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Lovely.. Great job.. [emoji106] Sent from my SM-N920I using Tapatalk

Awesome.. it already looks so good.. click more after you stock up.. Sent from my SM-N920I using Tapatalk

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Awesome setup dude.. Sent from my SM-N920I using Tapatalk

Great post... Next year must have some Zoas... the colors are amazing..

Hey, Awesome tank bro.. the back piping looks super neat.. start the cycling and enjoy.. cheers

sorry i have nothing to swop..

Hi guys thanks for replying.. Slayer213 - yep u r right and that whats i m planning on..and i agree with u there is no way i can sync both the flows with just siphon..so i am getting an overflow box. acidjc - i won't be able to change the tank any time soon. i need to see some success before i could investing in a tank again. and i did not over stock..i only bought what the guy i was paying for maintenance recommended. but i couldn't afford them after 2 months as it was $125 per week. and even they couldn't keep the corals alive and just shut me up with replacing them in beginning.. and i know the flood is inevitable but with right piping and regular checks i think i ll lower the chances as much as possible. also i m investing in water sensors just incase the flood comes. On other note...guess what!! last night i managed to catch both the mantis...ok this is how is caught them...get purified water and add as much ice as u can in it..but keep the ice in the plastic and don't let it melt and mix in the purified water...u will need very very cold water... then just take the rock and dip it and the mantis will come right out... I am adding them on pasar malam for sale.. need money for overflow box..

hey thanks for the advice guys.... a friend of Willy Guccivera Yap is donating some cheatos for my refugium... i will be trying to do diy siphon over the tank today..will keep u guys posted on it... also i ll be removing all my rocks and hunting the mantis with cold water and syringes with soda water..wish me luck.. the only problem is they have made so many holes in each rock that its gonna take me hours to pin point which rock they are hiding in.. and yes keeping the rock outside for hours in dry conditions has no effect on mantis and will not flush them out..although it helps with piston shrimp. could someone help me ID the green/yellow hair like growth on my rock..want to know if its safe to keep in the tank or should i remove the rock itself.

Hello Everyone, I am new to the forum and like to share my tank with everyone to get some advise. I have had this tank for 5 years now and over the years it have crushed few times. As a fish only tank it did good but my corals didn’t last more then 2 months at a time. Most of the shops i went to didn’t provide the knowledge needed to maintain the tank but were more then happy to sell me things i didn’t need. So after a month of reading and watching as many youtube videos as possible i think i m ready to have a reef aquarium i always dreamed of. but it would look much better if you guys could chip in little bits advise. I have made a list of things i have right now with me. Tank - size 14 x 31 x 46 inches (19 mm glass wall) 327 litres tank (my tank is vertical and I know sigh*) Height from the floor to the top is 63 inches / 5 feet Sump - size 11 x 21 x 16 inches (6mm glass wall) 54 litres Refugium - size 13 x 21 x 18 inches (6mm glass wall) 73 litres The reason i have 2 separate tanks is because there is a beam supporting the tank under it which is 2 by 4 inches. Total volume should be 454 liters or around there. was told in the beginning sump or refugium is not needed, instead buy a canister filter or hang on the back filter. i did as they said and it worked for 2-3 months before i have to buy new corals again. later i realised my fishes got too big and the filter couldn’t take the load. Equipment Chiller - hailea model HC-250 A Canister - Ehiem professionel 3 600 (2075) ( connected to chiller and running with filter media only) Skimmer - HOB reef octopus BH 2000 (keeping it off due to water level not stable) Skimmer - reef octopus hurricane 500 (bought from reef club reefer Underwater,doing wonders now.thanks) Wave maker - jebao WP-40 Wave maker - RS-108A ( keeping it off ) Light - odyssea T5-120- 4 x tube light - 2 x blue, 1 x purple, 1 x white (keeping it off) Light - LED model LFL - 4E (on from 11 am to 8pm) Pump - Ehiem 1260 (bought from reef club reefer Underwater,doing wonders now.thanks) Dosing pump - jebao DP-4 ( doing Redsea A, B, C and 1ml vodka daily) RO - NSW tap water purifier Filter media ( running in ehiem canister) (i don't want to spend more money on reactors so made use of the canister) Chemi pure ( made water super clear) SORB-4 phosphate remover NP - reducing boipellets 200ml (placed in the HOB skimmer out pipe) NP - All in One biopellets 500ml ATM agent green phosphate remover ( weekly 10ml) Additives Red Sea - A, B, C Red Sea coral color - A, B, C, D Aquarium system reef crystals salt Testing kit (weekly testing) API - calcium - phosphate - nitrate - nitrite - ammonia Salifert - alkalinity - magnesium ATC PH digital ATC portable refractrometer Food Reefmax - freeze dry mysis Reefmax - super bacteria Reefmax - super marine fish pellet Reefmax - zooplankton ATM outbreak! marine AquaPharm 5 in 1 coral food Since i don’t have many fishes..feeding is every other day and in a very limited amount. Live in tank 30kg live rock 20 kg live sand Fishes Lawnmower blenny x 1 (is fat now) Yellow watchman goby x 1 Yellowtail damsel x 1 i removed almost all my fishes 2 weeks back in order to get the NO3 and PO4 in control Invertebrates Scarlet cleaner shrimp x 1 Black sea cucumber x 1 Drawf blue leg hermit crab x 1 Drawf red leg tip hermit crab x 1 Sally light foot carb x 2 Sand shifting sea star x 1 Brittle sea star x 1 Nassarius snails x 5 Corals See pictures ( not sure on names) But they have survived the worst thrown at them.. Pest Bristle worms x unknown Mantis shrimp x 2 (1 and 2 inches in size) this guys came in with the rock and have made a complete MRT network in my rocks and are extremely smart and aggressive I have tried setting up half bottle traps and even try to harpoon them with needle but they are too quick so finally I have decided to remove all the rocks and dip them in cold purified fresh water for 2 mins to see if they come out. If they don't then soda water but will it kill my live rock? If any of you have a better way of catching them please let me know and also if anyone would be interested in buying them if i manage to catch them.. Also had a pistol shrimp which came in the rocks but manage to catch him. Water parameters Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate 10 ppm Phosphate 0.25 ppm Calcium 440 ppm Alkalinity 11.5 dKH Magnesium 1240 ppm Salinity 1.024 PH 8.48 Temperature 26.9 celsius Managing NO3 and Phosphate has been a real fight for me. So now I have beefed up on my filter media, weekly 30 liters of water change and dosing vodka daily. (vodka does help if done right, i manage to drop my NO3 from 100ppm to 10 in a month) So now maybe setting a refugium will help me drop the rest in another month. I do need Chaetomorpha to start if anyone willing to sell or donate. I am adding few pictures of everything I have for everyone to see. I am open to any and all advise as long as you have tried and tested it yourself. I don’t want to win any competitions but just want to have a reef aquarium worth looking at the end of the day. This is a time consuming and expensive hobby and I salute you guys for taking it so far. Some of you guys have awesome tanks. Need help with 1. I can’t drill any hole to my display tank so I made 2 siphons for water to drop down to skimmer and refugium. Return pump will push the water up but if the water over flows on top tank just in case if the siphon breaks how do I have a emergency overflow system back to sump .?? 2. Just want to know if I am on the right track?? (the blue bottle in my tank is a trap for mantis shrimp, just in case if u guys are wondering) Does any one know what is the green stuff growing on the rock..???