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1. Firefish A.- ryanlio 2. Firefish B 3. 6-line Wrasse 4. Yellow Clown Goby A - ryanlio 5. Yellow Clown Goby B.- ryanlio 6. GSP mat A (est 8" x 4") --- Navyblue 7. GSP mat B (est 4" x 3") 8. Grade 3 sand (5kg still in sack) - Spkentchai 9. Grade 3 sand (in the display tank. 5kg when dry)

Help me to decommission the tank! Lol.. And you have to be there from 7pm on Sunday 9th Dec. Items are: 1. Firefish A 2. Firefish B 3. 6-line Wrasse 4. Yellow Clown Goby A 5. Yellow Clown Goby B 6. GSP mat A (est 8" x 4") 7. GSP mat B (est 4" x 3") 8. Grade 3 sand (5kg still in sack) 9. Grade 3 sand (in the display tank. 5kg when dry) Please do not pm nor SMS nor whatsapp nor call. List your nick against the items above. Limited to 3 items per person. If anyone no-show after reserving, well, I'll just passed to anyone helping me out.. Then meet me at the competition tank area at 7pm. Do note that decomm may even start later than that. Livestocks are in tank #4. Thanks for reading..

Congrats to the winners!! You guys thoroughly deserved it..

Bro I'm giving away 4 green chromis after the competition at imm. Collect on Sunday evening at imm. Contact me 945525zero9

Bro I want the resin.

Thanks bro! That's one hell of a good gesture! 2 thumbs up!!

Forgot to add, I'm no dragon.. The efforts I have spent is a far cry from the rest of you guys. I want to take this competition as a good opportunity to learn as much as I can, and to get to know more reefers.. Looking at the efforts of some of the other reefers, I feel so paiseh with the little preparation I have..

Water quality and chemistry will be taken care by Mr Scientist himself (I mean, who better than a scientist right? LOL). This will be uploaded in a separate part later. I’m doing the easy part, which is the aesthetics.. haha.. Choice of livestock. Fishes. Going by the central theme of Harmony, I am going to display all fishes in pairs. Whether there is any “Brokeback-ness” in any of the pairs, I cannot guarantee though. But fishes have been observed carefully before netting them at the LFSes. As long as they don’t fight or squabble with each other, I deem them harmonious couples. 1. Pair of Helfrichis (Paired them for a month in a betta box) 2. Pair of Flame Gobies 3. Pair of Fire fishes 4. Pair of Ocellaris (Already paired when bought 7 months ago) 5. Pair of Yellow Prawn Gobies (The 28 gallons should provide sufficient room for 2 of them) 6. Some schooling fishes – Parvulus Cardinals x 4, Banggai Cardinals x 2 The missing blue and green balance will be provided by the corals. I’m a fish lover. Can bear to see a tank loaded with just corals but few fishes. Well, this is enough bioload for the small tank already. Sustainability, I have to keep reminding myself. Corals. The supplied tank is an intermediate LED MT-603. 25 x 1W Daylight 14K. This means that demanding corals are completely out. NPS corals, which require constant feeding, is also not considered. The challenge is then how to recreate a natural-looking piece of ocean, yet with a minimalistic look.. The choices of corals are naturally softies-dominated. Some LPS will add weight to the overall feel. Rockscape. Looking at the bonsai plant, it is often off-centre. Perfectly balanced perspective is not natural anyway. So it shall be for my structure. I chose to use PVC pipes to be the main skeleton of the rockscape. Flat pieces of coralline encrusted rocks have also been identified as the 2 main “branches” of this bonsai. Any exposed PVC will hopefully be camouflaged accordingly.

Anyone with this experience?

The UAS, measuring 4" wide, 5" tall. At a very initial period. The average scrubbing every fortnight Powered by 5 x 3W LEDs.

For more than a thousand years, bonsai art has retained its traditional ideals of harmony and space. This originated from Zen Buddhism, who view this as a way of the combination of man and nature, working together to achieve harmony. This sacred art-form is still considered by most enthusiasts as a simple way to connect with nature and find a sense of balance. Because a Bonsai, with proper care, can live for hundreds of years, we can see the true sense of harmony achieved in the Bonsai ecology. This is also how we want a reef tank to be like – to live for as long as it can on its own. MadScientist and I have put our thinking caps together for a while to come up with this humble perspective of how we will build our competition tank. The theme of “sustainability” couldn’t come at a more appropriate time, as we become so cognitive of the limited resources the world has today for our sustenance. At its very core of this theme, renewability and the expendability of resources has to be balanced as much as possible. So, for this nano reef competition, we would like to create an equilibrium of sustainability within the closed water column, with an eye for minimalist architecture in its structure and poise. Sustainability. It is almost impossible to measure the carbon footprint of individual livestock in the tank. Therefore, to achieve this equilibrium, only livestocks with low “carbon emmissions” can be considered. Nonetheless, we still can achieve a good range of fishes and corals in a good spectrum of colours in this water circuit. Architecture. Achieving a minimalist structure can look plain. It will require perfectly-shaped rocks to make it work. But as we know, an ideal world does not exist. So we have to activate plan B. ;) ;)

1. A pair of Helfrichi Firefishes 2. A pair of Purple Firefishes 3. A pair of Red Firefishes. Any reefers have any experience mixing the 6 above fishes in their tanks? I can add them all at once simultaneously too if that is the solution. And I can add them as the first occupants in my new tank. Well, I have added 6 reds at a go, but they disappeared one after another. That was in my 6-footer FOWLR. So I cannot conclude if they were killed by more aggressive and much bigger tank mates, by the stupid red lobster I bought on impulse which shared the same vicinity cave. or they killed one another. I'm currently keeping a pair of helfrichis in a betta box, ready to unleash them first in the new tank once cycling is complete. Just wondering if I can add 2 more pairs of the red & purple..

Nice tank! Good photography skills too.

Hi interested in your po4 test kit. Can collect anytime.

Super nice!! Thanks for the leg work bro..

Ammonia is toxic to fish. If it is not zero, I would have lost all the fish right? The ammonia from feeds, wastes, and die offs should have been broken down by the bacteria and nutrient export methods - in my case, my algae scrubber. 15-20% wc every 2-3 weeks. I believe I can stretch the water change to even less frequently..

Hi, it's an ios, so no sump of rocks. No ammonia test kits. But I assume it's been zero. Nitrates are in the range of 10-20.. yes it's kinda high.. Fishes and corals are fed daily on pellets and weekly on phytoplanktons. Brown dust of algae on tank glass cleaned every 4-5 days with nanomag cleaner. No nuisance algae on rocks whatsoever. Yes, a bag of biohome in the ios. 12kg of rocks in display tank. Lost a pink plate. Sps (other than the monti) not flourishing. Wonder if it's due to a combination of insufficient lighting and high nutrients?

The pair in my tank.. Close up of 1 of them.. Pictures can't show the deep blue lines.

Thanks bro.. I will be acclimatising them very slowly. I seriously hope they'll do fine in my tank. Adjusted my chiller temp down to 26..

Thanks.. It is a 2x1.5x1.5, with a 6" ios at the back. Water change every 2 weeks. No carbon dosing. Dosing Red Sea reef A, B, C. A passive bag of rowaphos for po4 control, changed every quarterly. Livestock. 14 fishes. 2 clams. 2 shrimps. Some tube worms Quite a few frags of zoas. A gsp mat. A polyp of Florida ricordeas A rock of golden cloves. Some mushrooms. A 3-head branching hammer. 2 gonioporas. 2 small alveoporas. A small green plate. Some small sps frags. Montipora, and the rest I don't know the names, paiseh. . The tank is still very empty looking. Stocking up corals kinda slowly..

My nano went skimmerless for 4 months already. I'm using an upflow algae scrubber (UAS) as the main form of nutrient export. I have 14 fishes (2 big, 12 small). Some soft corals, a few lps corals, and a few sps frags.. A recent tank shot.

The chiller set at what temp?

Wah!! This is super performance. What pump are u using to feed the chiller? Your place must be very cool.. the tank in aircon room?