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2 seahorses..common ones...

bro..some of your clams about the same look leh...hehe..save the money buy more patterns next time mah...hehehe from LCK one hor anyway, good work..keep it up...

i do not have good impression of the livestock there...since their paya lebar days...how cheap i also discipline myself not to buy..hehe

yeah..congrats post some pics let us admire your beautiful piece leh

yeap...

i think too extreme a view lah.. u might as well say.. (Hey u fellows .. . STOP IT STOP KILLING THE EARTH All you humans are wiping out the earth . Do god a favor . . go to the moon and stay instead of polluting Earth's natural resources... so sad .. . .. . . .) even so, we humans can't eradicate irresponsible behaviour...we can only minimise it....

there is no single solution for all applications....so just go with what is financially and logically suitable and go ahead lor...as long as you see the lifestock and corals are blooming..means u have been doing things right...they dunno what loop you are using anyway...hehe

yeah lor..all systems have their pros and cons...just stand by what u feel is suitable for you lor....no fixed rule in this hobby....just enjoy the process..thats most important

turning brown means the lights are not enough i think...who told you that turn brown is good..hehe? can sps gurus please clarify?

T95....actually i did not intend to get sps one..coz too cheem for me....but the ahpek say if i want...give me good price...so i thought of trying since the price is good... was thinking if turn brown then start giving to those sps dudes here..but still purple and in fact gotten more purple since i bought it...so quite happy with it

barra is absolutely right.... for small tanks..closed loop returns may do the job just enough to eliminate dead spots by placing return piping strategically...by joints...by scwds... but big tanks...only wide flow gadgets like tunze streams or seaswirls can eliminate the dead spots more thoroughly....unless you have closed loops with more than 20 or 30 outlets to target many areas of the big tank...by then..you will think why just not spend abit more to get the wide flow gadgets...less watts consumed...less piping to risk leaking possibilites....

what else can move 12 000 litres of water at zero head loss and consume only 22W of electricity? none others in the market i believe... 6060 consumes only 11W each....2 6060s will consume 22W....one of mine is a TS7...so add the driver box and single controller the consumption will be slightly higher... but 545.45 litres per hour per watt for 2 6060s for example...i ask you what can beat that? hehee even eheim 1262 at zero head loss is only 3500l/hr consuming 80W of electricity...43.75litres per hour per watt... it's easier to see how much difference there is... and if you place the closed loop eheims or other pumps at the sump..there is a head loss and you get even less than 3500l/hr at 80W... so i think its easy to see in the long term...you save electricity bills by alot.....very significant ..and yet generate such high volume...wide conical flow

i feel its not a matter of new or not...it's a matter of water quality...you can have an old tank of a few years but if the parameters sux....anything also cannot keep... i am not saying my parameters are the best...but i believe the general parameters are quite steady already.....

you may not want to overdose phosguard too much..some chemist in reefcentral did tests and found out that it leach some aluminium and some corals did not open fully after it... and the management of seachem also rebutted it...you can go to reefcentral and search under phosguard..sure can find the topics... phosguard is aluminium based ....rowaphos and contraphos are iron based....just for information

yeah...purple tip acro....about 3 weeks old

thanks

bro..u mean the plate coral ah.... yeah...i did notice it moving abit ..but mainly stay in the place i put it... more like it was expanding due to bloating and thus encroaching on the other places....did not really move around much.... anyway,will take note... thanks

might be the same.. one is 6060 ..the other is TS7

my open loop is letting the water flow through the sump and then back to the main tank again.... the closed loops are the tunzes with 12 000l/hr with such low wattage..hehe i think tunze rules if you wanna talk about water flow per watt in a closed loop system

isnt tunze stream doing that? using main tank water to push back to main tank water.. the 2 streams alone are pushing 12 000l /hr of water already..hehe

yeah..actually added already...one tunze blow left..one tunze blow right..hehe dunno what loop hehe..i am happy with how the system is coping for now...dun think wanna do any major changes to it

black background will hide the overflow at the sides better...but i always like the idea of having blue coz of the association blue with the sea....and the blue shimmering in the background is really nice to me lor.....colourful....well, that's just my preference lah..hehe

i think i must give the yellow tang a speeding ticket for spoiling the picture while dashing across the tank..hehe

anyway, this light is for a future clam tank....now still deciding on the clam tank design..it may just be a very shallow 2ft by 2ft tank on my chiller cabinet...since the cabinet is very high already..i cant do the trapezium clam tank...hehe