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wat about a 1 inch sand to make it more natural and u can have yr DSB in the sump. My set up was w/o DSB, the sand on my main tank is about 2-2.5 inch, as for sump its only bioballs n filter media, my water parameter r fine, Ammonia, No2 & 3 all undetectable..... ;)

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Heard DSB can crash in a few years. My sump not very big also. May be just stick to the DSB in Main tank. Skimmer should come before refigium right. What if due to space constraint, and i place the skimmer after the refigium? Will skim out all the pods?

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hey bro.

nice tank!

i feel the excitement for you. i love the feeling of setting up a new tank. :P

ok just a few things i noticed.

if you plan to use the existing sump you should turn it around, 180 degrees as the return pump should go through a straight PVC pipe and not have 90degree elbows like it has in your pic. the bends will slow down the waterflow and that is something you don't want.

the lighting you want to use should be something you want to invest in at the start only as upgrades are expensive and costly as you will make a loss selling off the old. i suggest going for 2x150w mh with 2 t5s or 2x250w mh. with a chiller of course.

also do check the thickness of your glass, it should be no less than 10mm. preferbly 12mm and above.

the other members will have better advise on the piping and stuff...

but IMO if you want to avoid another drilling and risking losing the whole tank maybe use the Ibox?

good luck and enjoy the setting up!!! ;)

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Finally completed my piping works. No digi cam to take pics. After many weeks of headache, decided to more or less stick to the ex-design. Due to some of the pipings that is fixed, i cannot turn the sump around. And the glueing of silicon in the sump is done in such a way that is against the water flow. By turning the sump around might result in the leaking of the partition on the future.

Included a Union Ball Valve to the return pipe(return to tank) to control water flow.

Did not drill additional holes as advised. Too troublesome also.

Fabricated the durso

Redo the sump to house a DSB and refrigium

Diy Eurobracing to the bottom of the tank. Dun know got use or not.

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Some more prob.. :cry:

As the tank is from an aro keeper, the hood is low. To make matter worse, there is a centre supporting plank preventing me from mounting the MH in the centre of the hood.

Questions.. :erm:

1) If i mount the Mh on the 'behind' half of the hood, would it cause 'shadows' if i look from the front of the tank? is it going to be very unsightly? I can only mount another 2 T5 at most on the 'front' half. Make any differences?

2) If i were to fabricate another hood, how much more to fork out? Contacts?

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Some more prob.. :cry:

As the tank is from an aro keeper, the hood is low. To make matter worse, there is a centre supporting plank preventing me from mounting the MH in the centre of the hood.

Questions.. :erm:

1) If i mount the Mh on the 'behind' half of the hood, would it cause 'shadows' if i look from the front of the tank? is it going to be very unsightly? I can only mount another 2 T5 at most on the 'front' half. Make any differences?

2) If i were to fabricate another hood, how much more to fork out? Contacts?

Well, buy a saw from HomeFIX and saw it off.

That all.. :peace:

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As for the pipings, i went through a lot of SH** to get everything.. learnt a lot and now become a guru :lol:

Almost everything is up now beside the lights. Plan to diy 8x t5s. Going to use Aquaz's product due to their affordable price..but even so, now super broke to buy the tubes and reflectors. Already started to stock my tank. Transfered all the livestock from my 2 footer to the new tank.

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Now i have....

Fishes;

1 x Yellow Tang

1 x Blue Tang abt 2"

2 x Fang Yellow Tail Fang Blenny (Venomous)

3 x Yashia + one red pistol (Never seen them around!!) :shock:

1 x Six line wrasse

2 x Hi-fin Shrimp Goby

1 x Striped Mandarin fish

1 x Fire Goby

1 x Sharknose Goby (1 died!!)

1 x Purple Frefish

1 x Algae Goby (Not Lawnmower)

Now i start listing, i realize i already have tons of fishes :shock:

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For the Corals...

Softies

Orange Yumas

Blue Mushrooms

Tri-colour Mushrooms

Pink Yumas

Green Yumas

Red Mushrooms

Some other Mushrooms...

LPS

Octo Branch?

SPS

3 x Acros (Given by some fellows reefers to try out! Thanks!)

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Btw what's that LPS beside the red mushrooms in the pic??

I suck big time for names of corals...

Somemore pics..Check out the coralline growth!!

Got abt 130kg of Liverock inside the system...imagine how much they cost... :blink:

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As for the pipings, i went through a lot of SH** to get everything.. learnt a lot and now become a guru :lol:

Almost everything is up now beside the lights. Plan to diy 8x t5s. Going to use Aquaz's product due to their affordable price..but even so, now super broke to buy the tubes and reflectors. Already started to stock my tank. Transfered all the livestock from my 2 footer to the new tank.

The Yellow Fang Blenny looks interesting. I saw it at the LFS a few times.

Is it dangerous? Do you have more information on the fish?

Thank you.

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3 fishes died in my tank so far.

1) Fang Blenny jumped into overflow.

2) Neon Goby refused to eat

3) Flame angel disappear after i add it into tank.

Bought some nice mushies. Hope can show soon as no dc now..

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