jackywongto

oops forgot... Welcome to SRC bro!

Hey hi Aloysius Yeah I have been seeing you online for quite a few days on the various threads. Kudos for taking time to research and ask! Your post is so long that I do not know where to begin.... lol... I will skip all those that Lemon has covered and the same discussion that we have been posting on kksg2000 thread. Will pen some points for you to ponder. Tank build: Good decision on skipping the acrylic... definitely will be scratched. For your tank size, you might want to consider building something like Tench1's. http://www.sgreefclu...showtopic=85597 IOS .. but remember to get the tank maker to make an overflow instead of an underflow. One point to note is that it is very difficult to scape with 1.25ft width. Would suggest you go for 1.5 feet width if possible. 2.5 inch might not sound a lot but in terms of scaping a nano, it really is quite substantial. Sump: Personally I dislike sump but would still advises beginners to get a tank with sump. But I think you must have your reasons for going sumpless. How much LR & LS: My tank uses about 7 kg of LR. I reckon yours will be around 7 - 10kg depending what scape and how much corals you wanna house. You will need to make more effort to search for narrow rocks as your tank has only 1.25ft width. The problem with scaping this sort of narrow tank is that usually they end up looking like book shelves if you do not get the right rocks. As to how much LS, really cannot answer you cause it depends what is the eqpt, media that you will be using, what fishes you intend to get, how your rockwork scaped. Tunze Reefpack 200: I have used this for about 3 months for my nano tank which has a smaller water volume than yours. Sad to say, this is not a worthwhile investment. REason: 1) The mechanical module is extremely sensitive to water level. Once if the water level drops by 1 cm, the surface skimming will not work. If you top up with too much water, the water does not trickle down the medias in this module and the surface skimming does not work too. 2) The mechanical module does not have a drainer plate in the module. That means water from the surface will flow into the module and gets in very minimum contact with the media below. Even if you place a good amount of cotton inside the module, only a small part of the cotton is doing the dirt trapping work. Likewise there is very little contact with any carbon that is placed inside. 3) The skimmer is not effective. you need to strip it and clean in quite often especially if you feed some oyster food/ reef booster or uses epoxy in your tank. I know there are raving reviews of this skimmer on the internet (I read all of them too more than once before buying ), but pls don't take their word for it. Qiang, Raydiative, Poomoon - they have all used / are using this skimmer. You can do a check with them on the performance. 4) Microbubbles issue - I encountered quite bad micro bubbles issue. Some of them are using the skimmer in IOS so they might not see it as obvious. I would put my 2 hands up and admit I really make a mistake in purchasing this RP200. Would strongly consider you to get a IOS tank which can take care of your filtration and perhaps invest on a better skimmer like deltec MCE 300 or MCE 600. LED lights MaxSpect - cheap and good. most of the other LED lightsets cost about 2 times more. You will need the 110W version. Can look out for 2nd hand too. Wavemaker Tunze is very very reliable. Else can go for Koralia. actually so many brand to choose from. Just avoid high wattage ones as they introduce more heat to the water. Corals & Fishes Lemon covered liao Henry's Gourmet I love it. But do note that feeding with frozen also causes your water to deteriorate more and your nitrate to shoot up more. you need a good skimmer and very frequent WC. Coral RX... not Coral FX ... lol a must for every reefer! PO4 Remover Think its a liquid that you pour them into the tank. not into your skimmer Check with Henry before you use it. Grotech You are referring to Grotech ABC? Those are for SPS. You do not need them for the corals you stated above. There are other coral food suitable. Phytoplankton, zooplankton, oysterfeast, rotifiers, 5-in-1 coral food, reef booster.. then there are also other additives available... amino acid, vitamin C, garlic drop, strontium, iodine, trace elements.. Ca/ Mg you will need to maintain KH, Ca and Mg levels. OK bro... you owe me a cup of coffee if we ever get a chance to meet up... spent more than 30 mins drafting this.... lol..... BTW. we are organizing a workshop for beginners. Pls feel free to join us if you are keen. http://www.sgreefclu...=0&#entry915170 rgds Jacky

wow... very nice and pleasing to the eye!

Can a mod help me to close this thread? thank you very much.

Sorry Iskay. We would really like to accommodate as many people as possible but due to venue constraints and quite a long waitlist in the queue, we have no choice but to limit the number of people. We really seek your understanding on this. I'll try to plan something for a bigger grp size in future. With sincere apologies. Jacky

Oops just realize the date conflicts with MASS kelong trip. I will be moving This event to a week later or earlier. Get back to u guys asap.

Ok you are bad influence and Ray is super bad. Sounds like its a must make trip. K will get my RG, neon and assessor at the same time if your musketeers friends are heading to the west

kekeke.... keep u posted if I see one around....

erh... u go chiro too? which one do you go to? my chiro is at amara hotel.

here's mine... hehe......

arh... ok... thanks for the tips. i am too lazy to hotlink .......

just make sure the fire dun burn to the front. Issac need a sibling ... lol talking about Issac.... he really has beautiful eyes....

Hey Bino, how do i attached a pic in this size instead of a thumbnail?

all these guys are bad influence ..... stay away from them!

Totally with Comycus on this. don;t just look at the price of the tankset. Need to look into the "organs". I think we have all said our piece liao... but ultimately, it is still your decision. keep us posted on the outcome!

kekeke... should have kept my Tunze 9002... lol

Took broadband for granted all the years until I have to leave without it for 2 weeks... was using iphone internet tethering ...... sooooo slow.... grrrrrr....... now i can resume posting 5 posts per minute.... kekeke .......

wooohooo.... my mio is up..... no need to surf via iphone liao..... such a pain in the butt...

I saw that coming seriously .....

bro... mine is more like a frag tank... lol i remember your tank.... yours will be awesome in no time!

Hi Larry. 2 reasons - 1) I find that the tank is a little too white for my liking.... so swopped out a few white ones with the blue ones hoping that the flourescene of the corals can be brought out better. 2) The lighting is a little too strong for my zoas. so trying to dim it a little to see if its more suitable for the corals.

chiller update: My chiller has been going nuts. it has been intermitten. my tank has been fluctuating between 26 - 31 deg throughout the day. Gave AM Janet a call and they arranged the JBJ servicing guy to my place the very next day. came punctually, replaced the controller and walah...... all systems go !

lucky you took that one... else I would have grabbed.... was waiting on the wings liao....

about $15 per rock lah.... will not hurt your pocket lah...

so many in Iwarna... !!! should still be available now.