KaduReef 280G Build

[Tahoe61]

Ahhh so sorry about the Euphyllia eating flatworms. I have seen reports of them but never really viewed such great documentation.

Amazing tank!

 

[A_game43]

Kadu, love the tank, rock work is awesome and love the color. I need to look for the EEFW that you talk of as well. I have ordered the Coral RX and will dip to see what comes off my very nice Purple Torch.

 

[kaduozores]

Kadu, love the tank, rock work is awesome and love the color. I need to look for the EEFW that you talk of as well. I have ordered the Coral RX and will dip to see what comes off my very nice Purple Torch.

Thanks

Look, the Coral Rx doesn't kill EEFW, it just let them fall, so you need to shake the coral for 1 min, and if find eggs, scrape off them
I didn't find anything that eat or kill this pest.

 

[kaduozores]

I forgot to say, 3 weeks ago I found 1 EEFW survivor in the purple torch, just one, with thousands of eggs, them I remove the flat worm and scrape off the eggs, I did baths in the other euphylias and didnt find any, them 2 weeks ago I did bath again and none falls.. once a week I look the euphylllias at night with a flashlight, searching for them.

 

[A_game43]

Great information thanks for sharing it.

 

[CoralWealth]

how is everything doing now?

 

[kaduozores]

Hello guys
First I would like to apologize for not updating the topic, it was bad times for the system, I'll make a brief summary of the events.

As I said before, everything started with the fixtures update, I was running RapidLed Onyx with great results, then I changed to RapidLed Coronas. I dind't realized how powerfull they are (I dont have a Par meter). So, I burned many many corals, for a year or more, and I was thinking the light wasn't the problem, now I know there was too. Then low nutrient and high alkalinity, then fisrt big coral loss.

Then I decied to remove all chinese equipment, changed skimmer, return pump and circulation pumps, I was thinking in low quality impellers, and some tungstenium in he water. Then I did.

New Skimmer Regal 300sss
New return Pump WaterBlaster 10.000
Circulation pumps Tunze and Koralias
There is no Jebao, anymore.


As I said before, I started to dose vodka in the system, 20ml daily, and I didn't realised that potassium was consumed too fast, even with 30% water change monthly, I bought a test, and the potassium was 280ppm. I had a lot of burning tips in the SPS and it could be the lower potassium.


I also wondered if I could have heavy metals in the water, like tungstenium, aluminium, cooper..... but here in Brazil we cant send samples to Triton, so this I'll never know.

I did many water changes wihtout a good result, everything I did din't work.
All the corals were dying, then many options came to my brain, I talked with some friends and then I decided to restart the system.

Exemple of corals dying

I tought the plan was good, but it isn't good enought.

I setup a pool, place all rochs, corals and fishes, my skimmer, one Conona, lots os chaetomorpha.

Then I cleaned the tank, rocks and susbtrate, and started the new layout.

In the 6th day in the pool corals stat to die. In the 7th day I moved corals and fish back to tank, and dosed a lot of bacteria.

Result, just 2 sps survied, and a few lps(my frient took them to his tank to save as more as he can)

Few weeks after that I took back the Euphylias.

Now things are getting better, and I started to add some sps frags. I hope the tank will be as great as it was.

Thats all for now.

Thanks

 

[this is me]

I'm liking it!

 

[leahfiish]

Wow... I hope you have better luck after the reset. I love the aquascape.

 

[CoralWealth]

sorry to hear all of that loss but the new restart looks great! I love that one island of all Euphylias, I am sure that looks awesome with the flow

 

[Coralfuture]

Amazing set up! Love the peninsula look!

 

[jsker]

Wow you have had your ups and downs, but the system is coming back

 

[SPR1968]

Definitely tagging along here! Just keep up with the photos! Lol

 

[fabutahoun]

Hope That the Tank and Coral are doing good after the restart. Please keep us updated .

 

[kaduozores]

Hi guys

The system is gradually returning to normal, it's still early to say that it is at a similar level as it was in his great days in the past..

I continue to have small ups and downs, with some strange losses from some LPS(Euphylias), most of them were new, but there were losses of some old torchs too. All the losses begin with the loss of tissue in the bone, sometimes they open a fissure in a single point, it is enough for him to die.

I'm still searching the ideal lighting power, I think I'm close. My parameter is the torches and they are almost with the same color I had reached before, with the ones that survived

But what's causing me a little concern are my bubbles. They went very well for the re-build and now they are very bad, the rose bubble is dying slow, was with the mouth open and losing tissue in the bone. Today the mouth is already torn and I do not see much salvation. But what is broking of my heart is my green bubble, it has been with me for many years, I think 6 years, and now he is also with his mouth open, as in the photo below, I tried to decrease the circulation and lighting, putting him in the shade, but without result, he's been this way since December, it's a very sad to me see him in these conditions.

There are several SPS that have come from my friend @Alex Costa , these look good and are already growing, I still have to control the phosphate better to improve the coloration, but I have no reagents from my phosphorous test, which is difficult to find here in Brazil , so I'm adding Rowa and seeing what happens.

Well, that's it, I hope you like the photos below.

New Fishies

My favorites

Thank you

 

[kaduozores]

 

[SPR1968]

Beautiful tank and stunning photography @kaduozores !

 

[kaduozores]

Euphylias gardem
May 06,2018

 

[kaduozores]

 

[kaduozores]