Another Aussie SPS tank

redtigrinus · Apr 3, 2016

Are you ever worried that you have too much light? Are you dimming the T5s or LEDs? Have you ever had any issues with you LPS responding negatively to such much light?

Maki~R~G~A · Apr 13, 2016

Char lie said:
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speechless

SlowMN · Apr 17, 2016

Amazing colors and one of the most impressive tanks I have seen in awhile.

Daniel@R2R · Apr 18, 2016

Char lie said:
Thanks Revhtree

Grabbed some pics during a water change last night. I've been recently doing 30% twice a week, I'm definitely a fan of large water changes as long as the new water has identical Alk/Ca etc.

Wow!! These are awesome!! We need an update!

Maki~R~G~A · Apr 18, 2016

Char lie said:
Not sure why that pic didn't work, will try again:

ITS REALLY REALLY W^_^W........... NICE BUDDY.....

JMacedo · Apr 19, 2016

Stunning! That is art! Thank you for sharing your gorgeous reef!

echopiece · Apr 19, 2016

Charlie, what kind of camera did you use to shoot that video on youtube?

Dropped · Apr 19, 2016

Sweet looking tank, it's great to know wait simple ingredients you can have such success.

Viner87 · Apr 19, 2016

In your earlier pics, you seem to slowly get rid of your sand to almost a bare bottom, but now have sand all over again. Why did you start to reduce your sand and then now build it back up again? Did you have problems with it?

I ask, because I started off with sand, but have gradually syphoned it away around the front edges of the tank to get rid of constant diatoms, dirt and cyano.

Dropped · Apr 19, 2016

Looks like it was pushed backwards from the gyre. Could have added more sand at that point.

Tony73 · Apr 20, 2016

Which sand have you added?

Viner87 · Apr 20, 2016

I used caribsea aragmax

Char lie · Apr 22, 2016

Sorry for the lack of replies, heres a quick video:

I will try do a proper update soon and answer all questions etc.
Battling a bad infestation of AEFW at the moment, seem to be winning but only time will tell. You can see in this pic the amount of eggs they have laid:

Dropped · Apr 22, 2016

What have you been treating with? i just used flatwormRX with some good success.

Char lie · Apr 23, 2016

redtigrinus said:
Are you ever worried that you have too much light? Are you dimming the T5s or LEDs? Have you ever had any issues with you LPS responding negatively to such much light?

The T5s run at 100% (non-dimmable) and the LEDs run at 80% max (at 100% colour in Kessil terms lol). Obviously this makes LPS placement hard and a lot of med-low light LPS probably wouldn't do too well in the tank. The large stags love the light though and a few shadowed areas are being produced now they are getting large so I may have to add another spotlight or two if the Acropora start to struggle in those areas.

Maki~R~G~A said:
speechless

Thanks

SlowMN said:
Amazing colors and one of the most impressive tanks I have seen in awhile.

Thanks

mdbannister said:
Wow!! These are awesome!! We need an update!

Thanks

Maki~R~G~A said:
ITS REALLY REALLY W^_^W........... NICE BUDDY.....

Thanks

JMacedo said:
Stunning! That is art! Thank you for sharing your gorgeous reef!

Thanks

echopiece said:
Charlie, what kind of camera did you use to shoot that video on youtube?

Just my phone, a Samsung s7 edge

Dropped said:
Sweet looking tank, it's great to know wait simple ingredients you can have such success.

Thanks

Viner87 said:
In your earlier pics, you seem to slowly get rid of your sand to almost a bare bottom, but now have sand all over again. Why did you start to reduce your sand and then now build it back up again? Did you have problems with it?

I ask, because I started off with sand, but have gradually syphoned it away around the front edges of the tank to get rid of constant diatoms, dirt and cyano.

Dropped said:
Looks like it was pushed backwards from the gyre. Could have added more sand at that point.

I used a 1mm substrate to start with which just kept getting pushed towards the back of the tank. I have now added a 3mm substrate to the tank which doesn't move in the flow although it grows a lot of coralline algae and turns the substrate pink. I might remove it soon due to this as pink sand doesn't look too nice in my opinion.

Acroporaaddict · Apr 25, 2016

Glad I found this thread. I've been following you on instagram. Amazing tank!

swayd · Apr 25, 2016

Amazing tank, I just spent about an hour reading through this thread. Good luck with the AEFW, I would love to know how you are fighting them in case it ever happens to me. Thank you!

b3ja · Apr 25, 2016

Char lie said:
Sorry for the lack of replies, heres a quick video:

I will try do a proper update soon and answer all questions etc.
Battling a bad infestation of AEFW at the moment, seem to be winning but only time will tell. You can see in this pic the amount of eggs they have laid:

Someting itchy on my head seeing thoose egg..

Viner87 · Apr 25, 2016

Char lie said:
The T5s run at 100% (non-dimmable) and the LEDs run at 80% max (at 100% colour in Kessil terms lol). Obviously this makes LPS placement hard and a lot of med-low light LPS probably wouldn't do too well in the tank. The large stags love the light though and a few shadowed areas are being produced now they are getting large so I may have to add another spotlight or two if the Acropora start to struggle in those areas.

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Just my phone, a Samsung s7 edge

Thanks

I used a 1mm substrate to start with which just kept getting pushed towards the back of the tank. I have now added a 3mm substrate to the tank which doesn't move in the flow although it grows a lot of coralline algae and turns the substrate pink. I might remove it soon due to this as pink sand doesn't look too nice in my opinion.

Will you just go bare bottom then?

Char lie · Apr 27, 2016

Acroporaaddict said:
Glad I found this thread. I've been following you on instagram. Amazing tank!

Thanks, updates are a lot quicker and easier on Instagram haha

swayd said:
Amazing tank, I just spent about an hour reading through this thread. Good luck with the AEFW, I would love to know how you are fighting them in case it ever happens to me. Thank you!

Thanks

My H.melanarus is definitely picking at the corals a bit so he must be pecking off flatworms. I'm also currently using some RO tubing on a large syringe to blast them out of the tight crevices in the colonies branches where the melanarus can't get to. I'll probably never get rid of them but this process seems to be helping for now.