My very first tank...

[zurc]

hi,

just wanted to share my setup...

tank: 60cm x 22cm x 33cm (unfortunately, this is what my available space allows me to have)

filter: eheim 2211 with eheim substrate pro, rena filstar 1 (not yet in the picture)

air pump: rena 100 (i love this... it's soooo quiet...)

light: 30W fluorescent blue light (i'm starting to think this one's not good enough...)

sand: coral sand on top (around 4kg) and a crushed coral at the bottom (around 2.5kg)

residents:

4lbs of live rock with two leather corals

1 clownfish (i find this guy easy to feed... chomps on any food i drop off the water)

1 coral beauty angel ( a little picky on the food... but appetite still ok)

1 yellow-tail wrasse (i'm a bit concerned about this guy... i forgot everything i read when we went out to buy fish...)

future additions to this tank would be more includes live corals by this week... so that my damsels in quarantine will have a place of their own when they get transferred over...

feel free to suggest that will beautify our tiny ocean...

thanks,

zurc

[Darryl85]

hi bro...... since u wan to share ur tank's pic or wat....... y not post it in the Members Tank & Specs section........

much better also......

[Elune]

yep, start one, reefers to zoom in on ur thread.

oh ya, add ur fishes slowly ya? erm, damsels? I hate them, they'll bully ur other fishes if they got their own territories.

U should have white lights as well if u wan corals. Blue lites only not really sufficient.

All the best to ur mini ocean vernture. keep the post coming~

[leochngyh]

No cycle period???

[d88p]

no skimmer?

[Elune]

zurc : can u tell us how long did you spent cycling the water?

[zurc]

zurc : can u tell us how long did you spent cycling the water?

cycling the water... well, i got a bit excited... I wrongly setup my tank on monday, changed the water by tuesday... added the bacteria mix on wednesday... added my rocks on thursday then had my first 3 residents by saturday... added a 300 l/hr internal filter by sunday... but all the time, i was already using my external filter and was pumping air to the tank... and by this coming thursday, i'm planning to add more rocks... but the fate of the 2 damsels in my quarantine tank are yet to be determined... i'm still having second thoughts of putting them in my main tank...

so far so good, ph, no3 (barely noticable pink test reult) and specific gravity are within range. i'm closely monitoring all these on a daily basis... so far, i haven't done a water change, only top-up... but i'm planning to do a 10-20% water change by this weekend...

[zurc]

no skimmer?

i'm still looking for the smallest skimmer that i can get... so far i'm considering 'fission nano skimmer', but if there's a smaller one, i night go for it... all the ones that i see locally are quite too big for my tank... any suggestions?

[zurc]

hi bro...... since u wan to share ur tank's pic or wat....... y not post it in the Members Tank & Specs section........

much better also......

for pointing me to the right direction...

[Qxnviolet]

Erm, i have a feelng your ANN cycle might not have even started yet. Will you be planning to add more LRs? Its better t add them all at one go when you 1st start the tank, adding any extra later will trigger another cycle in your tank again.