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The next big task would be to fill this tank up with salt water! By the way, forgot to mention that I wasted about 600litres of rodi water (which means much more actual water) doing a leak test for the tanks.. feel so bad for the save water movement, but having a leak would be far worse I supposed. Water change is one of the critical process to maintain a healthy reef tank and a lot of thought was devoted to keep this process as easy as possible.. Other than building an outlet for waste water, I also built an water inlet (complete with a basin) within the fish room. The RODI feeds from the water inlet and sends water into a 160litres mixing drum. This means I only need to turn on the RODI, pour my trusty tropic marin pro salt into the drum to prepare my new saltwater. Here’s a short video of my mixing drum in her maiden mix. The drum is supported by two jebao pumps, one to provide circulation to mix the water and one to supply water to the display tank. https://youtube.com/shorts/xatULaJXpbA?feature=share And this is how it looks like filling up the tank.. ah, the scape looks slightly better on video hehe. https://youtube.com/shorts/p3LbsincY3Y?feature=share Well, even though it seems pretty effortless, it still took me two days to prepare the saltwater for my tank. Had to install an old wavemaker to provide circulation for the live sand in the interim. Alright that’s all for now! Will share more on my choice of equipment and the installation process when I update the thread next! Stay tuned! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Ops! I must be too tired! I think I used tap water but I had to drain everything and wipe dry the tank to get rid of the water. Haha will try to update my post hehe Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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An RO membrane is considered the most important element of an RODI system. The sediment and carbon filters act as pre filters to reduce the amount of large moleculed contaminants entering and clogging the membrane. It is the membrane that does all the heavy lifting. Why the RO is so important is unlike the carbon blocks it works under pressure (hence good systems include a pump) and as such it literally strains virtually all unwanted impurities from the mains supply, allowing only 'pure' water molecules to pass through... so as long as you are happy having small molecule impurities, salts, heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, and microbial contaminants (including viruses and bacteria) in your tank then you don't need an RO membrane Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Since it will take a while to cycle the tank, and I’m not gonna rush this critical process, my first task before any of the equipment is up, is to build the scape and kick start the cycling process. Even though I have yet to purchase most of the equipment. Learnt from previous experience that it is much easier to build a scape dry. I chose to use a combination of caribsea life rock (love the shapes) and my bleached/cured rocks from my previous tank. Started by building the first tier of the 6 foot rockscape. Here’s the final two island scape.. not the best shot and it looks like it’s full of rocks.. oh well, I wanted many crevices for fishes to hid and swim. Had enough of aggressive fishes fighting over limited comfortable real estate. Sand is in too. Went back to use the same sand I did for my mixed reef then. Caribsea Bimini Pink, which gives me a nice combination of fine white sand with small pinkish rock chips. Highly recommended, since plain white sand cost so much nowadays anyway.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Renovation is underway! And the tank is delivered! By the way, I opt for a galvanized iron frame to allow full access (without pillar) to my sump. Probably doable if you opt for aluminum frame too. Well my carpenter keep telling me it’s challenging to build the carpentry for a hooded tank. Realised so as I see them trying to fit the suspended hood to the tank like a glove. The almost completed carpentry for the display tank. Looks pretty much like how I imagined it. The air vent is also designed to allow circulation without allowing light from the tank to be “exposed” on the exterior. With the carpentry almost up, next up in action would be the trusty crew from Tank Culture. They had quite a tough time working in confined spaces to fulfill a rather demanding piping job.. And seriously, I thought they did an amazing job with the setup and piping work. Everything looks neat and professional! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As I had great experience working with CRA, I went back to look for Dan, whose company has been rebranded as Tank Culture, to build my tank. Here are the 2D drawings of the tank/sump layout, inclusive of the frag/lps tank and quarantine tank housed in the Fish room. The 4.5ft frag/lps tank is connected to the main display and sump and both tanks are powered by 2 separate return pumps (always preferred to make the insurance if one fails). The Quarantine Tank is a separate IOS tank housed below the frag/lps tank. You might be wondering why I called it a LPS tank. It’s probably because I planned to keep the main display as a sps dominated tank hopefully with a show size angel (wish me luck..) So here’s the dimensions of both the tanks in the fish room. Here’s the detailed layout of the main display and sump. Standard bean animal overflow and a simple sump layout since I needed a big space for the skimmers and calcium reactor (finally trying out CR after more than a decade of reefing) An interesting detail you may notice is the 28mm hole at the back of the display tank. For those wondering, this is meant to connect to a waste water outlet pipe which allows me to drain water direct into sewage during water change. Yup, perks of designing a tank around your renovation plans! Same as my previous tank, the tank will be chilled by a condenser with trunking running across the false ceiling. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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