Roidan's Reef (I)

[terryansimon]

no problem. I wanted to get a 240 actually.

[roidan]

yeah..quite large the ev240..hehe

anyway, i dosed some seachem clarity and POOOFFF....all the foam came out..lol

[terryansimon]

yah if not for my cabinet height I would have gotten it. could have gotten it for the same price of a brand new EV 180 from EAqua. muahaha. *before discount lah*

shan't say how or share. I'm selfish yes, but it'll involve a lot of trouble on my part.

[roidan]

actually my new cabinet was designed for ev400..afterall..the jump in price from ev240 to ev400 isnt a great deal..but edmund can only bring it in 3 to 4 weeks time whereas he has an ev240 on hand...so make do lor..hehe

ev 240 is about 20plus inches...ev400 about 30plus inches....lots of cabinet height clearance required....

anyway, i think the seachem clarity is pushing the skimmer to work already....just a few minutes since the last post..u take a look...my gatevalve fully open liao....jialat. .any minute will pour out into the cup liao

[terryansimon]

who ask you.

hahahahahahahahah.

yah lor but my cabinet was made for the EV-180.

in fact, even mu sump is designed for it. haha.

dunno. I doubt I'll regret not getting a 240. the 180 works wonderfully, the only problem is that sometimes if I add in too much water it may overflow. bleah.

[roidan]

i really had doubts after buying it....seems an awfully simple design to pay so much for..but after seeing it foam...wow..i am a convert already....

weipro was good for me....now ...i stand by my aquaC...hehe

[terryansimon]

you might want to invest in the waste canister. thinking of getting one or DIYing one with a coke bottle.

[roidan]

you might want to invest in the waste canister. thinking of getting one or DIYing one with a coke bottle.

yeah lor..pipe a pipe from the collection cup into the coke bottle hor....

[terryansimon]

yeah so that you have a safety allowance and it wouldn't overflow back into your sump like it did for me after adding nutrafin anti-chlorine

[roidan]

just dump all the spare rocks in the tank...will transfer some rocks from 4ft over...

now look like an african cichlid tank..lol

[bwilly]

where's the cichlid?

how long u going to let it cycle?

wah the bubbles is so much..!

like detergent..!

[roidan]

dunno how long...must see water parameters mah..shouldnt be too long lah..all cured rocks...

yeah...the skimmer really like a washing machine..

[Terryz_]

Cool...

[ah^siao]

woh.. nice sia..

[terryansimon]

how is the skimmer now?

[roidan]

skimmer still foaming.but nothing collect yet...lol

now the level drop abit...i fully open the gate valve..maybe end of this week then start to close it little by little and set the final level

[roidan]

removed some rocks from 4ft and brought over to 6ft...

meanwhile testing the ups on eheim 1262...let it run on the battery...already 2 hours....battery level on the UPS is 2/5 bar....

i estimate it should stop before the 3 hour mark....

[terryansimon]

it'll take a while before you can fully skim anything. don't worry. you'll actually see the brown colour dirt collect in your water tower first. quite sickening. but after that, when you clean it out, then you put it on again, it will work like a charm.

[roidan]

thanks terry..

aquascaping will be a challenge..hehe

[Terryz_]

think... you gonna break your backbone... hehe...

[roidan]

first scape...torn down..somehow my 2 mountains dun look nice

[roidan]

should be this format lah...will fine tune from in a few days time

[roidan]

left side

[roidan]

right side...still got about 6 big rocks from 4ft to bring over...

[roidan]

rescaping and after 5 bags of contraphos and 6bags of chemipure