The comet's 5 footer!!!

[lizard44]

hi shoelevy

newbie here ...

nice to know that you are really busy setting up your 5 footer ... and yet still have time to offer help to me (a new tankie).

really appreciated that ...

keep it up man ...

thomas

[lizard44]

just one curious question:

one step back, how did you arrive at the brand of salt to use. does the brand really matters .... for a tank like yours (so big).

thomas

[seanewbie]

Hello everyone newbie here.It seems that everyone seems to buy marine salt. I bought season water at pasir ris. Hope i didnt do a wrong move?

[shoelevy]

season water?

neve heard of it

salt is the wae for most of us

wat brand of salt to use is that wat u're asking lizard44?

well, i used coral life for this set up because i needed alot of salt and coral life offered this and its cheap

but for top ups, i use marine environment salt

tropic marine and coral life are also gd brands to use

[Melvyn Tan]

Did you rescape ? Believe a 6 ft tank can be much easier to scape and can have lotsa configuration.

Managed to find out who is the lass that took you breath away?

[lizard44]

looks like a good idea. start on cheap salt first and improve along ...

thomas

[shoelevy]

Did you rescape ? Believe a 6 ft tank can be much easier to scape and can have lotsa configuration.

Managed to find out who is the lass that took you breath away?

frankly, i dun care bout the rock scape cos my idea is use lots of corals then cover up the rocks and my rocks i dun wan them to lean on the glass so to prevent them from falling...i stack alot of them in a very tight and stable configuration very much like brickwalls

NO...i never manage to find out who is that girl i saw on that fateful dae at reborn.............

[shoelevy]

i need some help here

my kh is very low every time i check at the end of the week

i alwaes boost it up to 9 or 10 and wen i come bak it drops to 7 at the end of the week

could it be that my clams and the rapid growth of coralline is causing this rapid drop??

[Melvyn Tan]

Can use aragonite sand, that'll help you buffer.

[shoelevy]

thanks mel for the suggestion

but i'm more curious if this drop is NORMAL

as in issit dropping too fast?...does the rate at which it drops indicate some kinda problem with my system?

it drops about 3dkh a week

[djviper]

sry to ask but where do you put the argonite sand for best performance?

[shoelevy]

my frogspawn after 2 weeks in my tankie

[shoelevy]

here's a short snippet of my snorkelling trip to koh chang-thailand

me and cousin on boat to snorkelling site 1hr away

[shoelevy]

lots of snorkellers

[shoelevy]

lots of sergeant major damsels

[shoelevy]

look wat i found!

[shoelevy]

basically

to summarise...snorkelling was fantastic...saw lots of zoos, acrapora...urchin...clam...a moon and a blasto

very shiock!

[Melvyn Tan]

Must be fun.....good to know the frogspawn doing well

[seamonkee]

I was just reading ur thread.... and was looking at the weight issue...

Actually, I am quite concern after u added ur hood because ur hood is resting on the tank and u are actually giving ur tank more weight pressure with hood...

That's why some people design full cabinet (bottom also)... with support on the back to the top or either the four corners are joined from the hood to the bottom of the cabinet...

juz my 2 cents worth...

[shoelevy]

thanks

think my hood's 15kg?

quite light i guess

but i'll llook out for my tank

thanks

[seamonkee]

thanks

think my hood's 15kg?

quite light i guess

but i'll llook out for my tank

thanks

I think the concern is more on pressure on the glass itself... but 15kg should be ok lah...

BTW, how deep is ur tank (height?)...

My tank is gonna be 5'x2'x2.5'... wonder how to reach to bottom of tank man!

[shoelevy]

mine's 5x2x2

yrs 2.5 gd luck reachnig bottom ah!....maybe u can train an orangutan to help u

haha

mine 2ft already got prob reaching bottom

[Melvyn Tan]

mine's 5x2x2

yrs 2.5 gd luck reachnig bottom ah!....maybe u can train an orangutan to help u

haha

mine 2ft already got prob reaching bottom

Your arm short mah....maybe YOU can train an orang utan to help you

[shoelevy]

introducing my most recent and proud addition

the orange lobo

[Melvyn Tan]

Wheres the orange lobo???