Bear & Cat's 3x2x2 mixed reef little piece of ocean

[BearishCat]

Starting this thread in a bid to document our journey into owning our little piece of ocean. Hopefully we can be disciplined enough to make the effort to do it.

We just got our HDB rental flat after going for our BTO first appointment. Seeing that we will be probably staying put for about 3 years, we decided to dive into reefing. We got the tank set from a reefer who is upgrading, it is a 3x2x2 ft 10mm braceless tank and the sump tank is 2.5ft.

Will try to upload pictures when possible (have already made it to the cycling process without taking any pictures )

Any comments, advices and critiques are welcome.

[BearishCat]

11th Jan 2014

Tank arrived. We spent the whole afternoon giving both the display and sump tank a good scrub down. Clean up the entire cabinet as well, however we had to remove both the doors as the hinges are very loose. Seems like we have to find a way to attached the doors back. Headed down to C328 / Polyart / Marine Life after that to get some stuff.

Was initially looking at the Reef Octopus Diablo DC pump (FNM out of stock) due to its low wattage, have to settle for the DD 3000l return pump at Marine Life instead.

We bought the following at C328 -

Red Sea Coral Pro salt (22kg bucket) - $75

Some foam filter - $5

We also got 3 packets of sand from Polyart at $4 per pack.

We then ordered the Crystal Plus DI unit, 20lbs of Caribsea Ocean Direct Live Sand from FNM. Nothing else we can do while waiting for the delivery of the DI unit.

Pic of the tank

Pic of the sump

[erikokelf]

Display tank seems to be in very good condition.

Keep the updates coming =)

[kenyee]

The tank set look very new..or u clean tanks very pro..keep pics coming..welcome to reefing..

[Admiraltian]

Nice setup.

[BearishCat]

Thanks peeps for the comments.

[JoeyBabooey]

Very nice! Looking forward to more updates

[ASHWIN]

Awesome man! Updates! Deff camping here!

[BearishCat]

Finally we were able to wash the sand, add in the live sand and also managed to buy some LRs to seed and start the cycling period.

Hoping to get some more LR or dead rocks though, and also looking for a skimmer and a FR. The good thing is that currently without lights and only heat from the 45w DD pump, my tank temperature is 26.5

Some random pics of the random rock scape, will redo after getting some more rocks.

The sand bed, we used normal sand bought from PolyArt as the base and then place the Caribsea Ocean Direct sand on top of it. The effect turns out to be what we have in mind.

The DD return pump

Will post again when new toys are in

[erikokelf]

Very simple and clean tank bro. Also very envy that you have a partner that share the same interest as you do which many of us here gotta do discretely haha.

[BearishCat]

Very simple and clean tank bro. Also very envy that you have a partner that share the same interest as you do which many of us here gotta do discretely haha.

I concur. Its lucky that we have similar hobbies, including reefing and games.

[BamBoo]

Cool. Keep the update coming.

[GE8]

Nice tank... More photo pls

[ASHWIN]

Nice Sleek Setup!

[BearishCat]

Managed to get some dead rocks from a very friendly malay bro here. Rescaped the whole tank and left a little live rocks to seed.

Front Tank Shot

The Arc

[BearishCat]

Thanks to FreshnMarine, my skimmer, rowaphos, kalk arrived last night.

The box

Unwrapping the skimmer - have to say that it came nicely packed.

All the parts

Finally up!

[moonwater]

Wow very nice, keep the updates coming!

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[Soong Yu Juan]

Bro if you are going without chiller... Must get led lights and position them further away from water surface.

[BearishCat]

Wow very nice, keep the updates coming!

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Thanks!

[BearishCat]

Bro if you are going without chiller... Must get led lights and position them further away from water surface.

Will be going for chiller. might be getting the Hailea 1/4 one.

[BearishCat]

New addition to the tank.

[BearishCat]

Was hiding in one of the crevices for the first 2 days and finally got the guts to come out now

[kenyee]

Very nice fish..what fish is this?

[BearishCat]

Very nice fish..what fish is this?

Helfrichi Firefish

[erikokelf]

Helfrichi Firefish

The high class firefish =)