Kakitsubata SPS Reef

najer · Oct 1, 2016

Gorgeous reef, congratulations on a great job.

Andrey · Oct 1, 2016

KlynnUK said:
Beautiful reef

tristanfish said:
Beautiful

najer said:
Gorgeous reef, congratulations on a great job.

Many thanks for the kind words!

kireek · Oct 2, 2016

Your reef is very lovely and your photo documentation is wonderful.Thank you for sharing !

Andrey · Oct 2, 2016

kireek said:
Your reef is very lovely and your photo documentation is wonderful.Thank you for sharing !

@kireek
You are welcome! I'm really grateful, many thanks

tristanfish · Oct 2, 2016

Andrey said:
Hi! Thank you very much for your kind words!

@drawman I have always been running the XR15W, but i had some problem in the beginning of my journey. It looked like horror frag freak show

I was searching the right mode for my SPS during several months...

In March, 2016 I started using SPS AB+ mode, and my corals are getting better

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Bes regards,
Andrey

Looking good buddy

revhtree · Oct 3, 2016

Cool!

bristlebasher · Oct 4, 2016

revhtree said:
Cool!

Are you saying his frag freak show is cool ????

You are a twisted man.................

Andrey · Oct 9, 2016

The whole trouble is that we don’t notice the years slipping by,

The heck with the years, we don’t notice everything changing.

We know that everything changes, we’re taught from childhood that everything changes, and we’ve seen everything change with our own eyes many a time,

yet we’re totally incapable of recognizing the moment when the change comes or else we look for the change in the wrong place (c)

ROADSIDE PICNIC
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

revhtree · Oct 10, 2016

Nice job!

Andrey · Oct 11, 2016

revhtree said:
Nice job!

Thank you!

Andrey · Oct 11, 2016

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the flowers

Daniel@R2R · Oct 12, 2016

I love those acro pics!!

Andrey · Nov 6, 2016

Hi guys!

Hope you are well! Some new photos and updates.

Unfortunately one of my favorite fish Acreichthys tomentosus jumped out from tank

Acreichthys has done a great job for Kakitsubata reef and looked after aiptasia population.

Andrey · Jan 10, 2017

Hi!

During the last month I've been fighting the dinoflagellates, it is very powerful and ruthless enemy.

I am lucky that I found only Prorocentrales. Some photos.

I decided to use polypropylene 5 micron filter in SUMP for cleaning water. It is very effective way to lower dinoflagellate population, the most effective time is night hours. Then I cleaned my sand and rocks, added phytoplankton (nannochloropsis) that cultivated at home farm.

Phyto and zooplankton successfully beat dinoflagellate. Also I increased the level of nitrates to 5-10 ppm.

Today I have the balance in my system, the sand and rocks are clean, but unfortunately dinoflagellate toxin bleached the setosa and SSC frags ...

Full Tank Shot

That's all, it's going to be okay

Thank you for your attention!
Have a good day!

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Best regards,
Andrey

vertigo01 · Jan 10, 2017

Awesome tank!! Love the aquascape, nice and tidy.

Sabellafella · Jan 10, 2017

Andrey said:
Hi!

During the last month I've been fighting the dinoflagellates, it is very powerful and ruthless enemy.

I am lucky that I found only Prorocentrales. Some photos.

I decided to use polypropylene 5 micron filter in SUMP for cleaning water. It is very effective way to lower dinoflagellate population, the most effective time is night hours. Then I cleaned my sand and rocks, added phytoplankton (nannochloropsis) that cultivated at home farm.

Phyto and zooplankton successfully beat dinoflagellate. Also I increased the level of nitrates to 5-10 ppm.

Today I have the balance in my system, the sand and rocks are clean, but unfortunately dinoflagellate toxin bleached the setosa and SSC frags ...

Full Tank Shot

That's all, it's going to be okay

Thank you for your attention!
Have a good day!

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Best regards,
Andrey

Thanks for sharing! Tank looks great, sure everything will recover nicely!