nutrient Control - KZ Bak, KZ Start3, KZ ZEOvit
3. Coral Nutrition - Af ABEV, KZ CV
4. Water Quality - KZ Sponge Power, KZ Snow, BrightWell Carbon
5. Major Elements - Home made Baking Soda, CaCl,MgCl, KCl
6. Cure and others - KZ Flatworm Stop, RedSea Aiptasia-X, Af Reef Mineral Salt
7. Trace Elements - Af Component ABC, Af Iron, Af Iodum, Af Strontium, Af Fluorine
8. Color Improvement - KZ Xtra, KZ B-Balance, KZ Coral Booster

 

[shih87]

Very nice!

I don't know if there are any build pics from when these corals were installed but I'd love to see what the corals looked like at the beginning. I don't think this tank started with typical USA tiny frags.

Coral sources are mixed from 2014 old tank migrate to this tank + Indonesia mariculture + Austria wild-caught. To enjoy their growth and die, I think the best place is my 3 year progressive video in this article. Indonesia mariculture usually is 2~3 inches tall. The USA "tiny" frags you refer here are like ORA 1" frag? I only have a few, but not a lot.

Anyhow, here are some pictures I took early 2017 for before and after shot, and of course, they are all much bigger today.

 

[shih87]

Awesome! I like the apex auto feeder on the light! I might have to steal that idea.. [emoji12]

Sure thing. The whole idea is sharing ;-)