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    Formula to calculate your Monthly electrical bill ?

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    Good thread, Harlequin Mania!

    Next time you buy an equipment, should not only check the price but also check how much electricity it consumes.

    I recently realized that my Reef Octopus skimmer works equally well with a 16 W feeder pump than bigger 38W pump i used earlier.

    Which means not only was i wasting power but also adding heat to my tank :whistle

    So next time i must do better research before buy equipments

    My 50Gal Low-tech FOWL(without sump)

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    hey bro,

    do u ahve any fiter pumps other than ur skimmer? anyway where do u invest ur stuff at? and do u have any idea where to get affordable custom makers for tanks and also equipments? thanks.

    Hi Shanshine,

    My Filter is just the overflow compartments.... It contains filter wool for pre-filter, 2 kgs of Biohome Plus , some chaetos & Atman 105 to pump water back to the tank.

    No idea about custom tank makers cause my tank is just a simple fresh water tank, which my friend gave it to me.

    FOWLR

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    i have live rocks...do i need supplements for them as well?

    I still consider myself as a nooby, so other correct me if i am wrong!

    I believe that all the supplements are present in the synthetic salt that you buy so as long as you keep up with the water change you don't need to add supplement & spend money on it

    Make sure you cycle the water well before u add life stock, & slowly increase the population in the tank!

    FOWLR

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    sorry whats sg? Is ammonia impt factor? got ammonia test kit but used only once when i have corals in tank :). How abt phos?. Chiller?

    Thanks.

    For FOWLR u dont need a metal Hilide, you can use a T5 or PL lights so u dont need to invest on a chiller.

    If ur are still finding it difficult to keep the temp down below 30 deg just fix a fan...but that would cause some evaporation so you need to top of fresh water, regularly!

    Just lost a clownfish due to cynaide poisoning

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    Hi Bro!

    Sorry to hear about your loss!!

    It sad that fishes are caught using this method!

    I am not sure about the symptoms of cyanide poisoning!

    But somebody did tell me those $1 clowns are caught using cyanide.

    That they reason they are sold so cheap, cause once they are stunned using cyanide they can be easy picked up from the sea bed!

    Hope are LFS in Singapore are more responsible & stop selling such livestock!

    FOWLR or ReefTank?

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

    Posted

    I am like u...

    Have good experience in freshwater planted tank!

    Like others said u need to get you plans straight, what you want!

    Be reminded that compared to fresh water marine isn't a cheap hobby

    1) Equipments needed is much more than Freshwater

    2) Marine salt isn't cheap

    3) Electricity consumption is quite high. All the equipment for salt water will consume lot of electricity.

    All this boils down to lot of money!

    My idea is not to scare you, but just to make u prepared!!

    Storage for AZ-NO3

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

    Posted

    hey sorrie to interupt in tis topic but wanna know if AZ- NO3 is used to reduce NO3 izit? and anyone out there used and shown positive result?

    No reply!!

    I wanna ask the same... How effective is Az-No3 does it work! & how expensive it is, if you wanna maintain good No3 levels in you tank!

    My 50Gal Low-tech FOWL(without sump)

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    It is god to see low-tech tanks like yours doing so well. It seems that I am not the only one would prefer simple low-tech "low-maintance low-cost" approach to keeping marine fishes. My simple 2ft tank with the sump. The setup similar to yours except that my marine tank is at the top and then a DIY overflow to the bottom tank which is a sump then have a pump to pump water up back to the top. Well, I am lazy so that don't do regular water changes at all, my tank is mature alright at least 3 years old. I did a 50% water change just beginning of year - when suddenly all my fishes just died lkike that. Other than that I just top up water.

    You remind me that I should at least keep up the routine of doing at least some water change - 10% per month. Well Done on the fishes and good luck with the ich that the blue tang has introduced. Cheers.

    Thanks for ur reply..

    My itch problem seems to be better now.. still not fully recovered.

    What fishes do you keep? Would love to see ur setup?

    Why don't you post some pictures!!

    Cheers

    Sanjay

    My 50Gal Low-tech FOWL(without sump)

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    My fishes are healthy except lately a bit of white spots cause i introduced a blue tang last week!

    It should disappear in 1 or 2 weeks hopefully.

    i used to feed 2 cubes of frozen food.. one in the morning & one at night. & some pellets for tangs & angel

    Do 5% water changes weekly.

    but because of that my nitrates was about 40-60ppm.. so cant keep any corals except mushrooms.

    Last 2 weeks i have cut down feeding by half... half cube morning & balance half at night.

    & increased water change to 10% weekly.

    will wait few weeks before testing the nitrates again.

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