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Hi Dotty, I try to track one of the floating debris and it seems to circle. I shifted my wave maker to a lower spot to try to coax the debris to go into the downflow. Didn't help much. Yes I am using a 2 feet cube Red Sea 200XL. Not sure if it is over kill, but my wavemakers are also at less than 40%. But the jebao wave makers I am having some trouble setting them to gyre or pulse. I guess that's what you get for being cheap. I was thinking of getting one of those random flow generators but I don't see many people here using them. Nor can I find them on sale.

Crabs adopted. Thank you for your time.

Not sure how t count sump turnover, but I am using a jerboa mdc 5000 pump set at 61% strength at the advice of the set up guys. I have filter cottons in a filter cup with chemipure blue for mechanical filtration. I was hoping to position the flow such that the particles go into the over flow.

Add some pictures cos the ones who enquired asked for it. Sorry for the blue light.

Upz for some attention for the weekend

I have been having this tank for almost a year but in recent months I have noticed that there is quite abit of floating matter in the display tank. I use filter cups with filter media in my sump and what not but doesn't help much. I tried to move my wavemakers to the positions marked with X blowing at the rock work but still not much luck. I have a feeling it is the flow that is the issue I am facing. Was wondering if the experts can give me some thoughts as to how I should position my wavemakers considering my outlet flow is more or less cast in stone by the Y nozzle.

Hi All, I would like to give away two large hermit crabs. They turned out too large for my tank, started to harass my snails, move rocks on the sandbed and shifted all my feather duster worms. One's shell is almost 8-9 cm in length, the other a little smaller. If you can take both and you have a huge tank I am fine but I think they might be more suited separately in smaller settings. I caught the bigger one aggressing the smaller and now the big one is in punishment cell. Self Collect at 544291. Do whatsapp me at 9three682three96 if keen. I can meet in the evening onwards or the weekend. Hope to pass them out by then. Thank you for your attention.

Hi Jiaen, thanks I saw you were doing it with your acropolis tank. Can I know more about what you mean by it not being advisible to use heavy carbon dosing? What sort of problems are we talking about and how does that happen?

Hi All, I tried biopellets to manage my tank for a about 3 months, read about zeovit and some of it's glowing reviews. Was wondering if it is something I should try. My bioload is high. Nitrates do creep up, 10-20 ppm. I thought of trying zeovit as well. Wondering on the experience you had and also if we can combine both. The Aquaforest zeovit does not require the shaking so I though I could do something like put a layer of zeovit and the sponge and then biopellets tumbling. Inviting thoughts from everyone.

Hi All, I have 3 takers so will hold for a while. if I have more after giving out will post.

Hi All, I forgot to switch off my refugium light and the chaeto went into overdrive. So I have about 2-3 helpings of chaeto to give away. Might have some tisbe pods in it as I seeded the refugium earlier last month. Collect at 544291 Any donations of spare zoa frags is welcome.

Thanks all. I tried the TP link brand from Challenger. Have to set up to try.

Hi All, Pardon my absence from the forum for some time. I was busy trying to focus on stabilizing my tank. I have been using this Tuya brand smart plugs from Lazada to turn on my Fuge lights. Yesterday another smart plug failed me again. I have as many as 4 of these lying dead around the house. Can I get some advice as to a good brand of smart plugs to get? Hopefully something fairly priced that can last beyond a few months. Thank you.

Hi All, yes the ammonia seems out of place. I don't think I have anything dead in the tank. My fish are doing fine and accounted for actually. Am running a chiller and am using a test pen for my Salinity and temperature measurements. Never done a icp test since I thought the tank is still less than a year old.

Hi schwantz, the measurement is in ppm. Oh yes one thing that happened over the week I realized that my lighting had reset to 100% rather than be in acclimatization mode. That could have stressed the corals out earlier.

Thanks alypapa, but I have to hold for a bit. This month I want to solve my tank situation first.

Hi nazreen, yeah changed some of the water and the alkalinity has since fallen. But situation still the same. Corals unhappy. Anemone actually split, thought it was a good thing but apparently not. Numbers over the past few days, they seem stable so not sure what I am doing wrong.

I recently started getting some sps to try in my tank. As you can tell from the title you know the turn out wasn’t good. But not only were the introduced sps corals having trouble, I noticed that my existing softies were also not happy about something. A Duncan that I had for some time dropped two heads yesterday and my zoa has been clamped up. I am not sure of the fox face and the hawk fish I have could have knocked the polyps off since they like to sit in the Duncan. Hope to find out why. My numbers over the past few days are below. Some changes I made to the tank were adding a pellet reactor(followed the advice and only added a third of the recommended pellets) also added a RBTA which made its way around the tank hassling corals along the way until it settled in its current position…. Hope I can get some thoughts. Oh yes I did add some carbo calcium yesterday so the jump on alk and calcium is there.

Hi Alypapa and Slimymadness, thanks for your messages. My budget for this month overshot already. maybe see next month if the corals stabilise I might bump this thread up again.

For me I think the lesson was not to get such young one when I was just starting out.

Hi all, I recall recently there was a discussion about mass purchasing light shades for tank lights. Was wondering if anyone has tried to get shades for the Red Sea Reef LED90. My wife says it is too bright for her, but I fear I have to dial up my lighting soon in preparation for other corals.

HI All, I am thinking of trying some cheap easy SPSes with nice colour patterns. Some SPSes I had eyes on are Rastafarian/Pink/Radioactive Birdnest, Fibre Optics Pocci, mermaids, staghorns. I am not sure if these are cheap or easy but look quite nice. I am also still working on building a zoa garden so may consider some multi polyp frags of big zoas. Not keen on Palys because worried about the Palytoxin. Due to some travel restrictions imposed by the wife hope to be able to deal near Sengkang area. Punggol is also ok. If you are not in the regions above but willing to deliver to my place, I am willing to foot a small sum for the delivery if I feel the cost is fair. Intend to set aside a small fund monthly to get some frags so will bump this up monthly especially if I have extra time that month to mess with the tank. Do PM me with the price and some pictures of the frags you can sell. I will try to reply to all I get messages from, but no obligations on buying ok? Thank you for your attention.

Thanks DT, I took a plastic box I got from Japan Home that can open up into two platforms.

Thanks Mahesh, For the skimmer one recent development is I got fed up with tuning the dials because it continued to overflow. So lifted the skimmer physically and noted the height out of the water that would produce the ideal skimmate and placed a platform under the skimmer. Am waiting for my skimmer stand to come. Not sure if I am doing the right thing but there you go...

Hi All thanks for the feedbacks. I decided to replace the chemipure blue and solve my skimmer first. Since yesterday after changing the chemipure the water bubbling went down. It looks like I would have to change my chemipure often so that is a learning point. For the skimmer I got fed up with tuning the dials because it continued to overflow. So lifted the skimmer physically and noted the height out of the water that would produce the ideal skimmate and placed a platform under the skimmer. Am waiting for my skimmer stand to come. I still dose Nopox daily based on the recommended amount. My small little refugium still runs as always. Will see how the ammonia nitrate numbers look this weekend.