Colin's refurbished Partition Tank

[colinsoon]

Bro colin, its diatom

It will take awhile for the rowaphos or any phos media u using to take effect

will sally lightfoots work? i am thinking of getting a few...

[TntR2]

could it be due to the breaking in stage? read somewhere and was told that these brown stuff would grow in ya tank for the first few weeks or so.. then they should go off le..

good idea to start running ya FR..

Anyway.. my bubbles still look sickly after 2 days keeping my fingers crossed and moved it to a spot where it will not get too much flow.. shall not move it again till things get better..

and also.. i'm TntR2 not TnTR2!

[Maxstar81]

Sally not very friendly loh.

Mine tried to catch fish. Saw it a few times.

And they are constantly picking @ your rocks

until coraline also gone.

[thomas_lim]

Yes, Sally lightfoot will eat them and your coralline algae as well.

Once they run out of food, your fishes will be next....

I have this experience myself. Unless you can catch them after they finish the "job" which is quite tought as they are very speedy...

Give me a call when you are around town. Skimmer still in my car.

Cheers!!!

[jervismun]

could it be due to the breaking in stage? read somewhere and was told that these brown stuff would grow in ya tank for the first few weeks or so.. then they should go off le..

Yeah I read from somewhere too and I am facing this problem (not full bloom) now and then... almost new tanks will experience that I think (or at least what I told myself to feel better)... probably some algae blenny will do the job fine

[colinsoon]

hmmm. algae blennies wil work? cos i have in my mind that they eat grassy grassy like algae only... no idea if they will really eat this... cant remember wat else consumes diatoms... forgot..

[jervismun]

hmmm. algae blennies wil work? cos i have in my mind that they eat grassy grassy like algae only... no idea if they will really eat this... cant remember wat else consumes diatoms... forgot..

Hehe grassy grassy type will come pretty soon Oh you can throw in 2 Sand Sifting Stars... they are very hardworking and help stir the sandbed... love em.

[Flame-Tail]

Hi Bro. Lovely Thread. Don't worry too much bout the diatoms. Almost all new tanks go through this phase.

Keep the updates coming.

[thomas_lim]

I have some success with Rainford's Goby on diatom.

For sand shifting, if you don't like starfish coz something they just happily "disintegrate" by themselves. Can try the twinspot goby. Very active and good if your sand bed izit too deep. Good thing is they will help to clear the food at the bottom. Probably want to add 1 or 2 Brittle star to further help clean up the food from sand bed.

[colinsoon]

this is how i plucked in the FR.. hope nothing leaks or anything...

[colinsoon]

new addition from bro rumor... love them... :wub: :wub:

[colinsoon]

decided to do something to my lights: got an aluminium rectangular tube to mount my lights on. couldnt find the right side. gotta make do with this first.

[colinsoon]

end effect: the ballast could not go anywhere. so up there it stays...

[colinsoon]

think it looks bearable la.

[colinsoon]

on the tank:

next up, a hood.

[Soul]

very nice DIY job on those lights!

[c0ol]

bro u may want to fasten the inlet and outlet of ur FR with thoose metals clips just to play safe

great work on the lights,now its time for a hood

[jervismun]

Bro your connection tube to your FR is "disaster-waiting-to-happen"... you wanna apply some silicon around it?... just in case... just to be sure

And your DIY skill on the lights can go commercial already lor... next time we partner ok? I open fish shop... you can introduce in-house product... emm... kinda sound familiar isn't it?

[c0ol]

Bro your connection tube to your FR is "disaster-waiting-to-happen"... you wanna apply some silicon around it?... just in case... just to be sure

And your DIY skill on the lights can go commercial already lor... next time we partner ok? I open fish shop... you can introduce in-house product... emm... kinda sound familiar isn't it?

haha,bro jervismun count me in,i will be the cashier

Btw,i think metal clips will be a better choice than silicon so as it will be easy to change the pipes or etc...just my 2 cents

[TntR2]

think it looks bearable la.

looks bearable? wah pls! it looks professional!

thinking of adding 2 more tubes to my tank... interested in doing 1 more?

lovely percs u have there too!

[colinsoon]

took out all my LR today to catch the monstrous black velvet out. placed back all my LR, did it in quite a hurry, and the end effect? quite disastrous.

looks like the after effect of an earthquake.. haiz.

[colinsoon]

the other side: looks ok lidat. but then close up: haiz.

[colinsoon]

door view: this arrangement allows me to fit in more corals on the LR, and allows me some space near the top for clams too...

[colinsoon]

living room view:

cant really decide why this scape looks sooo bad. comments?

definitely need to shift my bubbles upwards. the bottom part not opening, cos being blocked by the upper polyps...

[colinsoon]

hammers: facing slightly stronger waves. quite strained still. no idea how to cut down on the waves...