Darren Sim

My final scape! Any feedbacks are welcome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you bro. Will read up more after using. Yup. A full reset button. Thank you. I used to keep wrasses but it die. Going to buy some wrasse after CB

Took this CB period to scape my tank too. Using Alteco Epoxy and finish off with stone fix. Spent the whole day doing my rockscape. *Tired Nonetheless it’s quite satisfying to see a decent rockscape. Sneak preview below. Stay tune for the finalise rockscape in my tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

2nd week of dipping with coral RX. Not much flatworm found but there’re still some eggs sticking around the base of the SPS coral. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah. I find Bayer is a good dip option but I would need to order from US. Not available locally from my understanding. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I also gotten myself a new coral dip to alternately dip my corals. Some of the people say this Coral RX is strong and it might hurt the corals if I dip it weekly due to AEFW but I also need another kind of dip to force the AEFW out. Week 1 - TLF Revive Week 2 - Coral RX Week 3 - TLF Revive Week 4 - Coral RX i

Just gotten this beautiful KH test kit from RMS to countercheck with my salifet test kit that have been used for very long. What I love about this test kit: - The packaging color - It comes with a Marinlab certificate with a date stamp - Comes with a reference solution DKH7.3+- from there you can gauge what is the bright pink color you need to look for to get a better results.

Haha. I should have but just want to take the Opportunity since got big direct sun. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I pour all the medias in a pail along with a small pump to seed those medias before starting the tank. I seed it with some FM Bacball. I also planning to get some acrylic panel for my sump from Dama before filling up my tank with RODI.

Took the hot sun opportunity to sundry my rocks. *The basket and string is strong enough to hold the weight of the rocks so please don't complain me.

My QT for corals are now kept at 1.026 with skimmer and torq reactor. Even though there's no fishes in the tub just some cleaner shrimp and abalone but my NYOS skimmer managed to pull out some dirty nutrients too. I also kept my wave at the highest to produce flow around the tub. My Movie.mp4

I'm going to share a bit of my 4ft QT. As mentioned above that i'll be doing hypo-salinity for my fishes to remove any ich or parasites. My initial salinity was at 1.027 and I slowly top up with RODI to bring it down to 1.009 over the 1 week period. One salt bucket full of RODI able to lower the tank's salinity by 0.002. Trying to maintain my QT PH around 8~ Currently my tank's salinity is at 1.014 . My Movie.mp4

Thank you! Im glad the corals you got it from me is doing well in your tank! (: Haha. Hopefully everything will go smoothly after this restart.

With the space I have. I’ll set up one QT for my corals. Just a simple 2 ft tank with ohf and fan. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah totally. Thank god for the CB otherwise I won't have the time and effort to do all these.

This is the starting of my new journey and the end of my old. Poured bleach in my whole tank and let the pump on (1 day) -> Drain all the water -> Scrub the whole tank -> Pour new water with anti-chlorine (1 day)-> Drain everything and used a cloth to clean every part of the tank and left it dry ever since. Went to also remove all my medias and bleach it. This is to ensure no bubble particles and aiptasia trapped in the media. Clean as new now. *xiao happy

I decided to pull the towel after a day after knowing that all of my corals infested with AEFW. It's very demoralising to find out the truth. Bought a indoor kids/animal swimming pool (4'X4'X1.5'), 4ft tank from Carousell the day after to host all my corals and fishes. I also took this time to QT my fishes (Hypo). Moved my torq reactor filled with FM carbon, Power Phos and skimmer in the coral temporary space too. Looks like a coral farming station. Haha. Pour new saltwater mixed (30%) and 70% old tank water. Went ahead to also moved my alkatronic over to constantly measure my KH level. Realised that my whole SPS took up around 06-0.7DKH per day so I have to use my KH elements to replace with the KH lose. I decided not to hook up my CR was because of space factor and also the trouble part to bring my APEX over (PH probe is controlled by APEX Fusion). Decided to take the chance to recalibrate all my PH probe and Alkatronic pumps too. Took all my corals and continue to dip. Spent the whole afternoon dipping my corals. Found out that there're a few corals carrying the AEFW eggs and the remaining corals just have less than 50 flatworm in total (not much visible bitemarks too). So I guess I'm lucky to bring out my purple SPS when they decided to call the whole gang out to party. (Above video)

I screwed up! As the title shown, I messed up big time but I believe it's a part and parcel of life, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. My tank is infested with AEFW (Acropora Eating Flatworm), this are an reefers nightmare. Don't get me wrong, I always dip my corals before introducing to my tank but what I missed out is checking for eggs under dead skins/base and using a turkey blasters to blow the corals during dipping. How I found out is that one of my friend came over and advised me to dip (using TLF Revive) this particular SPS as the polys are not opening up well after the last re-scape (Last month due to bubble algae). Surprising this particular SPS hosted almost 100 AEFW. This is an image of how the eggs will looks like. 4813D17B-FC2C-4092-A8B3-5293764CDF0E.MP4

Wow. Sorry to hear that. I agree. As long as you keep adding things in your tank nothing is safe. Haha. We have to do our due diligence to dip all corals and don’t introduce any live rocks in the tank (damn dangerous). I usually also fresh water dip my fishes too. If they’re Swimming well after 3-5 minutes I’m happy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Turbotwist is good too because it will allow more contact time with the bulb. Deltec is too long and those will space constrain won’t like it but it work the same way too (providing longer contact time with the bulb). UV is a bit hard to control velvet as it is only effective on those FLOATING velvet and if you’re lucky it goes in your UV otherwise it will still remain at your water. I encountered some reefers having fish wipe out due to velvet even though they have an UV. So it’s really important to get your fishes from a reliable store to prevent velvet from happening or set up a QT tank if your space allows. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stunning piece.

I'm currently running a Deltec UV 39W. My goal for this UV is to eliminate any floating Ich and have a clearer water. It is definitely no harm having a UV in your tank. Never heard any negative point of having a UV. What UV you bought?

Very nice clam. Where you got it from?

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Cut off some glass panel and removed my Clarisea SK-5000. The reason for doing this type is because of inspiration from nature reef. More live rocks will help me maintain my tank’s NO3 low but negative side is that some dirt will trap in between of the rocks so I planning to place a small wavemaker at the red circle to provide more flow. My red arrow is UV output. Dump some coral chips in this compartment to maintain PH abit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk