Iceman's first 2ft tank

[icceman]

maybe u wanna try the yellow long nose butterfly ? heard that they are pretty easy to keep

Thanks for the recommendation but think I'll stay away from butterflies. Don't want to take the risk and kill another fish

[icceman]

Added some new stuff for CNY and did some rescapping

Bubble coral and maxima clam

Cleaning scrimp and camel scrimp

Purple firefish

Porcelain crab

Pumping Xenia

###### scrimp

Before rescapping

After rescapping

[pingpong]

Nice!

your pix are very nice!

[WaNeR]

nice selection of corals

u bubble will sting ur octo leh, seem placing them too near le

u got a very clean tank

sand bed very white leh

[godzillaliu88]

camel shrimp not reef safe, bro

[searching4dan]

wat camera u are using??

lol. very nice pics ..

[icceman]

nice selection of corals

u bubble will sting ur octo leh, seem placing them too near le

u got a very clean tank

sand bed very white leh

Thanks for the advice , but that's the only place with low water current that I can place my bubble coral. Haa..think my tank too small liao

I've to thank my "cleaning crew" for doing a good job

Members of the crew :

5 x hermit crabs

1 x piston scrimp

1 x sand star

1 x heart urchin

1 x hector goby

RIP : Twin spot goby (Dead and "cleaned up" by the hermit crabs)

[icceman]

camel shrimp not reef safe, bro

Found that out only when I had released it into the tank (impossible to catch once it's in). I asked the LFS owner if the camel scrimp is reef safe before I bought it...and he said with a laugher "Of course..all scrimps are reef safe"

[icceman]

wat camera u are using??

lol. very nice pics ..

Thanks The pics were taken using Nikon D200 (ISO400, 1/80sec, f5.6).

[flying carpet]

What is that below your branching hammer?

[pingpong]

Thanks The pics were taken using Nikon D200 (ISO400, 1/80sec, f5.6).

Nikon! swee... keke

with marco lens?

[ambystoma82]

a black oyama paper at e back of e tank will make e effect better....

[icceman]

What is that below your branching hammer?

Hammer? U mean the torch coral on the sand bed? It's just a plastic cup for the torch to sit on, so that it won't be knock down by the sand star.

[icceman]

Nikon! swee... keke

with marco lens?

Nope, me no macro lens yet. It's taken with a Nikon 18-70mm lens.

[pingpong]

Nope, me no macro lens yet. It's taken with a Nikon 18-70mm lens.

nice work with the 18-70mm..

[hammerhd]

hey bro. Wat lighting u using?? and can have a pic from the top of the tank?

[icceman]

hey bro. Wat lighting u using?? and can have a pic from the top of the tank?

I'm using 2 x T5 HO (ATI Blue pro & Aquaz Ocean Pro tubes) & 1 x 55w Blue/white PL.

The top of the tank is block by the lights..unless you want pics of the lights

[cdckjn]

A little advise - don't add too much fish/livestock or even corals too fast/too many - it will just overload your system, only will cause fishes dying suddenly/overnight or worse may cause your whole tank to crash. Take it a little slower - go only to the LFS once a month, that way less temptation to buy livestock.

[bluezing]

porcelain crab from AM? hehe

[icceman]

porcelain crab from AM? hehe

Nope..I bought the porcelain crab from Marinelife The crab molted last fri, and I thought it's dead. Mistook the shell (it looks like a whole crab) as the real thing

[icceman]

A little advise - don't add too much fish/livestock or even corals too fast/too many - it will just overload your system, only will cause fishes dying suddenly/overnight or worse may cause your whole tank to crash. Take it a little slower - go only to the LFS once a month, that way less temptation to buy livestock.

Thanks for the advice but visit LFS once a month? Haa...that's really hard leh..don't think I can tahan that long

[hammerhd]

pics of the lights pls

[icceman]

pics of the lights pls

Here's the pic

[hammerhd]

tks!!!!

[icceman]

Can't resist the temptation...went LFS again last week and this week

Bought some new stuff and rescape the tank

Rainfort goby

Rainfort with Hector

Yellow clown goby