Piero's Cheapo Tank

[pingpong]

Bro, I like your purple rocks!!!

fwah! agree that the purple rock ROCKS!!!!!!

wish mine will be as purple as yours in future!!!!

Happy New Year!!

[yvoneysl]

fwah! agree that the purple rock ROCKS!!!!!!

wish mine will be as purple as yours in future!!!!

Happy New Year!!

PP go buy another big AR for your tank and this time round tell them to paint purple la

[pingpong]

PP go buy another big AR for your tank and this time round tell them to paint purple la

nay! i want YOUR mega LR!

[piero]

Hahaha... been disturbing pple's thread and not updating my own thread.

Anyway just had a minor green algae bloom on my sand bed, the effect of laziness stepping in after I got into my new job.

Did a small WC, changed my phoslock (not fludising as well as sorb4) and also cleared my refugium. There was some food flakes stuck there...

Just did a rearragement of my corals using super glue gel. Good prodcut. I love it sia...

Will upload some pics tonight. My camera cannot make it. Take pic also not nice... haii...

And developed a fetish for tube worms so if U see any around do let me know. Already checked out AM and T95. Maybe somewhere else? Thanks

[pingpong]

Anyway just had a minor green algae bloom on my sand bed, the effect of laziness stepping in after I got into my new job.

how to get rid of the green algae formed at the sandbed?

[piero]

how to get rid of the green algae formed at the sandbed?

I guess same with other algae.

Reduce nutrient input into the tank

Have some macro algae to remove the nutrients or do WC and siphon out the algae where possible.

Use some adsorbent that remove phosphate

Control lighting regime

Use some cleaning crew

Guess thats all I did... Think I fed too much over the holidays. Everyday at home nothing to do just feed and feed. So control feeding is important and I do realise that those $6 bottle of green water (plankton) sold in the LFS can be quite nutrient rich. Have since switched to a concentrate version sold by AM.

[piero]

Two pieces of SPS... Free from the brothers here... Got them as very small pieces..

The green piece came as a "Y". Been showing quite good growth.

The other piece came also as a "Y" growth is very very marginal. Only the 3 humps on the right. Btw, this frag looks pink under blue light so quite like it.

[piero]

And my fav suns... Just realise the piece on the left is sitting on a clam. Those that U see selling at ML. I have circled its mouth. Realised it when I found my sun corals moving one day.

[piero]

Hell a long time since I last had some updates... Too busy with new job, new home...and lots of cleaning for the CNY.

Finally have some time to load some pics.

Will load more over the next few days.

[piero]

Top left...

A luminous green SPS. My wife's fav...

The one on the top right came slightly brown. Turning pale purple at the moment.

[piero]

Yellow center piece.

Bottom left and right are my first two pieces for try out.

Bottom left was brown when it came. Now it looks shit green. Bottom right is colouring at the tips with a dark dark purple tinge... So far so good.

Dun ask me what equipments I have now... Paiseh to say...

[yvoneysl]

any FTS

[pingpong]

And my fav suns... Just realise the piece on the left is sitting on a clam. Those that U see selling at ML. I have circled its mouth. Realised it when I found my sun corals moving one day.

wah..ur SUN open big big ... i likE!!!

yvonneysl: yours open big big liao?

[piero]

any FTS

Later... After lunch will take some FTS... Now lights not on. All the corals still sleeping.

[pingpong]

Later... After lunch will take some FTS... Now lights not on. All the corals still sleeping.

keke dude after many lunches liao.. where is ur FTS?

[piero]

Sorry bro... Changed my lights due to the great ATI discount at AM.... Now having algae bloom... a bit ugly leh.... Also dunno what happen... Now bioload super duper low. Only 5 fishes in my 4x2x2 tank still got algae... A bit sian...

[jamomatt]

Add 1 or 2 Tangs to clear them up

[piero]

Add 1 or 2 Tangs to clear them up

I prefer to balance nutirent levels rather than adding more nutrients to the tank....

Got two tanks and a dozen snails and dwarf hermits. Hope it will clear up in a while.

Guessing that its due to the light spectrum shift.

[fishtalk1517]

Hey bro, u have been quite quiet recently, any updates ? new residents to ur tank ?

[kenYO]

show us yr sps hill

[piero]

Hi bros... Long time no post liao.. Just a small update.

Stopped dripping calcium and added a CA reactor plus changed my beckett into a APF 600. Now keeping predominately LPS. Just some pics below...

Side from the entrance of my main door.

[piero]

View from the middle. My fav...

[piero]

Last pic.... Pardon me for the poor photo taking skills

View from my dining area.

[jervismun]

Partition tanks are always beautiful...

[piero]

Current life stock is

8 chromis

1 YT

1 BT

1 Sailfin Tang

1 Yellow eye Kole tang

1 pair of true percs

1 6-line wrasse

1 Sand Shifting Goby

2 Cleaner Shrimps

2 Sand shifting star

1 red star fish