Finally! New place...new tank!

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Final scape looking like this. Gave it lots of caves and crevices for fishes to swim around. And of course, for better. The view when I enter from main door flow

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Close up of the first island. Surprising this part took last then 10 mins.

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And the second island which took me like almost an hour due to the rock on the right most. Might need to redo this island

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And the second island which took me like almost an hour due to the rock on the right most. Might need to redo this island

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View from the side

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And the view from the side facing the window

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Wanted to buy water from aquamarin today but realised they have shifted their RO source to new shop. Instead I find a live rock encrusted with green star polyps. Should have curbed my temptation as I actually had no intention to introduce corals or fishes for another 2 more weeks

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Silly me tried to start the FR today as well. Should have been gently instead of dumping the whole can of rowaphos in it. Causing the whole sump to turn brown. Thankfully I haven't change water yet

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Final shots for the day. Time to mop the floor...again!

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Very neat scaping bro. But maybe you wanna move the right island slightly more away from the glass for ease of cleaning glass?

Just my 2cents.

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Very neat scaping bro. But maybe you wanna move the right island slightly more away from the glass for ease of cleaning glass?

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thanks bro for the thoughts. Actually I have no intention of cleaning the glass near to the second island where my external overflow is. Most probably I will try to grow some zoas or nice star polyps in the glass instead if there's a chance

[alexcyf]

Wanted to buy water from aquamarin today but realised they have shifted their RO source to new shop. Instead I find a live rock encrusted with green star polyps. Should have curbed my temptation as I actually had no intention to introduce corals or fishes for another 2 more weeks ImageUploadedByTapatalk1372065626.787095.jpg

You bought the GSP that I nearly bought

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You bought the GSP that I nearly bought

wah. So coincidental u saw it too. Haha. If it ever grows out, I can give u a frag if u like bro. For now, it's just an expensive and pretty live rock. Haha.

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wah. So coincidental u saw it too. Haha. If it ever grows out, I can give u a frag if u like bro. For now, it's just an expensive and pretty live rock. Haha.

Haha I am very regular customer there, stays near there, so it's hard for me to miss out anything there! Gotten a smaller frag tho. That's why din take that one. Anyway ur piece is really dense when it opens. Give it a bit more blue light for the green to be more luminous k

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Haha I am very regular customer there, stays near there, so it's hard for me to miss out anything there! Gotten a smaller frag tho. That's why din take that one. Anyway ur piece is really dense when it opens. Give it a bit more blue light for the green to be more luminous k

thanks for the tip!

[tansh]

Nice tank.The scape good for sps placement.

[james72]

looking good

[raydiative]

great writeup.. thanks for sharing.. i'm planning to build a partition tank as well for my new place, so will follow this closely..

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Thanks guys for the nice comments. In my boredom and absence of more life in my tank, I found some more life via a welcomed hitchhiker on the live rocks. Zoas!!!

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The star polyp encrusted live rock starting to open nicely

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My biggest fear. Bald patches! haha. Hopefully once I fill the tank with corals and when they grow out, it will block off some flow and prevent the sand from scattering. Looks really ugly now

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Realised my durso pipe is causing fluctuations in the water level in my sump due to its suction. Can any bros advise me what might have gone wrong? Causing my skimmer not to perform at optimum performance

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Think your sump was not made to house a insump skimmer. In sump skimmer need constant water level to work. My sump was made in a way such that no matter how much water is flowing to the sump, water where my skimmer is located is always the same level. The only portion that will vary in water level is my last portion, where my return pumps are located

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Hey bro, thanks for the help. Actually my compartment for sump has constant water level. It's just that during the suction, the water seems to gush very quickly down o the sump and that caused a momentary increase of like half a cm increase in my sump compartment. So im trying to mimise that. Is the suction common for durso?

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Got some advice from Dan and I think I found the sweet spot by controlling the valve and now the suction has stopped completely. Hope it stays that way. Before and after adjustment