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Drahc's 5ft simple mixed reef tank


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Bought a new house more than a year ago and it took me that long to realize i have a good spot for reef tank right in front of me. I was originally looking at buying a used 4feet tank but didnt find any that suites my budget and likes in terms of design (specially the overflow design).

Finally last month I've found a 5ft tank thats close to what im looking for and its been delivered to my place by sgbros.

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finish setting up.

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will add more pics...

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Camping here to see ur progress!!

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Camping here to see ur progress!!

Congrats Drahc! Looking forward to the progress.

thanks bros.

more pics.

10-13-2014

adding sand and water

diy purifier

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the painfully slow process of adding water.

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water from purifier is collected to a big black pail for checking then pump to the main tank.

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after several hours.

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Whoa another big tank coming up. Camping here :)

Shadow Walkers's 4 ft Shallow Reef Chronicles

4 Ft - 120.35.35

3 Ft Sump

Skimmer: Bubble Magus NAC7

Chiller: Hailea 1/4 HS66A

Lights: T5 4 tubes ATI + Maxspect Glaive Led

Refugium with Liverocks and Cheato and lots of pods

Refugium light: Par38 Full spectrum

Return pump: Hailea HX6540..stupid pump so noisy

Wavemaker: Maxspect Gyre 130

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to continue.

10-18-2014

i started my tank cycling.

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im still waiting for stocks of sand to come in but i decided to start the cycle early so i can put some livestock as early as i can.

everything is dead on my tank as rock is bleached (thanks tofu for advise) and sand is washed 5-6 times. ive decided to go fishlesz and shrimpless cycle using ammonia powder.

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the product that i used is the same as that. i purchased it at clementi bakery shop. i screwed up the measurement and added to much of ammonia in my tank thath the color is wayyyyyed off the chart, its like realy realy dark green. thaths when i used stability on the first week and prodibio the next week follow up with 20% water change.

after 2 weeks ammonia drops 0, nitrite is low and nitrate is 20ppm+. i used prime then decided to add a couple of livestock to maintain the source of ammonia to prevent bacteria die off.

11-01-2014

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up until now i still have them except for 1 chromis who recently jump out of iso box.

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Good idea to use ammonium carbonate (baker's ammonia) to cycle the tank. How much did you put initially?

I understand that the rule of thumb is 1 teaspoon per 200L to get about 5ppm of ammonia.

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Good idea to use ammonium carbonate (baker's ammonia) to cycle the tank. How much did you put initially?

I understand that the rule of thumb is 1 teaspoon per 200L to get about 5ppm of ammonia.

at first i used half teaspoon and diluted it on 100ml water. i poured it to my tank and didnt detect any. then i diluted 5 teaspoon more on 500ml water and poured all of it. ( yeah i know im so bad and lazy) and thats where it shoots up way high.

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Nice scape bro

Thanks bro.

if you need more rocks, pm me.. i have some bigger ones but dried.

Yeah im still missing a lot of rocks. I actually want to place a separate tower island on the left side for LPS.

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