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    Hon's Reef Cube

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    Have some time today, pick up a red goni and a prata, my very 1st prata since I start reefing 20yrs back. Please advice how to keep and maintain prata. Thanks.

    nice prata...our prata have the same colours :thumbsup:

    medium to low light & not too much flow will get the prata to open more, weekly target feedings of Mysis will help too

    Newbie starting a reef tank

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

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    hi bro, welcome to this exciting hobby :thumbsup:

    as I had tried to convert sumpless freshwater tank to marine before (tank crashed eventually), like to share my 2 cents worth:

    1) no sump - you will need canister filter - can be very tedious / messy to service when you have salt water. & may become a pain to do weekly maintenance after the initial excitement died down

    2) hang on skimmers - can be a challenge if you have bracing on your current fish tank

    3) Aquazonic T5 was good enough for many LPS, no problem when I was keeping my prata, cynarina & torch Needs stronger lighting for more challenging corals

    4) I am using the jebao Wp 25 now - so far so good, comes in different programmes too

    5) Other eqpt - depending what you want to keep, may have to consider getting FRs as no refugium, but need to consider where to place these

    6) test kits - if you are planning to keep LPS / SPS in future - bought many Salifert test kits (NO2/ NO3/ Calcium / Magneisum / KH / PO4)

    not to be discouraging, with so many equipment hanging around, it may disturb the beauty of a marine tank that we want to achieve. then will spend another big amount to upgrade - that's what happened to me.

    do think of the other option of getting a tank with sump. To keep in the 1.5k budget, you can look at the pasar malam section where reefers are selling their tanks / equipment.

    Redsuns Newbie Nano Tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    hi bro

    nice rock scape , looks like you are going for the valley concept. what corals are you planning to keep?

    welcome to this exciting hobby. like you, I am also quite new & also tried to convert a fresh water tank into a marine without sump.

    just to share - pls double check for any leakages (last thing you wanto is to come home to a soaped floor)

    Mr Salty's marine tank finally (4 x 2 x 2)

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Nice fishes. Once ur tank is fully stock up, it will be impressive too!

    thanks bro, nice trying very hard not to buy

    Same tank 422,told myself to control just keep 12 fishes end up 20 fishes now.

    same here ...marine fishes are so nice & hard to resist

    my OC likes AT / flame angel very much ...must tahan don't go look look see see too often

    sure end up with 20 fishes soon

    Just make sure you check you PO4 and NO3 weekly and do WC

    roger, weekly 10% water change....now considering if I should add rowasphos to bring down the PO4 (currently running bio pellets)

    Mr Salty's marine tank finally (4 x 2 x 2)

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    Nice fishes. Once ur tank is fully stock up, it will be impressive too!

    thanks bro

    This is my current fish stock. Not sure if the bioload is too high for my mixed reef tank (422):

    - lye tail anthias x 6

    - purple queen x 1

    - yellow tang x 1

    - lawn mower blenny x 1

    - banana wrasse x 1

    - 6-line wrasse x 1

    - exquisite x 1

    - lineatus x 1

    - blotchy anthia x 1

    - red dragonet x 1

    Total: 15 fishes

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