The budget SPS tank

[Nick Liu]

1 hour ago, NeoReef said:

Yah... this weekend still need do guard duty sian!

bro. pls change your title leh. where is the budget ? pls enlighten pls ! hahaha!

[NeoReef]

1 hour ago, Nick Liu said:

bro. pls change your title leh. where is the budget ? pls enlighten pls ! hahaha!

HAHAH bro nick surviving on the measly ns allowance and bonuses to fund majority of the tank !! Many items under discount or second hand items !!! hopefully frag sales in the future can help me sustain and cover some of the cost 

[Jeebusai]

17 hours ago, NeoReef said:

HAHAH bro nick surviving on the measly ns allowance and bonuses to fund majority of the tank !! Many items under discount or second hand items !!! hopefully frag sales in the future can help me sustain and cover some of the cost 

Bro, ur power leh. Last time I NS don’t even have enough $ to go for canteen breaks and top up eZ-link card. U still can build Marine tank! 

[Nick Liu]

5 hours ago, Jeebusai said:

Bro, ur power leh. Last time I NS don’t even have enough $ to go for canteen breaks and top up eZ-link card. U still can build Marine tank! 

ya lo ya lo. my allowance was jus 500 or 550 i forgot. wa lao eh thinking back and looking at what you have done ! OMG. what have i been doing. haha! impressive saving i guess ? lovely tank

[Mike Stone]

Interesting light you have, will be keen to know the light controller and brightness i.e. PAR.
Hope to see some review on this light.

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[NeoReef]

5 hours ago, Nick Liu said:

ya lo ya lo. my allowance was jus 500 or 550 i forgot. wa lao eh thinking back and looking at what you have done ! OMG. what have i been doing. haha! impressive saving i guess ? lovely tank

Well... it did take quite a few months of savings , lucky (or unlucky) for me my vocation requires me to stay in so i dont need to spend money during the weekdays haha

thanks!!! HAHHAA 

[NeoReef]

4 hours ago, Mike Stone said:

Interesting light you have, will be keen to know the light controller and brightness i.e. PAR.
Hope to see some review on this light.

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Definitely bro Mike! Will try to find someone with a par meter to get me a par reading when everything is set up . Will also give a more detailed follow up review on its long term performance in the future

[Mike Stone]

As far as I read so far, this is a good light with very reasonable price.
Eager to know more.

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[NeoReef]

11 hours ago, Mike Stone said:

As far as I read so far, this is a good light with very reasonable price.
Eager to know more.

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Yup but i dont see anyone using it in Singapore , think the bulk of users are in taiwan and japan

[NeoReef]

Anyways i decided to ditch the idea of the elevated hood concept as i felt it was redundant and it would add on to the cost of the set up. Besides the aluminium stands that came with if were pretty sleek so i went with that instead . Heres some pics of the lights which i put up today and the messy uncompleted wirings... i will be getting something to conceal and organise all these wires soon. A major mistake i made for the tank’s design was the postion of the top up tank and failure to take into account the length of the wirings (mainly the solenoid) and it ended up in me not able to put all my controllers and power plugs at one spot (my control panel) as seen in the sump pictures here..

[NeoReef]

[NeoReef]

A noob question : 

Is it okay to connect all my lights to the same power plug or will that overload the circuit?

[Solo77]

U may want to find out the clearance space as it seems near to yr water level. If on one extension cord solely for light, should be fine. Best to chk bk with the seller of the lightsets. 

[shetland]

1 hour ago, NeoReef said:

A noob question : 

Is it okay to connect all my lights to the same power plug or will that overload the circuit?

each power socket are able to go up to 13amp. It wont overload the circuit as each led light normally take less then 3amp. even radion x30 pro is rated at 2.5 amp only and that is if u run at max (which most of us dont run at 100%)

[shetland]

Nice setup u got there. Looking forward for more updates.

[Nick Liu]

Mine
I m plannin to split into 3 wall socket. Each hav abt 1 extension bar abt 4 sockets.

Socket 1 extension will b like
Wavemaker and lights

Socket 2 extension would be
Chiller n caperplus

Socket 3 extension would be
Skimmer n some other thing

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[Nick Liu]

Mine
I m plannin to split into 3 wall socket. Each hav abt 1 extension bar abt 4 sockets.

Socket 1 extension will b like
Wavemaker and lights

Socket 2 extension would be
Chiller n caperplus

Socket 3 extension would be
Skimmer n some other thing

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Return ppump will b in socket 1 too

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[NeoReef]

On 15/07/2018 at 11:31 PM, Nick Liu said:

Mine
I m plannin to split into 3 wall socket. Each hav abt 1 extension bar abt 4 sockets.

Socket 1 extension will b like
Wavemaker and lights

Socket 2 extension would be
Chiller n caperplus

Socket 3 extension would be
Skimmer n some other thing

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Have you thought about getting backup power for you wavemaker , chiller etc ?

[Nick Liu]

Have you thought about getting backup power for you wavemaker , chiller etc ?

Got..

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[Nick Liu]

Got..

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Seen tht hooks up to those car battry type plus a device .cant seem to b able to attach e pic here

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[kakak99]

bro, yours seem not budget le.

My mix coral tank using only rubber pipe..  lol

[NeoReef]

16 minutes ago, Nick Liu said:

Seen tht hooks up to those car battry type plus a device .cant seem to b able to attach e pic here

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Hmmm same , ive been thinking about using a UPS to backup important equipments in mh tank but will need to do more research on this , meanwhile just pray nothing happens 

[NeoReef]

10 minutes ago, kakak99 said:

bro, yours seem not budget le.

My mix coral tank using only rubber pipe..  lol

Hahaha okay la to be honest this tank setup itself cost me a lot a lot of money (every single thing add up to 8062.8!!) till the point where my allowance by itself cannot cover the entire cost . But it would have burnt a bigger hole in my pocket if i didnt source for ways to cut down the budget for the tank haha

[NeoReef]

16 minutes ago, kakak99 said:

bro, yours seem not budget le.

My mix coral tank using only rubber pipe..  lol

Rubber hose as pipings ah

[SubzeroLT]

Lovely set up. Look forward to more pics