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Sani Boyan

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The force is with you....

Cheers,

James

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Nice still shots of ur livestock..saltwater really rock..cheers

Admiraltian
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Your red open brain looks fat & juicy.

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Bro ! You hv gd gd reefing frenz here...always pushing u to next higher level ! Other pple outside tis circle onli hope u always below them....

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Nothing much happened since my last update. Not until beginning this month... decided to change location and at the same time change to a bit deeper tank. Not long after, someone selling his tank. Must grab!

Decided to update this post to remind me what I have done to make the change successful within 10hrs.

1. Move off at 12pm to take the tank, with help from some friends of course.... copperband, xiggie, bobkemejan and 2 others. And not forgetting exxe and tess.

2. 2pm, load the tank up the van.... after which 3 of us go straight to buy 240l of NSW.

3. 3.30pm, reached home and setup new tank.

4. 4.15pm, tea break.

5. 4.45pm, put in new live sand, old live rocks and transfer the water from old tank to new tank. Left just, just, just enough for the current livestock to survive in there.

6. 5pm topup new tank with NSW... used all 240l. Swee.. just enough.

7. Break time while waiting for water to clear.

8. 8pm transfer all zoas and lps.

9. 9pm transfer all fishes.

10. 9.30pm... all done. Cleanup time... and can't wait to sleep...

Glad that it went successful (no leakage and no casualties) and at the same time had fun! Thanks again for ALL that helped and also those who really tried to but could not.

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Looks very clean.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Nice tank bro

Thanks.

Love the aquascape & clean sand.

Aquascape thanks to Copperband. Really amazed myself. No planning done. Just take the rocks from old tank and scape it in new tank. The way he do it.... no second thought! Just keep placing, just keep placing.... not long after, done! Not forgetting to make strategic space for my corals.
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Bro how do u deal with the algae and how do u keep the sand clean?

Loving how u went from fowlr to mixed, am planning to do the same :) awesome fishes :)

Algae... hmmm... as far as I know... nitrates and phosphate in check, till date no unsightly algae but no escape from diatoms. So what I did was to minimise the chance of them resting on the sand by playing with the water flow. Other than that... get an invertebrate that stirs the sand. The best and fastest result I tried before is having a diamond back goby. But one hell of a jumper! Lol.

My reefing journal.

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Algae... hmmm... as far as I know... nitrates and phosphate in check, till date no unsightly algae but no escape from diatoms. So what I did was to minimise the chance of them resting on the sand by playing with the water flow. Other than that... get an invertebrate that stirs the sand. The best and fastest result I tried before is having a diamond back goby. But one hell of a jumper! Lol.

My reefing journal.

Thanks Bro will keep that in mind when setting up :)

Best regards and Happy Reefing!

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