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Hi all! Just to share my first low tech nano reef tank set up...:)

Nothing special, just simple try out and a big battle with cyano:(

Equipments specs are:

2x1x1 feet glass tank with top and bottom braces

2 bulbs t5 fixture with aquablue special and true actinic

Dymax skimmer

800l dolphim HOB filter used for extra circulation and mini refugium lighted by small led fixture

Seio prop wavemaker

Mr aqua cool tornado fan to cool to 26-27deg

With weekly dosing of calcium, magnesium, trace elements, calcium carbonate

Daily/alternate days of red sea no3 po4 X and brightwell aquatics micro bacter

Food: reef gourmet's garlic X with own added cyclopeeze as main diet and treats of gracilaria for tangs

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150317787501193&saved

Lifestock:

Yellow and blue tang

Pair of percula clowns

Pair of mandarinfishes

Sixline wrasse

Springeri damsel

Janns pipefish

Scooter blenny(if its still arnd)

Pair of skunk cleaner shrimps

Margarita and astrea snails

Tube worm

Corals:

Torch

hammer

branching octopus

open brain

(pink, purple and white tube anemones

Green stripped mushrooms

Black and orange sun

Electric red scallop

Green star polyps

Pulsing xenia

Blue halo, kiwi krush, kix N' koral, clementine, sunflower, purple death, AOI zoas

Golden cloves

1 birdnest sps frag(to try)

Do comment on anything or ways to improve my tank! Please dont flame me if its overcrowding... Thanks!:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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bro, cannot see ur photos?

-Main Display Tank : 2ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft c/w sump tank cabinet (Set up by aquarium artist)

-Lightings : 4 sets of 1.5ft mini aqua lumen LED lights (7 high power led 15W)

-Chiller: 1/4HP artica chiller with a standby of HC-100A

-Skimmer : Bubble Magnus 3 (cone)

-Phosphate Reactor

-NP Bio-pellet D&D onceanic hang-on reactor

-Wavemaker : MP10

-Temperature mointor : American Wireless pinpoint thermometer

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Its a video actually...hehe will update the video soon!:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Are you using manual dosing ? Do watch out for the parameters on kh ca and mg so that you do not over dose :friends:

Noted! Haha will do bro! Thanks!

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Hi all! Just to share my first low tech nano reef tank set up...:)

Nothing special, just simple try out and a big battle with cyano:(

Equipments specs are:

2x1x1 feet glass tank with top and bottom braces

2 bulbs t5 fixture with aquablue special and true actinic

Dymax skimmer

800l dolphim HOB filter used for extra circulation and mini refugium lighted by small led fixture

Seio prop wavemaker

Mr aqua cool tornado fan to cool to 26-27deg

With weekly dosing of calcium, magnesium, trace elements, calcium carbonate

Daily/alternate days of red sea no3 po4 X and brightwell aquatics micro bacter

Food: reef gourmet's garlic X with own added cyclopeeze as main diet and treats of gracilaria for tangs

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150317787501193&saved

Lifestock:

Yellow and blue tang

Pair of percula clowns

Pair of mandarinfishes

Sixline wrasse

Springeri damsel

Janns pipefish

Scooter blenny(if its still arnd)

Pair of skunk cleaner shrimps

Margarita and astrea snails

Tube worm

Corals:

Torch

hammer

branching octopus

open brain

(pink, purple and white tube anemones

Green stripped mushrooms

Black and orange sun

Electric red scallop

Green star polyps

Pulsing xenia

Blue halo, kiwi krush, kix N' koral, clementine, sunflower, purple death, AOI zoas

Golden cloves

1 birdnest sps frag(to try)

Do comment on anything or ways to improve my tank! Please dont flame me if its overcrowding... Thanks!:)

Finally! My pics!

Tank shot

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Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Beautiful tank. :welldone:

-Main Display Tank : 2ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft c/w sump tank cabinet (Set up by aquarium artist)

-Lightings : 4 sets of 1.5ft mini aqua lumen LED lights (7 high power led 15W)

-Chiller: 1/4HP artica chiller with a standby of HC-100A

-Skimmer : Bubble Magnus 3 (cone)

-Phosphate Reactor

-NP Bio-pellet D&D onceanic hang-on reactor

-Wavemaker : MP10

-Temperature mointor : American Wireless pinpoint thermometer

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sigh these parasite and disease very tiring

Yeaa had a very bad experience with ich before this too...:/

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Beautiful tank. :welldone:

Haha no laa nth beautiful.... Simple tank only...:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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hows your battle with cyano? you should try the amox anti-bacteria capsule. Works wonders...but got to check and adjust your water parameters after that so it won't appear again.

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I dose brightswell aquatics microbacter and red sea no3 po4 X... Guess u should be able to gauge how sucessful i am.... :( where can i get that amox capsule and will it clear beneficial bacteria also? I thought of trying red slime remover though...

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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Very nice reef tank bro.!!! :groupwavereversed:

Hahaha! Nth special laa... :) thanks alot for the compliment!:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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I tried using goodbye po4 before too. But i remembered some senior bros mentioned tat it will only lower po4 in tank n not remove cyano which is wad we want to achieve. And so i tried the amox... Just 1 capsule and u can see the cyano vanish within days to weeks. Dun think it will kill or affect beneficial bacteria in an established tank to a point tat the tank will crash. Just dont over dose n be patient :)

Theres a thread in this forum bout using amox to combat cyano.

Lastly, if the amox does work for u, dun stop there.. Check n rectify the water parameters coz cyano first started for a reason.

You'll win the battle i'm sure. Dun give up :)

The Best Way Is To Keep It Simple.

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I tried using goodbye po4 before too. But i remembered some senior bros mentioned tat it will only lower po4 in tank n not remove cyano which is wad we want to achieve. And so i tried the amox... Just 1 capsule and u can see the cyano vanish within days to weeks. Dun think it will kill or affect beneficial bacteria in an established tank to a point tat the tank will crash. Just dont over dose n be patient :)

Theres a thread in this forum bout using amox to combat cyano.

Lastly, if the amox does work for u, dun stop there.. Check n rectify the water parameters coz cyano first started for a reason.

You'll win the battle i'm sure. Dun give up :)

Thanks! Im planning to get ultralife red slime remover...:) how's the comparison between the 2 and where to get amox? Thanks again for the encouragement!:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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wow... nice.

Hey thanks! Its just a humble nano tank...:)

Fresh fishes and inverts! What's next? To the salty side of marine of course!:)

"Never to part, lest jealous heaven stole our hearts"

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