Wrasse community mix reef 200g

[dachkie]

ok finally mustered up that last ounce of energy to wash 50% of my rocks to clear it of detritus and now in my quarantine tank,

making water to transfer them to my fgt later and start the cooking, now my tank looks like a tusnami just went tru it and broke all the corals onto the seabed

[Guest]

lol i'm fine with off topic, today i took pic of my cabinet frame, cabinet maker say confirm will be ready latest this thursday, so you guys will know what i will be buzy with this long weekend

i really want to start cooking the rocks today but cant find the energy to make water, just reached home after a long long day

What key ingredient did you add to your cooking ?

[ReDDeviLs]

wow, remember to show ur new ideas

[MarcoVan]

What key ingredient did you add to your cooking ?

I supply abalones!

Happy Reefing,

Marc J.

[richreef]

Decided to start a new thread to track down the building of my new tank, that will be delivered this week before Hari Raya,

The birth of this new tank was decided after i consulted a FengShui master to take a look at my place , my current tank was sitting on the worst location in the house and it's call a JUEMING sector, and i should stop it and if i want to have a tank i should shift it to the North of the house to the Sheng Chi sector. too bad reefing is a hobby i cant give up alot i have tried many times and always come back with a vengence since i started in 2003 ( stupid hobby )

After my consultation , i was battling with myself for quite awhile if i should shift my tank to the new location which will be alot of work , those that came to my place before knows why ( my place is a mess )

or to make a new tank but my ideal tank is a full acrylic 4x4x2 which due to budget constraints that would not be possible.

After weeks of asking myself what i want to do and going around sourcing for various kinds of quotes and different ideas i decided that i will get a new tank because i never did like the look of my current tank's side IOS.

After deciding on getting a new tank i had to decide on what is next to come, a 1 sided full partition tank with Chenggai stand ( will take up 1/4 of my living room space ) or a Chenggai cabinet tank ( dont look as nice and more expensive then a partition tank ) . Finally decided on a 2 sided view cabinet tank for space and ease of maintenance.

Finally the last decision i had to make was to engage the creators of the new home for my Livestocks. the sourcing part was painful as i never like being ripped off but the sad part is i dont understand why there are still so many people who wants to make more at the expense of not being able to make at all but anyways , i went ahead to design and built my tank and cabinet seperately. The Full Red Glossy Chenggai cabinet was built at a furniture maker in defu lane who was very accomodating to my requirements , i have to agree i was pretty troublesome as i wanted a very strong and steady stand and yet at a decent price.

Then due to another new tank thread here in SGR, led me to Alantic Glass Industry to ask for their quotes and i have to agree , the price given was really competitive and i was lucky to see a big tank on their table being assembled and i was very impress with the neat and thick silicon work.

So since i cant bear to part with the money for a full Acrylic tank, i went for a 2 sided low iron 5 x 2.5 x 2 with EOS with a 4 x 1.8 x 1.5 multi compartment sump just like my current acrylic sump that i am still using , but since i gonna make a new tank then might as well have everything new.

Also visited them yesterday and my tank is already 80% done sitting on the big table in their shop , so anyone who are interested can pop over to them to take a look before it gets delivered to me this coming Thursday. another amazing thing i found out about this tank maker is that the tank joining is done by non other then the little lady at the shop, i only got it know about it after i asked why i never see any other worker at the shop. no wonder the silicon work is so neat and nice , ladies tend to be more delicate and more attentive to their task and of course she was also very nice and listened to my request for a super strong tank.

There are pics taken but i can only upload them next week as i do not have the cable for my phone to connect to my pc with me at the moment .

hi bro can give the address of Atlantic glass industry pls.?

[dachkie]

What key ingredient did you add to your cooking ?

very simple dish , 2 cups of water, a pinch of salt and a couple of rocks

[dachkie]

wow, remember to show ur new ideas

sshhhhhhh, wait til its done and i got pics to show lah, i hope it works thou , else i be wasting my time and money on a few pieces of plastic

[ReDDeviLs]

i hope it can work!

when u free arnd my area wana go coffee or wat juz let me know lah.

but i think not so soon as u will be dying to go home earlier to do sai gang and rest. LOL

[dachkie]

oh yes , cabinet is officially at home, in 1 hour time the tank will be in but i wont be around to take pictures of the people moving it in since i am still at work , cant wait to go home and fixed up my pipings, some photos will be up tomorow including some acrylic sand lifts that i customise

[dachkie]

sai kang time , applying rowa politus now

[jackywongto]

oh yes , cabinet is officially at home, in 1 hour time the tank will be in but i wont be around to take pictures of the people moving it in since i am still at work , cant wait to go home and fixed up my pipings, some photos will be up tomorow including some acrylic sand lifts that i customise

[dachkie]

my sweat are literally flowing down after applying the rowapolitus , taking a break now . i think i will stop for the day , piping shall be continued tomorow, after my late late dinner later ( too kanchiong to see my tank so haven eat ) i will start to post up some pics

[dachkie]

tank at tankmaker's table

[dachkie]

tank at tankmaker's table

external overflow seen from the inside of the tank, but has been coated with black silicon so it cant be seen now

view from the back of the tank

[dachkie]

my new multi compartment sump with built in refugium, same design as my current acrylic sump but i changed it a little to cater to fasterflow

the chenggai frame of my cabinet which has to support all that weight, its place by the side the time this shot is taken

30 pcs of customise 3 inch acrylic rock lifts, these will be used to lift the rocks off the base of the tank so that i can have flow on top of the entire sand and almost no deadspot at all with my ts24 circulating in my tank

upclose

[dachkie]

will be posting tank pic up later

[jackywongto]

wow looks very nice.

Tank - very neat with black silicon

sump - looks cool - so many compartments

stand - will there be a center beam to support?

acrylic stand - wow nvr thought of using that before. Interesting.

[Reefzzz]

any mega project coming up will be tuned to this thread..

Bro, the acrylic stand looks super cool but will it be able to stand the weight of the rocks? Or are you going to place an egg crate on top of these acrylic stand then the rock on top of the egg crate? I am trying to figure out but you can tell me the answer.. keke

[vt_snowman87]

pretty awesome setup, will be staying tuned to this thread too..

the sump is very well designed, it'll be a good system.. care to PM me roughly the price of your chengai wood frame and cabinet?

[ambystoma82]

u might wan to put an egg crate on top, else its difficult to scape with the rocks off balance..

the acraylic pillar might heigthen the rocks..

but any itch hands shifting the corals might mean u accidenttaly knock down the pillar, in turn tearing the landscape.

May i know why is acrylic selected? since coraline algae going to cover them up, is there some requirement for all 30pcs to be of same height? furthermore customised arcaylic seems more exp...

@@ing ur tank makes me wanna rescape mine too..

[comycus]

Bro the build looks great! Looking forward to your setup pics.

[dachkie]

i wil be glueing the base of the acrylic lifts to the tank bottom so it wont move and basically it be space out evenly at where i want to place the rocks and slowly play with the scaping.

acrylic is chosen because it is almost invisible, and when rocks are on top of it , no light will hit it so coralline should not grow and anyway i will be putting up to 2.75 inches of glass beads as sand so the stands are almost fully covered up , i just dont want the rocks to dig into the sand , i always hate it when u shift the rocks and 1 cloud of dark water starts forming and clouding up the tank

i actually got the idea from this thread

invisible rock lifts

any1 who want to the the lifts can pm me , i can get it done for a decent price since i always ask my usual acrylic maker to custom things for me so he gives me a good rate

[LaW]

very very well planned. hope to see the lift soon.

[dachkie]

very very well planned. hope to see the lift soon.

thanks bro , learnt from all my past mistakes , this is my 5th tank so hopefully its finally the correct tank so many yrs to come before i do another 1

[dachkie]

btw any1 can advise? i am still having problems uploading pics up via the site's uploading tools

now i am using imageshack hosting to load the pics up which is actually more troublesome

i think its me only but this my old nokia n82 cannot load when HM took over the site and now i am using Samsung omnia hd but still cannot load

files are in .jpg

appreciate if any1 can help