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Been 2 1/2 years. Kinda neglected the tank during this time due to work, other commitment, lost of interest after my chiller decided to not stop chilling at 25 degree but went down to close to 10+? cant remember was too long in the past. Add to that the travelling distance since the Tank was in the west while i stayed in the east i was almost out of the hobby. However as life has it, i now have the tank in my home while working from home. As such, i really do not have much of an excuse to not commit myself to the hobby. This is the same tank with a slightly different scape though kinda of a rush job as i can see my fish and corals are getting stressed from the moving (thanks to the guys at sgbros for the nice service) and being cramped into those small Styrofoam boxes. The whole scape was basically just trying to glue back bits and pieces of what i had of the old scape and pray for the best. Also since the view is only 2 side instead of the previous 3 side, i moved all the rocks towards the back (good and bad move...more space in for fishes to swim but now i have no way of cleaning of the algae on the back screen). I guess reading this thread from here on should serve as a reminder to imho not neglect but rather de comm so as to allow other reefer to take care of your life stock/corals competently but still with all the issue this guys been through with me i wonder if i can ever let them go . During the time i neglected my tank the major issues that my tank encountered was: dosing pump went down, chiller went down, lights went down too, downflow pipe dropped out. I think the main problem was the lack of a proper dosing pump for about a year. The lowered mg probably did encourage the growth of gha? ( i am not sure but since i am combating gha now i read some interesting method regarding using mg or kent magnesium tech m to battle them). Looking back at the picture it does seem that the problems really came in when dosing pump went down. If i am to put the whole journey into a time line, i stopped being that active ever since my last post (if i am active i probably would still be snapping and posting but base on my phone record i would say yeah i stopped around there +/- 1-2 months. therefore: Approx Jan 2014 (pump etc all still working just no hardworking weekly WC become monthly WC/parameter reading or dosing of polylab reef rash - used to do it daily or max once every 2-3 days if buzy probably did it once every 2 week or so now. Also stopped feeding frozen food since it is really troublesome to pack and bring it down with me) Between end of 2014 - mid 2015 dosing pump broke down and probably once to every 3 months i will do a 20 litre WC. dosing without a pump was basically using the 50 ml scope and manually dosing it based on mood (yeah very bad husbandry duty) Below are some pictures of the decline: Zoas: Oct 2014 april 2015 -the poker chips zoas (hope i got the right id) kinda become more of a pest as it grows all over the place, as for the rest of the zoas u can see them slowly disappearing due to parameters? or their own fight vs the poker chips and GHA (as can see from the fruit loops - which i had thought had disappeared completely but to my surprise i noticed a single polyp remanding from the whole colony now. see pic below...really tiny little one but iphone photo so abit blur) Current June 2016: on top of the green hair algae, the zoas now have to compete for space with the metallic green star polyps (again unsure if i got the id right). Even the troublesome poker chips are losing their ground Another big casulty of the tank, 1 of 3 sps (well 2 if you consider that its 2 different poci and 1 reverse sunset monti) surviving from all the light sticks frag in the past, i present to you my current poci vs old poci) Become (abit small picture hope can see ar...) Another casualty, my lilac carpet anemone which i so loved along with the other coral beside it which i got from uncle yellow tang became: (which is already recovering. post moving it was just a 50 cents coin with colour fading) and the coral basically left 2 heads so i am using it for my yuma now on the bright side, the reverse sunset monti grew really well during this period. along with the yumas that survived and the green star polyps on the flat rock behind and last but not least the blue tear drop squamosa ( i guess the huge dose of CA helps ) Below is a picture of the squamosa when i just got it: vs also you can click the picture to view my clown hosting onto the clam! Thought i saw wrongly when the clown tried to do it a few days back but it seems as of today the clam has gotten used to it (use to close up when the clown keep going to it). It's not like there are no other anemones for it. In fact, currently the clown is either with the clam or the bubble anemone just behind hidden by the rock. as seen in pic below also in the above pic, you can see the other reverse sunset monti. Both came from the same frag but broke apart and did well despite the KH fluctuation ( i have no idea how bad the kh condition was during the time i neglected the tank but my first test after moving the tank into the home and doing a 50% water change showed 4......) Took me awhile to write this so gonna end it with a fts Forgive the messy wiring as i have just added the t5 tubes to my AI.

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Just realize 1 of my yumas all of sudden have like 3 bubbles coming out of its mouth any idea what is it?

or u can go to the classfied section. i tend to see 1 - 2 giveaway or selling away tanks per month. usually comes with lots of stuff. can collect and learn from the old reefer too so kill 2 bird with 1 stone =p

Marine Life and New Trio usually have them. i bought quite a few from this 2 LFS before.

this is the 1 thread i dint dare to visit after coming back lol see liao dam tempted

any place that has peppermint shrimp?

all sold pending collection. thanks.

frag 3 and 5 reserved too

reverse sunset monti and zoas frag 2 (2 polyps golden rasta) sold

Following frags for sale. Collection in Sengkang (near MRT). Reverse sunset monti $45: background: sibei steady sps. When i neglected my tank this is the only survivor along with pocci among all my sps. Defination of neglect: no dosing pump. approx 1-2 week once i just dose a scoop full of kh into the tank. chiller broke down chilled tank till 15 degree? am not sure i only know all my life stock lieing down on sand ai si bui si. Fight for space with green hair and cyno algae etc. WC stopped for some time when i ran out of salt mix. Only upkeep i did was dose genesis once or twice a week. Acan $70: background info: same as above approx 8 head. Zoas: 1: $25 (cant rmb name will show in mother colony) 2: $10 (golden rasta + some grass like thing cant rmb what you call it) 3: $25 (cant rmb name will show in mother colony) 4: $30 (dot in centre is same brown as skirting - camera issue). 5. Golden rasta frag. $20 approx 6-8 head per frag 7. Grey zoas with yellow dot $30 (very nice but dunno y handphone cannot capture the colour. Poly is huge) Mother colony images disclaimeR: out of the hobby for some time already. Might have gotten the name or labelling etc wrong . The golden rasta i believe was what was deemed ultra golden at that time (had the normal ones too and when put beside each other the gold ring is really different) however the lack of care kinda took its colour away. Hope the buyer can get back the original colour. Happy Reefing. ps: open to swopping frags too

ya how much and location to collect?

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thanks. Looks like T5 is going to cost me more than i expected if i include the electrical bill

Just got back into the hobby fully and am Thinking of changing from AI Vega to ati t5. My tank is a 4 x 2 x 1 shallow tank. would 8 tube 54 watt be sufficient or should i go higher or lower? Also another concern is the power consumption. Can i assume if 54 watt 8 tube would be equivilant to 432 watt per hour (estimated 12 hour per day full blast) = 432*12 = 5184. per month i am looking at 5184*31=160706 or 160.7kw. At current rate of electrical bill 160.7 * 0.195 = 31.34 For AI vega: 95 watt at full power according to their site. 95*12= 1140/day 1140*31= 35340/month or 35.34kw 35.34kw * 0.195= $6.89 per month Would this be a correct way to estimate the monthly bill?

thanks just when i am thinking if i should continue with my AI maybe try this settings than decide

Slightly more than half left. selling $25. collection in Sengkang

Best if makan aptasia. Just kinda restarted taking care of my tank lots of aptasia to fight.

wah headache liao dunno if i should use aqua forest or aqua craft salt after i finish this batch of salt mix.

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collection in sengkang

$20 been in tank for 1 year + 2 year

ok thanks. gonna take some stuff from my main tank over than

hi, i just helped a friend to clear his fresh water tank and am thinking of using it to start a small simple goby and shrimp at home but my concern is the thickness of the glass is only 5 mm. Would this be sufficient for salt water set up? size of tank is 50 cm x 22cm x 15

mmz if time is a concern from the start up...u gonna have a tough time maintaining ur tank later....this hobby very time intensive i feel