My journey to first Marine Tank

[spkentchai]

This is my first and hopefully to carry on with this hobby for many many years to come....really hard decision to start this as i travel quite a bit for work...but luckily got my wife into this with me......keep finger crossed....keke

Here is what I got so far...most of my equipment including tank is used from pasar malam....and got a lot of good tips from bros here...

1. Tank - 5ft x 1.5ft x 2 ft with cabinet and good sump

2. Skimmer - Reef Maniac & BM150 (see which one is more effective)

3. Chiller - Resun C0500

4. FR - Reef Maniac FR

5. ATI T5 Lighting (Bought 3-in timer switch)

6. 2 x LED light (Single bulb) for night light

7. Tunze Wavemaker - 3 nos

8. Some "dead" Live rock (to form the base)

9. BioDigest & BioPellets (From Madpetz)

Operation will start next tuesday when my Tank is delivered by SGbros and next day NSW will come as well......looking forward...

[spkentchai]

Any comments on the scaping below....using 3 rock to form this structure.....haven glue yet....

[Jameshong]

...keep photo coming.....!

[sunny03]

Point to take note of and it help you to save trouble of rescaping later on

Keep in mind that what kind of corals you are planning to keep when design scaping ...

where you going to put your wave maker.. structure of the rocks will affect the waves..

How many viewing panel ?

[william_choo]

There is green algae on the rocks.

[spkentchai]

Have not thought about the type of corals yet...most likely lps and soft....yes still have algae....weekend task to clear it....thanks...

[sunny03]

Have not thought about the type of corals yet...most likely lps and soft....yes still have algae....weekend task to clear it....thanks...

you need to think of where to place what kind of corals too...

Softy usually comes with rocks so places that you going to place softy try to scape so much of rocks

and LPS those branching type you might need to put them in between rocks or in hole..

[lazydevil]

find more porous rocks it should be able to host alot of softies..

[Ah-lim]

Do glue it well or drill hole and put plastic rods in it.

Scare the whole thing drop and crack the tank base.

Nice rockwork !

[Tian85]

You can also use epoxy to secure the rocks.

[spkentchai]

You can also use epoxy to secure the rocks.

Do glue it well or drill hole and put plastic rods in it.

Scare the whole thing drop and crack the tank base.

Nice rockwork !

Thanks. Have a nice reefer gave me epoxy to glue it up.....kudos

[spkentchai]

Getting all ready for next tuesday......Stay tuned

[spkentchai]

Finally the day come.....SgBros arriving with my Tank

Setting up the tank at my preferred location....spent a lot of time shifting my AV system out from that place.....

Finally......tank is setup....but need to clean up and some washing too.....

[spkentchai]

I'm going to so a little DIY to the tank....will post the process in DIY section....

[sunny03]

remember to ask the past owner for frags ...

[spkentchai]

remember to ask the past owner for frags ...

Haha....im sure he dont mind.....got live rock from him too!!!! :thumbsup:

[sunny03]

Haha....im sure he dont mind.....got live rock from him too!!!! :thumbsup:

never ask him to scrap the rock clean for you hahhaha

[Reefreef]

woah bro! you literally stand inside the tank. Thats really a test. Cant wait to see the progression.

[spkentchai]

never ask him to scrap the rock clean for you hahhaha

Wkakakkaka...give rock liao must work a bit lah.....lol

woah bro! you literally stand inside the tank. Thats really a test. Cant wait to see the progression.

Thats not me lah.....SG bros ppl fixing up the piping......

[spkentchai]

Arranged for LCK to send NSW to my house....they arrived just the same time as me got home....lol...

They pumped NSW from tank to 200 litres drum and sent it up.....

[spkentchai]

After tank is topped up with NSW....my first thing to do of course is to on the return pump to let the circulation start to flow.....next...add in sand...

As recommended by Madpetz...3 different layer of sand might make it look nicer....i'm just worried when the wavemaker start to blow them crazyyyyy....next add in Bacteria King

[spkentchai]

Day 1 - Cycle - Blurry Tank....heard the sucking sound of the overflow chamber......very noisy...quickly called shifu and solved it.

Still at Day 1 - taken at 2.15am this time round....can see the rock shape liao....

Tired liao......go ZZZ

[mengyang_neo]

Looking good. :thumbsup:

[spkentchai]

Day 2 - Went to market to buy market prawn as recommended by forum "Cycling process"

Evening time....Water is much clearer now...market prawn turned from grey to cooked colour....

Mid-night time with lights ON.....

[spkentchai]

Day3/Day4

Nothing much happened...except that the market prawn that I have put into the tank looks interesting.....it sort of turned mouldy.....looks great!!!!