weileong's 2ft cube FOWLR

[weileong]

This is my thread to show the progress and LR of my 2ft cube FOWLR.

More photos and details will be posted soon.

Meanwhile I've added 3 new butterfly today.

[weileong]

another butterfly.

[bubble_gum]

now you could have a row of butterflies under your row of tangs

btw whats the name of ur second butterfly?

hmm im gg to convert to FOWLR also den maybe can keep butterflies also

[weileong]

I have no idea

Let me know if you can.

Any experts?

[Terryz_]

Finally the photo of your FOWLR....

[Golden Tooth]

Wow... Butterfly tank?

[weileong]

mixed tank but mostly butterfly... now where's my racoon butterfly

Still very new to butterfly and still trying to make them eat.

[DeepBlue]

another butterfly.

a meyer's butterflyfish...Chaetodon Meyersi

[bubble_gum]

but arent butterflies difficult to keep

[DeepBlue]

Not hard...but mostly we failed to give them proper food and diet.....they are not as greedy and feed readily like tangs....give them a reef tank...they should FEED well

[weileong]

Tank and cabinet arrived on Feb 17th 2004.

[weileong]

filled with grade #0 sand and salt water, market prawn added for cycling on 18th Feb 2004.

[weileong]

The tank was cycled for almost 4 months and the first fish added on 30th May. The grade #0 sand was removed during that process as I decided to go with a bare bottom tank.

Here's the overall look. Still a little ugly as I need to tigy up the pipings.

[DeepBlue]

yup...pipes look a bit scary

[weileong]

The equipment used are

150W MH with 20,000K DE iwasaki.

A Hailea 6530 is used as "close loop" for water circulation.

Return pump is ehiem 1260 pumping water from the sump.

This tank shares the sump with my 4ft reef tank. So chiller, skimmer etc are common.

Return pump pumps water thru a coralife 12x turbo twist UV sterlizier.

For a start, I will keep some softies in the tank so the butterfly can feed on them while I try to get them to get prepared food

[weileong]

yup...pipes look a bit scary

The black pipes are to split the return water so it can cover those dead corners. As for the green one it is temporary solution cos I am using the hailea 6530 as "close loop", sure looks like a tunze is not a good solution. Need some better looking ones than the current solution.

[Golden Tooth]

Oooh... Another barebottom.

[weileong]

Aren't bare bottom the best solution for FOWLR ?

Here's the fishes I have so far in the FOWLR.

Naso tang.

[weileong]

purple tang

[DeepBlue]

Aren't bare bottom the best solution for FOWLR ?

Here's the fishes I have so far in the FOWLR.

Naso tang.

one day it will look better than this...but minimum 6ft tank......

yours is still a juv.....mine is a teenager liaoz...check out the orange yellow spine

[weileong]

some softies from my 4ft. The butterfly are free to peck on them Once they clear away the mushroom I can put the LR back into my 4ft

[flubberina13]

aiyoh...expensive deit...mushies...

[bwilly]

eh.. why u need MH for fowlr setup??

arn't its a waste of energy?

bare bottom pure berlin system.. hehe..

[weileong]

these mushies comes with the LR one No good for my SPS tank, need to get rid of them. I let the butterfly do their job. Isn't this a good way to make sure they will survive in my tank heheh

Bro Deepblue my Naso is only 2.5" from head to toe, very small, no choice with small tank but my FOWLR will be a much bigger one when I relocate.

Here's a small pc of green bubble tip anemone I picked up from Iwana today. Cheap cheap, liveaquaria says to tempt the butterfly with a small pc of anemone so I gave it a try. A little bleached and I wonder if I can nurse it back to health if the butterfly don't turn it into supper.

[weileong]

black back butterfly.

Now I need to snap that golden angel and powder blue Very elusive, almost impossible to photograph.