Anirban 200G peninsula of smoothies

Anirban · Jul 7, 2021

Rhoads238 said:
Awesome build! Looks like its coming along great.

Thank you. Yes, the dirty phase is going away slowly. I am trying to build a box full of smooth skin corals or some unique acroporas which we generally don't see in todays tenuis dominated reefing world. Hope it works out in the long run.

Yours is coming up nice too.

Anirban · Jul 15, 2021

Today I can finally declare that the system is completely nuisance algae free. The tank reached its 6th month mark and now I am not seeing anymore algae. Interesting point is my nutrients are stupid high NO3> 30ppm and PO4 around 0.15 ppm. I am slowly bringing them down. I am targeting NO3 10 ppm and PO4 0.05 ppm. I used regular water change and dosed live phyto, Dr. Tims refresh and waste away in combination. A single treatment regimen of refresh and waste away took down the final residual algae. I am also seeing a lot of pink coralline all over the place. Currently I am following the radion schedule from TSA at 65% intensity and its working well. It looks very much like AB+ schedule. I will get a picture today when I get back home.

drawman · Jul 17, 2021

Anirban said:
Today I can finally declare that the system is completely nuisance algae free. The tank reached its 6th month mark and now I am not seeing anymore algae. Interesting point is my nutrients are stupid high NO3> 30ppm and PO4 around 0.15 ppm. I am slowly bringing them down. I am targeting NO3 10 ppm and PO4 0.05 ppm. I used regular water change and dosed live phyto, Dr. Tims refresh and waste away in combination. A single treatment regimen of refresh and waste away took down the final residual algae. I am also seeing a lot of pink coralline all over the place. Currently I am following the radion schedule from TSA at 65% intensity and its working well. It looks very much like AB+ schedule. I will get a picture today when I get back home.

Yesir time for that pic!

Anirban · Jul 17, 2021

drawman said:
Yesir time for that pic!

Lol I will get that I promise need to clean the glass ooops acrylic I mean.

Anirban · Jul 18, 2021

Sorry folks for the delay. Here are the new pictures of the system. The system is running steady and clean. Hope it stays this way.

I am currently doing weekly water change but debating on doing it once in every 2 weeks.

And the circus party....

You people can literally see how long that fin has grown. I will post a picture of its first week and now.

drawman · Jul 18, 2021

I like the scape! A lot of great negative space for acro growout nice work!

Anirban · Jul 19, 2021

drawman said:
I like the scape! A lot of great negative space for acro growout nice work!

Thanks Tim for liking it. I believe with bare bottom system if we can make an open aquascape it helps with coral growth, nutrient transport as well as fish to swim around. Basically I have no detritus anywhere in my whole tank although I feed the tank 3 times a day.

revhtree · Jul 19, 2021

Looking very cool!

drawman · Jul 19, 2021

Anirban said:
Thanks Tim for liking it. I believe with bare bottom system if we can make an open aquascape it helps with coral growth, nutrient transport as well as fish to swim around. Basically I have no detritus anywhere in my whole tank although I feed the tank 3 times a day.

I like it I do the same. Went barebottom years ago and have never looked back!

Anirban · Jul 19, 2021

revhtree said:
Looking very cool!

Thanks Rev. Its getting there slowly.

Anirban · Jul 23, 2021

Look what I got....

I checked immediately after receiving it. Its such a pleasure to use it. My current PO4 is 0.11ppm (ULR) and NO3 stands at 31.8 ppm.

The reading was pretty good as my salifert was showing its in between 25 and 50 ;Dead which is a huge range.

I wanted to do something new for coral collection as I believe there are very less steady source for smooth skin acros in the hobby. So I decided to buy some wild ones from ASD weekly sale and plan to care them and see how they turn out in long run. They all were different kind of smooth skins. I received them yesterday and one of them started to die, possibly didn't like the dip. But others are looking fine. I also started to dose my AF component 123. I decided to dose it until I need a calcium reactor. I was dosing tropic marine all for reef but I came to know that it doesn't contain any potassium;Dead so that will not work with my long term once a month water change schedule. I am also dosing approximately 20 ml of AF nitraphos minus per day and its holding my Po4 pretty steady. I will possibly start to increase the dose a little as I would like to have it a bit lower in the 0.06ppm range.

I am currently doing weekly 5% water change just to put some fresh saltwater in. I will slowly move into biweekly and then once a month regime. I generally add approx. 50 ml of Dr. Tims waste away after my water change. I will start dosing some Kalk too from next week just to keep the pH up a bit.

Anirban · Sep 2, 2021

Hello guys,

Time for a little boring update. The tank is doing good and so do all the fishes. The nutrients are still elevated but I dont think that's hurting any coral growth. I am collecting corals from different sources and the list is growing pretty strong. The corals are growing and I am currently doing a combination dosing of Kalk and aquaforest 123 to maintain my Alk levels.

Here is the current list of Acros I collected and growing...

TSA zombieland
RRC shazam
CC Hellboy
WWC little red Ferrari
Oregon tort
Sanjays wrecking ball robusta
Boom coral red loripes
RMF red gecko
RMF ice age granulosa
BC Cricket spine
BC Gilligan
BC Kermit song granulosa
BC Skinny love
Wet thumbs mother of pearl
BC Boiled angel
POTO Hellblade
POTO Poison Ivy
Greg's Unicorn
POTO Golden Dragon
OG Red Dragon
Banana Lokani
CB Golden Jawdropper

I have few more coming this week. I will update the list once I receive them. I will get some pictures this weekend after the water change .

jsker · Sep 2, 2021

Impressive coral collection !!

Anirban · Sep 2, 2021

jsker said:
Impressive coral collection !!

Hey Jeff,

Thanks man. Your tank is recovering well too. I just received 3 box of hanna high nitrate reagents. Its really hard to get hands on these.

jsker · Sep 2, 2021

Anirban said:
Hey Jeff,

Thanks man. Your tank is recovering well too. I just received 3 box of hanna high nitrate reagents. Its really hard to get hands on these.

Thank you for the update on the Hanna reagents. This is good news, I should receive my oder soon then.

Have a great day ;Shamefullyembarrased

elorablue · Sep 2, 2021

Great tank! Love the coral list. Do you by chance have a pic of the RR Shazam ? I got a chunk of it 2 months ago and just wondering how yours was doing.
Did the second Idol not make it back into the tank?

Anirban · Sep 2, 2021

elorablue said:
Great tank! Love the coral list. Do you by chance have a pic of the RR Shazam ? I got a chunk of it 2 months ago and just wondering how yours was doing.
Did the second Idol not make it back into the tank?

I can get one but its currently bluish greenish in color. Its just been couple of months in the tank and I think its still settling down. Sadly I have to give away the second idol last month. I tried couple of more times to introduce it back in the tank but it always displayed aggression towards the larger established one. I just gave it to one of my friend as it was eating well.

elorablue · Sep 2, 2021

Anirban said:
I can get one but its currently bluish greenish in color. Its just been couple of months in the tank and I think its still settling down. Sadly I have to give away the second idol last month. I tried couple of more times to introduce it back in the tank but it always displayed aggression towards the larger established one. I just gave it to one of my friend as it was eating well.

ok that’s interesting about the Shazam. I would say mine is similar. Bluish teal colour, it’s starting to encrust but no polyp extension since I moved it from the rack to its spot on the rocks.
that’s a shame about the other Idol.

Anirban · Sep 2, 2021

elorablue said:
ok that’s interesting about the Shazam. I would say mine is similar. Bluish teal colour, it’s starting to encrust but no polyp extension since I moved it from the rack to its spot on the rocks.
that’s a shame about the other Idol.

Yup, I was sad to see him go but I can not sacrifice the bigger one as it is already well settled and well behaved in the tank.

I am yet to see any polyp extension on any of the smooth skin except the batch I got from Battlecoral. They show really nice polyps. I am hopeful to see more color on the Shazam but I think it will take few more months.