icliao Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 My 2.5 ft LPS tank set up 1 year back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Nice bro, can post your setup spec here like lighting and equipment too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member shy88devil Posted October 27, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 27, 2015 Nice tank Welcome to the big family Please share with us your equipment and how you maintain such a nice tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member vincentwangz Posted October 27, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 27, 2015 Oh wow this is such a lovely set up! Welcome to SRC! Hope to learn about how the journey has been in the past year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Neutral Posted October 27, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 27, 2015 Your water must be very tip top.. Can see that all ya corals open up.. Care to share how u managed to maintain your tank to get such an awesome result? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 Hi there. Thank you for your warm welcome. This setup has been through hell initially. I had very bad base rocks and a few sub par liver rocks to begin with. The water actually turn yellow and milky a few days later. I also made the common mistake or stocking fast and furious. It was loaded with 20 fish and full (every inch) of corals. I thought I can pull through with chemical filtration such as RowaPhos, Biosphere and Algone but the system continue to be plagued by red slime and hair algae to the point I really want to give up. Many livestock lost and everything I do such as massive water change/ siphoning just didn't help. So a few months ago I decided to tear it down and start from ground zero. I shut off light completely over a week to kill all micro algae and remove all livestocks/ sand and clean all rocks up and redo the tank. I kept the what's left over fish and the tank went through a short algae boom and after 3 weeks I added the corals and again the tank went through another mini cycle. I also reduce the rock frame and added more Tunze pumps one aim into the center of the rock cave blowing into the bottom so I don' t have any dead spot anymore. Now my tank is 2 months after the reset and the water looks sparkling. I still use the same equipment but I think the key is not to over stock and stock slowly and don't overfeed. I had a big group of barlet anthias before and I had to feed several time a day and that may have accounted to the problem. My equipment as following: Light: AI Hydra 26 x 2 set Skimmer: Delctec SR 1455 Circulation: Tunze Turbella 6095 x 2 Tunze wavebox Mainpump: Deltec 5000l/h Chiller: Resun CL650 Chemical filtration: RowaPhos Polylab Biosphere Algone Addictives: Polylab One Polylab Reef-roid This is the photo of my old tank before crash. Glorious but over stock and did not last unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiraltian Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Ur old setup really look gorgeous!! Quote 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 Ur old setup really look gorgeous!! I am happy with what I have now, as long as no more red slime and hair algae problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Supporter SubzeroLT Posted October 28, 2015 SRC Supporter Share Posted October 28, 2015 Wow...very nice indeed. Quote Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/mysliceofnature/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Yxh Posted October 28, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 28, 2015 Hi bro, any sump tank picture to share .. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 Here is the photo of the sump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member shy88devil Posted October 29, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 29, 2015 mind to share what's your dosing ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 mind to share what's your dosing ??? Not much really. Just Polylap One weekly and feed The coral Reef-roid weekly. That's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 Sorry I dose Polyplab One daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Yxh Posted October 31, 2015 SRC Member Share Posted October 31, 2015 Here is the photo of the sump bro, what is the one sitting on your Rowaphos bottle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icliao Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Kalkwasser stirrer connected to auto top-up system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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