Singapore Reef Club

Some personal Q & A 1. How long have you been reefing? Ans: About half a year. 2. How did you get into this hobby? Ans: I started with fresh water aquascaping and shrimp, and decided to challenge myself with a marine setup. A large part of my courage to transition to marine was from a friend of mine who helped me throughout, both for my fresh water and currently this tank. Without the support and company, I do not think I would have been able to endeavor as long. 3. Are you a fish or coral guy? Ans: Both. I believe that it is the diversity in a reef tank that brings you one step closer to the ocean. Although it does make it that little bit more challenging, as the individual requirements of different organisms vary so much, and would also mean I am limited in what SPS I would be able to keep. 4. Any dream fish or coral you wish to own one day? Ans: Liopropoma carmabi (a.k.a. Candy cane basslet). I love its unique coloration and shy, almost coy disposition. I previously obtained a Liopropoma swalesi, which is the cheaper cousin of the carmabi, but it was, unfortunately, devoured by my sun coral. Actually, I plan to acquire an Achilles tang next. I have a soft spot for tangs in general because my first fish was a Yellow tang, and subsequently a Sailfin tang. Both initially suffered from ich and it was really quite challenging to nurse them back to health. I currently have quite a number of tangs and they are all doing great; each seemingly has its own personality and it is a joy to watch them. 5. What is your main concern when looking around for reefing equipment? Ans: Good quality and value for money. 6. What is your favorite past time? Ans: Photography and diving. Thus, it is not a surprise I have a marine tank and love to take photos of it. It kind of allows me to feel I am still out in the middle of the ocean after a busy day at work. 7. What is the satisfaction you get from this hobby? Ans: I feel a sense of achievement when things go well, and even when they don’t, it will always turn out to be a valuable learning experience. When I initially started, I had so much problems with my fish; constantly plagued by Ich and the subsequent demise of many of my fish. I, however, endeavored and realized that once my tank stabilized, all these problems subsequently resolved. 8. Any advice you have for a newbie in this hobby? Ans: I would consider myself rather new, as I have only been in this hobby for less than a year. I must say that I am very thankful for all the help the fellow senior reefers have offered. My advice to anyone starting out, like myself, is to not be afraid to reach out to the reefing community, and keep an open mind, as there is a lot to learn from everyone out there. 9. What did you gain from this hobby? Ans: Patience. I am generally quite “Type A”, and after reading all the hundreds of threads and articles out there on reefing, you will be told countless times how everything must be taken slow and steady. Don’t give up and you will be rewarded at the end of the day with a piece of the ocean in your own home. Final Acknowledgement and thank you note (If any). First and foremost I would like to thank my friends V and X for always accompanying me coral/fish shopping and lending me a listening ear. My whole family for being so supportive and understand of my tank – especially my mother who always helps me with the manual labour. Lastly, all the kind souls out there I have met in all the various places (SRC seniors, fish shop uncles, all the bros around) for all the advise and help they have rendered to me. Enjoy the Video ; More photos of his setup can be found on our facebook page ; www.facebook.com/sgreefclubcom

Livestock – Corals Various zoanthids, Sun coral, Candy cane coral, Bubble coral, Goniopora, Leather coral, Blastomussa, Acans, Trachyphillia, Riccordea, Golden torch coral, Elegance coral, Scolymia, Acropora, Montipora, Stylopora, Seriatopora, Chalice coral, Hammar coral. Livestock - Fish: Ocellaris clown, Hippo blue tang, Yellow tang, Purple tang, Sailfin tang, Eyespot goby, Melanarus fairy wrasse, Royal gramma, Mandarin dragonet. Dispar anthias

SRC are pleased to share with you this quarter TOTQ winner - PeeBee beautiful Mixed reef tank. Congratulation to PeeBee ! Tank specifications Salinity: 1.025 Temperature: 25-26 Ph: NIL Calcium - 420 Alkalinity– 8.9 Magnesium – 1230 Tank: Hardware Skimmer: VERTEX Omega 150 Protein Skimmer Mechanical filtration: Filter sock Chiller: HAILEA HS-66A 1/4HP chiller Biopellet / reactor: D-D H2Ocean FR Chemical filtration: Rowaphos, Vertex Biopellets Main return pump: EHEIM 1264 return pump Wave maker: JEBAO WP40 Lighting: MAXSPECT Razor 300W 16K Additives used Initially I started with the Triton method, which I feel was convenient for a new reefer, who might be daunted by the sheer variety of additives in the market and also parameters to keep track of. I, however, felt that I wanted more autonomy over the individual parameters in my tank. I have since transitioned into using the Fauna Marin Ultra Balling. Tank maintenance Once every 2 weeks

Some personal Q & A questions 1. How long have you been reefing? Ans: 5 years 2. How did you get into this hobby? Ans: as above 3. Are you a fish guy or a Coral guy? Ans: I love both!! 4. Any dream fish or coral you wish to own one day ? Ans: too many to list..lol 5. What is your main concern when looking around for your reefing equipment? Ans: Reliability & affordability 6. What is your favorite past time Ans: surfing SRC and going to LFS. Staring at the tank … 7. What is the satisfaction you got from this hobby? Ans: To see sps and zoas growing from frags to colony. 8. Any advice for newbie in this hobby? Ans: Patience.. And do a lot of read up in the forum.. It helps a lot. And makes friends with all the wonderful reefing friends who will be more then happy to share their experience with you. Final Acknowledgement and thank you note (If any). To my wife, for her tolerance and understanding as I always spent a lot of time on the tank..LOL To all my reefing kaki who we share corals with.. PS : u know who you are And also thanks to SRC where we can share and learn from each other. More photos of his setup can be found on our facebook page ; ( https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151997705258004.1073741830.109005173003&type=1 )

Live stocks – Corals SPS Montipora digitatas, Montiporas capricornis, Seriatopora hystrix, Seriatopora caliendrum , Pocillopora damicornis, Acropora tortuosa, Acropora prostrata, Acropora valida, Acropora tenuis, Acropora anthocercis, Acropora millepora, Acropora nasuta LPS Ricordea yuma, Rhodactis inchoata, Trumpet coral, frogspawn coral, mini carpet Live Stocks - Fish: Holacanthus ciliaris (Queen Angelfish) Pomacanthus navarchus (majestic angelfish) Pomacanthus xanthometopon (Juv blue face angelfish) Pomacanthus imperator (Juv emperor angelfish) Apolemichthys trimaculatus (blue lips) Centropyge potteri (potter's angelfish) Centropyge aurantia (Golden angelfish) Centropyge bispinosa (Coral Beauty Angelfish) Genicanthus bellus (bellus angelfish)(Female) Zebrasoma xanthurum (purple tang) Priolepis nocturna (white tiger goby) blue chromis 1 pair Amphiprion percula (True Percula Clownfish) 1 pair Amphiprion ocellaris var.(black clown)

SRC is proud to fatured this quarter TOTQ winner - Kylve beautiful Mixed reef tank. Introduction It all started when my BIL tempted me into this hobby with 1 pair of nemo ( clownfish ) with live rock in a simple 1ft tank. Within 2 weeks, I started to fall in love with this wonderful hobby and got another 2ft tank, keeping zoas . After less than 5 month, found my current tank being too small, and it so happen that a reefer is decommissioning his tank, and wanted to give away his 5 ft tank that landed me into my current 5ft setup. I Started my new tank keeping zoas and pratas with lots of fishes. Unfortunately , Murphy's law always happens when you are not around. My chillier pump spoilt suddenly and it causes the water temperature in the tank to rise which result in all pratas melting off. Shortly after this lesson learn, I Change to a compressor chiller together with a auto temp cut off system install with my MH lighting. In 2009, when i decided to try keeping SPS corals , all the corals was growing well. That is also when I decided to rescape my tank and sold off all my fishes and corals to try out my current system with lesser rock and bioload. I started off my tank again this time round with numerous frags and small bioload of minimum fishes. One fine day, i was poison by a SRC reefer ezman with angels fishes, that i decided to setup another tank for these beauty, so i transfer all my zoas over to another dedicated running system so that i can keep my angelfishes in my main tank. By doing so, this also helps to increase my water volume and enable me to add more fishes which i loved !!! I still love to see my tank fill with corals with many fishes swimming around freely which looks colorful and make my tank lively ! Tank specifications Salinity: 1.026 Temperature: 26 Ph: 8 Calcium - 430 Alkalinity– 9 Magnesium – 1500 Tank: Hardware Skimmer: deltec 851 Dosing pump: Tom Aquatics Aqua-Lifter Dosing Pump with timer Chiller: 1HP compressor drop in coil Biopellet / reactor: Biopellet reactor Main return pump: OR 3500 and eheim 1260 Wave maker: 2 x Vortech MP40W, 1 x Tunze 6250, 1 x Tunze 6850 Others Equipments : JBJ auto top up Lighting period : De-Lighting tube 2 x Blue Plus + 2 x aquablue special (From 11am to 11.30pm) 3 x 250W MH 15K Bulb : aqua lighting(From 3.30pm to 8pm) Addictive used No, i dont use much addictive on my tank as I tend to feed my fishes a lot which i belive in turn will the corals in my tank. Tank maintenance 7 to 10 days change 25L of pre salt mix using DD salt. 4 to 5 days cleaning of skimmer cup and changing of cotton wool. Every 1 week mixing and topping up of cal,mag and alkalinity solution using food grade powder.

The Winner for this quarter - Raymondteo will also get to receive one box of the goodie bag sponsored by Reef Depot ( Sponsored out of goodwill to support this hobby . ) Thanks to Reef Depot again for their support !

Some personal Q & A questions 1. How long have you been reefing? Ans: 1 year 10 months 2. How did you get into this hobby? Ans: Childhood dream. 3. Are you a fish guy or a Coral guy? Ans: Coral guy 4. What is your main concern when looking around for your reefing equipment? Ans: Affordable and Reliable. 5. What is your favorite past time Ans: shop and dine with family 6. What is the satisfaction you got from this hobby? Ans: Wife starts to support the hobby. 7. Any advice for newbie in this hobby? Ans: patient & passion, bigger the better.

Addictive used ( If you use any addictive to maintain your tank ect which is think is important and worth sharing ? ) RedSea – Energy A & B RedSea Color A, B, C & D Polylp Lab – Reef-Resh - Genesis & Fuel Live Stocks - Corals Live Stocks - Fish: Yellow Tang Mystery Wrasse Flame Angel Yellow Wrasse Blue tang Clown Fish & etc

SRC is proud to fatured this quarter TOTQ winner - Raymondteo beautiful SPS reef tank. Brief Introduction of your history of setting up your tank To start off, I would like to thank Singapore Reef Club for the chance to share my passion here, my name is Raymond, I live in Woodlands. My adventure with reef keeping started about 1 year and 10 months ago when I was moving to a new house, its all about childhood dream, therefore; a colorful marine tank has to be featured as part of the interior designs for my new home. And in two months, my first & ever reef tank was in my living room. For the first 12 months of reefing, it was the difficult and crucial moment to me as I’ve spent most of my time and of course $$, just to figure out what kind of hobby I was having? It’s an expensive hobby that needed 100% commitment and passion, lots of hard work to be done everyday. So for all newbie to the hobby, think twice before you get yourself in. Tank specifications Salinity: 1.026 Temperature: 26 ~ 27 Ph: 8 to 8.3 Calcium - 430 to 450 Alkalinity– 8 to 8.3 Magnesium – 1320 to 1350 Test kits: Salifert ranges of test kit Tank: Hardware Tank Size: 66” (L) x 30” (W) x 27” (H) Mechanical Filtration: 7” x 17” Filter Sock Skimmer: Deltec SC2060 Dosing pump: Kamoer 7-Channels Pump 1-3 (SeaChem Adv Ca, SeaChem Adv Mg & Seachem reef buffer) Pump 4-7 (RedSea Color A-D) Chiller: Sanyo 1HP compressor drop-coil Reactor: FR (Bio-Pellet), Skimz FM150 (Rowaphos) Chemical filtration: PURA Activated Carbon & Bacteria King Main return pump: Tesino 8000L x 2 Wave maker: 2 x Vortech MP40W, 1 x Tunze 6650, 1 x Tunze 6800 Others Equipments : ELOS Water Top-up Lighting period : De-Lighting 8 tubes. 2 x Blue Plus + Purple Plus + Pro color (From 9am to 530pm) 2 x Blue Plus + Purple Plus + Actinic (From 1pm to 9pm) 4ft Ecoxotic Led Stunner x 6 strips (From 2pm to 11pm)

Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Florida This trip was a very last minute decision. A friend had some Jet Blue vouchers up for grabs so we jumped at the chance for a free trip. Unfortunately the combination of available destinations & the fact that my wife hadn’t updated her passport after we were married severely limited our [...] View the full article

The reef is doing well, everyone appears healthy and I’m seeing some growth in the Zoas, Duncans & Yuma’s. I’m particularly excited that my expensive, orange ricordea Yuma has produced no less than 3 new babies. The zoas I’ve added this year are starting to spread over the rocks and weir where I have them [...] View the full article

I finally have my new 65 gallon RR system setup to the point that it’s worth introducing. I recently moved into my 1st home and took the opportunity to upgrade from my standard 55 gallon reef to a much more advanced system. This is my 1st “Reef-Ready” system with sump and it includes a lot [...] View the full article

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Four Angel Sharks Born at Aquarium of the Bay Very Rare Births Follow Natural Pupping Patterns San Francisco, CA, May 26, 2009 — Keeping in line with the pupping season for many local shark species, Aquarium of the Bay welcomed the births of four Pacific Angel Sharks in its Under the Bay exhibit today. Aquarium [...] View the full article

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