9.9 gallons shallow reef

[seriousreefer911]

@environmentadvocate-thanks!yes sir, i agree that the environment is suffering from global warming and other natural disasters. and i think that man made decorations is nice, but coral fragging and propagation is also nice in order to minimize wild caught specimens and promote marine life protection. the detrimental effects of global warming can no longer be reveresed reefs are bleaching. i think coral propagation is the only way to sustain reefkeeping. and to lessen wild caught specimens

[environmentadvocate]

Thanks for being open-minded. Well its nice to hear there's something that is being done to minimize the unbalance marine ecosystem.

[seriousreefer911]

yes sir, because in the end, no corals=dead hobby, that is why i believe propagating corals is a good way to sustain the hobby, and hopefully help the nature in return in the future( by planting corals)

[seriousreefer911]

last two weeks the fans of my tank stopped working efficiently as wires that suspend them slided backwards which caused the fans to rest on the wall, which obstructed airflow. and caused detrimental effects on the tank considering the heat contributed by the weather and the metal halides. i didnt notice it until the sps started losing tissue although there were no lps or softies casualties. it was around 34C-35C for 3 days until i realigned the fans. this resulted to the death of a lot of my sps. mostly the smallest frags are the only ones that survived. the bleaching also caused some problems in the water quality and a few days after removing bleached sps, the remaining sps wont expand yet. this was evident for the next few days. any new sps i tried to add, seems to succumb to rtn as well. so i decided to changed around 3 gallons of water every other day until the parameters get better. i also continue to dose vodka to maintain the bacterial population. skimmer is also working very efficiently. and due to the accident i added another fan in the subtank that would be a back up fan incase it happens again. i also fixed the wires that hang them. it took me around a whole week to bring the parameters back. its sad to post this but i should update. it even irritates me whenever i remember that occasion when i lost sps colonies that took me weeks to color up. hehe anyway. sps that i added recently are doing a lot better ,and everything is back to where it should be hopefully this will be continuous. i also removed the powerhead(800 lph) which is very inefficient in distributing flow in the tank and placed a seio wavemaker instead (2,600 lph) to help move the water.

some new sps. same rockscape a bit different sps stocks and i also removed some sand in the front part.

[seriousreefer911]

regal was also removed and i had it adopted as it was eating the lps corals after a few weeks.
i also started to target feed each sps with sera coraliquid and kent chromamax and im seeing better polyp extension. i stopped dosing calcium because it is already too high. dkh is 8 as of the last test.
no fish yet. hehe

[shandy_say]

Ganda ng bagong sps ah. FTS!

[seriousreefer911]

sige dahil request mo post na ako fts ,hahaha, hope everything here grows and encrusts! hehe. Polyp extension right now is outstanding


from 1 fan before. it is now a total of 3 220v fans hehe and temp is now better than ever ,

[shandy_say]

looks good. Just add small fishes lang! Wag ka na mag angels!

[seriousreefer911]

hahaha thanks! oo nga di na angels, wala pa ako naiisip na fish eh,haha,siguro 1-2 na very small alng.hehe

[seriousreefer911]

new update! i added a yellow millipora and a green humilis. also took some new shots.


top down shots





close ups


pink lemonade acro


wc this week almost 10% every 3 -4 days.

[randiedonhito]

[seriousreefer911]

ah yup, in my opinion, it outperforms the t5 a lot. hehe

[seriousreefer911]

recent fts with adopted sps

[bagz727]

nice tank!!!!

[seriousreefer911]

thank you sir!