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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...

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To each its own.. but method works for me Cultivating bacteria not only will supply as an alternative food source to some corals and mandarin fish, it will reduce nitrates drastically.. Below ar

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It's great to see you learning well in this forum. Something to add on about the bio filtration bed system through the use of LR or biological rings, you do have to take note that insufficient fl

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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 ?

Selling big game fishing equipment. Stella 20k / 17k .. made in Japan jigging blue rose / kabuzu popping rod... pm for prices

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There is green algae on the rocks.

-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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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..

Selling big game fishing equipment. Stella 20k / 17k .. made in Japan jigging blue rose / kabuzu popping rod... pm for prices

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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

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

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

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

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

never ask him to scrap the rock clean for you hahhaha

Selling big game fishing equipment. Stella 20k / 17k .. made in Japan jigging blue rose / kabuzu popping rod... pm for prices

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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...... :goodjob:

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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...

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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

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

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

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Tired liao......go ZZZ

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Looking good. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

5x2.5x1.5ft Rimless Dream Tank (06/03/12)
Skimmer - Reefoctupus
Return Pump - 1 x Eheim 1264, 1 x water blaster 7k
Wavemaker - 2 x mp40es
Chiller - Daikin compressor with coil drop in
Lighting - 4 x 80w T5 Pair 1(6hrs23/12/12),Pair 2(16/06/12312hrs 2 x 80w De-lighting Retrofit (1/3/12) -(15/11/12)6hrs and 2 x 80w De-lighting Retrofit (13/10/12) -6hrs)
Reactor - Dosing pump (01/01/11)


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

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

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

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