Sixty’s Ecosystem Build

sixty_reefer · Jun 14, 2022

Everything in the ecosystem is working as I wished for, the under gravel is the most awesome system I ever build in relation to keep food in suspense for a long period of time, the video below shows how much food is available in the water column at any given point, a rich mix in live rotifers and copepod, will try and get a microscope to see if there is bacteria in suspense also.
Parameters are stable at week 10 still

https://youtube.com/shorts/ptlOK9HhpZM?feature=share
from here the plan is to start adding some of the most hard to keep NPS in the hobby I may even try a blueberry gorgonian and a few more dendronephtya in the months to come.

sixty_reefer · Jun 15, 2022

I need to pull the camera out of storage to start taking some better picture, this is my new addition to the ecosystem, one of the most uncommon organisms I ever saw and I had to have it in this system as I believe it fits in well, a big tanks to my friends in the abyss Warehouse to supply me with such a magnificent life form.

The resemblance to a king cobra is really cool also.

JAKE E C · Jun 21, 2022

sixty_reefer said:
I need to pull the camera out of storage to start taking some better picture, this is my new addition to the ecosystem, one of the most uncommon organisms I ever saw and I had to have it in this system as I believe it fits in well, a big tanks to my friends in the abyss Warehouse to supply me with such a magnificent life form.

The resemblance to a king cobra is really cool also.

Wow! What on earth is it?

sixty_reefer · Jun 22, 2022

JAKE E C said:
Wow! What on earth is it?

It’s a type of Clavelina, at one point I thought it could be a skeleton panda

sixty_reefer · Jul 25, 2022

A few things have happened since my last update.

1. the compost layer and all fast growing macro algaes were removed.

reasons: the mud didn’t allow the water to flow trough the plenum and that really annoyed me.
The algaes that I removed were growing to fast and making the tank look like a refugium.

I've used the opportunity to sort my rock work, broke them to small rubble and tried to do something that I find pleasant to the eye.

it’s currently in a vat curing the Portland cement

I’ve also taken the opportunity to assemble the automated phytoplankton photoreactor

currently adding 72ml per day or 3ml every 60 minutes to the tank

How’s everything else looking

sixty_reefer · Aug 5, 2022

Phytoplankton has been performing well I’ve added a couple of sps to examine the development of the corals under the influence of the nutritional benefits of phytoplankton regular additions.

that’s how everything looking today:

the new corals

sixty_reefer · Sep 1, 2022

11 weeks of phytoplankton

sixty_reefer · Sep 12, 2022

It’s new algae day

It’s not halimeda still looking for the specie I’m this one it looks amazing and will do a nice centre piece as o don’t have many green algae.

everything still looking alright on the DT side just waiting for stuff to grow

sixty_reefer · Sep 28, 2022

HomebroodExotics · Sep 28, 2022

This is very similar to the way I like to run my tanks. It just works, right. It looks great and I love your phyto plankton reactor. Love it.

djf91 · Sep 28, 2022

Did you get rid of the Acro frags?

sixty_reefer · Sep 28, 2022

djf91 said:
Did you get rid of the Acro frags?

No, they all went 1 by one trough STN. I’m putting it to me being relaxed with parameters, a bug, or just unlucky as they were wild colonies. Everything else is doing ok.

sixty_reefer · Sep 28, 2022

HomebroodExotics said:
This is very similar to the way I like to run my tanks. It just works, right. It looks great and I love your phyto plankton reactor. Love it.

Thanks, I always been a KISS enthusiast myself it just works :)

sixty_reefer · Dec 6, 2022

From today, I had some health issues that haven’t allowed me to properly take care of the system for a wile, luckily the system took care of itself.

https://youtube.com/shorts/vgrTVA8K5Qc?feature=share