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Edmund Koh

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  1. Love that tiny cave you got there. Reminds me of those red indian huts
  2. Haha! No worries My Spongebobs just arrive. Whoohoo for a bikini bottom. Anyways bro .. What's your filtration system like without LR?
  3. Bro .. Even if it's not an easy prey of ich, I dun think it will be fair for the shark to be swimming in such waters. If u intend to copper ur tank, do note that u will not be able to keep corals in future as copper would be present in your rocks and be harmful for the corals
  4. Bro, I u know how some LFS have this viewing piece of plastic that u can use to put on the water surface to help u see corals better without the wave effect? I think that will help u with your top of tank shot without the reflection from the LEDs if you place your camera directly onto that piece of plastic.
  5. Try to get hold of an ammonia test kit and test it at least once every 2 days. Fish wise I read somewhere about adding 1 inch of fish size every week. So if u want to add a 2-3 inch sized fish then got to wait 2-3 weeks for your next addition. This is to allow got the bacteria in your tank to grow to adapt to the new bioload. looking forward to another successful tank
  6. Because of water quality, I think It will be good to invest in a RoDi system to clean up the water coming from the taps before mixing the salt mix in. As u mention a High chance of power failure, do consider building up a good amount of bio filtration in the tank and let it do the job together with weekly water change. A well establish bio filtration process would work way better then mechanical filters for your tank size.
  7. Always plan for more then needed. Better more then less.
  8. Haha whoops! My bad on the wrong info. >.<
  9. An Ideal cycle would end with denitrification, however not every tank is capable of cultivating denitrifying bacteria a this group of bacteria requires a Anaerobic (lack of oxygen) setting like deep sand bed or big live rocks or bio media (only those with anaerobic properties). For tanks that are not capable of cultivating enough denitrifying bacteria, a good skimmer will do the job of removing NO3 from the system. Macro algae will also do the same job of removing NO3. So its safe to end the N-cycle at the generation of NO3 as long as your equipment is able to keep NO3 to a low level and not let it spike too high.
  10. I do agree with this. This is to make up for bacteria that have been skimmed up by your skimmer and also to over come the increased bioload. You can also consider adding a biopellets reactor with biopellets to boost your bio-filtration capabilities.
  11. I'm considering biopellets but have a space constraint problem. Still figuring out where to place my reactor.
  12. I'm starting a tank without Live Rocks and the only thing I can rely on would be the biomedia I have squeezed into my IOS. currently have 600g of biohome and eight 2" cubes of Marinepure Cermedia. Thus the long wait to ensure that my bacteria is fully cultivated.
  13. Bro Bomber, Slowly slowly .. My cycling process only started 2 days ago and like you am feeling that itch. But I know I should leave it for 2 months at least especially since I wanna cultivate De-nitrate bacteria. In the mean time I'm filling up my time trying to make sure I have the right equipment and tweaking my settings and timers to make sure I will be off to a smooth start when I finally add fishes. Can also start researching on the type of livestock and their individual requirements too so you dun make the wrong choice.
  14. Bro, Growth of algae doesn't really represent anything on the N-cycle. All it shows is that there are Nitrates present in your tank. The product of a proper N-cycle should be beneficial bacteria growth among your rocks and other bio-filter media in your sump. In a complete cycle, we will be looking at the growth of 3 different types of bacteria, the first being responsible for using up the Ammonia released into the tank (either through a decomposing market prawn, decomposition of excess fish food or through fish waste) and converting it into Nitrite. The second would be responsible of using up the Nitrite produced by the first group of bacteria and converting it into Nitrate. The third group of bacteria would be responsible of converting this Nitrate into Nitrogen gas. Both Ammonia and Nitrite are poisonous to our fishes and thus the first 2 groups of bacteria are the most important. Nitrate on the other hand is only harmful in large numbers and can be effectively removed from the tank through the skimmer or through growth of algae. Thus the last group of bacteria may not be so important. Do refer to the graph below for how the N-cycle should work. As you can see from the graph, proper cycling should take about 40-60 days. Because this process start with a spike in Ammonia followed by a spike in Nitrite, Live stock should not be present in the tank as these chemicals are deadly and we wouldn't be fair to the fishes and corals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is happening in your tank at the moment would be called Live Fish Cycling Process where we use Fish waste as the source of the ammonia spike which would kick start the cycling process. To know if the N-cycle has started, you would need to start checking for the ammonia readings in your tank. Honestly, I doubt your clownfishes would survive this ammonia spike and even if it does, it wouldn't survive the Nitrite spike. To be fair to your clownfishes and other livestock, do try and find it a new home or a kind bro here who is willing to hold onto them until your tank cycles. During the N-cycle, do keep your tank fishless and turn off your skimmer and chiller to speed up the process of bacteria growth. In the mean time, do take readings of your Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate on a weekly basis to know where you are currently in the N-cycle.
  15. Too tasty a food to be missed. Maybe can try spot feeding. But its not going to be easy
  16. Small little white dots that move around could be pods. Do u happen to have a Sump with a Refugium growing cheato? Hmm.. Bro.. Do be patient now that you are restarting your tank. Make sure your cycling process is completed before you add in your next batch of lifestock.
  17. Think your best bet would be from Amazon and eBay. I did try looking around recently and almost all LFS (including fresh water LFS) do not carry these things anymore
  18. Try and shine a torch light into ur Refugium to see if u can see any white moving spots. If they are moving, most likely they are pods. If their numbers are enough, u will see them everywhere in your Refugium. If they are hard to find, try and buy some live ones to let them reproduce. Only buy ur dragonet when your pod population is reproducing quickly enough.
  19. Bro .. big better then small haha! I'm cracking my head now worrying about whether I will have enough bio filtration for my nano.
  20. Bro, dun need. As water is pumped from ur sump back to your display tank, the pods in your Refugium would automatically flow into your display tank. But for this to be enough to feed your dragonets, you will need a considerable amount of pods reproducing in your Refugium
  21. AM's new shipment came last Thursday night. Saw a small bucket of tiny blue tang and some other fishes (sorry .. Really bad at ID'ing fishes) when I was there.
  22. Skinbone my tank is 90cm ( L ) by 20cm ( W ) by 30cm ( H ). Total volume is 54L. Temperature wise I will get back to u once I have the data. Just installed my Seneye so still tracking my temperature.
  23. My new tank has a display area of 60cm( L ) by 20cm( B ) by 30cm( H ). Tried looking for dried rocks but because of the size of the tank, there are not many nice shapes I can scape. It is also pretty dangerous because one mistake and I would have rocks hitting my glass. In fact, I do have a few pieces of dead rock lying around Now that I have decided not to use them. Because of this, I decided to create a spongebob themed aquarium, mimicking the layout of bikini bottom. Hopefully there will be enough holes and caves for my fishes to hide in future. Else I would add some small artificial rocks to spice up the setting
  24. Haha sometimes it's a luck game. But it also explains why over the years live rock have dropped in popularity. Still remember when I started out many years ago, live sand (back then dun even have pre-packed versions. The LFS will scoop live sand from a pail and sell it in plastic bags) and live rocks were the way to go. Now that I'm rejoining the hobby again, my new tank will not have any rocks at all. Hopefully my biohome and mini refugium can handle the load.
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