My little ocean

[zipp86]

hi i just set up this reef tank, mainly LPS, do give me your comments. Tank is about 1 month old:)

[STORM TROPPER]

Hello there,

Not bad, Well done!

juz abt a month n corals bloom n is the yellow tang doing well ?

remember to always check on water n do ur maintainance regularly.

GOODLUCK HAPPY REEFING !

[godzillaliu88]

so fierce. 1 month only.

full already

[jervismun]

Although it is only 1 month old... can really see that you know your corals placement well... keep it up! Now the challenge is to maintain them for the many months to come

[zipp86]

haha beginners luck i guess, worry slightly about dead spots behind my rocks though, do you think i should install a small seio behind the rocks to help with the circulation? currently blowing my tank with the wavemaker weekly to ensure no dead spots...

[kevink]

i c lots of big big powerhead keke cool tank though i remember mine was empty when its a months old for first tank cause everythin wasnt right.

[KennethK]

The way the pump facing. I believe the sand will hve lots of movement.

[cjh]

agree with them all nicely done... try to slow down on the stocking... and your tank is quite small careful of the bioload....

you might wanna have a small powerhead to point to the back of the scaping... you dun want it to be a nitrate sump at the back of the rock right?

and becareful of the torch coral.. the tentacles might get suck into the seio...

[sunrisesunset]

Very nice scaping and placement of corals. I think the 2 seios are enuff try playing around with the placement of the seios

Have fun happy reefing :)

[zipp86]

haha reefing rocks, i am gonna get a smaller seio to churn the water in between the rocks, anyway, tank looking good, stopped the stocking temporarily due to $$$ and also want tank to stabilise, my calcium lvl getting too high though, 580 like that, think the purple up is working too well, so decreasing dosing.. otherwise its fine. wa.. wish i have a bigger tank... haha

[zipp86]

update.. just added a cyanarina and some new zoos.. plus a squamosa too:)

[zipp86]

oh ya i SPS also.. see if i can hold the colour here is my cyanarina, just got from rogertt

[jc85]

Wow. 1st month trying SPS already? Care to share ur equipment setup and parameters?

Imo, the seio look abit too big for ur tank. Ever consider trying the Hydor Koralia 1/2 which has much smaller footprint?

Cheers

JC

[zipp86]

haha wish i can use smaller pump too but $$ is a factor.. plus, i dont want to compromise on the water movement, want to make sure as little dead spots as possible thats why.

Maintaining most of the perimeters using sea-labs no. 28, a block with clacium and other trace elements inside, 1 block every 5 days and purple up. so far so good.

my tank specs are 3ft tank, 2 ft sump, phosphate reactor, reef octopus skimmer NW110, 250W MH, 2 HO atnic blue, thats about it:)

[Aldaris]

becareful really.

show me that all is still there after 2 months and i hail you god-like

[zipp86]

haha i'll do my best, anyway stocking is going at a slow rate now due to space constraint.. i intent to do a major rescape at the end of the year, think i got too much rocks.. intend to set up a rock refugium, still contemplating how to do so... hope all will go well for this tank of mine:)

[zipp86]

hello, some updates, this is wad my tank looks like now

[zipp86]

this is my skimmer

Reef Octopus DNW 200

[zipp86]

my lights, 2X250W 12000k and 20000K

[zipp86]

my sump. with a Refugium in the middle Chaeto filled:)

[zipp86]

SPS in my tank mostly brown because i bought them brown, some already beginning to colour up already, still got nitrate problem though.. using AZ NO3 now to control it temporarily till i get a more permanent solution. Pls comment.

[Alvin Tan]

nice tank....but the seio wave makers spoil the scenery...

can try to camouflage it within the rock scape?..

[zipp86]

hmmm i dunno how to.. i can try though..

[borinz]

this is my skimmer

Reef Octopus DNW 200

nice skimmer

[jervismun]

Wow! You got a lot of firepower (500W MH) for a medium sized tank