[My New Reeftank Showcase]

Dear reefers,

I have setting up the tank for 4 months already. And I decided to post up here to share with you all. Hope you all can give me your guidances and comments to maintain this tank. Hope this tank journey starts from this thread.

Main Front Tank

Specs:

Tank type: Salted, reef with corals

Size: 3ftx2ftx1.5ft

Filter: Sump overflow box

Equipment: Protein skimmer (deltec), Calcium reactor (deltec), Chiller (Artica), return pump, fluidizers

Light: Metal Halide + Blue Artinic Light x2

Left side of tank

Water Parameters

Temp: 23.5 DC

pH: 8.0-8.2 (hard to achieve!) tends to drop due to calcium reactor. QUESTION: HOW TO ENCOUNTER PH DROP?

Ammonia: 0ppm

Nitrite: 0ppm

Nitrate: unknown, must be high due to diatoms growth? QUESTION: HOW TO ENCOUNTER ALGAE GROW ON ROCKS AND SANDS? ANY INVERTEBRATES TO HELP?

Phosphate: Unknown

Calcium: 500ppm

dKH: 9

Water top up: Tap water only

These are the corals in the tank for a moment

Bubble Coral

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t279/et...werpotcoral.jpg

Flowerpot Coral

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t279/et...CupMushroom.jpg

Elephant Ear Coral? What is this?

Zoanthids (Green/Yellow)

Finger Coral

Upcoming wil the photo for the fishes. Update soon

Cheers

[Anyone heard of them?]

hmm.. now are u admiting that you are actually the owner of coralmarketplace?

Dear moderator,

I seems that my website has been a topic here in this forum. All the feedback will be taken in account. A business reg no will be input inside the web.

I hope the moderator will remove this forum immediately as some of the statements make by member is untrue and will bring wrong impression publily upon the nature of the business in this forum.

I did not post this commercial as it is not allow and now my website name is in this topic. Can a moderator pls delete this topic away

Thnks

IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!!! PLS READ

I am the real owner (flaming nemo) of the website as someone is using my username & password to post comments here!!!

Moderator pls help me to delete this account and this topic as someone has used my username and password to do some comments in my name.

I will re-register again.

Sorry everyone.

Pls ignore what flaming nemo comment in this forum from now on

[Anyone heard of them?]

Members have a right to be a little sensitive on this topic -

although you have a right to feel happy paying $25 for a Sarcophyton leather coral, many other hobbyist who visit the shops know very well its way beyond what they would pay. You also fail to mention the weekday $20 9am-3pm delivery charge (making your leather hmmm$45), of course if you want it on the weekend its $40 additional.

Now that's becomes $65 for a leather coral.

There is no coralmarketplace registered in the singapore business directory

http://www.acra.gov.sg/general/directory.html

maybe it is not registered under the above name - if so a business reg number should be provided somewhere on the site especially when its a online shop (which can be here today-gone tomorrow)

The website payment options only have Internet transfer or ATM transfer & contact details are to a Hotmail account.

If this does not raise questions in yourself, you have no one to blame.

I would suggest that if you really want to buy from them - do so only cash on delivery. If it doesn't turn up- you loose nothing.

I have not mentioned anything about commercial or the terms used on the site which raises a lot of brows  .

Dear moderator,

I seems that my website has been a topic here in this forum. All the feedback will be taken in account. A business reg no will be input inside the web.

I hope the moderator will remove this forum immediately as some of the statements make by member is untrue and will bring wrong impression publily upon the nature of the business in this forum.

I did not post this commercial as it is not allow and now my website name is in this topic. Can a moderator pls delete this topic away

Thnks

[Anyone heard of them?]

Hi all,

Sorry is my fault starting this thread... cos i am curious to find coral market in Sing. As i am new in this area....

Honestly, i stand no thread between any commercial cos i not interested at all cos i got no commission leh... i just a humble coral hobbyist orh...

Some bro out there too sensitive on topics lah

Btw u guys keep talking on LFS? what that ah? Btw someone can teach me how to buy and sell corals here leh? u guys PM each other when buying but by i cant why ah?

[Anyone heard of them?]

Hi guys,

Sorry i dnt know the market price mah... maybe i should tell them to reduce their price... maybe i will buy from them

must go and find the boss and tell him

btw way reborn i went before.. very dirty and unhygene... coral also not healthy no wonder so cheap....

Thanks any way

[Anyone know where to get corals?]

hey guys,

i have checked www.coralmarketplace.com is a singapore based online.. if you have time, check it out there

[Anyone heard of them?]

Yap I agree but online are cheaper. Today i went to a shop and they sell the corals so EX!!! Not to mention the shop name, its ridiculous!!

Anyhow buckup price....

Imagine a frag of anemone mushroom sell $70 bucks..... Madnesss I think i can grow myself or used that to cultivate abalone for me to eat hahahaha

I went and see fishn friends they no longer sell except coralmarketplace. Their price there is reasonable leh compare to those shop.

At least i can wait for them to deliver to me...

[Anyone heard of them?]

Dear reefers,

I'm looking for shopping corals online in Singapore. Anyone recommendation?

Some bros from other forum give me www.fish n friends and www.coralmarketplace.com

Dnt know anyone got go there before?

Need some recommendation?

Thanks

[Anyone know where to get corals?]

Dear friends,

Anyone know where to get corals online in Singapore? I am too lazy to step out of my house to buy.....

Regards

[Is your protein skimmer giving out heat?]

THanks !!

I used some black sponge and its reduce the bubbles significantly

BUt the heat is another prob again.....

[Is your protein skimmer giving out heat?]

THanks for all your advise!!!

I using Dymax brand.

FYI, I only using 1 pump to pump up the water from sump to main tank... i using gravtional energy to pull the water down...

Another issue....

My protein skimmer is producing lots of bubbles... in the sump tank causing bubbles to raise up in my main tank... very ugly....

How to solve?

When we should on the skimmer? Cos my tank just set up.. only live rocks and sands....

PLs advise me again...

THanks

[Is your protein skimmer giving out heat?]

Hi friends,

CUrrently my protein skimmer is giving out heat in my sump tank turning the water a bit warm.

Is this a problem or is normal? I'm using a submerging pump. The pump is in the water. The pump giving out heat....

Advise?

[Ken's 3ft Lps Tank]

Hi all,

I really admire of everyone engineer's mind to have a DIY sump tank. Can some one teach me how to bulid one?

I am learning how to bulid the flow of water mechanisms. How to let the water from my main tank flow back to sump tank and how to let the water flow back to main tank?

What to use? Pump? How to connect?

My tank do not have a pipe connection underneath. I intend to use a overhang pipe method. Is it possible to connect to sump tank? Will it over flow?

Thanks

[Fishes breathing heavily]

Hi all,

I having a weird problem here. I have a damsel, Nemo and Domino. These few days these fishes are breathing heavily and very fast.

But they seems active in eating and sleeping. Seldom comes to the surface for air.

Testing my ammonia = 0 , Nitrite = 0

What is happening? Is my reef corals in the tank some what release unseen toxic

Btw i have= a xiena, soft corals like finger, toadstool and sponges

Pls Advise

[Help Help! pH dropping!]

Thanks all

shoelevy: thanks for your kind help. I'm staying in the north. It's ok for the moment cos i can take back to my lab and run it under 'HPLC-High Performance Liquid Chromotagraphy' it shows me a quantitative results.

More accurate. I may need to measure Mg, Ca and Carbonate Salts.

Nicholas: I bought the Seachem Reef Carbonate (liquid form) will try to add in alternate nights with my kalkwasser

Is it ok?

Advise

[DeZ Office Nano]

dkk80,

looking at your tank, is not advisable to keep anemone. think your condition can substain the life of anemone. or else when it die, it will kill the rest of your life forms

better to have a fish only rocks in your tanks

hope u get a successful beautiful tank

[Help Help! pH dropping!]

hi all,

thanks.

I now using this 'aqua-pharm pur-kalkwasser'. I still adding alternate night. Very tired. How to check KH and how to increase my KH?

My Calcium is very high now 550 ppm approximately

Mg I adding once per week. Do I need to boost it?

Is it my filter is removing all my goodies elements?

Oh someone pls help me....

[White xenia not opening]

Hi,

It is advisable to put any corals in a quarantine tank to avoid any dying corals in your beautiful tank.

Xiena known as pulsing corals have to be open. It means they are healthy. Below is my xiena i bought for 1 week after proper quarantine:

Xiena have to put on the sand bed with strong current. They have sensitive detector on their membrane that flow with current that give them the 'pulsing effect'

The 'smell' mentioned is probably the result of ammonia that produced from dead corals..

Hope u get a healthy xiena with proper care!

[Help Help! pH dropping!]

Thanks,

So u mean pH will flucuate day and nights? then when to measure pH that gives me a conclusive results?

I'm using 'aquapharm restore to pH 8.3' buffer. Any other good buffer around? When will be my pH be stable....?

[anemones]

hi sorry to interfere,

when anemone dies, it will screte its body mucus as act of protection. some thing like 'if i die, all must die with me' atitiude.

indeed anemone is diff to keep. i have one before which cost me 80 bucks to have a hawaii purple anemone. death is unknown after i feed with brine shrimp.

now i never touch them anymore as i shift to soft corals which are easy to maintain.

anemone will only secrete toxins when its being attack. however when it dies it better to clear the water asap or else the mucus will clog and block your filters and skimmer. thus causing your motors to 'explode'!

furthur more anemone are moving creatures, if they have some atitude problem, it will keep moving from your rocks to caves and hide. thus the beauty is hidden from tank.

sign

i hate anemone

[Help Help! pH dropping!]

HI all,

anyone can give any advices. MY tank is a 4 months old. I notice my pH keep dropping from 8.35 to 7.93 everyday. I need to top up calcium powder to raise up every 2 days. BUt still dropping.

I added magnesium and buffer to stable... but fruitless.

I added pH balancer media in my filter, still can't see results?

Is it my nitrification process is going very high? or my reef is producing lots of CO2 that cause my water to become acidic?

What should I do?

Pls advise

[My Nano Reef Tank! Share your aquascaping!]

Hello all reef lovers!

I'm new here in this forum so would like to share what I have. Also to make more friends to share our interest in reef aquascaping, species, feedings and hints! I currently having a 2 feet tank loaded with live sands and rocks... Here u are, pls take a look:

Well now I have only 2 fishes: Clumsy clown fish and Little shy damsels. As I very particular about fishes so I still take my time to chose my fav

The following are my reef collections of soft corals:

My first mushroom collections...

Mushroom leather? Would anyone point out for me this? THanks

One of my fav. My princess Xiena... Floating in the air...

The dangerous tube anemone

I have some more to share with you guys. But will come later! Come let's share what you have? Let's us share your aquascaping and corals u have...