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Hey, interested in your Star polyps. Please pm me more info and location. Cheers.

Hey bro, I'm interested in the 2nd Hammer or the 4th one. Could you PM my on how to deal? Thanks!

Thanks for the reply once again Fuzzy.. Ok, i'll take your advice and place those bio homes in my canister then, but i dont think i'd be willing to spend that much $ to buy that much bio home to fill up my canister, i think it'll take about 2-3 kg worth of bio home. What else can i use as "space fillers"? For PH, i aim to maintain at 8.2-8.4. When i checked before the water change, it was 7.8, but the day before the water change, it was about 8.0, not sure why it dropped. Anyway, i've done a search on the brand of DI water that i used, it seemed like some people who use that brand do experience PH increase also. Isnt DI supposed to be 7? Also, i didnt use any dechorinator. Was i supposed to? Since it was distilled, i assumed it was alright to use them straight out of the bottle immediately. Opps... My Skimmer does have 2 adjustments on it. 1 controls the water level (pump), the other controls the air. I've played around with both, even opened the air one totally, and when i do that, the skimmer produces a "wook wook wook" sound, and you can see the water level moving up and down with each wook. However, i've read on the net that it the air should be lowered just to the point the growling wook wook sound stops. I've tried both, but still no Kopi O. I would get a new and better skimmer, but the problem is that i'm not sure how to connect it to my system and where to put it since the current one fits just nice in the rear compartment. Copepods... How do we get them? Is it difficult? Have read somewhere that a refugium or sump is needed. I might be embarking on a mini project to build a small one for my tank where i can place some macroalgae there or something to export the nutrients. Anyone has experience in this area for a small tank? Right now, i'm a bit crazy, i tend to do some test everyday, if not every other day. I use only API kits. Reason why i keep testing is because i've been adding additives into the tank recently, is that OK? I use Purple up, Stress-Zyme, AZ-NO3, marine buffer (when needed - to bring up the PH to 8.3), the 5 in 1 coral food once a week Cheers!

Tank is a BOYU MT-50. I'm currently using the standard lighting that comes with it. Looks like florescence tubes (1 white and 1 blueish). 24W and 10000K are what i see written on the sides. Lights are actually my next upcoming few topics for reading... I know nuts about them now, but the T5 does ring a bell as i've seen it written about here and there.

Hi Fuzzy, Sincere thanks for your detailed reply. The canister has built in a pump on the top, would heat be introduced as the water travels through this additional loop? As for the stuff that goes in, is there any reasons why we would want to avoid filter wool? The ceramic bio rings and bio home seem to work in the same way, as far as i understand (looks the same on the surface too). Why do we cast out the rings? Previously, when i did top ups and minor water change, i've been using tap water (and only "aged" overnight), until i started reading up over here, i made a trip to the supermarket to grab some distilled water (Alpheus). However, it seems to throw my PH abit off balance. Before changing 15% yesterday, PH was at 7.8, after it seems to be 8.3. Luckily my PH was on the lower side before water change. I'm using sand for the bottom of my tank, i do not think its live though, i didnt set it up, was at work the day my brother did it, will check it out. What are the considerations here? I've got about 4kg of rocks in there. I'm not sure if they are live, however i bought them from the ponds of a fish farm in pasir ris. There seems to be a layer of purple coraline on some areas of the rocks too (been dosing purple up since 2 days ago). The skimmer has no external air or water pump, would this be considered airstone type? What other skimmers are recommended? I guess it would mean modification and additional equipments if i were to run the skimmer outside the tank? The Mandarin has been in there for about a month now, one of the first few inhabitants. It seems to be occasionally picking stuffs off the rocks, how do i find out if he is eating? I'm also feeding the corals the 5-1 coral food made with rotifiers. Will this help in feeding the madarin? As for the anemone, i've heard horror stories on this and i'm contemplating on removing it too, but its beautiful to appreciate the clown pair and the crab playing on it. Will this die gradually or within hours? Was thinking to monitor it closely and remove it when its nearly it's end. Any good way to tell if it's gonna up lorry? So far, as specific times of the day (late afternoon/evenings) the anemone would seem big and bloom, come midnight when we switch of the lights, it'll shrink to almost half its size. It moved to be back of the tank once, but i shifted it front because it seemed like it got itself stuck in a reallllly tight spot within the rocks behind. When i placed it in front about 3 weeks ago, it slowly move to the nearest little cave in the rocks at the front of the tank and has been there ever since. It is still clearly visible from the front but i'm curious however, it means that it is actually vertical now, why does it like it this way? Most anemone i've seen are flat down on the surface. Another query i have is that the snails seem to wipe so much algae off the tank that it poops all over the place since its introduction 4 days ago. Will it be alright to leave the poop to decompose, or it is advisable to suck whatever i can out using gravel cleaner? Just to further understand, if i leave them all to decompose, would it mean a spike in my Ammonia levels then Nitrite then Nitrate after 3-4 weeks? In other words, my beneficial bacterial in the tank aren't ready to handle that much decomposition and when it suddenly happens, i end up with lots of nitrate? I'm also using a stick in-tank ammonia level indicator, would this be a safe way of monitoring potential nitrite/nitrate spikes so i can take pre-emptive actions. Many many thanks for the tips given. I apologies for the many questions asked as i would always like to understand why and how rather than simply taking in advices. Cheers! p.s.: heres a pic to my tank current (have added 2 x 10 cents coins of Jewel/flowpot since, given by a LFS). I've read that this is a difficult coral, and surprisingly, it bloomed and became 2x the size when i put them it. Also, i'm actually not sure if the rocks are 4kg, just a guesstimate.

Hi Everyone, A very good day to you. This is almost my virgin post in this forum. I'm a real newbie and I've just got my 24G nano (with a hood) started about a month ago. Wanted to give up when my tank was full of nuisance algae with nitrate at 80ppm, temp at 31c, and everything else haywire, but when i found this forums, thats when i abandon my "stock" filters and equipments and seeked out the right stuffs (e.g. snails, media to reduce NO3s and Phos, chillers, AZ-NO3, PurpleUp, etc). I've got a 1000L/Hr Ehiem canister lying around and was thinking if i could use it to provide additional filtration for my tank. Could anyone share the pros and cons of this setup? My other concern is what should go into the canister? I'm planning to draw water from the middle compartment of the overflow compartment behind the tank into the canister and then feed it back into the same middle overflow compartment. Here are some information on my existing setup. Livestock - About 10 fishes including 2 clowns, a mandarin, 1 "box" fish, 1 porcelain crab, 1 turbo, 1 slug, 1 shrimp, 1 (cant remember the name, front yellow, rear half purple fish), i blue tank. - 3 corals, 1 anemone, 1 star prop (spelling?), 1 mushroom. Pumps and chillers 1 x 1200L/hr pulling water at the last overflow compartment behind my tank, drawing water into my 1/10HP chiller and then it gets fed from the chiller straight back into the tank. 1 x hydro K1 1500L/Hr wavemaker 1 x undergravel filter powered by a 600L/Hr pump (mainly for circulation, not my idea though) Current filtration (overflow with 3 compartments) 1st Compartment: wool and sponge filter 2nd Compartment: Bottom is Ceramic Bio Rings, Sea Chem Phosguard and denitratedifier, and the top is BioHome plus. 3rd Compartment: Boyu Skimmer (need help here too), and the 1200L/Hr pump Water params: PH: 8.1 Nitrite: 10ppm Nitrate: 20ppm Phos: 0.5ppm Ammonia: safe < 0.1ppm (using indicator only) Temp: 26-27c. Usually about 10-20% water change is planned per week or 2 weeks depending on current water param. My objectives are to keep nitrate and phosphate at the lowest (should i also strive for anything else? I'm really new at this.) and keep the water clear and clean (duh). Intending to keep fishes and corals, maybe a clam too. So, to sum up: 1) What should go into my canister? 2) How should i connect it to my existing setup? 3) I'm planning to let the canister run on a bucket of water (~10L) with a market prawn to allow bacteria to form in it, something like cycling a tank before connecting up to my 24G nano. Does that work? Or will I just be wasting my time and be better off connecting it straight to my tank? 4) Looking at my current setup, are there any other stuffs that i should be doing? Thinking of putting some Cheato into my 1st compartment, but looking for a way to get some light in there. Side track 5) With regards to my Boyu skimmer, it doesnt seem to be foaming at the top... All i see are some bubbles that form and disappears after a few seconds, replaced by new bubbles. I've played around with the air and water adjustments but just cant seem to get foam to form at the top. Needless to say, no kopi O was brewed. Also, any other advice and tips are very much appreciated. Thanks very much in advance, i'm getting hooked and eager to learn!

I've also got about 4 piece of tonga rock to give away together with this item... Or if anyone wants them let me know soon.

Hi everyone, I just bought a SunSun wavemaker JVP-101 (3000L/Hr) and its too strong for my tank. Hence, I'm looking to sell this 1 day old one for $15. Bought at $20. Alternatively, i could trade it with someone who has a smaller one and needs something more powerful. Any brand will do. If yours is cheaper, then we'll do a direct trade, no cash top up needed. If yours is more expensive, i'll be willing to pay a reasonable sum to top up the difference. PM me your contact or post here. Can meet either in the AMK area or Kembangan area anyday. Cheers!