new to marine tank?

[FionaFiona]

OMG, you just broken the record for amount spent on buying such small marine tank--- $900??!! There was another thread where a guy bought this nano-tank from Tampines Mall for $850. At least its 10 times better than what you are having now.

Jef's $850 tank from TM

Sis trenyce 's almost bought another $850 tank

Bro Elune's WARNING of TM's LFS

Life rocks are good as biological filter, so do add in more if the tank can support the weight.

Live Rocks (not Life rocks) no doubt are good bio-filters, but adding Live Rocks (LRs) to your tank will start another tiny ANN cycle, and considering this amount of water volume sharpheadloti (french loaf?) 's tank has, such an action will significantly affect the water properties of the entire tank. All LRs SHOULD be in place before kicking-starting the ANN cycle. after the cycle starts, dun add anymore in to disrupt the process. If u are really gonna add more in, exercise caution, becuz as the bacterias / algaes on ur LRs (uncured) dies off, the Ammonia level will spike, everything will go haywire.

i had bought 1 shrimp and an algrea eater to start my cleaner grp. But once the shrimp got into the tank, its freeze!! next moment its death  ?? did i do anything wrong?

Shrimps are considered "invertebrates". Most Invertebrates require very long and slow drip acclimation process of at least 2 hours and above becuz they cannot adjust quickly to even small changes in pH, temperature, and alkalinity, and intolerant of extreme nitrate levels.

Answer this question: Have you tested your water parameters yet? MINIMALLY, Ammonia / Nitrite / Nitrate / Specific Gravity and Temperature of the water in your tank now? Your shrimp most prolly died becuz it couldn't adjust to the water.

Check out this site on CLEANER SHRIMPS

got this tank at 900 inclusive of fishes, LR, everythings. But i had measure the actual lenght of my tank is actually 3ft plus x 40cm x 14cm....only inclusive of the frame its 5ft in lenght..

3ft plus? Let me give an estimate of 100 cm ya? so its 100cm x 40cm x 14 cm tank. There should be around 14-15 US Gallons of water. I feel, 5 small fishes (2") or 3 medium sized fishes (3"). Stay to damsels or Chromis (which is also damsels).

my next tgt is to get a skimmer, will get atlanis for advice..might go to the TM shop to seeseelooklook aso... 

Yes, get a skimmer. Dun let Alantis sway u into another expensive investment. Also, AVOID the TM shop. its another place for Chai Taos; nothing to learn from there anyways. The guys here said the TM shop uncle is more pro in freshwater tanks, NOT marine ones. Note that I bought my skimmer under $40. The better ones are below $200. Anything at a higher range for your tank size is overkill already ( no point ya? U dun need a military tank to kill a mosquito - same concept). Beside, I feel you are gonna have a hard to figuring out how to install your skimmer to your hang-on tank without spoiling the asesthetics of it. Do show us how the result will look by posting another picture after u fixed on your skimmer. share share in this forum ya?

Good luck to you. Welcome to SRC and let the fun begin...

[FionaFiona]

Hi Bro,

Just wanna let you know that I bought the same wall-mount tank as you 2 years back. There are of cuz limitations due to the physical layout so to make the best out of it I am keeping a FOWLR setup with the addition of invertebrates. Do PM me if you need any advice

Oh bro Jeremysiah, looking at ur stats.... u registered this account this afternoon just to reply to this post?

might if u post us a picture of ur tank and let us see how it looks like?

[jErEmYsIa]

hi FionaFiona, i am actually using another account to read postings.. was jus drawn to this posting tat's y i created a new account for myself so that i can join in

btw i'll post a picture of my tank shortly as well as the internal layout of my tank (in-built overflow compartment on the side)

cheers!

[jervismun]

hi FionaFiona, i am actually using another account to read postings.. was jus drawn to this posting tat's y i created a new account for myself so that i can join in

btw i'll post a picture of my tank shortly as well as the internal layout of my tank (in-built overflow compartment on the side)

cheers!

Much appreciated! I am really curious... yeah actually the TM $850 Nano Cube looks much professionally put together, with nice corals mix and such. Shame on those ppl at Atlantis. Perhaps the system just can't support more than 4 fishes and 5kg LR.

[sharpheadloti]

hi reefers,

read all ur comments, think i kana chop by big time liao..but nvm i will learn from the hard way.Now i just bought a powerhead to create extra water current...hope its helps.

still thinking of putting a skimmer but hard to find the right 1.

[sharpheadloti]

hi jervismun,

will try to get pic on the filtertation once i get my camera to work...the batt cant last long nowadays...btw thanks guys for the advice..

[jervismun]

Not to say you kena chop la. It's just that whatever Atlantis offer you may not be truly built for marine fish keeping. Probably it will fare better keeping freshwater... but hey, I'm not suggesting you do that. Been keeping FW all my life, nothing comes close to the ocean, lol. Yes, do show us once your camera is working. Maybe all the experienced bro can help you add in a protein skimmer.

[jErEmYsIa]

Hi,

here are some pictures of my atlantis tank.

[jErEmYsIa]

my tank from the front

[jErEmYsIa]

sorry forgot to resize e photo

[jErEmYsIa]

a view of the inside with the front panel lifted up.

on the right is the filter compartment, on the left is the pump.

water flows thru the bottom compartment from filter to pump compartment

[Qxnviolet]

Hehe...i like the overall look of your tank....looks really cool...

[jErEmYsIa]

close up of the opening to filter compartment

notice the extra piece of plastic covering the opening? its to prevent my anemone from 'commiting suicide'

keeps my slug away as well, but it has since died due to lack if food

[jErEmYsIa]

water is pumped out from the pipe on the left.

my most active and fav inhabitants!

1 pair of golden maroons and i GBTA

1 fire shrimp

1 cleaner shrimp

not forgetting my sally on the right!

[Qxnviolet]

Erm, whats a GBTA? Anyway, no matter what is said about your tank, how impractical it is, paranomic tanks like your always appeal to me in some way. Love the simple and clean look.

Did i see "Change water every 3 months"? And at that, only 10%????

[jErEmYsIa]

presenting my cleaning crew!

sand0shifting sandfish, strombus bula (only active at night) and sand dollar (all from ML)

and also my electric blue hermit (hiding behind the LR) can't be seen thou

[jErEmYsIa]

a picture of my hermit crab taken some time ago

[Elune]

hi there,

although relatively bare a tank, its nice and neat, and most importantly, its a surviving tank. Thats great news.

perhaps u might wanna add in a tiny sea fan and a couple of tube worms to liven things up?

[jErEmYsIa]

GBTA - Green Bulb Tip Anemone

Well, my wife and I were drawn to it due to the look about 2 years(after watching Findinf Nemo ).. paid about 800 bucks for it..

the guy from atlantis told us that only need to top up water and change the filter sponge about once a month.. back then was naive and knew nothing about reefin so just went ahead and bought it cuz we'll looking got a decorative object to be placed on that wall. it was only after a few months of research that i realised that i was cheated!

since then, i made up my mind to make the best out of what i have and restarted my tank iam quite happy with what i have now given the limitted space

[jErEmYsIa]

ya i have tot of getting that as well.. will look out and add them in slowly.. main concern is that don't wan the tank to be overcrowded and my fishes stress out

thanks or the recommendation thou!

[Qxnviolet]

Cool....nice attitude you have there. Anyway, just a word of caution, i seriously do not think your lights are strong enough for anemones....keep a close eye on it and make sure it doesn't shifts and covers up your water outlet/inlet.

[jErEmYsIa]

Cool....nice attitude you have there. Anyway, just a word of caution, i seriously do not think your lights are strong enough for anemones....keep a close eye on it and make sure it doesn't shifts and covers up your water outlet/inlet.

Yup, I agree with you on tat. Have been tryin to look for a suitable light to sustitute mine.

Anyway, my anemone is veri happy with that spot its been there for about 2 months

I had one experience where my previous anemone blocked the water outlet and my tank got flooded. Thank God my wife got home early and discovered it! Since then, I have been careful about it. Talking about ehe 'perils of life'.. haha..

[Qxnviolet]

haha...cool. My wife likes anemones too but due to some bad experiences, i decided to stay off them forever.... Take a close up of the anemone and the clowns hosting in them when you are free yeah....

[jErEmYsIa]

Sure

[nakazoru]

GBTA - Green Bulb Tip Anemone

Well, my wife and I were drawn to it due to the look about 2 years(after watching Findinf Nemo ).. paid about 800 bucks for it..

the guy from atlantis told us that only need to top up water and change the filter sponge about once a month.. back then was naive and knew nothing about reefin so just went ahead and bought it cuz we'll looking got a decorative object to be placed on that wall. it was only after a few months of research that i realised that i was cheated!

since then, i made up my mind to make the best out of what i have and restarted my tank iam quite happy with what i have now given the limitted space

GBTA???

All I see is white? Green BTA is suppose to be dark green. Is it like this when you got it? Do you mean only the tip is green?

Bleached BTA? Anyone can confirm from the pix?

Bro; just concern with the BTA as when BTA dies in your tank. It is going to be a major disaster.