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    2 feet marine plant tank

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    I stay in Punggol but sometimes will go west at CCK area to visit parents.

    These plants I get from fresh and marine:

    caulerpa racemosa (grow fast but insufficient lighting will easily cause them to turn white0

    caulerpa prolifera (super fast grower)

    This plant I got from Henry at Marine Life:

    Caulerpa Serrulata (fast grower)

    The pail of caulerpa racemosa I had thrown away.

     

     

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    2 feet marine plant tank

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    Manage to get NO3 reading is less than 5ppm, but the high PO4 causing red slime which I rescape the tank and start running ROWA in my sump. Adding more sand and remove most if the overgrowth. Also move most of the caulerpa prolifera to my refugium.

     

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    2 feet marine plant tank

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    On 20 April 2016 at 11:40 PM, CKS said:

    The greens are looking really good! If you are observing the NO3, are you able to share the reading please?

    I will update the nitrate reading once I change water this Sunday. I think no3 should be low but po4 is high. Think of running ROWA but dunno whether it will impact on my marine plants??

    2 feet marine plant tank

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    Thanks for sharing :) How about the sediment, any motivation for the sediment choice?

    I'm sure we can inspire more people and then we can have enough people to trade macro :)

     

    No particular choice just some left over sand I bought from Madpetz to create a deep sand bed in sump. I find very few reefer in marine plants.

    2 feet marine plant tank

    in General Reefkeeping_

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    Wow! Well done, the growth looks really good!

    Would you share more parameter such as the light setup, nutrient dosage? the sediment looks interesting too.

    Congrats on your newborn :)

    Haha i become lazy and from weekly change water to monthly change water. Only recently I started weekly change routine and only measure salinity of 1.024-1.026 and check my fishes health regularly. No nutrient dosage, just another 3 feet tank of 2 tangs, 2 Picasso clowns, 1 wrasse, 1 damsel and 8 chromis supplying my plant tank the nitrate. I'm using the 2 feet beamworks LED with a return pump of 1200 l/m and no wave maker. I keep only 3 fishes in this tank.

    The only observation is all my chaeto in sump are getting lesser and lesser as compare to before I introduce this tank. Actually is from your thread inspired me to start a marine plant tank.

     

    2 feet marine plant tank

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    Used to have another thread on my 3 feet tank, but due my SG50 newborn, overseas trips and work, all LPS, SPS and some soft corals are perished and gone. Now my 3 feet tank becomes like this with most fishes still around for 3 years...

    So decided to start a 2 feet marine plant satellite tank.

     

     

     

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