Fadi's Reef 180 Gallons sps dominated Tank

[fabutahoun]

Looking great

Thanks Mrtian

 

[maroun.c]

Lovely new additions Fadi

 

[drernesto]

Nice Fadi! The semilarvatus is sweet! Hope it will not nip.

 

[fabutahoun]

Lovely new additions Fadi

Thanks Maroun for the kind words

Nice Fadi! The semilarvatus is sweet! Hope it will not nip.

Thanks dr ernesto, all this time I was looking to get a butterfly to add to the tank then I just saw the semilarvatus fall in love instantly

Until Now all of these fish are showing me there good side and not touching any thing except some picking on the rocks. I hope this good behavior continues.

But after this addition I have noticed that the yellow tang is the nastiest fish ever. kept attacking and biting the butterfly for the first 2 days, you can see some of the damage done. The weird thing that the yellow tang is small in size. I was afraid that the lrage purple tang will be the true terror for the new arrivals.

Also I thought that the powder blue will get hell from the other tangs, but they just ignored it !

 

[fabutahoun]

The Emperor killed only one small acan and likes to nip on zoa, no problem for me because every zoa head the emperor eats there is 2 or three new ones, its like a hydra .

 

[Dan I]

Beautiful tank! You got some nice corals in there.

 

[Bayinaung]

semilarvatus is not nipping SPS? is it eating prepared foods? How's your corals' PE?

 

[fabutahoun]

Beautiful tank! You got some nice corals in there.

Thanks F291, glad that you like my corals. keep checking regularly many updates are coming soon

 

[fabutahoun]

semilarvatus is not nipping SPS? is it eating prepared foods? How's your corals' PE?

Its been week and it didn't touch anything yet, it is eating frozen mysis shrimp and some times try flake food.

For The PE nothing changed as good as before, take a look at these fresh photos

 

[Rob.D]

Wow, absolutely stunning display! Great job!!!

 

[Bayinaung]

Its been week and it didn't touch anything yet, it is eating frozen mysis shrimp and some times try flake food.

For The PE nothing changed as good as before, take a look at these fresh photos

that's amazing. you are very lucky! This is an interesting experiment. Keep us updated on this.

 

[fabutahoun]

Wow, absolutely stunning display! Great job!!!

Thanks Rob, I am glad that you like it.

 

[fabutahoun]

that's amazing. you are very lucky! This is an interesting experiment. Keep us updated on this.

Thanks for your Kind words Bayinaung, Keep watching the thread there is more to come in the next days

 

[maroun.c]

The idea is finding some zoas ur angels dont nip as theres no way zoas can keep up with being eaten.
Would have prefered to wait till colonies are big before affing any angels or buttetflies, this way there will be some unreacheable branches and also larger colonies woyld tolerate nipping a bit better.
Still these are beautiful fish and i hope they do we in the tank.would have been best to deworm them as theyre prone to intestinal parasites and other. Try to feed well with soaking in vitamins to maintain colors and fatten up the fish as that powder blue looked skinny.

 

[fabutahoun]

The idea is finding some zoas ur angels dont nip as theres no way zoas can keep up with being eaten.
Would have prefered to wait till colonies are big before affing any angels or buttetflies, this way there will be some unreacheable branches and also larger colonies woyld tolerate nipping a bit better.
Still these are beautiful fish and i hope they do we in the tank.would have been best to deworm them as theyre prone to intestinal parasites and other. Try to feed well with soaking in vitamins to maintain colors and fatten up the fish as that powder blue looked skinny.

Thanks Maroun for all the comments and advises, for the Zoas they are not a concern for me as it is growing every where and started to grow on different places all over the tank, one step and I may consider it a pest. I will not be sad if the emperor eats it all, also the angel is small in size.

The butterfly and emperor are still small, I got the angel months ago and it is not a new addition and it is behaving and only eat as I said before one small Acan frag.

For new Fish I usually QT all incoming fish and treat with prazipro and then with cupramine (if the fish can handle copper) or paragurd.
The Emperor Angel was treated for 2 weeks, 1 week prazipro and another week with paragurd.

I have skipped QT for the powder blue and butterfly because they are finicky eaters at start and don't wan't to stress them more In QT, I thought they have better chances in display with all the live rock to pick on which i think worked.

And yes the powder blue is skinny it didn't eat for 3 days, now I notice a slight daily improvement in feeding, I feed a mixture of food to try to let the new fish chose whatever they like that includes frozen mysis shrimp, nls thera a+ pellets ,nori and flakes , I used to soak with selcon but It just finished i need to order some.

 

[maroun.c]

Looks like your on the right track Fadi. Once eating the PBT should pick uo weight and if it doesnt then a prazipro round might help... Usually they plumb up quite fast.
Lets see some fts with fish out, imagine tank must be looking super colorful.

 

[fabutahoun]

Looks like your on the right track Fadi. Once eating the PBT should pick uo weight and if it doesnt then a prazipro round might help... Usually they plumb up quite fast.
Lets see some fts with fish out, imagine tank must be looking super colorful.

Thanks Maroun

Will tray to take new one tonight

 

[fabutahoun]

Time for some Tank Progress comparison
July 2016

October 2016

February 2017

#reef2reef, #worldwidecorals, #mywwccontest

 

[fabutahoun]

Time To review My LED Lights

After 1 Month of Installing the new Radion XR30 G4 Pro in The middle of the tank , I have done a basic testing and comparison between The G4 the my Old G3

As I have mentioned before I have 2 G3 and 1 G4, all 3 units are connected to Classic Apex Control Via WMX module, all lights are set at max 75% total intensity with the following Apex Graph

This Graph is based on the Ecotech Coral Lab SPS AB program.

#ecotechmarine #neptunesystems @RandoReefer @Terence

 

[fabutahoun]

Some LED comparison with FTS

Full Tank Shot with G3 on the Left and right and G4 in the middle

Another photo with G3 only in the middle

Then I replaced the G3 with G4 , This Photo with G4 only in Middle

Side By Side comparison, can you find the difference between the two LEDs?

From the photos it appears that the G4 have more spread and intensity and more color that the G3. but visual comparison can't give you the full idea, so i decided to Test the 2 lights with Neptune PMK "Par Monitoring kit" I Took two readings for each light each reading was directly under the center of LED light , first two readings at water surface level which is 9 inches from the light G3 reading was 930, G4 Reading was 1000 which around 7% difference

The next Readings was taken at 11" under water or 20" away from the light, G3 reading was 280 while G4 was 310 which around 10% difference

In conclusion,The G4 is an updated version of the G3 which many reefers had great results with it, so no wonder that G4 will have a better result. the increase in PAR values and spread do not only result in less shadowing, it also can reduce the number of units used in which it will reduce the cost. also comparing corals under both light I feel that my sps are growing faster in addition to better coloration.

Future Upgrades:
now I am happy with coverage I may increase the overall intensity of the lights gradually as the corals grow, latter one I have full colonies I may add a forth G4 led if there will be shadowing.

If anyone is interested in a full tank Par Values I am ready to make it over the next weekend


#ecotechmarine #neptunesystems @RandoReefer @Terence