blueclown

My one month old tank...

finally decide to let go the green hammer to a bro who strongly expressed his passion in reefing... Cheers, bro...

Red mushrooms,

hammer coral,

Bcos i saw few jerry can of battery water at my workplace, i thought same us distilled water... now, i think have to forget about it.

Hi, Any bros here know the difference between distilled water & battery water, can we use battery water to top up our tank?

Home sweet home...

To speed up bacteria grow, just bought the "API" brand, which indicated 'contains dual action live bacteria', hope this will help to increase the bacteria inside my tank. Have any bro here use "HEKA" sea salt before..? I bought it just now also, the 4kg packet, don't know good or not, i think product from China, 4kg selling at $18.20 only. To provide a sweet home to my clown, i also bought a purple anemone (replace the one died recently), so my current inventory still maintain at 5 fishes, 1 gonio & 1 anemone, hope my tank able to cope it.

Thns bro for your advice, at least now i have a better idea on how many fish i can keep in my tank. Now realiase that a lot of limitation for a nano tank, can't keep much stock... Because right now i have only 1 coral so i on & off my chiller everyday, but future when more coral inside my tank then would be a different story...will switch on longer time.

Bro, my lighting is the original JBJ built in light, no modification at all. my temperature always between 26 to 29. I on the chiller & light during daytime and both are off at nite time to save electricity...

My gonio

Hi bro, ya, need to read more, still learning from all the bros/ sis here, and really appreciate for all the advices & comments. Already throw the died anomone (pink), and do partial water change. thns bro for highlighting. Still thinking to add some more livestock, fish and coral, but will add it slowly. Monitoring the current livestock first as my tank still new. The next item should be bubble coral, but not yet decide...

seems my anemone already up lorry, no movement since this morning, eventhout i touch it also no reaction at all, and smelly...

view from left & right...

this is my humble tank, a very simple nano tank, hope to get some advices from the bro/ sis here...many thanks.

Hi bro, planning to add some corals in near future, that's why bought the chiller, and hope my tank able to perform it with this very simple system & set up. Ultimately is like a display tank, JBJ 24G, where i saw at AM consist of fish & coral...hehe Going to upload the pic soon, probably by today once i free. Have a nice day.

Finally can add in the livestock to my tank and start my marine journey, so happy & excited. Here's my tank: 1) 2 black clownfish 2) 1 normal clownfish 3) 1 blue velvet damselfish 4) 1 butterfly fish (don't know the name) 5) 1 anemone 6) 1 coral (don't know the name) At this moment running the tank without skimmer, still looking for a one can fit into my tank. Chiller set @ 26C, on from 7am morning to 10pm daily. I also didn't modify my lighting, on it from 7am morning to 10pm daily.

After 12 days of cycled, test water parameter, all ok. So changing water now. Still using NSW from farm, bought 20 litre ( about 40% of my tank ). Going to add in live stocks soon... "happy 2011 to all"

Hi bro, thanks for sharing. probably will go and source the chemi-pure this weekend before my cycling completed next week. (can we add 1 or 2 small fish during the cycling period..? any problem..) BTW, r u using NSW water or salt mixed water during your water change...? thns again.

hi bro, i also own a JBJ nano tank and now in the cyling stage. i still new in this hobby, would like to learn more from you...thns - how is your fitration system, what media u are using? - do u use a skimmer? - any special reason that u need 2 pumps in your tank? 1 pump only in my system. - regard to the chiller, u on it 24 hrs? can we just on it during the day time and off it at nite time..? Thanks for your advices.

Hi bro raydiative, thanks for ur comment & suggestion. Pump : just bought a new pump (Eheim 1000) from C328 yesterday, and changed it. (after i bought then see ur reply with Rio pump, paisei) Water : i'm using 90% of NSW water & 10% of salt mixed water. Skimmer : probably will find one for my tank. (don't like to change water so often) tunze 9002 need to modify the cup, but i'm not so good on the modification work, worry to damage it.. do u know any other small skimmer that can fit into my tank without do any modification...? Light : thinking to keep both fish & coral inside my tank. will start with the fish first. big job if want to change the light set again...

Bro vidextreme, Many thns for your writting. For the skimmer, my concern is the size of the skimmer, i only have 13cm x 6cm x 32 cm space to fit the skimmer. I wonder whether the Boyu skimmer mentioned can slot into my compartment, i'll source a model able to fit into my tank. Perhaps u r right, my fitration too simple, need more layers of fitration. Will consider to add phosphate and biohome. (do i need to take away the carbon after i add the phosphate & biohome?) just would like to confirm again the phoshape & biohome should be placed before the skimmer or after, a bit confuse now, all along i thou should be before skimmer. is this the correct flow : wool > carbon (in bag) > phosphate (in bag) > biohome (in bag) > skimmer > pump > chiller > tank. I started the cycle yesterday nite with 40 litres of NSW water from farm & 10 liter of the salt water i mixed. (24 gallon = 50 litres ?? ) Now realise that actually my tank less than 24 gallon, bcos 1 gallon should be more than 3 litres. Now inside my tank have 10 kg of died sand, some live rocks, I also throw one shrimps (replacement of prawn) inside the tank this morning for cyclation. Thanks.

Hi bros, Now in the midst of setting up my JBJ 24G tank, and need a lot of advices from bros here. Thanks in advance. Here are some info of my tank: - The fitration compartment, I put white wool on top and using carbon at bottom of the tank. - My return pump, Eheim 600, is placed at the right compartment. - The pump is connected to the chiller, Resun CL-280. - Wavemaker is Hydor Koralia nano 900L/h. 1) Is my fitration sufficient, not sure workable or not? I read from the forum, thinking to get a biohome. 2) Only one pump in my whole system, is this correct? 3) Is Eheim 600 powerful enough? Or Eheim 1000 better? Because the pump need to pump the water to chiller and then from chiller to the tank again. 4) Going to cycle the tank soon, thinking to use 40% NSW water & 60% mixed salt water, is this alright? 5) One wavemaker enough? do i need to get another one? 6) No skimmer at this moment, people told me small tank not necessary, just change water weekly. Any other suggestion? or i need to get a skimmer? 7) Do i need to modify the light, or just keep it original? Thanks a lot for your inputs, have a nice day...

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