Clownfish's Mixed Reef Tank

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be patient, lotsa pics loading

not veri professionally taken, hoe u all dun mind

just a simple setup... hope u all dun find it too untidy or dirty :oops:

Whole tank:

Left half:

Right half:

Specs:

Age: 1 n 3/4 years old

Dimensions: 3 X 1.5 X 1.5ft X 8mm + 2 X 1.5 X 1.5ft X 6mm sump with wrought iron stand

Lighting (main): 1X deltec 150W DE MH + 1 X 20W zoomed 50/50 FL + 1X15W coralife actinic FL + 2 X 15W Philips Tornado (PC)

Lighting (sump): 2X T5 HO Osram 860 DIYed with Quicktronic 2X24W eballast

Chiller: Resun CL-650

Fan: 1 X Profantec Fan

Return pump: Sicce Extrema

Skimmer: weipro 2012 + atman 105 (a bit underskimmin, considering upgrading liao)

Wave making:

part from return pump, dymax 2500 PH + zoomed Powersweep 228

Miscellaneous:

Eco-Aqualiser E55

4 X analogue timers

Rowaphos

Aquaz activated carbon

Routines:

water changes 20% every 2 ~3 weeks with coralife salt

dose aquamedic iodine, strontium, trace every week small random amt

dose kent marine coral-vite small random amt weekly

every other day aquaz phytoplankton

every other night aquaz golden pearl 5~50 microns

aquamedic plancto dose once in a while

drip 1.2L kalkwasser (calcium hydoxide) every night

viewing my fish tank average 1 hr/day

food:

fed once everyday

self pre mixed with garlic + frozen MBF spinach + mysis + brine shrimp + krill + marine quintet + cyclop-eeze + some pellet fish food

lights on:

MH = 11.00am ~ 9.00pm

FLs = 10.45am ~ 9.30pm

PCs = 12.00pm ~ 8.00pm

T5(sump) = 8.00pm ~ 12.00pm

nitrate = 5~ 10ppm using red sea test kit

calcium = 440 using sera test kit

livestocks:

coming up later

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ok let's start with my sps....

my favorite staghorn:

got it from seahorse at ard 2 inches nia... now... after many months, multiple branching tink got to frag it soon

notice there r alot of red/brown mushrooms on the liverock on its right... i wonder if i hav to take them out... it was originally 1 small mushie frag, now become 4 big mushies...

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other acros colony:

this one my first colony from LCK, with me many months oso (tink near to a year), veri stable, except its color remains quite tan n dark, cld be due to my dissolved nutrients too high...

there's a pink zorro crab hitchhiker too... too bad it was hiding at shot time... look for its pincer on the right

brown acro colony from a fellow reefer...

notice it has started to color up..... (it was totally brown) but not realli stable IMO, always a bit STN at the tip then color up liddat... still observing it closly though it's 3~4 mths in my tank liao

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pocci frag from joe, base color is pink but it does not turn fully pink, tink hav to attribute to my dissolved nutrients again...

my tri-color frag, growing realli slowly.....

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my clams:

crocea:

small maxima:

the teardorp max i got from eaqua forgot to take, refer to full tank pic

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LPS:

hammerhead:

orginally 1 head, now 6 heads liao.... realli nice IMO

newly added frogspawn frag

nice candycane, nv fail me n veri hardy indeed, sold 2 frags already, yet it's still growing:

green bubble:

dun noe that time wat happened, it started to die.... now left half...

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let's move on to mushies shall we?

orange yuma from Iwarna

deep orange yumas:

other yumas:

maro shots:

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other mushies:

my nice red mushies, one of those from iwarna 3 for $10 that time....

macro:

hairy:

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my ricordia floridae:

some macros:

neon green

blue

tricolor

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softies:

leather (this one flourcese in actinic)

star polyps

grew from the size of a baby fist to more than 3 hand size

small moon that came with the liverock, now grew quite big liao:

my coco worm, its crown came out 2 mths ago, now growing back steadily :

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my zoos:

nice red polyps that i got from CF:

another zoo from CF that has color so fake:

skyblue green polyps:

yellow polyps that spread like nobody's business

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my fishes:

yellow tang

yellow tang + elibi dwarf angel

the mysterious bicolor dottyback

my most hated damsel

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my 6 legged fromia starfish:

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Equipments:

main tank:

notice a black board that i DIYed for better viewing pleasure....

sump:

DIY T5 with remote ballast:

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another tank review:

top right

bottom right

centre bottom

centre top

bottom left

top left

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other invertebrates not featured includes:

cleaner shrimp

hermit crab

trochus snail

super nassarius snails (dunno issit they matured n grown from those nassarius snails i got from a fellow reefer last time)

the snail with spiky shells from ML

choc chip starfish in the sump

white stripe maroon clown in the sump

rock boring sea urchin in the sump

2 X leathers on the top right corner of tank (not featured as coincedently they r in their sleeping state at shot time)

well, all pics finally uploaded, phew! any comments r welcome, though i noe it's nothin realli great compared to u brothers out there

[giantbicycle]

very nice.. is the morrish still there ?

fast growth of the green star ployps..that time i came, it was half its size only..nice

[giantbicycle]

the damsel still in there

[Clownfish]

very nice.. is the morrish still there ?

sigh...

it kanna my ph that time, mati liao....

that's y i got a yellow tang to replace it....

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the damsel still in there

haha.. yar loh... fatest n largest of all my fishes.... can u believe it! it's even bigger than my yellow tang! so sian... but wat to do.... cannnot catch it leh.... unless i spur it in the nite

[bubble_gum]

really nice tank IMO.... got the matured reef look.... ur starpolps really spreading well

if only that zoomed powersweep was invisable

nice

[giantbicycle]

haha.. yar loh... fatest n largest of all my fishes.... can u believe it! it's even bigger than my yellow tang! so sian... but wat to do.... cannnot catch it leh.... unless i spur it in the nite

haha..wow..thats huge..hahah

[Clownfish]

really nice tank IMO.... got the matured reef look.... ur starpolps really spreading well

if only that zoomed powersweep was invisable

nice

thanx!

i hav no choice but to place the powersweep in that location as it gives me the best random waves in my setup... i hav a ph blowing above the sandbed from the left bottom corner... ( for pple having problems with cyano on their sandbed, this is a veri gd way to prevent nutrients accumulation) then my return also coming from left to right... so no choice, got to hav the powerweep to sweep from right to left to get wave crashes