New 5ft tank progress

[Tanggy]

Not using T5. I using 2x4ft 36watt antinic.

[alanseah]

Hi,

thanx all for the advise..

finally do some cal.. then realise me been day dreaming...

here is the diagram with the cal.

[Tanggy]

2.5 wide.nice depth. why not go for height also?? 5x2.5x2.5ft

[alanseah]

err no..

me going for the 5x2.5x2 only..

if go for 2.5ft height I can forsee next time I cant walk straight..

dont want everytime back ache...

[Tanggy]

Your latest is 2x6500MH and 2x36watt fl. Will be a bit yellow rite. Why not go for 10,000k mh?

[alanseah]

yup.. that's why I'm worrying..

cause 6500K if the best growth for coral..

buy scare too yellowish..

so me now on the wonder.. either 10000k or 6500k...

o ya ask you something, where u got your LR huh..? which LFS u go to...

[Tanggy]

I go everywhere. only buy those I like. so normally ony buy bou 10kg per trip. Places like heliq@@, Reb@rn,joo seng rd,parsir ris, seal@fe, superst@r. Cos can never find enough of nice rocks which I like at one place.

They are all the norm uncured rocks which I prepared, cleaned, and cured in separate tank before putting in display tank. Just got another 12kg last Sat and now curing in one of my 2ft tank. My LR tank is running a weipro skimmer (2013) and a eheim canister filter and no lights.

[Tanggy]

yup.. that's why I'm worrying..

cause 6500K if the best growth for coral..

buy scare too yellowish..

so me now on the wonder.. either 10000k or 6500k...

If you wanna use 6500k, why not go for the longer higher wattage T5s?? like 2x96watt?? or something like that, VHO antinics also can wat.

[alanseah]

icic...

hmm me normally get from seal@fe..

so far found their cured live rock the best..

[Tanggy]

only got from them once. very little coraline and what they have mostly base rocks, not the shpe I want, heavy and hard to stack securely. Just went there on sat. all small pieces and mostly round boulders....

[alanseah]

lolz as for the light no worry..

cause i'm now just exposing and wondering only. once confirm then will see how..

dont think I want too many watt stuff.. must try all means to save electric and yet achieve the required standard for LPS & SPS

[alanseah]

hmm..

think because of the AVA problem.. lor..

me long time never go also.. must find one day go down and talk to them.

[Tanggy]

Heard some stuff bout the raid. Apparently, there has been complains to the AVA by sending mails to the ministor regarding illegal sale of hard corals. That's why the crack down. Cos normally they cloase one eye. But the matter has been escalated so they have to take action. Apparently, the complains came from a reef club!! Dunno if true la.

If can find out who he/she is, can do what someone recently use as signature: Burn house, beat family!! ha ha.....

So maybe nowadays it is not such a good ideal to post publicly where got sell cheap stuff. Or they might get raided and we no longer have cheap stuff liaoz!!

[alanseah]

yup yup.. true true..

and I think AT know who is it..

that fellow.. going to gatta from us.. if we all know who.

[roidan]

but hor...why would anyone in a reef club do that? dun get it..

if it is some marine conservation group..tat is fully understandable. lor...hmm...watever it is lah....hope things dun get too ugly lor...

[Tanggy]

Howabout someone from a LFS that happens to be a member. And not happy cause someone selling dirt cheap?? or maybe the bugger just got nothing to do. I jus started a thread for sugestions!! he he... anyway, if no one had complained gov wont be so siao on one. Not say he is here but high probable some bugger read from here and complained.

[alanseah]

ya lor..

dont talk about him in my thread wait i gatta...

[Tanggy]

Well, apperntly, the thread I started is suggestive and was moved by the mod.... well so much for free speech!! oh... I jus remember, we in sg dont enjoy that previlege!!

[alanseah]

yes u r in SG.. dont forget that..

we do have "free speech" but not that too free k..

[roidan]

some stuff can be discussed..but not openly though...hehehe

[alanseah]

finally close the deal and getting my 1.25hp TR tomorrow nite...

[weileong]

Congrats!

[alanseah]

thanx...

now slowly buying stuff..

only worry now is that heard very hard to get live rock...

[weileong]

The guy that delivered my tank told me that now LR are banned cos AVA catching.

Go buy the algae rocks then go home scrap it off yourself.

[alanseah]

wow.. faint....

when the AVA going to stop....

best be4 mid of next month leh...