Your Best Bought Piece of Equipment

[Melvyn Tan]

Hi All,

For the benefit of all other new reefers or old reefers (not all equipments they have used before i am sure) it would be kinda useful to state the best piece of equipment you have bought so far that is invaluable to you and also its price-performance.

[blueheaven]

My beckett skimmer

It churns out 1 full bottle of gunk per day (imagine that)

Not good to state price

And in par is a FR

I do not have a single spot of diatom from my tank's start up till now

[Melvyn Tan]

Let me start - For me it'll have to be the skimmer i purchased about a month ago, in terms of its price vs performance, it is very good - H&S 150-F2001 of course. Skims lotsa gunk out, keeping my 5 Tangs, 8 Clowns, 2 Gobies happy (fishes only).

2nd (yes although i mentioned the best piece of equipment sorry can't help it) would have to be the Arcadia T5 4 tubes. It is mounted onto the tank top, screwed for security, and the casing can be flapped open to gain access - easy for "murking" around the inside of your tank.

[Melvyn Tan]

My beckett skimmer

It churns out 1 full bottle of gunk per day (imagine that)

Not good to state price

And in par is a FR

I do not have a single spot of diatom from my tank's start up till now

Alamak you fast fingers !!

[Melvyn Tan]

Let me start - For me it'll have to be the skimmer i purchased about a month ago, in terms of its price vs performance, it is very good - H&S 150-F2001 of course. Skims lotsa gunk out, keeping my 5 Tangs, 8 Clowns, 2 Gobies happy (fishes only).

2nd (yes although i mentioned the best piece of equipment sorry can't help it) would have to be the Arcadia T5 4 tubes. It is mounted onto the tank top, screwed for security, and the casing can be flapped open to gain access - easy for "murking" around the inside of your tank.

Sorry both pieces slightly above S$1K good IMO

[Melvyn Tan]

Whoa ! no one actually had good buys except Blueheaven and I?

[typrobin]

my best buy is the rio seio 820...although many pple say that it is weak, i feel that it is just nice for my 3ft tank (all LPS)...

[lvcap]

many leh..

arcadia T5 set as mentioned alr..

Rio M820 also very good buy...

Beckett and Daeil chillers are good buys too..but they cost a bomb lah...

[DeepBlue]

My best buy is the Reef Maniac Ca Reactor thst served me so well while I was keeping SPS....I no longer have to do dosing...and water parameter was always satisfactory...

since I hooked that up...been giving me above 430ppm Ca level and 10-11dkh..with ph at 8.1-8.3 .....

pretty much a plug and play equipment

The other piece I love so much was my H&S skimmer...reliable and energy saving as compared to power horses..

[SharkBait]

Best piece of equipment i bought would have to be my H&S. The other one would be my pin point ph monitor. Both are great pieces of equipments

[moron_clown]

definitely my FISHTANK!!!

[typrobin]

definitely my FISHTANK!!!

tat's the worst thing i ever bought...brought me into this money pit hole..

[terryansimon]

best piece of equipment ever bought? my EV180 skimmer. wah lau. best thing that ever happened to my fish tank man, apart from the 110kg+ worth of live rocks.

[Dispar_Anthias]

My best piece of equipment would be my reef maniac cal reactor ver 1

[nicky30092002]

My Tunze, M820 & 2x250w

[Tigger]

my h & s skimmer and my resun chiller. good value for money

[kschew1498]

kekeke......all my cheap equipments from China......Haliea 1hp Chiller, Macro Needle Wheel, 35w ATMAN UV light........and my 2nd hand ATMAN MH lights from a LFS in Pasir Ris.........kekeke

Save me a lot of money.......

[Nautical]

my 2 x 150W MH with two T5s bring forth the beauty of marine ....

however recent addition of a Seio superflow pump M820 gives more life.

[Melvyn Tan]

Hmm looks like Seio Flow is another good option in comparison to Tunze...will consider.

[Melvyn Tan]

Anymore contribution?

[surfedelic]

My most value-added equipment is my Aquasafe RO-DI unit.

I had it connected directly to my tank control by a solenoid directly to the house water piping via a 2 x float switch. I don't carry water around topping up my tank. Previously I was like doing that for like everyweek which i find it draining to do all this chores.

The waste water goes to my washing machine - so i dont waste any. My wife uses the washing machine more than I topup my tank.

[Melvyn Tan]

My most value-added equipment is my Aquasafe RO-DI unit.

I had it connected directly to my tank control by a solenoid directly to the house water piping via a 2 x float switch. I don't carry water around topping up my tank. Previously I was like doing that for like everyweek which i find it draining to do all this chores.

The waste water goes to my washing machine - so i dont waste any. My wife uses the washing machine more than I topup my tank.

Wow thats good ! but how do you know when to change the media inside the DI unit ? else the untreated water will get into your tank.

[weileong]

Usually you'll need a TDS meter to monitor the RO/DI water. Once the reading goes up then it's time to change the media.

[surfedelic]

Weileong is right ... The equipment comes with a TDS meter - so just measure the output ... it should read 0 otherwise it need to change the cartridge. Anyway I bought 3 years supply and the cost is relatively cheap.

[Jimng]

My most value-added equipment is my Aquasafe RO-DI unit.

I had it connected directly to my tank control by a solenoid directly to the house water piping via a 2 x float switch. I don't carry water around topping up my tank. Previously I was like doing that for like everyweek which i find it draining to do all this chores.

The waste water goes to my washing machine - so i dont waste any. My wife uses the washing machine more than I topup my tank.

Yo Gary, can post a review on your RO and how you connect it up for automation.....sounds good and interesting....