My Simple Tank...

[soup]

Hmm not sure how to start my thread and not sure if I can update it often even... as a student.. i do really have the luxury and time and definitely money to go LFS for sprees often.. so pardon me ya?

As a start... i think i started this hobby with a smaller 3ft IOS tank near Dec 2005... at that point of time I was still in the army.. and had advices from another reefer here whom happens to be my poly-classmate.. he kinda helped a lot and advised mi to read up.. (but turns out that reading is never enuff).. thanks Anthony haha..

Then I bought over a 3ft tank.. and begins the nitemare... byebye fishes byebye $... meeting new and nice ppl (flamey, Reefz, sky107line, KennethK, fishtalk, Jervis etc) and being aware of some "shady ppl" (i so 'heng' encountered like 3 of them) and gaining some knowledge about marine life... etc etc and my tank went sayonara for eternity nearly once.. when I went into uni.. and was juggling between slping time and academic time... aniwaez...

Ok.. My tank is a 3ft by 2.8ft by 2.8ft... with a 3ft sump and 3 compartments..

Its skimming off insump H&S2001 and mangroves now... chilled by a PacCoo 1/2HP controlled by a tunze temp control. Circulating the tank are 2x Seio820.. running 2x39watt blue T5 HO and a 150w 14K MH...

Parameters of current:

no3: 10ppm<

temp: kept below 27.5dc

kh:8-9

po4: lazy to buy testkit.... haa...

[soup]

Erhmm here is a FTS... messy rockscape.. but i tried my best le.. haha without falling in headfirst into the tank.

[soup]

>.< Lazy to upload le.. tml then post some close-ups.. tributes to some reefers here...

[prata lover]

nice tank there bro.soon it will be fully pack with corals.

[STORM TROPPER]

Not messy bro but not bad at all d rockscape n 4 corals u will b hungry 4 more.

[soup]

Hehehe.. thk u both for the compliments.. its juz a simple setup.. will post a pic of my sump area.

Heres an image of my blasto "garden" or wat i hope it to be... my green with purple skirting cant be placed there as the base rock a bit huge..

(ps: skyline!! recognise any of these? hehe)

[jervismun]

Those SPS on top of the rockscape or light-coloured or white? The Blasto garden is very interesting bro... feed them well

[soup]

Yo thx jervis.. haha i only dose marine snow and once a week cyclopeze

[STORM TROPPER]

Hehehe.. thk u both for the compliments.. its juz a simple setup.. will post a pic of my sump area.

Heres an image of my blasto "garden" or wat i hope it to be... my green with purple skirting cant be placed there as the base rock a bit huge..

(ps: skyline!! recognise any of these? hehe)

Simple it is u might say but to me its worth a mountain top.

GOODLUCK !

[fishtalk1517]

Hi soupy soup ,

nice tank with great scaping I would say... Thsoe blastos are wat bro storm tropper says, " Simple it is u might say but to me its worth a mountain top." Ya, given time when feeding, they will bloom out to be bui bui and soon baby would be found by the side of the rock. Bought a piece of blasto a few months ago, found tat abt 5-7 small heads blooming out.. U can achieved tat too..

And ya, I see sand bed area potential for pratas and many more corals to add ... keep it up bro

[soup]

Thx.. dunno y really like blasto.. is it commonly shipped in during shipment? Are green ones very "rare"? Was told by a reefer here tat pure green ones are "rare"

[soup]

Heres one for u Flamey! Hehe..

lum... here is the injured cynarina... but im not sure if it sitll has a mouth for feeding or not haha...

[Bio528]

in fact i like ur rock scaping

[soup]

Thx a lot bio theres a limit how i can scape it tho.. they are usually big pieces so hopefully can cultivate coraline algae/cabbage and cover up some ugly holes here and there.

[lum_13101]

Heres one for u Flamey! Hehe..

lum... here is the injured cynarina... but im not sure if it sitll has a mouth for feeding or not haha...

so serious injured bro soup, Can try feed it with marine snow, spray direct at the center part.. hope the cynarina can absorb bit by bit..should off all the wave pump abt 20mins when doing this..Gd Luck..

[soup]

ok i will try it later but when i got it, was oreadi like tat.. been 1 mth+ bah i think hopefully it can recover

[STORM TROPPER]

easy does it Bro soup listen to d Pro in cyna's.

[soup]

Haha yea.. i will target feed it marine snow everyday to try out.. until i can see its mouth then feed it prawn

aniwaez.. Flamey.. recognise this?

[flamey]

Heres one for u Flamey! Hehe..

lum... here is the injured cynarina... but im not sure if it sitll has a mouth for feeding or not haha...

it has been like that for at least 5months.. hehe.. hopefully it can recover.. the one next to it had been one of the longest survivor in my tank before u took over. Transferred from my 2ft, to my 3ft then to my 4ft.. hehe

[soup]

Yea its nice.. but i noticed tat it didnt open as huge when i put the other injured one besdie it.. so now i shifted it a little to the other corner juz in case

[flamey]

Haha yea.. i will target feed it marine snow everyday to try out.. until i can see its mouth then feed it prawn

aniwaez.. Flamey.. recognise this?

the elegance! glad its doing well in ur tank..

[flamey]

no fishes? me on the other hand, after more than 5yrs keeping corals with fishes, now wanna try those non reef safe fishes for a change... hehe

[soup]

Got fishes.. but when i take out the camera... i dunno where they hide to. haha im going into smaller fishes leow.. big fishes.. kinda scare mi nowadays after i had a nitemare the other time.. (literally nitemare about fishes and their scales haha)

[soup]

Mini plates.. or well.. they are known as mini plates.. but when they expand and such

[lum_13101]

Bro soup..the mini plate really look nice, where you got it , and the red cynarina colour really RED.. NICE.