Midman

Hi reefers...any chance of LFS still open today .....need to get some stuff leh.....if have lah ..... don't have then bo pien lor ....wait long long....

Trymybest....wish I could but I don't have any digital camera or even a scanner yet ........unless somebody is willing to loan their digital camera to me...

for the info Trymybest....ur method works...I manage to balance up the overflow and the return as well....spent my whole sunday to have this stuff up and running + some troubleshooting just incase there is power failure..hehehe. At least I can use my old 3 tier filter into good use..hehehe ...similar concept to i-box but it just without the box..only left the 'I' and cheaper too hahaha.... My next move will be making a DIY refugium.. wish me luck....cya later guys...

Gee..thks AT....will include that in my profile.

Agreed with AT point of views....information must be kept available for newbie like me...with all the archive easily browsed thru..really gives me all the info I need to know..Thanks to you AT. Just my 5 cent suggestion...can we include a(eg. msn messenger) in this forum. No doubt we must be patient for ppl to respond but certain thing need to be address immediately. At least it can help us from making stupid mistake and end up worsen the conditions. Of course, without it doesn't make any harm...only an improve version of PM...hahaha

Are you sure it works....I've tried a few ways but it will surely overflow from your sump out of power failure or your sump will dry off before the tank water reach the sump... Can you please be more detail as I'm interested too...k

AT...here is my summarise to your question 1) Agreed with you I should have throw away the LR and the sandbed. Honestly I removed and washed the sand thoroughly...even put it under sun...hehehe... I will have it changed soon. 2) Oops my LR is 23kg...typos...sorry....I have tried to use overflow system but it was a disaster..my house flooded...lucky my wife wasn't at home... Fyi I started marine abt 10 months ago. Didn't know abt this SRC until I do some surfing on marine stuff. After reading some of the topics here I gather my courage to post my question hoping to learn from my mistake and save our reefs 3) Last test taken 4 days before the Salinity-1.022, Ammonia-0.1. Nitrite-0.2, Nitrate-10mg/l, Kh-10dkh & Ph-8.5 but did not take any test after..too busy removing the LS. Hope I give enuf info liao. 4) Cycle water - put the mix salt water into the tank and check for salinity...then put sand and LR...let the cycle run for 3 days then put dead prawns (activate skimmer)-done water test every 4 days to monitor ANN and wait till 3 weeks...after the ANN is more consistent I started to put in those hardy corals by stages and follow with some hardy fishes (damsels & clownfish) so on.... Shooh!....had to dig back all my notebook to answer these question...hehehe...no problem at all..I wanna learn B4 things turns ugly again.... better to be safe then sorry...haha

Hi shiraz...I did touched it accidentally..hehe but the tentacles do give me the creeps..hahaha. How many watt should I need then for the 4 footer....please elaborate more as I really wanna know. I did read the articles posted by AT on the lighting but I got myself even confused.....

what can I say....but my initial setup was doing fine for the past 6 months. It just tat this sea apple gone for 2 days and the next thing it just died don't know why. I only realised after I saw my fish and inverts behave weirdly..just to find out the sea apple was dead inside the LR cave. Aiyo so sad leh..... anyway thks bro

Hi fellow reefers.... I'm new here but need some advise and opinions please. I'm confused with all my setup. It all happen when my sea apple went missing one day and died inside the LR. All the livestock went berserk and eventually died. I managed to save my lionfish, blue damsel and watchman goby but I lost 4 fishes. As for the corals and anemones I can't save them. I feel so devastated and almost give up the hobby. I have to do a major cleaning on the fish tank as well as the LR. Then started a new cycle again. The problem is after 3 weeks of cycling the water, I put in my corals in stages and eventually introduced my fish into the tank. However the corals closed up and my inverts started to dies off after the 2nd week. I tested the water parameters is ok but I'm still losing them. My calcium is about 440 mg/l and the temperature is at 25 degrees. Did 30% water change but it worsen the situation and finally lost my inverts & corals again. It was a heart pain to see the lost ( feeling guilty and horrible). Now I only have FOWLR and a dying tube anemone also died two hours ago. What went wrong when I'm still using the same setup to cycle the water? FYI I have 4x2x2 tank, eheim cannister filter(pro II),overhead filter, Atman chiller, prizm and queen turbo skimmer, actinic & white light(55watt on each side), #0 substrate at 4" depth and 3kg LR. Please help and do explain it in a simple way as I'm new here