AJ_TSin's 47g Shallow Rimless

[EW_Fish]

Well thanks. That's awesome. Hopefully the info I post is useful to people who want to do the same.

Welcome. (hope my comment didn't come off in a bad way) I dig this build and is one of my favorites. Keep posting those pictures!

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Welcome. (hope my comment didn't come off in a bad way) I dig this build and is one of my favorites. Keep posting those pictures!

No No, Not at all. I really appreciate the compliments and glad to have you follow. I will keep posting.

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Finally got an Apex unit installed and running. Currently monitoring PH, Temp, and ORP. I will eventually install a conductivity probe as well. The 8 Slot Powerbar really helped to clean up the basement wire nest. Its much cleaner and functional. I love this thing, probably the best piece of aquarium equipment I have ever purchased.

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Thought I would post my current ZeoVit Dosing regiment as I have made some tweaks again.


Dosing and Maintenance Schedule


Total NET Water Volume ~55g


Feeding

• NLS Pellets daily
• PE Mysis Rinsed and Soaked in Selcon (Once in a while)
• Polyp Labs Reef Roids mixed w/Selcon (Once in a while)

Daily

• 0.15 ml K-Z ZEOStart 2x daily (total of 0.3 ml)
• 7ml Ca, 3ml Alk, 10 ml Mg (BRS Two Part)
• 1 ml K-Z Pohls Xtra
• 2 Drops K-Z Coral Vitalizer

Intermittent

• 2 Drops of K-Z Sponge Power 3-4x weekly
• 2 Drops of K-Z ZeoBak 2x weekly (Every other day for two weeks after ZeoLite Exchange)
• 2 Drops of K-Z Potassium Iodide Flouride 3x weekly
• 2 ml K-Z Coral Snow 2x weekly (once immediately after water change, once midweek)
• 2 Drops of K-Z BioMate 2x weekly (w/ Coral Snow)
• 2 ml K-Balance 2x weekly
• 2 ml B-Balance 2x weekly
• 2 Drops Amino Acid High Concentrate 1x weekly
• 2 Drops Cyano Clean 1x weekly

Maintenance

• 10% water change weekly (Vacuum sand bed bi-weekly)
• Change Filter Floss 2x weekly
• 250 ml of ESV Activated Carbon in media bag changed every 30 days
• 500 ml K-Z ZeoLite in Vertex Reactor running 60 g/h change 90% every 6-8 weeks
• Blast Rocks w/ Turkey Baster (Several times weekly)

 

[revhtree]

Love your set up!

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Thanks Rev.

Colours are getting awesome these days, August FTS should be sweet.

 

[AJ_Tsin]

I picked up a couple new frags last night. Reef Raft Pink Floyd, $500 Efflo and ORA Hawkins. Managed to get a few quick shots under 2x Blue + before heading out for the evening.


Couldn't get a shot of the Efflo in focus but here is Pink Floyd and Hawkins

RR Pink Floyd (Frag was taken from bottom of colony so the corallite structure is very stretched out should become a bit more dense under my light and flow)

ORA Hawkins


Also took a few shots of some other newbies colouring up.

RR Avengers is encrusting relatively quickly and the polyps are starting to get some red.

Jawdropper also colouring up nicely and encrusting quickly. Polyps are quickly becoming blue.

RR Multicolor Matrix... still colouring up not much "multicolour" happening here yet.

 

[coral reeftank]

Those are great looking acros.
The JD is looking great!

 

[tinctorus]

Great looking tank man, subscribed to your thread so I can see the updates as they come out
Im in the market for a controller for my tank but I'm up in the air about which one to get, I'm really heavily leaning towards the reef angel unit as I really like it's setup and it'll do more than enough for me

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Those are great looking acros.
The JD is looking great!

Thanks! It's definitely an impressive coral.

Great looking tank man, subscribed to your thread so I can see the updates as they come out
Im in the market for a controller for my tank but I'm up in the air about which one to get, I'm really heavily leaning towards the reef angel unit as I really like it's setup and it'll do more than enough for me

Thankyou glad to have you along, happy to be sharing here on R2R.
I am super pleased with the Apex, primarily the ApexFusion online component. It's soo helpful and awesome controlling and monitoring things remotely. Highly recommend it to anyone, I think its the best piece of equipment I have ever purchased for a reef.

 

[revhtree]

Great colors!

 

[EW_Fish]

Great colors!

Couldn't agree more

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Great colors!

Couldn't agree more

Thanks guys. I'm actually not 100% satisfied with the color at the moment. But it's getting there. I have upped Zeo AA CV and Xtra dosages, but I need some more fish I think in general.

 

[skinz78]

Great looking sticks! I'd love to see a FTS!

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Great looking sticks! I'd love to see a FTS!

I typically do FTS every month at the start of the month, so sometime next week. If you click back a few pages there should be a handful of em.

Thanks!

 

[brandon85]

such an awesome tank!

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Thanks.

Picked up a couple other frags this weekend at a Fragmeet in Toronto. Notably I found a fairly decent frag of Vivid's Rainbow Delight which supposedly came directly from Jason Fox at MACNA a couple years ago. I am very interested to see the progression of this. This coral is notorious for almost completely browning out when fragged or shipped and this one is no exception. I plan on documenting the color change as this coral has the potential to be one of the nicest around. Will post a photo later today or tomorrow along with an updated FTS.

 

[AJ_Tsin]

FRONT

SIDE

 

[YHSublime]

Looks great!

 

[AJ_Tsin]

Looks great!

Thanks! Few ppl asked for a FTS so I put it up early.