Harry H

The mysterious case of the missing Cardinal Fish (written with a pinch of salt...) The cardinal fish has been with me for one year and it disappeared. I know this happens to every reefer at some point but this case is baffling. Floor checked. Fish stand checked. Canister checked. It has happened before the fish jumped into the AIO chamber, got sucked into the canister and came back alive. Not this time. Tubes checked. AIO chamber checked but will do it with a torchlight today. Rock work disassembled and checked. Tank has net guard. Water entry to AIO chamber is via 3 super thin slits. One of those mysteries in life. Of course a few months later in some house cleaning the mummified creature would appear.... Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

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My fishes and corals say thank you!1535941873507 Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Dear all, the transition from canister as a nitrate factory to a multi purpose reactor is completed. The canister now houses the marine pure blocks pasted together into a slab (the standard size is too big), 3 packets of activated carbon, deNitrate, Phosguard. And the tank is crystal clear. Thanks for all the good advice and help. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Dear all, thank you for the kind messages. One bro even offered to host the Pure Marine blocks to seed it for me. Very grateful for the kind thoughts. Over the weekend, I bought 8 cubes of Marine Pure. Stick them together to form a block that I can squeeze into the half-chamber of Fluval Canister 206 together with the Fluval filter foam pads. It works. So I am planning to remove the foam pad one by one over several days. In a weeks' time, my canister will become a "reactor" with no filter medium. Thanks for all the advice!

Chaeto found. Donated by a very generous person. Thank you! Please delete this thread.

Dear Reefers, need advice. Set-up I upgraded to a larger All-in-one tank 12.5g from IM Nuvo 10g. I have a) customized Media basket and b )the Minimax Innovative marine desktop reactor from my previous tank. I repurposed both to become two refugiums because I have the accessories (ie free) and why two refugium?:- because there is a seperator in the backchamber so it ended up with two. I installed the Chaetomax LED light 2 days ago and both share the LED light. A friend kindly provided me a pinch of Chaeto so I am all set. And today just bought some Tiger pods and added to both refugiums (this is for fun as I know I should have waited LONGER. Me bad.) Here is the question: the Minimax reactor is acrylic and transparent. Is it a good idea to place that into the AIO backchamber as a repurposed refugium? Will the "leaked" light cause the whole AIO chamber to grow algae??!!! Or because of the presence of the two lumps of Chaetos in their respective refugiums, they will take up the nutrients and the surrounding will be algae free? Reefer bros/sis with such similar experiences, please enlighten me. Thanks. (The Media Basket is black on 2 sides but the chamber is black so in essence there should be less light "leakage"). Or maybe it doesn't even matter? Or should i make a customized shade so that the Chaetomax LED light only shine on the two refugiums? Or i should get rid of the repurposed Minimax reactor and purchase another Media basket (like S$58!!!!) to prevent light leakage. You can see I need real HELP! Past Mistake I know what DOESNT work. In my old IM 10G tank, i saw Innovative Marine marketing this outside LED magnetic light. Use a razor to slice off the black lamination and shine a LED light through. And the video looks so cool. I had some empty space in the backchamber and I did exactly that and put some rough material in the chamber for the Chaeto to cling on. The result is the whole area become a sludge fest and the algae blocked the light and I had one extra area to clean. On hinsight, I should have used the Media Basket as a refugium instead of using the "free" space in the chamber. Too much work and fault is mine. Had I used the Media basket, it might have worked. Caveat I know there is a proportionate effective ratio between size of tank and the refugium size. Having two small refugiums might be pointless.. yes water change, yes good tank maintenance etc.. it is just hobbyist tinkering but at least I hope i can achieve optimal tinkering with my reefer bros' advice here. After all this is the joy of the hobby to experiment and see the outcome. Super thanks!!! Harry

The back chamber. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Added IM Chaetomax Led light in the backchamber. Using the IM media basket from my previous tank to store the chaeto. A friend is so nice to provide some strands of free chaeto. Now I need another media basket so that both baskets can grow chaeto. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Another cool thing is I added the tunze circulation pump to Kaza smart plug which is controlled by Google Home. So when I need to feed the fish, it is "Hey Google, turn off Aquarium Pump" and in case I forget to turn it on I can use my mobile to turn it back on even when I am outside. Voice integrated smart tank is possibly the way to go. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

I bought a used Nest Cam and tried to integrate into Aqua Illumination Prime HD mobile interface. It has a Drop Cam feature but just wont work. Nest is a successor to Drop. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Thanks. I bought the Pi and needed an excuse to thinker with it. I found out china Caperplus has a temp AND PH monitor for usd50 on Ali Express. I think locally it is about SGD100. It is nowhere near Apex but for a nano tank it may be sufficient. S$100 VS s$1400 I think. I want to build from scratch and learn some Pi programming then I think about the saltwater splashing. Safety first.. [emoji23] Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

please delete posting.. this is a double posting. Apologies

Dear all, I am looking to buy cheato (as my usual LFS sold out.). I only need about two fist-sized balls of chaeto or even less. It is to fit into the IM Nuvo 10 Media basket and then I have to install a grow LED on it. Any seller of Cheato will be much appreciated. Thank you. Harry

Dear all, I am looking to buy cheato (as my usual LFS sold out.). I only need about two fist-sized balls of chaeto or even less. It is to fit into the IM Nuvo 10 Media basket and then I have to install a grow LED on it. Any seller of Cheato will be much appreciated. Thank you. Harry

added blue sponge, leather coral and two types of zoas

Why didn't I think of that!!!!! Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Dear Reefers, need some good advice. Situation I have upgraded from a IM Nuvo 10G tank to a 12.5G acrylic tank recently. Like the AIO in Nuvo, the new tank has a backchamber "sump". I use a Canister Filter Fluval 206. Gasp.. nitrate factory! I wish I have a proper sump but I work in a Soho so everything should be moveable and canister filter allows me to transport to a new office (when required). The second reason why I use a canister is that it is the most reliable circulation pump. I use it to pump water via my Artica chiller and it has NEVER failed even once. Problem A) I need the canister (despite the shortcomings). B ) Why dont I convert the canister into a multi-layered "reactor" by placing Phosguard, Activated Carbon, Zeolites only and remove the Fluval 4 pieces of filter coarse foam (which occupies 50% of the canister) and all other filter floss and replace it with Marine Pure blocks? Then I can get the best of both worlds. No foam, no floss in the canister. Just chemical and biological filtration. I have Marine Pure balls and loads of filter floss in the AIO so I thought if I remove the 4 pieces of Fluval foam, surely there are enough good bacteria to deal with the ammonia spike. I was wrong. When I removed the 4 pieces of foam, and 2 pieces of old, old filter floss (which have turned dirty, dark brown), the tank suffered a minor ammonia spike!!! I have a micro thin sand bed but at least 5kg of old live rock and lightly stocked. Advice needed: How do i transit to Marine Pure Blocks quickly? The slow approach is to place the two Marine Pure Blocks in the tank, "seed" it with bacteria and then remove the foam and replace them with the Blocks. But alas my tank is acrylic, scratch magnet! Another way is to squeeze the blocks into the canister with the foam and remove the red structure (see picture). After one week, remove one foam, then another week, another foam. Total transition: 1 month. Surely there is a better way. I am out of ideas. Any Marine Pure user has a better solution? Thanks in advance! Harry.

I can't agree more sir. Almost obsessive hobby lol. Last night I dosed 0.5ml to the 12.5 us gallon (that's like 47 liters) and the plate and bubble corals went nuts again. The red coral fell onto the sand bed so I can't test it. Caveat: still I can't isolate it to just the enzyme solely, maybe the AI prime light is awesome or the corals finally got used to the new tank parameters. Again the results has been spectacular. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Can I reserve the forest fire I assume it is the 5th pic. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

And this is a forum about tank specs and I hope I did not breach any forum rule although the enzyme is part of the specs in this tank. So apologies Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Thanks for all the kind remarks. I am hopeful but gotta be skeptical and data driven. One tank cannot justify the results. One kind Bro even did research on the co. It is newly invested by an Asian venture capital firm and even the website is not up. The inventor was happy to use it for local farming but we encouraged him to commercialize it. There are millions of enzymes composition out there but to deliver a consistent batch requires painstaking research and trials and errors. I will be passing the test samples for a few LFS to try out. This is not a sure thing as all refeers know the complexity of biochemistry. It is very promising. We also do not know if it is a viable niche market but as a lab experiment it is indeed exciting. The science is Google able it is the search for the right enzyme that is the tough bit. There is also a need to test the optimal dosage. I am in venture building business and we do not want to make unsubstantiated announcements (like this is a game changer and disruptive... Groan groan) and fail to deliver later. As Carl Sagan says baby steps... Baby steps... Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

It is not for sale to retail. I would like more aquarists to try it incrementally lol I hate the idea of hurting any tank. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

It is an industrial product for waste management and farm feed and fertilizer. Enzyme is no magic. It just targets certain pathogens, Hydro carbon and chemicals like ammonia and nitrate. I recently dumped the enzyme into an ex Parliamentary Secretary fish pond and prayed that the freshwater kois survived. They did and thrived. The joke is if they die I would have to run to batam (joke). Yes it can be fed to fishes and they eat it like crazy. I think it is like gym builder taking protein powder but this is natural. No GMO and 100% environmentally friendly. I have even over dosaged it and nothing happened to the lifeforms. And in the exhibition I ate it in front of the vip to show it is safe. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

It is a natural enzyme that took 10 years to develop. I had no choice as the bubble just grew. Enzyme is mere protein. It is used to feed animal as a farm feed!! But I tried it on the tank (since it is LD50 ie food grade, edible to human beings) and the corals went nuts. So have to buy a bigger tank. Will be passing to two local fish shops to let them try Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app