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Not much updates... just some photos to share :     Bryopsis started to grow....damn.....so troublesome to get rid of it. even have some growing on the shell of the clam.

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The yellow watchman goby finally paired up with a pistol shrimp, after almost 7 months. There were introduced into the tank separately back then. Best buddies now. Blenny got too close.

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Thanks. BTW, i just ordered a yellow filter. Going to try your method to get better colors

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12 hours ago, Sherilyn91 said:

Nice anemone

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2 hours ago, Hilmi21 said:

Bro where you bought that anemone and how much?

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Anemone is from Iwarna. PMed you.

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All pumps & wavemakers are running as per normal.

The loosely fitted net keeps it contained. After a while, it'll latch on to the surface

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Not much updates... just some photos to share :

 

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Bryopsis started to grow....damn.....so troublesome to get rid of it. even have some growing on the shell of the clam.

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From a fellow reefer...think its a galaxy monti

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Busy preparing an upgrade. Plan to do it slowly over the next 2 months.

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The new setup is 4ft tank?

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Nice, looking fwd to see ur end product!!

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Looking forward too. 

 

But not ready to fill up yet.

Its a 2nd hand tank, so there is some touch up needed on the tank itself. I'll share it here in the forum.

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I mentioned earlier about Bryopsis growing in the tank. It grew like crazy after being away on 2 separate overseas trip. It got out of hand & grew between zoanthids, on the shell of my maxima clam & grew so tall to block light from the SPS frags.

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Used Hydrogen peroxide to clear them slowly over a one week period. Did 1 rock every alternate day. Not all at one go.

Removed all corals from each large rock & dripped hydrogen peroxide onto it externally. This was one of the reasons why i didn't epoxy the rocks together - to have the option of taking rocks out for such drastic action

 

One particular rock had an un-removable Maxima clam & colony of True Rasta. Here are some pics of the process :

 

Diluted the H2O2 to about 5% concentration

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Pulled out as much hair algae / bryopsis manually as possible. Good time to scrape away the bubble algae. That's a clam submerged in the tub of water.

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Dripped H2O2 onto the rock, clam. You can see the algae bubbling away. Good riddance.

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There were several patches on rocks in the tank that could not be removed. Stopping all the pumps, some hydrogen peroxide were injected directly onto the bryopsis. Being cautious, max 5ml only.

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No casualty. Clam is so clean now. 100% of zoanthids opened after 3 days.

And all bryopsis cleared :) 

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I've decided to stick with the sulfur reactor instead of biopellets after having better success with it. Drip rate is shown below and able to keep nitrates between 2-5ppm.

The reactor running at about 0.5% volume. I suppose it'll be better if i had more sulfur media in the reactor. Anyway, its good enough for now.

Water change once every 2 weeks but i dose trace elements, iodide, potassium & iodide in between.

 

 

Some random photos from this evening.

 

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Got this red monti from reefer Evolutionz some time back. Grew from 1" diameter.

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One of the 2 bandit crabs in the valida colony

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On 8/10/2016 at 0:39 AM, he said:

When can we see part 3 of your new tank thread?emoji14.png

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Tank preparation is in progress & purchasing equipment at the moment.

Will share some pictures soon.

 

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