kikobananas 2ft tank

[pokmingsheng]

hey guys..

thought of sharing with everyone how far i've come since i started this hobby on 1st April this year...

hope to get your comments and feedback,

positive and negative ones...

this 2ft tank is in my room...

currently with limited fishes..

shall stock up with corals before i begin adding fishes again...

here are pictures of the livestocks in my tank...

[pokmingsheng]

can u spot my purple firefish smiling for the camera???

wait.. he's not smiling at all...

[pokmingsheng]

now for some corals...

[pokmingsheng]

my favourite zoas....

[pokmingsheng]

Tank: 2-feet tank (2ft x 1.2ft x 1.5ft)

External Canister: Atman Pressurized Canister Filter CF-1200 (1550L/hr)

Protein Skimmer: Macro Aqua protein skimmer (Needlewheel AS-100P 400l, 1200l/hr)

Chiller: Resun CL650

Wavemaker: Hydor Koralia 1 (1500l/hr)

Lightings: Aqua Zonic T5 Lights 24Wx4 (2 actinic blue, 2 white)

[pokmingsheng]

FTS!

if you noticed, my sand bed is rather dirty and the corner with all the mushrooms is very messy due to the fact that these mushroom comes with wierd-looking shaped liverocks...

is my rock scape ok?

can it be improved further to accomodate more corals??

i've got so many corals that i would love to add,

but very limited space.. haha..

[pokmingsheng]

forgot to add picture of my sun coral...

[TayHongSiang]

nice yumas you got there.

yr blastos need some feeding. try feeding them with some fish or prawn meat.

yr table looks like its bending....can tahan further?

[jackywongto]

nice yumas you got there.

yr blastos need some feeding. try feeding them with some fish or prawn meat.

yr table looks like its bending....can tahan further?

Yah... slanting towards the right.... maybe you wanna reinforce the mid with an extra "leg"

[pokmingsheng]

nice yumas you got there.

yr blastos need some feeding. try feeding them with some fish or prawn meat.

yr table looks like its bending....can tahan further?

ok i'll take note the feeding of blastos..

how many times per week? and how many times is too much?

i feed my sun everyday, so maybe i'll share some with my blastos...

about my table,

yea... been thinking about it for quite some time already...

i've got plans to shift the whole tank out...

but it requires time and i need to get a new cabinet for it...

hmmm...

i guess i'll be doing it sooner or later...

[pokmingsheng]

Yah... slanting towards the right.... maybe you wanna reinforce the mid with an extra "leg"

cant.. haha..

design of the table doesnt allow it to do so...

considering shifting it out into the living room...

[pokmingsheng]

my bubble is not opening up as big as before...

do i have to feed regularly???

[Guest]

Maybe you can check your water paremeter, and you might have to do routinue cleaning of your Canister Filter ,if not all the dirt inside will create a Diatom bomb to your system especially your filter foss inside..

[pokmingsheng]

Maybe you can check your water paremeter, and you might have to do routinue cleaning of your Canister Filter ,if not all the dirt inside will create a Diatom bomb to your system especially your filter foss inside..

ok noted!

thats the tiring part about having a canister instead of a sump...

haha...

[comycus]

ok noted!

thats the tiring part about having a canister instead of a sump...

haha...

bro can check what you putting inside your canister? I'm also using canister too. Clean it every week. Agree that cleaning canister quite tiring...

[jyoon]

Hi Bro

I ever used a canister before for my marine tank. What I did was to place a pre-filter canister (connected in series with the eheim canister) that only consist of cotton wool. Thus all the dirt will be prefiltered before going into the Bio portion of my eheim. This way, you will only need to clear your pre-filter frequent and your BIO canister can last a longer period before maintenance.

Will post a pic of my pre-filter canister later.

Hope this help.

[pokmingsheng]

bro can check what you putting inside your canister? I'm also using canister too. Clean it every week. Agree that cleaning canister quite tiring...

there are 3 compartments in my filter...

after the water flows thru the inlet pipe,

it'll first enter the first compartment that only contain wool...

i placed 2 different kinds of wool...

one is the normal white ones, another is the "black" and "rougher" one...

second stage,

those porus carbon rings...

duno the brand name...

third stage,

some orange and white filter media..

forgot the name as well =/

there's part ONE and part TWO...

denitrate beads all over the place,

rowa phos.....

i think thats about it....

haha....

it'll be good if someone can help me I/D my media based on my mini-description..

those orange and white ones,

according to the uncle in LFS when i first started out,

he told me its really good =/

[pokmingsheng]

Hi Bro

I ever used a canister before for my marine tank. What I did was to place a pre-filter canister (connected in series with the eheim canister) that only consist of cotton wool. Thus all the dirt will be prefiltered before going into the Bio portion of my eheim. This way, you will only need to clear your pre-filter frequent and your BIO canister can last a longer period before maintenance.

Will post a pic of my pre-filter canister later.

Hope this help.

but i'm using 2 layers of cotton,

no matter how,

the other compartments will still get dirty...

maybe thats because i dont clean it consistantly...

[comycus]

I use 2 layers of eheim mech pro + 1 coarse filter + 1 floss filter... i think its fine lei... considering to get rid of the floss filter and replace with eheim substrat pro... every week change the smelly floss filter v. sian... haha

after that I have biohome and carbon in the last 2 layers... dunno how effective it is.. but so far so good...

[pokmingsheng]

I use 2 layers of eheim mech pro + 1 coarse filter + 1 floss filter... i think its fine lei... considering to get rid of the floss filter and replace with eheim substrat pro... every week change the smelly floss filter v. sian... haha

after that I have biohome and carbon in the last 2 layers... dunno how effective it is.. but so far so good...

yea... damn smelly...

i just realised what media i've been using after reading onizuka's topic..

i'm using biohome..

half red, half grey...

[reef999]

Nice collection u got there!!

Your zoa looks nice!

Seem like your 2ft tank can accomodate more corals then mine.

I should think of getting more space to stock up more corals.

[comycus]

yea... damn smelly...

i just realised what media i've been using after reading onizuka's topic..

i'm using biohome..

half red, half grey...

lol I was thinking what bio media is orange n white one... haha yeah uncle recommend you good stuff

[pokmingsheng]

can anyone ID this wierd looking thing on my LR??

its orange in colour..

it opens and closes frequently...

dont look like any coral to me....

i've attached a picture...

[ReDDeviLs]

those r sea squirts

u better settle ur table asap,

its really dangerous.

add more lr and u got space for corals.

[pokmingsheng]

those r sea squirts

u better settle ur table asap,

its really dangerous.

add more lr and u got space for corals.

ok... do i need to remove them???

hmm.. i know...

i'll be doing it next week...

i'll be really busy this week...

thanks for the advice...