My Budget Marine Tank

[berrykin]

My marine tank.....

[berrykin]

Hmmm so budge thus need to buy LR slowly and corals also slowly... btw sorry all fish sleeping cos its around 2am lioa and i disturb them by turning on the lites to take pics..

[berrykin]

My leather? .... call leather rite?

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lime green anemone with a hiding clown

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mushies hill with cleaner shrimp...

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my tubeworms and fan...

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my brain from ML....

[berrykin]

hmmm not sure of the name... help ID...

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my clam and green tip mushies...

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I also not sure of the name of this hard coral

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my AC fan....

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my baby brimp shrimp and Astro Canister....

Canister medium: wool, coral ships and ceramic bio rings

[berrykin]

Here my short water parameters:

Tank: 4ft by 0.75ft by 1.5ft

Nitrate : 33 mg/l ( just changed my filter medium, dun know wat to do sia nitrate so high..... gonna change water soon...

nitrite : 0.5 mg/l

ph: 8.0

Others: no tester >> budget mahz.

Water top up: 3L/day

maintain PH value using Seachem Marine buffer

food: Ocean Nutrition Brimp shrimp plus (flakes food) and self culture live brimp shrimp

Using CoralLife Superskimmer

LIghtings : not that sure cos bought 2nd hand from LFS. Using two lights ..one white one actinci blue. The white is a cheap $15 philip brand. Gonna change to a better one when got money.

Using a AC 4-fan -- Operate from morning 10am till 12am

[berrykin]

My tank habitants:

one normal clown and one red clown

three damsels

one blue tang

2 cleaner shrimp, 2 blood red shrimp and 1 boxer shrimp

one hermit crab

two turbo snail

[Dispar_Anthias]

hmmm not sure of the name... help ID...

Hahaha you got yourself one of the toughest coral to keep... jewel aka goniopora

[berrykin]

Reallyl hard?? in wat way?? cos i had been keeping it for at least a month plus liaoz....

[SpiderOne]

U notice the base is receeding? normally dun live above 6mths+ but that was before. word has it now they are able to be kept properly as new information regarding its care has been released

[FuEl]

Goniopora...keep your nutrients level high. You can try to experiment only skimming 1-2 hours per day.

Last time mine thrived in a 10 gallon tank without skimming and nitrates >40ppm.

The size it expanded too was 3-4 times its shrunken size! Until my maroon came along and....

[Razo]

hmmm not sure of the name... help ID...

hey did u just get this from t95?

price?

think its called..goniopora aka jewel i got 1 too... heheheh best viewed in artinic rite..hehehe

[dodo]

nitrite : 0.5 mg/l

how come still hav traces of NO2?

[Razo]

when i bought it... the polyps never extend...surprise it can extend so long..

1/3.. beginning to extend..

[Razo]

2/3 .. so far only this long

[Razo]

3/3... under artinic

[Razo]

oops.. forget to attach pic

[Razo]

U notice the base is receeding? normally dun live above 6mths+ but that was before. word has it now they are able to be kept properly as new information regarding its care has been released

spiddy.. u have the link to it?