weileong's 4ft tank

[Dolphin_Boy]

Nice tank you have over there.

Can share with us where & how much you paid for the wooden stand?

[weileong]

If you use inferior equipments and end up produce lousy pictures you waste your time.

Now you use premium equipment and produce good images. You don't waste your time but stays productive.

The time spend is the same and in fact IMO with premium equipment you spend lesser time, lesser frustration, lesser effort to keep tweaking the equipment. End up still better image and lesser white hair

Got burn by some lower end equipment before so I know

[weileong]

I bought my tank,stand, chiller, MH light 2nd hand from one of the reefer here. I think he said he paid $300 for the wooden stand which is made of chenai wood.

I think he bought it from reb**n

[bwilly]

start with b... n four letters in his nick..?

hehe..

my volunteer for help is only to look look c c n lim kopi..

I sprain my wrist.. still not recover fully yet.. some more reservist coming this Jan.. lucky one week, ask wife to take care of my fishy liao..

[weileong]

like this very good, reservist go see MO then no need to cheong-sua or or-kan

[je7170]

Hey, yr tank and stand looks kind of firmilar. If I not wrong, u got it fr Be** right. Nice tank.

[bruce-e-dragon]

hi , may i know how you get those worms and crabs or pest from your LR?

[weileong]

As of 25th Dec 2003

Cycling in progress.

Ammonia = 0.5ppm

Nitrite = 0.3ppm

I think these existing ones I've is not so accurate but think okie to use for the time being. Don't need to know exact reading but just need to see when they are reducing. Will have to get some salifert testkits.

[weileong]

hi , may i know how you get those worms and crabs or pest from your LR?

Prepare a saltwater with salinity of 1.030 to 1.040.

Dip the LR in the saltwater for 1 min.

The worms and crabs will either drop into the container or be crawling out. Then you can just pick them out one by one.

[weileong]

are you happy with your old tank? lol.

I think the return pump not enough power. Need to get a resun soon.

[weileong]

Same for this tank, throw in prawn and no smell after 2 days so I throw in big lump and next morning immediately got smell. Got smell means confirm got ammonia so I removed some of the prawn and left some inside.

After I removed, then the smell is gone the next day. Now I test ammonia and got reading already means cycling in progress, I think the livesand and LR helps a lot.

[CalciumReef]

Actually can just leave the prawn in and it will "dissolve"

[weileong]

Water was getting smelly so I'm afraid later the whole house stinks. I've left a few pcs in the tank and the first few pc that I added already dissolved. The later ones still there.

[weileong]

EV-240 in action (test run).

Before that test run for 2 days and no foam produced.

Thought pump not strong. Using Ocean free 9000 (4500 l/h flow rate) which is actually the SEN 900 recommended by aquaC.

This evening troubleshoot and found the water inject choked by 2 pcs of silicon, ~!@#$%^&*().

After removing them, here's the foam I got. Phew what a great difference.

The water returning back to the sump is ultra noise like water fall, have to find some ways to solve it.

[AlfaRomeo]

Have you attached a hose to the return so that the water flows into the sump instead of dropping like a waterfall?

[weileong]

will have to find the proper fitting. The gate valve is 1 1/2" (40mm) if I am not wrong, dunno can find or not.

[happystar]

Just wonder, do you on light, chiller and PS during cycle period? or start these equipment once start add livestock??

Seem like your DSB occupy a lot space in your main tank... dun you think too thick already?

[weileong]

The only equipment on during the cycling stage is the return pump and internal circulation pump (replacing with tunze later).

The DSB is 6", is that too thick?

If go thinner then I cannot reach the bottom already, guess this is best of both world for me.

I arrange my rock work in such a way that it is pretty hollow and not all packed with LR inside the landscaping to maximise the DSB surface area.

[ah^siao]

nice setup u got there.. hmmmm..

keep us updated k? more pics.. hahhaa

[Bob]

Your skimmer looks great!

Care to share how long is the height of your skimmer,

[weileong]

skimmer is 26" high. No problem with removing the collection cup. No need to tilt the skimmer.

[weileong]

Ammonia = 0, that was fast, I don't believe it?????

I noticed that at the overflow the foam formed there is much lesser compared to few days back.

[weileong]

NO2 = 0.025 according to the salifert NO2 high sensitivity test.

Also dropping from the color of the tetra test kit compared to yesterday.

[weileong]

Tunze added.

Still very messy wiring.

[weileong]

choppy water