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bro side track a bit. how do you do rescaping when the frags area already glue onto your lr?

do you take them all out and only paste back after scaping?

forgot to tell you just now that its best to blast the rocks with turkey baster or syring before rescaping, and also do it before water change. So after scaping you can do a WC to remove the dirty water.

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whats the damage for the midal blenny? cheers
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Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Bro, i realised i hanged my Razor 12 inch above water, most spa bleach and die.. is that low height one of the reasons?

12" above water is already quite tall, most uses the legs which is probably 6" above water. What % did u use? or start using? Razor are ALOT more powerful then it seems, infact most good fixture that uses lenses are much more powerful then it seems. i only set max A:70% and B:100%. and thats increasing slowly 5% Every week from a much lower starting %.

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Bro, i realised i hanged my Razor 12 inch above water, most spa bleach and die.. is that low height one of the reasons?

Bro, what % you set and your photo period?

Mine 6 inches above with lens diffuser. don't go beyond 50 for WW and 70 for Special and 100 for Blue for now.

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Bro, i realised i hanged my Razor 12 inch above water, most spa bleach and die.. is that low height one of the reasons?

Bro, what % you set and your photo period?

Mine 6 inches above with lens diffuser. don't go beyond 50 for WW and 70 for Special and 100 for Blue for now.

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Good choice of dimensions. Shallow and wide, very workable tank. Easy access, allows generous placements. A black background brings out the good contrast as well.

Yes bro, you're right.. if i got a choice i would've gone 2.5ft width!

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Nice, bro.

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Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thanks!

Nice, bro.

Thanks!

hmm the black makes it look quite dramatic! Nice tank you have there!

The black board makes the tank look smaller but indeed dramatic!

Very nice rimless tank :) i like the aquascape good job :)

Thanks bro! it went through quite a few rescape before i got this.

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Tank's been up for around 7 months now! This post is mainly to record the growth/changes/color of some sps that i gotten from the start and some, few months ago. Some got better, some got worst.

Current Parameters :

No3 : 10ppm (yes 10, used to be at 2 then went up to 5 and now 10. Strange enough i have much better colors now despite higher nitrate levels)

Po4 : 0.03ppm (used to be 0)

ca : 400

kH : 7.6 - 8.2

Mg : 1410

Potassium : 400

Lots of SPS photos showing before and after :

My first SPS, tri-color Birdnest. was half dead when i got it. went in when tank was only 2 days old.

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After 7 month growth. and couple times of fragging. growth was really slow at first. it got quick about 3 months ago.

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Next was this pink birdnest.

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Growth was ok, pretty fast all the time. Kept for about 6 months

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Green Bali Slimer. went through a few fragging too. growth is pretty fast. color changed a bit. When i first got it around 3 months ago

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water condition can be gauged with this sps. months ago when i was constantly rescaping the tank, color dropped till the skeleton was totally white, with green polyps. Now its back to full green.

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Tri-color Valida. Small frag i got also many months ago. purple came and go.. when i was rescaping, it was brown with green polyps.

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Base fully encrusted, starting to send shooters out. color is deep purple now.

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Tri-color valida colony. aquacultured colony. Bought totally brown as an experiment if i can bring back the color. This was taken in august. brown with little purple tips.

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Deep water acro. bought with a nice intense green. Growth was much faster then expected.. just a short couple of months.

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Color kind of washed off and gained a little purple to it.

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a nice teal-green millie. color was pretty dull when i just got it.

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Now, one of my fav!

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Everybody's fav is here. Radioactive birdnest. went through many fragging. growth is fast!

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really nice rose red millie when i first got it. color gradually faded to totally brown

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color starting to come back now. but really slow.

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The rest shows some new/latest acquisition

Strawberry shortcake frag

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icy blue tort

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Blue tenuis

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red millie

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Kit kat

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end with a FTS from about 5-6 months ago.

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Now :

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Thanks for viewing and sorry for the pics!

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I like the idea of putting the rocks on broken wavemakers. Looks much better than the eggcrates. I may try it next time ;)

The rest of the tank also very nice :thumbsup: I like your kit kat sps the most too

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I like the idea of putting the rocks on broken wavemakers. Looks much better than the eggcrates. I may try it next time ;)

The rest of the tank also very nice :thumbsup: I like your kit kat sps the most too

Definitely better than eggcrates! and eggcrates may cut the fishes if there's sharp edges not polished after cutting.

Kit kat is really nice! but the color probably wont hold for long.

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Poisonous stuff u got!

Tank Theme: Mixed Reef with clams

3 feet tank with IOS

Eheim 1262

K3 wavemaker x1

Lightings: T5 actinic blue x4 , T5 white x4

Skimmer: BMQQ

Artica 1/5

Dosing: NA

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