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Hi, I'm an experienced reefer with 6 years of experience, but stopped around 2010.I decided to get my hands salty once more when I moved here in Singapore. Seems you guys have a nice reefing community here with good LFS support.

I live up north (Yishun) and was wondering where you guys buy your stock.

My main question is where do you guys buy the following:

1.) Live Sand & Rocks

2.) NSW.

I need a place near by as I don't have transportation to go to those farms tucked away in some hidden area.

We're nearby AquaStar LFS but their LS selection is horrible (sorry guys). I didnt even bother to ask if they sell rocks and sand. Their equipment stock is awesome though... will definitely frequent this LFS for my DIYs..

Can't wait to start my tank... i'll be doing a humble 2ft starter tank, btw.. I wanna get the feel first then upgrade later (or soon haha)

Thanks!

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I think you are pretty much stuck with Aquastar in that area unless the next nearest should be pasir ris farm area.

Equipment wise they are well equipped but please be careful with additives as some bottles are really old. Double check before you get those

Nanyang Seaview with great pricing on equipment may move to bottle tree park soon. You can visit there end of this year or early 2013. I think ...

2 Feet Tank: (Decom Feb 2015)
-Lightings : Pharos LED light 90W with wireless controller
-Chiller : Arctica 1/10HP with H2Ocean Flow Pump 2000

-Wavemaker : Vortech MP10ES
-Skimmer : Bubble Magus NAC 3.5

-Return Pump : Eheim Compact 3000
-Reactor – TLF150 (Mod) with NP Biopellet
-Reactor – TLF150 with Rowaphos


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I think you are pretty much stuck with Aquastar in that area unless the next nearest should be pasir ris farm area.

I was afraid someone would say that... I may try the ones in Seletar West Farmway this weekend and maybe Aquamarin Aquatic in Paya Lebar.. If it's really troublesome then I guess ill just move onto planted tanks.. (but my salty itch is really calling me haha)

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I was afraid someone would say that... I may try the ones in Seletar West Farmway this weekend and maybe Aquamarin Aquatic in Paya Lebar.. If it's really troublesome then I guess ill just move onto planted tanks.. (but my salty itch is really calling me haha)

Nanyang seaview and T95 is there at seletar farm. Like you mentioned there is also AM and GO nearby

2 Feet Tank: (Decom Feb 2015)
-Lightings : Pharos LED light 90W with wireless controller
-Chiller : Arctica 1/10HP with H2Ocean Flow Pump 2000

-Wavemaker : Vortech MP10ES
-Skimmer : Bubble Magus NAC 3.5

-Return Pump : Eheim Compact 3000
-Reactor – TLF150 (Mod) with NP Biopellet
-Reactor – TLF150 with Rowaphos


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Actually, you can cycle from Yishun to Pasir Ris farm. Cycle to Seletar Airport, turn to ur left will lead u to punggol, heading to punggol PCN and straight to lorong halus wetland. From there, it takes 1min cycle to iwarna. I think it takes 20~30 mins overall. Not sure can fish takes this journey :)

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For a start, u can get iwarna to deliver nsw and rocks and subsequently do salt mix. For livestock, u can list down wat u want and see the updates before dropping any lfs to buy. Welcome back.

Tank : 4 X 2 X 2 with low iron front panel and external overflow

Skimmer : BK SM200 with waste collector

Return Pumps : Red Dragon 6m3 and Ehiem 1262

FR : 2 X Deltec 509 & powered by AB2000

Nitrate Filter : Deltec NF 509 and tee off from AB2000

Calcium R'tor : Deltec PF 501 with RM secondary chamber

Kalkwasser R'tor : Deltec KM500

Chiller : Pansonic 1 HP Compressor with 20m titanium Coil

Wave Makers : 4 X Tunze 6055 with 7096 & Vortec MP40w

Controller : GHL Profilux

Lighting : ATI Powermodule 10 or 8 tubes

Water Top-up : Water Top-Up tank powered by Tunze Osmolator

External Monitor : American Pinpoint pH and Temp. Monitor for main tank and GHL Profilux Controller to measure temp, pH, Redox

Ozonizer : Sander C50

UV : Corallife 6x

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For a start, u can get iwarna to deliver nsw and rocks and subsequently do salt mix. For livestock, u can list down wat u want and see the updates before dropping any lfs to buy. Welcome back.

Thanks Solo!

I'll try to contact Iwarna and see how...but my tank will only be a 15 gallon (w/o sump) and i doubt they'd deliver such a small quantity. ill still try though..

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