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1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $10 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $20 As fishes are already caught and placed in QT, i dont want to keep them there for too long. take both for $25 reduced calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 aquanaut skimmer AN60 -$170 (kept for future projects) Rio 26f -$70 (kept for future projects)

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1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 As fishes are already caught and placed in QT, i dont want to keep them there for too long. take both for $30 reduced calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 FOC grade 0 sand. collection by today. if not i will dump it *a token will be nice* amount of sand is enough to fill a 3x2x2 to about 1 inch if not more. prices slightly nego.

1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 As fishes are already caught and placed in QT, i dont want to keep them there for too long. take both for $35 aquanaut skimmer AN60 -$170 Rio 26f -$70 calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 FOC grade 0 sand. collection on thursday. if not i will dump it *a token will be nice* amount of sand is enough to fill a 3x2x2 to about 1 inch if not more. prices slightly nego.

1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 As fishes are already caught and placed in QT, i dont want to keep them there for too long. take both for $35 aquanaut skimmer AN60 -$170 Rio 26f -$70 calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 prices slightly nego.

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1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 fishes are already caught, can collect anytime aquanaut skimmer AN60 -$170 Rio 26f -$70 calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4

S for sale all fishes are very stable and have been with me for 3 years or more 1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 equipment condition 9/10 aquanaut skimmer AN60 For aquarium: up to 500L Pump: HX 6530 needle wheel pump Total Power Usage: 38 watts Air Intake: 450 L/H Feed pump: 1,000 - 1,200 L/h Dimensions (LxBxH): 300 x 350 x 620mm Cylinder: 150mm Installation: External / Internal $170 (comes with feed pump and piping) Rio 26f (1yr plus) comes with all accessories with box $70 Live Rocks & live sand (6 yrs) mix indo and tonga branches, enough to fill up my 3x2x2 (2 rocks and one tonga branch well over 1 ft.)a few nice flat rocks and good size base rocks $50 i have some additives, calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 or get one free with any purchase.

decom sales clearing all my marine stuff however, i will only be keeping the tank LS for sale all fishes are very stable and have been with me for 3 years or more 1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 1x blue yellow fuiliser "4") (3yrs)- $15 - makes a very good addition if you have a large tank sold 1x high fin damsel (morphed) (3yrs)- up for adoption sold equipment condition 9/10 aquanaut skimmer AN60 For aquarium: up to 500L Pump: HX 6530 needle wheel pump Total Power Usage: 38 watts Air Intake: 450 L/H Feed pump: 1,000 - 1,200 L/h Dimensions (LxBxH): 300 x 350 x 620mm Cylinder: 150mm Installation: External / Internal $170 (comes with feed pump and piping) Live Rocks & live sand (6 yrs) mix indo and tonga branches, enough to fill up my 3x2x2 $50 i have some additives, calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 or get one free with any purchase. prices are slightly nego.

pic of the skimmer. i have used the skimmer externally i added silicon to the joints just in case they leak.

pics of LS and rocks last pic are some of the tonga branches i have.

one more item. Rio 26f (1yr plus) comes with all accessories with box $70

decom sales clearing all my marine stuff however, i will only be keeping the tank LS for sale all fishes are very stable and have been with me for 3 years or more 1x true percula clown 2" (4yrs)- $15 1x blue tang 4" (4yrs)- $25 1x blue yellow fuiliser "4") (3yrs)- $15 - makes a very good addition if you have a large tank 1x high fin damsel (morphed) (3yrs)- up for adoption equipment condition 9/10 aquanaut skimmer AN60 For aquarium: up to 500L Pump: HX 6530 needle wheel pump Total Power Usage: 38 watts Air Intake: 450 L/H Feed pump: 1,000 - 1,200 L/h Dimensions (LxBxH): 300 x 350 x 620mm Cylinder: 150mm Installation: External / Internal $170 (comes with feed pump and piping) Live Rocks & live sand (6 yrs) mix indo and tonga branches, enough to fill up my 3x2x2 $50 i have some additives, calcium 80% $8 strontium 90% $8 marine buffer 60% $4 or get one free with any purchase. prices are slightly nego. pictures will be up soon.

T95 at seletar farmway might have some. its a 10min walk in for my pace from the nearest bus stop outside. =)

yup couldnt agree more, what need to be done has be be done. for those keeping corals, probably dosing of elements is necessary unless dosing pumps are use because we can cultivate bacteria in our system to produce such compounds. i am probably talking more like water changes. for example, what is the purpose of changing water ? reduce nitrites and nitrates ? but arent out filters suppose to eliminate these compounds that will harm our fishes ? some reefers keep their life stock low, thats their way of maintenance. what about people with high LS count ? because i dont keep corals, my LS count are always on the higher side, there is a cap no. of fish whereby after adding more fishes the filtration just cannot cope with the waste being produced due to the limited capacity of my sump. i ever thought of building a denitrator but didnt have the time to do so. denitrator works by cultivating anaerobic bacteria. i would say bacteria and other microbe are the fastest evolving single celled organisms in the world, they can evolve and adapt to any environments if given enough time to do so. with isolation comes evolution, just wondering if any one has successfully build smth in this case probably a denitrator or smth with a relatively small volume that is able to handle large bio loads, well those little buggers may have become so specialize after awhile they become more and more efficient.

i believe that everyone wants to spend as little time or $$ as possible and maintain a beautiful reef be it FOWLR or a full blown reef! , well at least that is my aim haha.. (low cost, no need to change water etc...) just to talk abit about myself, i have been reefing since i was in poly when i was 17... then throughout NS.. and now i am in perth studying i am 23 now yea i have been doing it awhile, amazing how time flies.. and YES my tank is still living on back in singapore. because of issues with heat issue from the past i had a chiller for 3 months and decided to give it up, my tank runs without a chiller for most of my reefing years.. and no i do not keep corals (too much to do IMO). i started off with a small tank, 2ft (crash multiple times because didnt really understood reefing that much), 3x1.5x1.5(crash once in awhile when hand is itchy.. buy too many fishes), 3.5ftx1.5 x 2.5(tank stop crashing) then finally now a 3 x 2 x 2, change tanks a couple of times inbetween but i did not re-cycle the tank every time i change. the longest residents have been with me for nearly 4 years. for the record, my parents only feed my fishes, there is a auto top up which i will top up when i come back on the weekends from camp. after i change my tank the 3.5ft tank, i started experimenting with different medias to reduce nitrates and nitrites( main problem i face because it was a FOWLR tank. mainly bioballs, DSB, coral chips, black sponges and LR are used in the filtration i did change media to compare results. i am also running a skimmer aquanuat N60 (not the best but it does the job). i stop changing water because it was getting messy and the cost was high for me at that time. so summary about water change haven done that for 3 yrs. only add new water when he previous tank was smaller than the new one. since the 3.5ft tank has the same vol as the 3ft tank now, i only top up in my memory not more than 20L because of some water lost during transfer. in newest tank i was still in NS. this the list on LS i have, newest resident was 5 months, 1X royal gamma (2yrs) 1X red cori wasse (1yr) 1X yellow belly blue damsel (still in my tank 2yrs still going strong) 1X emperor angel (0.5 yrs) 1X halfblack angel (2 yrs) 1X yellow tang (still in my tank 2yrs still going strong) 1X blue tang (still in my tank 4yrs still going strong) 1X black spot tang (1yrs) 1X powder blue tang (1yr) 3X perculas (still in my tank oldest ont is 4yrs still going strong) 6X chromis (still in my tank) the rest of the fishes are sold or given to friends before i left for perth to reduce bioload. i was back in singapore 1 month ago, and the fishes that are left are still there. i was away for 4.5 months (feb - july) all my parents did was feed and top up water. so what is in my sump you might be asking from about 9 months before i left... combintion skimmer, 6 large pieces of black sponge ( i think this is the key) a bit of LR, maybe 2 kg.. and 0.5kg of biohome about 100pcs of bioball. the rest of the stuff are in my signature. parameters i last tested before i came backto perth .. everything was zero as far as i can remember. not using any high tech stuff for denitrator. the only problem i face once in a awhile is pH.. maybe because of fermentation from bacteria or decaying matter FYI the LS here is perth is very exp as well... thats another reason why i started this topic. 1 cleaner shrimp here is 12 red notes (12x more than what we get in sg !@E#$#!$%$!) 1 emperor angel is 2 juv (around 1 - 2 blue notes depending on size) 1 false perc clown is 1 green note 1 two spot domino is 1.2 red notes i would just hope for reefers be it FOWLR or REEF tank to maybe share their experience with successfully maintaining a tank with minimal maintenance, (ie maybe you have developed a method to cultivate super denitrifying bacteria or smth) for people who keep corals, maybe a way to have constant supply of food for your corals. i know that for reefing, Ca, Mg and other trace elements are necessary for maintaining a healthy reef, if you have cheaper alternatives to those sold on the shelves in LFS you can also share. i was once told by a senior reefer " a hobby is smth that you can relax and enjoy after a tiring day at work or sch, not smth you have to worry about after ! and maintenance and cost of maintenance should be at the least ". of course there are people that want to go that extra mile to make their reef as near perfect as possible, everyone has their own targets and spending power so i wont comment so much about that. cheers

hey i live along gerald drive too ... haha..

i tried not putting sand before in my previous setup and had a problem with algae and stuff growing on the glass at the bottom, dont know whether any bros here has encountered this problem before. can be quite hard to clear if the tank is more than 2ft deep. i added sand to my tank after that partly due to that reason and also to have a more natural look. yes you cant point wave makers at onto the sand because you will get a sand storm. to solve that problem with algae i added gobies and sand shifter stars. unless you are planning to keep fishes that will attack the gobies and starfish, it works for me so i think it should work for you ? =p cheers

i was there last week as well, hope you didnt miss out on the large "semi outdoor" tank =) there are some pretty large corals in there and ahuge wrasse

back at home i am running a 3X3X2 FOWLR, i place the mh 1 ft above the water surface. for a 2.5ft depth better to use 250w mh ? just my opinion if you are planning to place corals at the bottom. cheers

bump ! need to clear the remaining fishes as i a leaving this weekend. pm me your offer, if it reasonable the fishes are yours ! all fishes healthy and eating. damsels will remain as FOC

black spot tang 5" - $50 (sold) powder blue tang 4" - $30 (sold) emperor angel 4" - $35 (sold) yellow blue fusilier 4.5" - $12 clarkii clown (from aust) 3" - $15 2 damsel - for a small token or free !! all fishes feeding well on pellets and froze foods cheers !