Mixed Reef in a humble 2.5ft Cube

[schnitzer44]

And the consolation of the day after an entire morning plus half afternoon of work... Tadaa! Back to working tank and managed to fix up my light....temporary.

Ehh sorry that you guys need to tilt your head again!

[asg]

Bro sorry about ur loss. Keep a close eye on ur main tank water para and standby tones of mixed saltwater?

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Nothing much done to the tank except to monitor my fishes that i have no choice but to throw it in during the cycling period. All doing well and eating like no tomorrow.

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Spent the whole afternoon fixing up my light rails from my leftover aluminium profile. Pretty good length that i didnt need to do any cutting. Drilled some holes, mixed and match some bolts and nuts and done! Lighting rail up. Just need to get myself the hanging kit for my old hydra. Currently on some hook rings which in my opinion, fits snugly....just that it didnt look "original" haha

[schnitzer44]

With lights!!

Ok...a bit slanted yes..not camera angle... Just two wrong sized ring..realised after putting it up ..sian

[inwear]

Tough luck...how you get to relax and enjoy your tank soon. Nice shohal...my dream tang

[schnitzer44]

Tks bro... Ah beng there got a number of sohal as of yesterday .. You might wanna check it out. Nice size too

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Nothing much done to the tank other than tidying up wirings, pipings.

But the "new tank but cannot wait" syndrome just set in....got two new fellas from GO....

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And this...!

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And one friend who bought a blotchy decided not to put in his tank and i took over...

Seriously cute little small fella!

Ok thats if u can spot him...

Didnt took a photo of him in the bag as it was lateeee in the night when i picked it up. Spent like another few hours preparing him into the main tank...

[Admiraltian]

He's a pretty shy fellow. Will probably come out after a few days.

[schnitzer44]

Yeah the last one i had hid for 4 days before coming out occassionally for mysis but it passed on due to bacterial infection. So I am hoping that this will be smooth. Good thing is, all the fishes in the tank are "new residents" so will not fight...yet. Guess if i can get my hands on an AT this few days i might consider..since no one wil fight. But just afraid of the cycling process will take its toll on this guys...... haiz!

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Time have come for algae and diatom bloom....! Gonna do some water change soon.

Other than this, all seems good.. Blotchy starting coming out of hiding place for some mysis before hiding back again. Rest of fishes eating more and more. Corals opening up more except for my green acan which i am not sure why it isn't bloating up.

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Just when i wanna snap a photo of the blotchy, it went further into the rocks!

Anyway, hammer,durian,bubble and torch opening up well!

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Zoas starting to open up as well...

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Happy Valentines day everyone!

Ok no romantic pak tor for my family as all big and small members are down with the flu bug so..nothing to do at home did an extra water change..

Other than this, actually picked up some soft corals from CF yesterday.

Rest of livestocks doing great as of current.

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Xenia with dunno whats next to it..checked frm friend its cup coral? Don't look so to me but anyway...

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Red giant mushroom with some zoas around. Yet to determine if i get any good hitchhikers around.

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Another small mushroom family....i swear i seen a slight tinge of blue when i shown my white light to it at CF but.... I was wrong..! Come back put, few hours later see its green i sian liao... Anyway this one also got some hitchhiker zoas around it so...yeah hope i get some interesting stuff when i see it open to the max.

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yumas from my old tank...the one below is having some mix of purple and greenish tinge while those on the above rocks are green with orangey colouring. Still looking for more colours..

While all these are very basic softies, once my water parameter stabilise i will be getting some small frags of sps to try out and also to set up the amount of dosing on my dosing pump.

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Disaster number 3.......... Haiz!

My comb to the overflow is not dry yet so for the second time my platinum clown went into the overflow but this time it ended up down into the sump...on the filter sponge. Not sure how long its been there but when i was feeding this morning and couldn't find it...siao liao..open up and see it lying there bloated... What a day!

So...don't care if the diy comb glue is dry anot...just put it in!