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    My First Marine Aquarium Tank

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    There are so many different lighting for the tank and some are very very costly. I wanted to DIY my own LED lights for a test run as I have a manufacturer just opposite my factory. My neighbor is a very helpful person and I know he will always help me. I talked to my fellow reefer friend and he asked me why do I go for LED lights. He told me LED lighting for aquarium is different from the ones we use for advertising etc. I understand this that is why I need to do more research on this before deciding on whether to DIY or not.

     

    Suddenly he offered something that touched me. He has a Lumen Aqua LED lights (I don't know what model but it has timer settings where you can leave it to run on its own) where he is no more using. As he is now into SPS, the lighting is no more useful to him and it has been discarded to his storeroom. He is willing to lend it to me. I know the price is not cheap. So now my lighting settled but I will still continue doing my research on the LED lights.

     

    The next thing he taught me is the initial startup water for the tank. I read through a lot of websites and i can say 99% will tell you to use RO water or seawater. After discussing with some fellow reefers, they advise me not to get seawater from the sea as certain places where they collect the seawater may contain harmful substances. Therefore seawater straight from the sea is out of the question which leave me with RO water.

     

    I called my usual distilled water supplier for my factory to check the price. I needed around 370 liters of water and it will cost me around $160. My fellow reefer friend told me that he is using a RO/DI Purifier. As we need to conduct water change every 1 week, in the long run it look more feasible to have your own RO/DI Purifier. He introduced me to Madpepz and the one I got was around $200. It will seems irrational to get the distilled water from my supplier for my initial tank and buy RO/DI Purifier for later water changes usage. The only problem I have to solve is to get enough big pails to contain the RO water. I called a few supplier that supply industrial drums which cost around $40 to $120 for a 80 litres drum. I was in a paradox whether to initally get the distilled water from the supplier or the Purifier. As I need about 5 drums initially and the cost of the drums together with Purifier doesn't make sense to me.

     

    This I am not lying, while I was thinking about it, I went to a nearby hawker center with a market to get some food. While I was there, I saw a lot of big drums where they use to hold vegetables and I ask one of the stall if I can buy any used cheap ones but they told me, their drums are all comes with HOLES. They told me you can get it very cheap from Toyogo. Immediately, I went down to Toyogo at Toa Payoh, and to my surprise it is cheap, 3 x 100 litres pails with LIDS (most of the industrial drums are without lids, with lids are usually expensive ones) cost around $70.

     

    My problem for water solved , get the RO/DI Purifier and get the pails.

     

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    Still waiting patiently for the tank to arrive.

     

     

    Your red pail seem small is that pail 100 litres? The industry blue tub for 100-120litre cost around $28.

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