illumnae's SPS shallow reef

[SubzeroLT]

Nice...top notch quality equipment for peace of mind.

 

[s17oopy]

Like your attitude bro! Never say die!


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[Patrick]

Some heavy equipment! Nice...


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[illumnae]

Picked up some packages that just arrived from the US today:

Today was also new sump day!

Unfortunately there's quite a bad leak in the piping.  Hope it can get fixed asap

[SubzeroLT]

Which model of the carbon doser did you get?

There are 2 fittings in the website. CGA320 & DIN 477. Not sure which is applicable for the typical CO2 tank in SGP.

 

 

[illumnae]

Is there more than 1 model?  I didn't know.  The CGA fitting is standard US and DIN is standard UK and needs a top up fee - we follow UK in Singapore.

[illumnae]

Expensive lesson learnt... made in USA is not necessarily better than made in China.  Hand tightening the screws on the Geo reactor caused it to cracking and leak.  It's entirely unusable now  I can't believe anything with decent build quality would cracking under hand tightening.  Now I got to find another calcium reactor and the cost of the Geo is entirely wasted.

I think I'm really the unluckiest person on earth.

[kakak99]

Try seal the crack with silicon

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[SubzeroLT]

17 hours ago, illumnae said:

Is there more than 1 model?  I didn't know.  The CGA fitting is standard US and DIN is standard UK and needs a top up fee - we follow UK in Singapore.

Wasn't clear after reading conflicting info in various local forums.

Thanks for confirming it - DIN standard for SGP.

[redsuns]

Expensive lesson learnt... made in USA is not necessarily better than made in China.  Hand tightening the screws on the Geo reactor caused it to cracking and leak.  It's entirely unusable now  I can't believe anything with decent build quality would cracking under hand tightening.  Now I got to find another calcium reactor and the cost of the Geo is entirely wasted.
I think I'm really the unluckiest person on earth.

Send a pic to Geo and see what they can do, I don't think they will wash their hands off like this, they are not cheap.

[illumnae]

I've emailed them, and bro subzero has kindly offered to help me seal with acrylic solvent.. but long term I'm not sure I really want to use such a low quality item.  What if one day it cracks again when I'm overseas?

[illumnae]

Geo will ship me a replacement body when his new stock comes in.  In the meantime I guess I will reinstall the Skimz

[illumnae]

Now that everything is finally set up and running after the reboot, it's time to share the scape!  After the Dino nightmare I bleached all my existing DE Rocks and reused them for the rescape.  As I have a long term back injury, I'm not physically capable of lifting heavy rocks into my tank and bending over to scape them.  That's why I always need help in scaping my tanks.

The scape was actually already done up many weeks back, but I've been busy with cycling and the replacement of the sump and equipment.

Here's Steven from Seasonal Aquarium hard at work:

Some pictures of the finished scape:

I'll try and get some livestock pictures soon. 

[RocketBunny]

Hi bro!! I am just here to give you some moral support and encouragement! Hope to see you real soon.

I am also doing up my tank at the same time! Supper soon too!

rgds

[daveyy]

What happen to your ati bro? Sold it or keeping as spare?


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[illumnae]

Sold it.  I wouldn't want to use it ever again even as a spare.

[Daniel_k]

Pretty stocked up already right bro hahahaha how's the yellow Indo piece doing ?


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[daveyy]

Sold it.  I wouldn't want to use it ever again even as a spare.

I got the same feel with u. Didnt really like ati aswell.

Anw. Hope all is well with ur current build! Seen u restarted a few time!


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[illumnae]

10 hours ago, Daniel_k said:

Pretty stocked up already right bro hahahaha how's the yellow Indo piece doing ?


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OMG stalker! hahaha

7 hours ago, daveyy said:

 

 

I got the same feel with u. Didnt really like ati aswell.

Anw. Hope all is well with ur current build! Seen u restarted a few time!


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It's not just that I don't like the light.  Any product that the distributor won't stand behind is just a disaster waiting to happen.  Hopefully this is the last restart.  Some say I'm suay,  some say I'm a noob. I'm just here to enjoy my hobby! 

 

Guess who dropped by and got his hands wet...

 

[illumnae]

Almost forgot.. lousy handphone picture:

[josephwzr]

May I know how many pieces of de rocks u used for the scape?

[daveyy]

1 hour ago, illumnae said:

Almost forgot.. lousy handphone picture:

OH! So those corals were yours at seasonal aquarium? heard steven say is not for sale and is his cust's one. haha

 

definitely not a noob, more like bad luck, some had a one hit wonder, while some had it tough. preserve on!  you had it tough and never give up, if it was me, i would have pull plug lol.

[ReDDeviLs]

aiseh.... full of envy man. need to see this in real person.
scaping much nicer now. loving this tank journal.

[illumnae]

On 2017-5-29 at 10:18 PM, josephwzr said:

May I know how many pieces of de rocks u used for the scape?

No idea sorry... the old scape used about 3 to 4 boxes.  This scape was about 1/3 of that or so?

On 2017-5-29 at 11:54 PM, daveyy said:

OH! So those corals were yours at seasonal aquarium? heard steven say is not for sale and is his cust's one. haha

 

definitely not a noob, more like bad luck, some had a one hit wonder, while some had it tough. preserve on!  you had it tough and never give up, if it was me, i would have pull plug lol.

Your eyes so sharp!  Can spot and identify the specific corals?!

I've had some unpleasant reefer call me a noob before for engaging assistance to scape my tank.  All I can say is I'm glad the group of unpleasant reefers have moved to another forum.  This hobby is much better without their "company".

On 2017-5-30 at 6:15 PM, ReDDeviLs said:

aiseh.... full of envy man. need to see this in real person.
scaping much nicer now. loving this tank journal.

You've seen this tank in person through its various incarnations. Must be boring to you by now lor!

 

Just a simple snapshot taken tonight:

[daveyy]

not really, just spot some prominent one and your black tang as well! Haha.

In this world, unpleasant people are all around, they do not know the backdrop of the situation and make crude remarks. Just ignore them and enjoy the hobby !!




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