Marineman's Tank

[Marineman]

Front View

[Marineman]

TRank Specs

Size: 42*24*24

Lighting : 2*150 watts 20000k Iwasaki

2*30 watts Acardia Atinic

2*36 watts Aqualine atinic

Filtration : 20 lbs Miracle mud with caulerpa remosa and halimeda

Inhabitants: Yellow, Purple and Blue Tanf, Flasher and fairy wrasse, yellow watchman goby, longnose hawkfish, 3 bartlets, lawnmowver blenny, bi-colour blenny

Corals -as seen in pics

Water circulation - One Tunze 6100 only

[lightningstrike]

is that a bartlett i c on the extreme left of the 1st pic??? 2 blur to comfirm..... think u can oso stock up more gradually....

anyway, good job marineman.... great looking tank!!!

[Marineman]

plus one mandarin fish

[Marineman]

3 bartletts purchased from Singapore LFS - Reef paradise at AT's recommendation. Very well packed and took them back to KL by car, have been with me for 6 weeks, eats everything!

[Marineman]

Green Brain -Trachyphyllia

[Marineman]

Same brain- feeding mode

[Achilles Tang]

Finally, we see your tank here!

Nice! Reminds me of my 1st LPS tank!

[Marineman]

Brain Coral -"Siamese Twins"

[Marineman]

Cynaria lacrymalis-Button/meat/doughnut coral

[FuEl]

Hmmm..can understand why you came to Sg to buy fish..maybe even equipment...I went to KL during the last malaysian pet expo..about 1 month plus back...all the marine stuff so expensive...equipment not say very good also..

[Marineman]

Cynaria lacrymalis-Button/meat/doughnut coral

same species- green colour

[Marineman]

Hmmm..can understand why you came to Sg to buy fish..maybe even equipment...I went to KL during the last malaysian pet expo..about 1 month plus back...all the marine stuff so expensive...equipment not say very good also..

At,

So I am about 2 years behind you, still a lot to catch up.

The fish expo in KL is all bullshit, lacks variety and expensive. I purchased my MM is singapore, my Aqua C remora pro skimmer from the US.

this green bubble comprises of 8 separate pieces fused into one.

[Marineman]

hammer - Euphyllia pancora. If you notice I have two pieces, thes two were from one piece which was broken and it grew from 3 branches to 11 branches in about a year.

[Marineman]

Euphyllia Pancora and divisa

[FuEl]

Not only the expo...even the pet mall in mid valley and the p*t saf*ri in KL pricing was so......

[Marineman]

Scolymia Vitiensis aka doughnut. button, meat, tooth, flat brain coral

[jesperlam]

Wow Nice!!!

Nice bubbles u have....my fav.!!! Anyway just a comment...ur sandbed/coral chips seems to have alot of diatoms...it'll be v.v.v nice if its white...

Great work bro...

[Marineman]

Green psychedellic colour brain - you noticed that when I took this picture, the sand is brown with cyno/diatcom with some air bubbles - this happened after about a week when I increased the time for MH by one hour. since then I have reverted to 9.25 hours 2 atinics coming on 2 hours before MH and off 2 hours after MH.

[Marineman]

Not only the expo...even the pet mall in mid valley and the p*t saf*ri in KL pricing was so......

Pet safari in Mid valley is generally more expensive, elsewhere is cheaper but still no comparison than Singapore prices. Same goes for variety as well.

[Marineman]

Wow Nice!!!

Nice bubbles u have....my fav.!!! Anyway just a comment...ur sandbed/coral chips seems to have alot of diatoms...it'll be v.v.v nice if its white...

Great work bro...

Thanks for being so observant from the earlier pics. I just don't seem to be able to keep the sand bed white! Even thinking of having a clear glass bottom to reduce nitrate, as my refugium can take over the filtration. Will take all these factors into consideration when I upgrade next year when i move to another dwelling. I change 20% of the water every 2 weeks. nitrate is about 5ppm, manageable, that's why i have diatcoms.

FYI I do not use any additives or chemicals as propagated by the MM system although I use my skimmer (understrength). Water top up is using RO water with kalkwasser -very diluted and pour into the sump (2.5 litres) all at once after lights out. Have been doing this for more than a year, you can see my LPS has very large polyp expansion.

[Marineman]

I posted this hammer (E. Pancora) large polyp expansion some time back and was told by Anthony Calfo, author of the book on Coral Propagation that it is one of the reproductive strategy of this coral.

[Marineman]

I posted this hammer (E. Pancora) large polyp expansion some time back and was told by Anthony Calfo, author of the book on Coral Propagation that it is one of the reproductive strategy of this coral.

You will see tat one branch became 3, all these took 2-3 monrhs

[Marineman]

Another picture before the split

[Marineman]

Guess what this is? No prize for guessing as it is not too difficult.