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    3ft marine tank

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    Actually if your tank has already been cycled i think it will only take about 1 day for the sediments to settle down and you can test your water as the existing bacteria in your tank should be enough and able to handle any spikes caused by the disturbance of the sand. Just make sure no livestock is present when you add the new sand and that all the parameters look good before you add them back in. Maybe the other more experienced reefers can guide both of us in this if I'm wrong!

     

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    have to go back and rescape then wait till friday to see whether the water cleared or not then test ! 

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    3ft marine tank

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    If it's me I wouldn't add anymore sand as the depth of it looks fine . the most I would touch will be rocks only as sand can get real messy and cloud up your tank. Also I think there's some at Pacific reef !

     

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    okay bro ! But how long must i wait till i put my fish in again? Let it run for a week then test?

    3ft marine tank

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    By the way bros, i got a problem. I want to rescape my rocks again and maybe add one more packet of live sand, will it be alot of problem? My tank was cycled finish and now i take out all of the fishes and rescape it. Suggestions?

    3ft marine tank

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    Hahaha don't think will overstock as long you choose the smallest size you can find. For the tangs I suggest do a dip before putting into the tank or go through 2-3 week of qt to make sure there's no ich. Else you could buy from any people that decomming or reputation farm/shop.

    One thing about hermit crab is knocking over my corals if left unglue, in the last I feel they are interesting creature but not anymore.

    Another thing is urchin, they will move yor zoa around if you fall in love with zoas.

    I would recommend you to add chromis first because they are cheap and shy at nature.

    Hi bro, I'm going to get everything in a small size then slowly see them grow! Haha. Btw what do you mean your urchin move your zoa? They literally move zoa from one side to another?

    3ft marine tank

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    Hermit crab MIGHT eat your snails. Flame angel might also nip on your corals, it's a risk to try. And for blue tang, it's best to have a quarantine tank as they are really ich magnets.

     

     

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    I agree but keeping flame angel is one of my dream fish sia. Haha. Hopefully able to get one lucky one that doesn't nip on my corals

    3ft marine tank

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    Looks good , but you have to be careful on what hermits you add or they may cause more damage than good to your reef, can research on them first before adding in. I myself use a golden head blueline sand sifting goby instead to keep my sand bed clean, but these buggers do throw sand on your corals by accident, so you have to monitor. As for the gobies like watchman and purple fire fish, if you want to keep 2 best if you get a mated pair or they might fight. As for dragonnet make sure you have enough amphipods and copepods population from your fuge(if you're gonna have one) before adding one as thats their diet. Lastly as for blue tang, I would add it the last after our tank matures and is able to cope with the bioload well as blue tangs do grow big and have big appetite and it may cause your tank to crash if you add it too early and the bioload is too much. For corals , good choices of LPS and I think they will look great in your 3footer :)

     

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    tThank you so much for your advises ! Blue tang must really wait for 3months and above to keep it! Haha. Btw you mentioned that you have golden head blueline sand sifting goby can you show us a photo of that?

    3ft marine tank

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    Agrees ! As some fish are not fish safe , must decide what you wanna go for early so you won't regret in the end

     

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    1x tuxedo urchin
    2x Hermit carb
    5x turbo snail
    1x sea cucumber 
    2x cleaner shrimp
    2x watchman goby
    2x true percula clownfish
    2x purple firefish
    1x flame angel 
    1x fox face
    5x Blue/Green reef chromis
     
    After 3 months

    1x mandarin dragonet 

    1x blue tang 

    1x yellow tang 
    1x sailfin tang 
     
     
    LPS 
    Candy cane coral 
    Torch coral
    Bubble coral
    Frogspawn coral
    Hammer coral
    Plate coral 
    Brain coral
    Fox coral 
     
     
     Planning to keep all these. Feedback on this? It's overstock?

    3ft marine tank

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    Hi Darren, I agreed with Admiraltian on stocking up slowing. Patience is the key to success. This is the time to read and plan what livestock u want.

    Yup! So meanwhile have been reading this forums on their tanks. Your tank also super impressive too!

    3ft marine tank

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    Nice set up! The 1.5 ft width makes the 3ft length looks so long and gives it a really nice look ! Always loved long tanks . Goodluck ! Scaping looks like can place quite a lot of corals :)

     

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    I purposely rearranged my live rocks so i can put all the corals that needed high flow and high light above. Can't wait to start putting my corals on top by next month ! 

    3ft marine tank

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    Exciting time ahead for you! Have u decided what do you want to keep?

    going for LPS such as fox coral, bubble, frogspawn, torch coral, hammer coral, candy cane and brain. Maybe if my water parameters is good i will add some zoa in too. Hope to look for frags or smaller coral so if refeer have please pm me ! 

    3ft marine tank

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    Hi reefers, decided to start a tread to ask opinions from all those experience reefers about my tank ! I will go step by step and hope you guys can guide me along ! 

    Firstly my 3ft, 1.5ft, 1.5ft tank, decided to change from FW to SW ! (No sump) 

    Spec:

    Eheim ecco pro 200

    Reef skimmer octopus bh 1000

    2x Jebao Wp20

    3 feet Beamworks light with blue and white lights

    Hydra stream 2

    No chiller because at aircon room and temperature have always been maintaining at 25-27 degrees! Cycled my tank for 1.5 weeks. Used live rocks and also NSW. 

     

    Test kit 

     

    Ammonia : 0

    Nitrite : 0

    Nitrate: 35

    1.023

     

    As you can see some of my live rocks have brown algea! So I quickly bought some cleaning friend to help with the problem! 

     

    Any feedback for the aquascape and etc feel free to comment ! I also need to learn more ! By the way going to water change tomorrow! 

     

    Livestock

    2x True percula clownfish

    1x normal clownfish 

     

     

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