angmoh's 2ft REEF REEF tank

[angmoh]

nahh is okay, later the design to complicated.. the tank maker blur..

anyway nth much will happen in this one or two months time as i will be taking my own sweet time to cycle the tank.

Will post more once I have introduced livestocks !

[nicreef]

-.- lol

Gd luck I told myself 1 mth but now 1 week I feel crazy Liao ;p

Also thx bro admiraltian think I should do that to my skimmer too

[Admiraltian]

-.- lol

Gd luck I told myself 1 mth but now 1 week I feel crazy Liao ;p

Also thx bro admiraltian think I should do that to my skimmer too

Glad that helps, if I'm not wrong, built up of coraline algae can cause the micro bubbles in the skimmer foaming process to burst prematurely and that will reduce the skimmer's efficiency in making down DOC.

[resser]

Bro Angmoh,

Just read this thread from the beginning. Bro Wil is correct, hot air rises up from your chiller's rear end. So instead of pushing it back down, reverse the fan on top to push it out.

Hot air rises (that's how hot air balloon works). Waiting for someone to start screaming I am wrong and that there is nothing here to do with hot air balloon.

[angmoh]

Live Rocks in place.. marks the beginning of cycling the tank... 45 days counting down...tick tock tick tock...

Treated the liverocks with super duper salt water and this is what i got from the rocks..this is only part of it.. still have plenty of dead crabs/critters and worms..

[alexcyf]

Nice rocks with a good healthy looking coverage of coralline algae!

[Admiraltian]

Nice looking LR

[kanegan]

Nice design

[angmoh]

Bro Angmoh,

Just read this thread from the beginning. Bro Wil is correct, hot air rises up from your chiller's rear end. So instead of pushing it back down, reverse the fan on top to push it out.

Hot air rises (that's how hot air balloon works). Waiting for someone to start screaming I am wrong and that there is nothing here to do with hot air balloon.

Hi Resser,

You are right. But my initial intention is to have the chiller's heat discharge outlet to be placed facing the cabinet opening directly. Meaning to say that, no or nominal heat will be in the cabinet.

The purpose of drawing the air into the cabinet is to 1) cool down the adaptors 2) for chiller air in-take..

anyway i will try out all suggestions provided by the bros here to see which is the best way

[angmoh]

Nice rocks with a good healthy looking coverage of coralline algae!

Nice looking LR

Nice design

Thanks guys for your compliments. I must admit that i'm pretty bad in rockscaping or selecting live rocks.

[resser]

Thanks guys for your compliments. I must admit that i'm pretty bad in rockscaping or selecting live rocks.

Don't sell yourself short lah. For a 2ft, the tank looks very nice.

BTW, maybe you can install another fan low down front at chiller's intake (top fan blows out. You get cooler air from below for push pull effect which should solve those hot adapters.

[angmoh]

Bought a bottle of live tigger pods to increase the pods population...

[nicreef]

So fast buy ar? I wanted to get 2 to seed my tank too but thought I should do only after cycling end

[angmoh]

i think pods are ok.. no need to wait until the full tank cycle..

by the time you finish cycling, u will see your tank is full of pods ^^

[sherman]

Still have stock? I wait very long for this pod

[angmoh]

sherman, as of yesterday, still have 3 bottles available at Madpetz. Two red one green.

[angmoh]

wah lau ehhhhh only 2 weeks of cycling... still have 4 more weeks to goooooo....

no major development at this stage. No diatom /algae outbreak yet despite the light was on for about 3-4 hours daily... can see pods now.

[surreal1228]

wah lau ehhhhh only 2 weeks of cycling... still have 4 more weeks to goooooo....  

 

no major development at this stage. No diatom /algae outbreak yet despite the light was on for about 3-4 hours daily... can see pods now.

Haha bro. Do somthing else then. Dont think abt Tank time Will go faster.

[Jack 123456]

wah bro, ur setup so neat and nice!! plz keep us updated with pics!

cheers jack

[hammy]

Bro... Anymore update of your tank?

[angmoh]

sorry peeps.. nothing much to shout about my tank at this stage... 1 month of cycling.. tank still empty except:

1) 2 blue-leg hermit crabs in the DT to clean the algae on rocks (they did a wonderful job)

2) several snails and sand dollar in the sump tank to keep the glass clean (hopefully)

3) added a torch coral to test the water (been a week so far so good)

other than the above, tank still empty haha.

[angmoh]

Just back from China and bought several acrylic products.

Bought a couple of breeder boxes (one big one small) for acclimatizing fish. Good quality, nice workmanship and cheap.

The bracket holder of the breeder boxes.

Also bought a tools holder.. to organize ur tweezer, scrappers or whatever..

[digibee]

Wah bro; next time you go get some of those acrylic for me, nice!

[angmoh]

Wah bro; next time you go get some of those acrylic for me, nice!

sure mate. Next trip i will bring in more to share with the bros here..

FYI both acrylic acclimatization boxes cost me less than $20 (small one less than 10 bucks) in total. I'm not too sure if it's cheap or expensive, but i'm pretty sure it's value for money. Love the design.

[karlyau]

wah nice acrylic box. If you go china again let me know