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Thanks bro! A few lessons I have learnt are: 1. Do water changes at least every 2 weeks. 2. Always buy the most aggressive fish last if possible and only buy 2 fishes at most at any one time. 3. Quarantine the tougher to feed fishes in my sump for at least 2 weeks until they start eating. 4. Release new fish at night when most are asleep for the new fish to find its own home. 5. Dismantle wave maker and pump every 2 months for full cleaning and oil moving parts with vaseline.

Hi bro, thanks! Long time never update and the above video is my last video taken in Oct 2016. 1. I am currently having a diamond goby in my tank which keeps my sand very clean. However, my sands are shifted almost around the tank but it is very clean. I also have snails which digs itself into the sand and crawls out when there are food. Cant recall what is the name. 2. I have only 1 outlet from my sump which is on the top left of the video. The inlet is just beside the outlet. 3. TBH, I have never siphon my display tank before and i solely depends on the outlet, wavemaker and my goby to push the waste to the outlet and into the sump. 4. I have never tested my tank for phosphates and I always have 2 little pouches of rowaphos in the sump and replace them every 2-3 months. I also run a reverse light cycle in the sump where the red light will shine between 11pm to 7am daily. I have 2 turbo snails and 1 black spine urchin for the algae control in the main tank. I also clean the glass every 4-6 days with the magnet cleaner. When I build the tank, I told myself I wanted a low maintenance tank so i will keep the hobby running. Therefore, I never bought a chiller and corals I bought are usually low cost corals where they are not so demanding.

Tank looks good and what is the current temperature? You might want to add a fan and add some mushroom corals to your tank as I am currently keeping mushrooms in my tank and temperature is at around 28 degrees. Mushrooms have been opening fully everyday. Can also try covering your back glass with black oyama so that it can hide your cables.

Hi, welcome here! I think you need to increase the amount of rocks as most of the fishes will look for a hole to take a rest every night. The fishes will also feel more at ease when they have a hole of their own when they feel that they are in danger.

Try to raise your light higher, reduce lighting period and lower the intensity of the light if possible. I also have these greenish algae like turf on my rocks and managed to reduce greatly by reducing the lightings by 1 hour from 8 to 7 hours. I have also raised my light by about 10 cm higher. After that, I introduced one long spined urchin and 2 snails and they slowly cleaned up the rocks over a period of 2 - 4 weeks.

Hi, anyone have any idea why my foxface looks pale and the yellow colour is not strong? Which type of foxface is this? Just bought yesterday noon. Thanks in advance!

Nice rescape, you created a slope from the front to the back and will allow the viewer to have a sense of depth. However, your side rocks should not touch the tank walls as you might scratch the glass and you will also have a hard time cleaning the tank walls.

I only check for TDS when I was keeping Crystal Red Shrimp in my freshwater tank. TDS is not critical in saltwater tanks.

It could be diatoms which will go away after your tank has matured. It could also be due to tap water if you are currently using.

I see, I am actually feeding those seasoned seaweed in my tank. My blue tang, ruby head fairy wrasse and bicolour blenny go crazy about it. Haha.

Bro, is the skeleton exposed?

The cut off line will be quite clear if the glass is facing a light source. Try adjusting your angle towards the light as certain angle can see clearer.

Any side effects if fed with the seasoned ones?

not that serious actually. They only eaten very small area of my silicon and I can see abit jagged. They even eat into my caribsea Life Rocks' purple coating and now, some of the parts are white. Haha.

If you are willing to spend abit more, can get the Maxspect razor. around 600+ and you can set the lights to come on and off slowly to simulate day and night time. You can also set the % of blue or white to your liking. Never regretted getting it. Have used the lights since July 2013 and change it to blue LED pads for my current tank. Just sharing http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php/103760-My-3ft-Planted-Tank/page2

For my new setup, I used around 80% salt mix and another 20% from my old tank. After that, I just continue with my 5-10% water change every 2 weeks. have been using tap water + seachem prime and salt mix for the past 2 years. The only thing is diatom will continue to grow after every 3-5 days. Not recommended though.

That is one of the hardest fish to remove from your tank. The only way I did was to remove all the rocks and get him out. You can also try to catch him when your lights are out and remove the rock where he sleep. Other than that, it is really tough.

1 bad thing about urchin is they may eat into your silicon. Other than that, they clean really deep into the rocks and make it really clean.

Just sharing my tank after 7 months. Have started dosing 1 tea spoon of baking soda every week to maintain at around 8-9 dkH. 1 cap of purple up every week but never test for parameters.water temperature currently at 29-30 degrees without chiller. The blue tang is quite new, around 3 weeks in my tank, so its still getting use to the food and the tank mates. Anyway, I lost many fishes when my tank kena ich in december due to me adding a powder blue tang. Lost a yellow tang, blue tang, 1 powder blue tang, 2 true pecular clown fish and 1 banggai cardinal. The tank was kept empty for 3-4 weeks after that.

I suggest getting bubble magus skimmers and jebao wavemaker for a start as they are quite affordable. I have used 1 of my wavemaker for 2 years and have not failed me so far. Just need to dismantle and wash them every 3 months and grease it with vaseline to make it run like new. Make sure to get a good return pump like eheim so it will last you many years.

Nice setup! If your lights are producing too much heat, your chiller might need to work extra.

That coral banded shrimp will attack fishes. Becareful of him as mine had killed a firefish and tear it down to its bones. He is now in my sump living happily.

My settings are: 1430 A0 B0 1500 A60 B0 1530 A40 B55 2230 A40 B55 2300 A0 B60 2330 A0 B0 lights are 7 inch from the water. I like this settings as it brings out the colour of my fish and I could see the corals glow and I also get to see my tank when I come home from work and before going to bed. I also notice the lights are not hot with this settings and the adaptor's heat is acceptable as I am not running any chiller. So reducing heat is my top priority. My mushrooms are open fully, GSP spreading, and green monti expanding.

Yes, good to have a refractometer to ensure accurate reading. I have been running my mixed reef at 1.23 SG. I got mine from ebay at around $50 and make sure it is a reliable seller which have sold at least a 100 pieces. https://www.ebay.com.sg/ulk/itm/320834650893

I am also using the flipper cleaner as its thin profile can clean some of the tighter spots easily. For cleaning nearer to the sand area, just need to flip and use the blades to clear the algae. No regrets using this glass cleaner.