simple 3ft tank

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hihi,

here's some updates on my new 3ft tank after i tried my 2ft simple tank.

intro of my 3ft tank:

tank dimensions: 3x2x2 ft

sump tank dimension: 2.5x1.5x1.5 ft

water top up tank dimension: 60x20x60 cm

protein skimmer: Macro AS150 (upgrade soon)

lighting: 250w de 10000k supplements by 2 x 30w blue FL lights (planning to upgrade to T5 light set used as supplement only)

biological filtration: About 40kg of live rocks

using about 5 inches of grade 0 sand over it

circulation: Using Eheim 1262 as return pump. In addition, using a rio seio 820

and tunze 6060 to provide additional circulation. (will be adding another seio)

equippment:

CM fluidised reactor

CM kalkwasser reactor

CM tubby system

misc info:

sg = 1.025

temp = 26.5-28

dkh = 10

calcium = 450

P04 = 0

N03 = 5

* no chiller yet. i am using 2x fan to cool the water temp.

dedication: big thank to mellow, a good friend and adviser

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LS:

yellow tang

purple tang

bi-colour blenny

black blenny

damsels (from my ex 2ft tank)

bi-colour dottyback (from my ex 2ft tank)

tomato clown (from my ex 2ft tank)

clarke clown (from my ex 2ft tank)

long nose hawkfish

garden eel

fire shrimps

boxer shrimp (from my ex 2ft tank)

black cucumber

seahare

corals:

green bubble

torch

hammers

brains

star polyps

yellow polyps

glove polyps

pink tip elegance

lobos

octos

frogspawn

favia

alveopora

clam

candys

fox

cynarinas

prata

xenia

x'mas tress

yumas

mushies

bottons

leathers

*still collecting differ types of lps

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full view of my tank

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tank cycled for 1.5 month. (nov-dec 2004)

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my sump during cycle stage...

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my humble equippments...

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cycle completed after 1.5 month. tranfered everything from my 2ft tank to my new 3ft tank. 19 dec 2004

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picture took in jan 2005. some addition...

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my addition in jan 2005...

my favour...

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the bubble already grow much bigger now...

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this guy is much bigger than it size then...

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my alveopora... beautiful

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so sorry... don't have a better pix for this. this is my pink tip elegance who ate up my small clown fish...

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i am still waiting for it to grow bigger...

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my orange lobo

till now, it didn't grow much

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my green star

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i did some changes last month, feb, to create more space for my lps... notice that i have a lot of green stuff grow all over on my rock. after installed FR and together with my seahare, most of the green stuff that grow on the rock disappeared. cool!

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new addition in feb 2005. my zooz...

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i like candy cane... if you guys see any nice colour, do let me know.

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another candy collection

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was very dark in red...thought it was dark brown...

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like those yumas

[Cardinal Tetra]

Thats a very nice tank! I like your rockscape! very natural!

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my lpsz