Exxe's Reef

[Hairul Hakim]

Transferred some of my old livestock over.

Current fishes

Purple tang

Black ice clownfish

Yasha goby

Yellow watchman goby

Leopard wrasse

Carpenter flasher wrasse

Cleaner shrimp

Cuc

10 nassarius

5 fenestratus

Red hermit

Blue hermit

Margarita snail

Corals

Lobo

Cynarina

( from old tank, seems to be bleaching, hopefully it will recover back to normal, wonder how long it will take)

Elegance coral

Sun coral

Torch coral

4 zoas. Not sure what name.

Not gonna add any corals till all these are nursed back to health. :-(

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[tofubox]

lol...that 4 zoas so cute.

[lyz77]

Thanks a lot for the compliments!

Anyway my choice of equipment will be as follows

Lighting - may add on 2 more tubes of t5 (if planning to keep sps), for LPS, I think the current setup will be sufficient.

Skimmer - BM C6(decommed from old tank), may upgrade to a BM Curve 7 or 9

Chiller - Hailea 1/4 powered fed with Boyu 1500l/hr

H2Ocean FR1 = Rowaphos+Rowacarbon with a 600l/hr Aquazonic feeder, using ball valve to regulate flow

H2Ocean FR2 = Bio Pellets with a 600l/hr Aquazonic feeder, using ball valve to regulate flow

Wavemaker = 2X WP 25

Not intending to use any dosing pumps for now or calcium reactor. Might just do manual topups or DIY a dosing pump.

Are you using the 120W or 180W Mazarra-P series? How do you find it? I am planning to start my tank and wanted to have SPS. Not sure if I should go for T5 or LED.

[Hairul Hakim]

I'm using the Mazarra s bro. It was handed over to me from the previous tank owner.

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[Hairul Hakim]

My plan, down the road, is to use a 4 tubes t5- 2 blue-2 purple plus together with a razor 160w or a 300w( might be an overkill)

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[Hairul Hakim]

Managed to tweak my equipment placing a little bit to incorporate a fuge in my sump. Hopefully this works.

After about 3 weeks since start of cycling, nitrates at 2, calc at 410 and phosphate at 0.1.

Hopefully the addition of chaeto will help to lessen the po4.

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[Hairul Hakim]

Current inhabitants

Livestock

Purple tang

Leopard wrasse

Carpenter flasher wrasse

Small Antennata

Cleaner shrimp

Cuc

2 emerald crabs

8 nassarius

5 fenestratus

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[Hairul Hakim]

Some coral pics.

Still acclimatizing the frags before I raise them higher.

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[Clement Chen]

Looking good.

[reefaquaria]

3 weeks cycling period is considered very fast, is it because of daily dose of MB7?

[Ken_ng]

How deep is your c7 sitting? Does it give you consistent skimmate? I'm struggling with my C5

[xiggie]

I'm not quite happy with my c7 .. It's not sitting deep enough .. Can't get a good wet skimming ..

[Hairul Hakim]

Mine is very irregular but I think it's because of my bio pellet kicking in. Now it seems to be quite stable. Sitting around 7 inches, setting no 2.5.

I had issues with it at the start as well, apparently it has to sit quite high.

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[Hairul Hakim]

Super black sitting at 7 inches, set at 2.5

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[xiggie]

Where is the water level @2.5? At the neck above or below?

[Hairul Hakim]

2.5 as in the settings on the skimmer( the rotary water level tube)

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[Hairul Hakim]

3 weeks cycling period is considered very fast, is it because of daily dose of MB7?

Actually my cycle ended earlier than that.

After my 5th day, I already had 0.1 ammonia and 0.1 nitrite with 5 nitrate, but yes, daily dosing of 25ml mb7.

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[xiggie]

2.5 as in the settings on the skimmer( the rotary water level tube)

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Yes that I know .. At 2.5 .. Where is the water lvl at the neck .. Above or below?

[Hairul Hakim]

My water level ends at the neck.

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[Hairul Hakim]

Managed to get some pics of my fish.

Cleaner trying to clean a lionfish... Hmmmm.

Finally managed to snap a pic of the leopard wrasse.

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[Hairul Hakim]

Will be great if anyone can tell me the calling names of some of the corals I have, especially the zoas. Pretty new to sps and no idea what's the usual calling names are...

:-(

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[reefaquaria]

Which brand and type of live sand are you using bro? Nice color

[Hairul Hakim]

Oh. It's not live sand. Just those $8 a bag from ah beng. Picked the small one, can't remember size.

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[reefaquaria]

oh ic, thanks for info

[Hairul Hakim]

Finally managed to have some time to glue my sps frags. All set for the next couple of months.

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