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Yes. This will be a nice soft coral tank. But how do you get those anemone stick to their spot and how do you keep those colourful dendro a life are major consideration.

Upgrading is not an option right now Of all the softies, I seem to have a soft spot for cauliflower. Just in case I couldn't make it with SPS, I would like to have a cauliflower only tank. That's why I have some in my tank now for future seeding when the need arises

Fully agree

I only feed my fish pallet. Twice a day in small amount.

The cauliflower has attached themselves to the base rock. I have to consistently trim them because the surrounding SPS do not enjoy its presence it seems. I would prefer it to be place in an open space. I like to see it when it fully open up. I may need a wider tank for that to happen

Some random close up shot.

Thanks for the nice word I do not need to trim my SPS yet but I can see the centre table top will be a problem soon. Its growing too big and I haven't figure out how to trim it when the need arises. I don't want to break its natural shape. For the staghorn, I kept breaking them during WC ! That take care of everything by itself

Gone long time ago jor lor.

I promised to be truthful to her when I asked for her hand…… i guess that didn't include LS purchase

Hi honkit. You were the first person who made me lie to my wife for the first time about the price of small piece of Fiji SPS

To me WC is like a kid playing with water……haha.Just kidding. With my previous tank, WC means bucket carrying, messy sticky floor. Time spend on cleaning up usually more than the actual WC. For this tank, I have a drainage pipe build next to the tank. No more bucket caring. Refilling is just switching on pump from the pre-mix bucket. The whole process usually takes less than 10 minutes. I am actually rather satisfy with the SPS colour right now. I don't get the Zeovit system like colour but I don't get total brown as well. Just enough brown with a touch of colour on every colony. In fact the colour is better than the time when I tried on Zeovit system. I never really made it with that system. Right now, my philosophy is if it ain't broken, don't fix it Maybe when I become more adventurous again, I would try a few tweaking of the SPS again

I have to admit I do not test water unless I sense something is wrong nowadays. Maybe is the experience from sitting in front of my tank for hours daily over the years, I can tell when the LS is not happy. I used to do all the things in the book down to the dots and I have realised when I became too obsessive with all the numbers from water test, I became a slave to the tank. For my current tank, I emphasis on the scaping to start off with. I want an open tank for easier maintenance, especially the sandy bottom. Next will be the shape of the SPS.Branching or table top type. All SPS keeper will tell you the bottom part of the tank will gradually die off because of the random growth of SPS blocking lights to the lower half of the tank . I try to avoid that with this tank. For the SPS, I just look for healthy growth. Colouring come as bonus. I also refrained myself from adding too many species into the tank ( easy when money is not enough ) I change 120L water weekly without fail. 100% RO water . No fancy salt. Just Instant Ocean. I do vacuum clean my sand during every WC. I dose 1.5ml vodka once in the morning and once in the evening. From the SPS colour, I think my tank is not in the Ultra Low nutrient stage. But i think the NO3 is in the manageable level. This is the tank I am most satisfy with up till now. ……….I have to confess I get my inspiration from Oregon Reef. The part where I failed to achieve is the multicolour RF colonies. I used to have multicolours RF but for some reason they wouldn't stick to any LR whatever I did. Only the orange colour stick ! BTW, how do you tell whether the LPS is hungry or not?

Ops, I should make it clearer, I meant I decided to shut down my tank at home and set up a new one in my work place. I spend more time in my work place than at home. So I actually enjoy more

This tank is in my working place. Is a 2 sided view tank. It separate the front portion of my shop and my office room. First picture is the front view while the third is from the back view (view from my office room). All the equipments and gadgets are placed in my office room. I decided to move my tank from my house to my working place so that more people can enjoy my tank

Btw, all the SPS in my current tank were from frags. Mostly were from my old tank. The table top at the centre were from a single 1" frag. It grow the fastest.