My Reefing Chronicles 2

[Admiraltian]

Finally cleared out all my old rocks. Only left a few small pieces to use back  in future.

[Admiraltian]

Gotten some live rocks mixed with caribsea life rocks over a fortnight back to scape.

This...

or this is better?

[Admiraltian]

Bought some new fishes....

[Admiraltian]

In the tank now.....

[Jeebusai]

Time to put some corals in! 

[Admiraltian]

On 16/07/2018 at 1:53 PM, Jeebusai said:

Time to put some corals in! 

Juz reset my tank with 80% nsw change. Need to cycle first.

[Admiraltian]

My first batch of corals in long long time...

 

Pink Millie?

 

Blue tenuis

 

Pink Prostrata

 

Green Millie 

 

Hope I’m able to keep it colors and health.

 

[Admiraltian]

Fts for now...

[klyve]

Wow..now is lesser rock!! Big transformation.. gg full sps? Nice sps..all Aussie?

[Admiraltian]

 

1 hour ago, klyve said:

Wow..now is lesser rock!! Big transformation.. gg full sps? Nice sps..all Aussie?

So far all Aussie, may add others types in future.  Let’s see how my tank performs. 

[klyve]

Can't wait to see it fill up.. 

[Admiraltian]

18 hours ago, klyve said:

Can't wait to see it fill up.. 

Ya, me too.

[Admiraltian]

Second batch of sps...

Pink hyacinthus 

No idea what this is but looked a bit like cherry blossom.

Green tenuis Purple humilis 

[Admiraltian]

FTS for this week...

[Admiraltian]

Found what look like a baby flame scallop to me in my tank. 

Camera no good so can’t really take a gd shot if it. Haha

 

[Admiraltian]

Longest occupant at 6yrs

Sapphire damsel aka spingeri damsel

Then:

Now:

Hasn’t age a bit.... lol

Still same look same size. 

[Admiraltian]

Second runner up, snowcasso female @ 5.5yrs.

This one color has morph and grew in size.

Then:

Now:

Another look:

[Admiraltian]

Added more rocks to make my right scape higher.

[Admiraltian]

Tidy my sump a little by adding Red Sea media cup. 

[Admiraltian]

Had some equipments breaking down over the last 2wks after commissioning my tank near to 3yrs.

1) Circulation pump for my CR, Skimz CM122, Skimz E2000 impeller shaft broken and I have to replace the whole impeller instead of just the shaft cos the inner ceramic ring/bearing to hold the shaft also worn out. 

2) One of my return pump jebao dc9000 halt for the 2nd time in 2wks. Decided to change a new one, Sicce 9.0. Nv did any maintenance work on any of my pumps. Haha. 

My dc pump is much more silent compared to it. But it has a 5yr warranty. 

The removed pump I took out for a vinegar dip, rinse with fresh water. After drying, power it out to test again and was running. Guess I’ll keep it as spare. Worried it might halt again. 

[daveyy]

On 11/3/2015 at 8:04 PM, Admiraltian said:

 

I actually using a reef octopus ATO. It activate by a float switch attached to a pump that draws water from the reservoir built within the sump when the water level drops. I haven't setup or test it yet though.

hey bro, saw you still using the float switch, mine is due for change, would like to know how does this unit perform? 

don mind could you do a simple review of it ? thank you

[Admiraltian]

Quite ok, just place the float at the level that u wanna trigger the top up level to. Only thing is the holder at max is still quite short. If u hv a deep sump then u might need to do some mod to lengthen it.

Anyway, now still can get this model meh?

[Admiraltian]

Ok, still selling....

https://www.reefoctopus.com.sg/collections/others

[Admiraltian]

Some pictures,

[Admiraltian]

My other return pump died during Xmas period. So hv to get another one. Got this jebao acq-10000 as replacement.

Quite powerful and cheap too.

Also trying this product to kill some remaining dinos in my tank. Supposed to be gentle on tank inhabitants and kill only pest algae and mild Dinos infestation.

Also heard of this method using only fritz monster460 with success to get rid of dinos. Anyone tried this before to get rid of dinos? Need to dump in a big bottle every week for 4-6 weeks until a dinos gone. Basically using bacteria bloom to compete against dinos infestation.