Anirban's Aquaforest journey

[Anirban]

I have seen better phone shot late the my canon 70 eos

Yeah, I was thinking to get my Nikon D610 then got lazy and shoot with my phone...

 

[jsker]

Yeah, I was thinking to get my Nikon D610 then got lazy and shoot with my phone...

I need to break down and get a micro lens for better shots

 

[Anirban]

I need to break down and get a micro lens for better shots

I have a 105mm Nikon micro but who cares when the phone is good as that...

 

[Anirban]

Time for some more pictures....

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Time for some more pictures....

Looking good!

 

[Anirban]

Looking good!

Thanks, the system is getting stabilised but still need to give it some more time.

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[Anirban]

Looking good!

Thanks, today possibly I need to take out my Nikon to take some fish photo. Those stupid fishes are too fast for my mobile camera to capture.

 

[Anirban]

As I promised got my nikon out and took some random shots of my fishies.....

Looks can be deceiving.... my first and most fearsome fish.......

 

[Anirban]

Looking good!

Thanks David...

 

[jsker]

As I promised got my nikon out and took some random shots of my fishies.....

Looks can be deceiving.... my first and most fearsome fish.......

Great shots with the Nikon

 

[Anirban]

Sorry for delayed update guys. Got stuck with some other jobs. So its been 6weeks since I last did my water change. Now the 7th week is running. Time for some parameters....

Week 4: (where I left you guys last)

• Salinity-1.025
• Temp: maintained at 76 degree
• pH: runs between 7.9-8.2
• Alkalinity: dKH 7.67 (Hanna)
• Calcium: 465 (salifert)
• Magnesium: 1395 (salifert)
• Nitrate: 5 ppm (red sea)
• Phosphate: 0 (hanna)
• Potassium: 430 ppm (salifert) (Finally the level is up and running steady)
• Iodine is in range.

Week 6:

• Salinity-1.025
• Temp: maintained at 76 degree
• pH: runs between 7.9-8.2
• Alkalinity: dKH 7.8 (Hanna)
• Calcium: 420 (salifert)
• Magnesium: 1245 (salifert)
• Nitrate: 2 ppm (red sea)
• Phosphate: 0 (hanna)
• Potassium: 380 ppm (salifert) (again back to low)
• Iodine is in range.

 

[jsker]

Looking good my friend. I get to play chemist Friday

 

[fragit]

I just started the full AF line up last week. My 7 frags are definitely adjusting. Still trying to dial in my supplements and balling doses. What is your dosing regime? Your tank is looking awesome!

 

[Anirban]

Looking good my friend. I get to play chemist Friday

Its looking good although I started an experiment with algae treatment with a product to get rid of a cyano bed which was due to the new tank shift. I am currently documenting the progress so be ready for a detailed update with parameters over the treatment period and also how the system behaves.
I will be waiting for your results friend. One question did you stir your Pro bios daily and how you diluted it for dosing?

 

[Anirban]

I just started the full AF line up last week. My 7 frags are definitely adjusting. Still trying to dial in my supplements and balling doses. What is your dosing regime? Your tank is looking awesome!

Thanks for liking it...its simple....

As you may observed that I dont do water changes frequently as I am testing how stables the parameters can be just by dosing. So, just doing these

1. Component 1+2+3+ using doser 60ml of each (15ml/dose 4 times a day)
2. Pro bio S and NP pro 3 drops each day morning
3. Kalium (K) 2X as my system eats this more somehow
4. Once a week heavy feeding (roti rich+phyto+coral snow+oyster feast+coral frenzy 1mm) in night
5. Alternate day Af vitamin and Build (I skip any other feeding these days)
6. Alternate days 1 cap Algaebarn phyto.

Other than this I have huge flow and quite high lighting regime.

 

[jsker]

Its looking good although I started an experiment with algae treatment with a product to get rid of a cyano bed which was due to the new tank shift. I am currently documenting the progress so be ready for a detailed update with parameters over the treatment period and also how the system behaves.
I will be waiting for your results friend. One question did you stir your Pro bios daily and how you diluted it for dosing?

I stopped the auto dose of the pro bio s, I need to figure out this more. I thing it is causing my issue of the coral die off. I do have red cayno all over the place. any suggestion?

 

[Anirban]

I stopped the auto dose of the pro bio s, I need to figure out this more. I thing it is causing my issue of the coral die off. I do have red cayno all over the place. any suggestion?

Ok I was thinking of starting it but need to understand few things more......for Cyano wait till Monday I think you will get the answer....

 

[fragit]

I'm new to the AquaForest line... I saw that you were auto dosing ProbioS @jsker and wondering how you were doing this and diluting it in what. Do you think your issues (coral die off) could be related to the fact that it is supposed to be refrigerated. Refrigerating it would essentially place the bacteria in a cryostasis I would think. This would effectively halt the life cycle. If it's not refrigerated wouldn't it just die, without a food source?

 

[jsker]

I'm new to the AquaForest line... I saw that you were auto dosing ProbioS @jsker and wondering how you were doing this and diluting it in what. Do you think your issues (coral die off) could be related to the fact that it is supposed to be refrigerated. Refrigerating it would essentially place the bacteria in a cryostasis I would think. This would effectively halt the life cycle. If it's not refrigerated wouldn't it just die, without a food source?

Good questions.
After some conversation back and forth, it was suggest if I kept the Pro Bio S below 78 degrees I would be fine. I diluted the Pro Bio S 50 ml to 2000 ml of RO/DI. I would say that you are correct, but thought I would give it a try.