SamuelTan

Sea cucumbers are the best sandbed cleaners you can have, the benefit of sea cucumbers outweigh the risks. Totally depends on your decision. I have one black sea cucumber 7cm long inside my tank currently, kept it for a week plus already. It does climbs around sometimes and even got close to the wavemaker but its just too fat and thick to be harm by the wavemaker So maybe you can consider getting a bigger one rather than a small cucumber?

Yea most likely will go for fan and see how it does. Thanks for the advices Yea I did consider LED before but its too expensive as you can see from the design of the tank, it will need a lot of LEDs. Plus I don't intend to fully go into SPS and I choose my livestock very carefully and only introduce 1-3 new livestocks to the tank once a month. Using ice bottles seems to be more risky as there'll be temperature fluctuation if I don't do it on hourly basis.

I have a friend who uses live sand from changi beach and everything seems fine and had used live rocks from the wild before.

With the heat from MH my tank reaches 30.5+/-, without it'll drop to 29.5+/- during the hot day. One of the reason why I'm not using is because the chiller takes 1 hour to chill down 1degree which I think that the coolant might be running out? And I won't be going to have it service soon so.. yup not using for now. What I observe is that fishes and inverts grows really fast under such temperature, wouldn't that shorten their life spans?

I have used rocks to block around the wavemaker, had the shrimps for 3weeks already they seems to be doing fine as long as they are being fed. Read that they usually will only pick on corals when they are hungry.

Agree! Will look out for other colours too!

The Blue sponge encrusted on the coral, can anyone ID that coral?

Finally I have started my own tank thread even though my current tank is far from complete! I'm a full-time student working part-time, I first started off as a 5gallon nano tank, as you can see from the pictures below. I had it for around a month before it crashed when I was in overseas Finding that nano is to small for me so I decided to get a bigger tank! This tank was bought from another reefer from Some of the rockscapes I have done. The tank itself has only cycled for 3 days as I was using livesand, liverocks and NSW. Added some zoas on the 3rd day and fishes on the 5th day. Bought some monti from a reefer, after using single 54w T5 for 2 months they grew and encrusted to the rocks before switching to MH. Once I started using 1 x 250w MH all the red monti starts to bleach slowly Tank Pic taken a month ago. Tank Pic taken 20/3/2011 Some random pics, My sump tank, Currently temperature is maintained at 29-30. Doing no water change, adding additives & salt-mixed DI water. Running MH lights 4 Hours and T5 5 Hours everyday. Tank Equipments Tank : 134cm Diameter x 65cm Height(25% cut-in behind) Base is 77cm Height (approx. 698L) Pipings : George Fischer piping and parts Sump : 70cm x 40cm x 55cm Lightings : SOLITE 4ft Type 3 250W X 2 + 54W X 2 + 1W X 4 (Currently only using 1x 250MH & 1x 54w T5) Chiller : Teco TW6/CT (RA680) (Currently not using) Skimmer : N/A PumP & Wavemaker : Iwaki MD55 , 1 x Seio wavemaker (Going to change and add more soon) Auto-top : 2 float switches and ehiem pump Controller : Legrand timer ETC : Deltec denitrator, Phosphate reactor Tank Running Since Jan 2011 Livestocks & Casualty list Scarlet Hermit Crabs x 5 Decorator Crab x 1 Damsel x 1 Blue Tang x 1 Dragon Wrasse x 1 Mandarin Goby x 1 RabbitFish x 1 Tomato Clown x 2 Clarkii clown x 1 Maroon Clown x 1 Cleaner Shrimps x 2 Saron Shrimps x 2 Sexy Shrimps x 3 Marble Shrimps x 2 Pink Knobby Cucumber x 4 Black Cucumber x 1 SandStars x 3 Twinspot Goby x 1 Phyllidiella pustulosa x 1 Unknown Goby x 1 Torch coral Plate Coral Sun coral Normal Digitata Staghorn(Got stung by Torch ) Anemone Pink birdnest Spiral/Wire Coral Leather Blue Sponge, Yellow ball sponge Green Monti Red Monti (Showing little signs of hope, keeping fingers crossed!) Chill pepper monti Green Favia Zoas Toadstool Leather Jasmine polyp, Star polyp Mushrooms Red Bamboo Gracilaria curtissae Sump Tank Large Crab x 1 Small Crabs x 2 Large Spotted orange hermit crab x 1 Cheato & Caulerpa Casualties Cleaner Wrasse - Disappeared on the 3rd day never been found Damsel - Eaten by Large crab Green Birdnest - Dropped and broke into pieces, didn't make it. Mini Clams x 2 - Killed by Dragon Wrasse... Scarlet Hermit x 1 - No idea how it died!?

Ahh i see interesting thanks! Isn't it consider a pest then?

Saw a few of them at Aquastar, size of a 10cent coin.

I'm planning to actually, just need to find space in my sump and time to DIY. I know sps are hard to keep under such temperature but there are some which are quite tolerant to warmer waters. So far I been observing growths but no sudden deaths or anything. But my cleaner wrasse disappeared mysteriously

http://dev.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1657026 Maybe can check this out, its the default settings i assume. Haven't use my ra680 for quite awhile already so can't really remember much.

There's an advance settings, you need to press "Enter" and hold until another menu appears. I forgot HY5 or HY2 is chiller or heater but doesn't matter, just set both to 0.1 if you want it to kick start at 26.1 or 0.0 if you want them to kick start at 26. See if it works for you!

Haha thanks! Still looks really empty to me

Hmm.. My tank is 4ft x 2.5ft circular, guess i'll keep away from them! Thanks!

Almost forgot to reply, a 4ft tank.

No not yet, as I'm a full-time student working part-time and bearing the electricity costs of my tank so i'm stocking up my 4ft tank very slowly. Currently the livestocks that I'm keeping which do well in warm water are, Hermit Crabs, Decorator Crab Damsel Blue Tang Dragon Wrasse Mandarin Goby RabbitFish Tomato Clown, Clarkii clown, Maroon Clown Cleaner Shrimps, Sexy Shrimps, Marble Shrimps Pink Knobby Cucumber, Black Cucumber SandStars Torch coral Plate Coral Sun coral Spiral/Wire Coral Blue Sponge, Yellow ball sponge Green Monti Chill pepper monti ( Still finding a suitable place for it) Green Favia BamBam, Eagle eye, normal zoas Toadstool Leather Jasmine polyp, Star polyp Been having this setup for around 3months old without any water change. Pretty much that's all, will be starting my own tank thread soon

Actually I been maintaining my tank at 30degree, 87 Fahrenheit.. for 3 months

support you also $8!

Anyone have any experience in keeping them? Wondering if they will harm small hermits and cleaner shrimps

Thread close, urchin got attacked by my crab inside the sump

You have to see it for yourself in person, the effect is really stunning and beautiful!

Lol you want to eat it? Yea sorry, its around 4CM! Not 1.5CM Anyone interested please sms me @98300686

Around 1.5 cm big. Selling @$8 Collection at yew tee(cck area)

4ft across, 2.5ft tall with a 25% cutting. Approx 700L tank