snailmale

y dun u try posting in the kopitiam section of the forum instead of here? quite an inappropriate place to post..

the tank and equipment low budget lah.. but the livestock expensive..

i need maybe 20kg or so, anyone hv extra and can give cheap/free?

no lah.. the 6ft tank is FW.. the marine tank is 3ft(+3ft more cos im gonna get the sump)

ok, i found a 3ft tank liao, a really nice guy i giving me free.. so i guess i shall get 3ft tank.. altho my mother will be an obstacle.. since getting my 6ft FW tank, i was banned from expanding and was supposed to sell off all my tanks.. this current 3ft tank that im setting up marine in is already "illegal".. she will see it as an expansion, altho im just putting it at the 2nd tier..

hmm i tink i shall try the water and vinegar method.. cos im using 2017, so big, chopstick also cannot reach inside..

the point of the sump for me is too add additional water volume and hold my equipment, but also even without compartments, additiional biological and mechanical filtration can be acchieved by simply putting more LR there and using baskets to hold the filter wool.. btw, im not intending to hv any filter wool in the first place.. the issue is that if i use a 2ft sump, it will be too small to hold anything other than the pumps and skimmer.. if i get a 3ft tank then i will put other stuff in the extra space..

can get a normal 3ft tank wad.. but a bit difficult to squeeze all the equipment..

i hv a 3ft tank currently, but i realised its really difficult to fit all my equipment inside, so im tinking of getting a sump.. the idea is that my fren can diy the piping for me in just 10 min, then it flows down to a normal tank at the bottom.. then instead of having mulitple compartments, i just place a box inside and the return pump in the box(water overflows into the box) this way, we can avoid the main tank overflowing if anything screws up(the whole point of compartments rite?) yet its much cheaper and quite easy to maintain.. but i realised 1 prob.. if i hv a 3ft tank, its quite natural that i would hv a 2ft sump rite? but inc a box, return pump(eheim1260), my skimmer(weipro 2017) and the pump for the skimmer(dymax 5000l/hr), i tink even a 2ft tank wont even hv space.. and wad abt other stuff i might wanna put in? so do i go for a 3ft tank? its substantially more expensive, and it seems rather silly to hv a sump as big as the main tank.. btw, im looking for a tank as my sump, anyone got cheap or even better, free one? last time gave away 1 3ft tank, now realised i need it again..

for fans, get the 1 big one as opposed to the mulitpile small ones.. supposed to be more effective..

my tank havent even cycle yet, cant take it now.. anyway im not looking to hv a largely brackish fish tank, more of a regular marine tank, with 1 or 2 archers thrown in..

oh, im not toking abt vivarium, that one is far too mah fan, even last time for my brackish tank i didnt hv that.. im toking abt playing with the fish, like hold food in ur hands and let them spit or jump.. its one of the few fish u can actually play with.. the setup im toking abt is ur standard marine tank with live rock, reef fish and some corals, but just add the archers in as well, they will stay at the surface of the tank, not really affecting ur picture perfect aquarium, yet when u r bored can play with them, if u get wad i mean.. meaning they r like just an add-on to the tank..

hehe i sure go over budget one lah.. but on abt 100-120, i hv sand, salt, more LR than i need, and a strong skimmer settled.. the big prob is lights, cos diy a set of 2 T5 HO lights is $85, and thats not even enough, cos if 1 light put actinic tube, then just 1 tube of 10k or 20k will be too weak to sustain corals.. so must get 2 sets, 4tubes, that is a real budget buster..

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yeah, there is a dymax 5000l/hr pump with the skimmer.. yup ive seen it on the website, but it doesnt give me much of an idea abt it.. well the other dudes all recommend more powerful skimmers, so i guess it shld be ok lah.. cannot then too bad lor, ill downgrade lor..