2007 JBJ 12G DX restart

[timmy]

Its been a while , almost 5 years after decor of this small beauty, lying in the store room waiting faithfully to reveal its former glory.

Took it out and cycle the tank in my office with some left over live rocks about 1KG of them , some live sand , some left over bioballs and filter media.

Using my favourite Prodibio Reef for nano tank to cycle the tank for the past three months and could not decide what to put in , 12G real estate is extremely limited.

Finally decided to go small on corals and fishes and in June 2015 decided to start my stocking, ..... but overseas trip comes in and after 14 days of not attending to this old maid, the horrible happened ..... CYNO attack in FULL swing!!!!

These CYNO changed the bare tank to a scene in horror movies.....so sad.......but luckily I have some super cleaner left at home

Super cleaner to the rescue

After using the Chemiclean according to its instructions, this is is what happened after 4 days....

Almost 90% of the CYNO are gone, but due to the decomposition go the CYNO, nutrients are high and having cloudy water.....hope are high that by this week , I am able to introduce some first batch inhabitants.....so please stay tune and please give me some ideas and advise on what to put in this small beauty and hope to get it to flourish....

Currently I am waiting to some items to arrive and I am planning

1) to Upgrade to lights DIY to Truelumen

2) Using only Prodibio to maintain the tank with fishes and coral

3) to install a nano skimmer

4) Hmmmmm.....let see what else don't the road

Hope you contribute and enjoy

[timmy]

Day 5 after using Chemiclean to reduce and hopefully eliminate CYNO Attack, the results was fantastic

Still some large crumbs of CYNO can de see wrapped in sand on the sea bed, hopefully these will be eliminated in a few days time.

Almost all the CYNO are gone, water is clear again and now lots of hairy green algae, stay tune for my green algae battle

[Admiraltian]

Camping here for ur updates!!

[timmy]

This morning met the FEDEC delivery guy at the lift lobby and he told me kindly, I have delivered a package to you, immediately my heart was bouncing with joy and excitement, my long awaited goodies bag has arrived.

When I opened up, to my surprise, lots of packing foams, well protected

Received my Prodibio, Chemipure, Tunze products

1) Reef Booster

2) Coral Vits

3) BioClean

4) BioKit Nano

5) Alka Reef

6) Calci Reef

7) Tunze Care Nano

8) Chemipure Elite

Will be only using Prodibio products for my 12G nano, and some prime and chemipure and hope these will sustain a reef setup

[timmy]

Camping here for ur updates!!

thank you for your support bro

[timmy]

Unboxing the TUNZE CARE NANO

real good quality product , very strong magnet and typical german engineering, very good stuff

After attaching the TUNZE to the tank the first feeling is tight....very tight and very power scraper and the best is it will not catch any sand and scrape the glass

like my old glass cleaner!!! woooohoooooo

And found my old spot with algae ready to be scrapppppeeed.....

And its TUNZE Time!!!!!!

Most of the unsightly algae which my old cleaner cannot take care are taken care by the TUNZE CARE NANO and it works well round the rounded glass corners

And it clean about 2cm below the sand bed.

After working it parks neatly in a dark corner waiting to be activated again.

My next best investment is the innovative swirl, so call ware maker, after installing for more than a month the swirl is still swirling and producing wave,

I have used other brands, and the swirl will fall off the rubber fitting will be harden after a month or so and will fall off and this innovative swirl is still sucked and swirling..... well done!!! loved it, not return pump is 900L/H , though of upgrading to 1200L/H for more swirling power...... stay tuned

Unfortunately, my 2007 old maid show signs of age, the corners are leaking!!!!!!

and the best thing is both corners are leaking ...... no problem , waiting for my underwater magic to arrive and will see how to patch her up and get her up and running

Stay tuned ....

[timmy]

Dose my Kent Marine Nano Reef B this morning and the tank turned cloudy......

[timmy]

..... CONTINUE......

After dosing Kent Marine Nano B the watch turned cloudy as per usual, but the only usual happening is the cloudiness maintained for more than 15 minutes, usually when I dose Kent Marine Nano B , the cloudiness will disperse in 5 minutes.....

Due to my impatient, I added Purple Up from Continuum , immediately the watch turned milky and usually it will clear up in 5-10 minutes, but this time ...... its doom time.....

After more than 30 minutes, the milky watch started to turn cloudy and a thick layer of carbonate was formed on the glass, and rock !

I tried to use Tunze to scrap but not working .......sigh........

I was thinking is this the end of this cycle? Do I need to recycle the tank again ????

I was toying with the idea of cleaning with vinegar .....and today I bought an old school product to my office in my last struggle to get it fixed.......

....to be continued.....

[timmy]

After 2 hours of scraping using a razor blade, finally about the restore to 90% of the glass clear

Final piece of my parcel arrived today with the most important upgrade, TRUELUMEN LED

Beautiful construction and the box contain lots of items......wooohooooo

Fast hand fast leg start to remove the stock lights from the 12G

Finally got the hood cleaned and retrofitted the truelumen

Light on and beautiful!!!!!

[timmy]

Well , did some shopping on saturday morning and bought

My favourite 2x Red Shrimp

1x Cleaner Shrimp, A blenny, a slug, Dotty Back, and unknown SPS coral, coco worm, and a small rock with a few red mushroom

Put all my shopping into the tank on saturday afternoon and left for home happily

Planning to visit them on sunday morning ......

Upon reaching my office gate the security told me ... power cut from morning 8am to Midnight.......

WT* ..... I just bought my favourites on saturday and I just send them to its death on sunday....... had a bad sunday and on monday 8am these are what left

COCO WORM

RED MUSHROOM

UNKNOWN SPS

all other moveable living things are gone and the water turned cloudy again....

Upon reaching my office this morning, quickly scoop out all the death parts and dose some bacteria .... and now keep my fingers cross for the water to clear ....

If not I will do a 20-30% Water change later in the afternoon....

What do you guys think?

[timmy]

Added some shrimps and some mushroom and not to forget a red scooter blennie

And also a JEBO RW 4 wavemaker, hahaha almost cook up a storm with I turned it on, and the mini skimmer is skimming pretty good skimate

[Admiraltian]

Looking great.

[timmy]

Looking great.

Thanks bro

looking for suggestion to beautiful these reefs

[timmy]

TODAY when I stepped into my office , and a clear tank greeted me, its the first time in 3 months a clear tank with moving creatures inside.

So excited and blessed

Now the nest exciting phase is coming, WHAT DO I ADD IN????

and help please please

I see grass growing and I need some lawn mower any good recommendation for a SMALL sized hard working lawn mover?

[MarcoVan]

Throw in an abalone... check CF if they still have small ones...

anyway care to share where did you pick up your truelumen led strips from?

[timmy]

Throw in an abalone... check CF if they still have small ones...

anyway care to share where did you pick up your truelumen led strips from?

hi bro , would love to have some abalone in the tank , but where is CF?

I bought my true lumen from amazon.com, fast shipping, got it in 3 days....

[timmy]

Received a long box today

Hope the PhosGuard will do its job in keeping Phosphate in control

API 5 in 1 will always do its job

And will try to do some feeding with he Rio Coral Feeder

And the Kent Marine Coral Feeder is for my home RSM 250

[kwandi]

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[timmy]

ITS FEEDING TIME

[Admiraltian]

Add more colorful fishes like flame angel, fairy wrasses etc.

[timmy]

Add more colorful fishes like flame angel, fairy wrasses etc.

Sounds good bro, but is flame angel reef safe? Don't want it to eat up my corals as lunch , dinner and supper when its hungry....

[Admiraltian]

50-50.

[timmy]

50-50.

Thanks bro for sharing

[Admiraltian]

Flame angel have a lesser chance at nipping at corals compared to those notorious ones like lemonpeel.

[timmy]

Flame angel have a lesser chance at nipping at corals compared to those notorious ones like lemonpeel.

thanks bro , will to look for one Flame angel

now try to look for any fish that eat grass,.,,,.....needs a lawn mower now...