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ho ho $ really no enough...

i save by performing regular water change (topic marin pro reef,10%-20%), one/twice weekly.

so that i can do away with ALL the additives (i have tried many (and it is really many) different additives during my first year in the hobby, and to me, i find that the result does not quite justify the $ and time put in)

I am using external filter (resun) + T5 LO (rainbow) + protein skimmer (VIA AQUA), relatively cheap compare to others....

It is the KNOWLEDGE & SKILLs that matter more than anything else...

CHEERS to low cost :D

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子非鱼,焉知鱼之乐... (you are not the fish so you...)

Then: my 4FT low tech selling off tank... (2006)

Now: (2014)

@Sept 2014

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woah...pro reef isn't cheap too

view my 2ft tank thread update here!!

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36399

Tank Dimension: 24'x15'x19' with black silicon. All round 8mm.

Equipments:

Return Pump : Hailea HX6540

Skimmer/Chiller : Sicce 2500lph

Skimmer : Weipro 2011

Lightings: 4xT5s HO..2 20,000k & 2 Blue Pro(Aquaz) Retrofits

Chiller : Resun CL280

Auto Water Top Up

Life Stock:

More then 35kg of figi rocks

Blue Tang, Powder Blue Tang, Bristletooth tang, Clown Tang, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Flame Angel, Six Line Wrasse, Sunrise Dottyback. 2 Cleaner Shrimp

Green Bubble, Orange Yuma, Hammer, True Octopus, Acans,

Frogspawn, Green/Orange Cyannaria, Red Prata, Red Open Brain, Star Polyp, Acan Enchinata

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Well done, bro

Nice tank with the essential equipment. Well scape too. Cheers.

By the way ur T5 LO, how many you using???

Equipment:

30G Corner Tank with 10G Sump, 2 x 24W artinic T5, 1 x 24W 10K, 1x 24W 20K, 3" Grade 0 sand & Live rocks, Activated Carbon, Bio-home, 2 x Seio M620, Hailea 1/2HP Chiller, Redsea Pro Skimmer

Live Stock:

Turbo Snail x 1, Green Mandarin Dragonet X 2, Blue Tang X 2, True percular x 2, 1 x Algae Bleenie, Clarke clown x 2

Reef:

1 x 2" Blue maxima, Red/Brown/Purple Mushroom (Discosoma), Pink Ricordea yuma, A little colony Brown/Green common Zoanthus, Red/Pink/Green US Zoanthus, Eagle-eye Zoathus, 14 Branch Goniopora Pandoraensis, 1 Starburst Polyps, 3 + 2 Branch Frogspawn, 4 Blasto, palythoa, Cheato

RIPs (Since June 2005):

1. Sabae clown (KO by Clarke clown) 2. 1 branch melted frogspawn 4 branch 3. Golden maxima (Ripe the base off rock by me) 4. Algae Bleenie x 2 (Starvation) 5. Blue Maxima x 1, 2 x Maxima, 1 x frogspawn, rics (Overtemp...)

Old 30G Corner Tank.

Restarted 30G Corner Tank.

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thanks all for the comments :D (feel encouraged)

some replies:

* proreef - (all additives) = $ for Coral + save time

* i have 8 tubes (T5LO, 4 tubes in each lighting set)

* have been keeping reef tank for >2Yrs but current tank moved over from old place (shift house... terrible experience...never want to go through it again...)

my equipment list:

1) 4 FT Tank

2) 2 * 4 FT T5LO Lights (@$115 each)

3) 1 * resun canister filter (@ cannot remember, but it is relatively cheap)

4) 1* viaqua protein skimmer (@$75 each)

5) 1 * fan (@$24)

6) 2* resun internal filter (@$35 each)

7) chemipure + rowaphos + prime

8) ref books (important and usefull)

9) wetwebmedia (very important and very usefull)

10) and of course sgreefclub lah

cheers

子非鱼,焉知鱼之乐... (you are not the fish so you...)

Then: my 4FT low tech selling off tank... (2006)

Now: (2014)

@Sept 2014

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Emm... really quite cost effective setup... perhaps I overspent... let me look at my last month's credit card bill... :nuke:

Have to agree with you bro... KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS... but can I add PASSION too? Coz I am feeling it all over my body... like FIRE :evil:

Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica

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nice tank.

can NO T5 sustain clams?

having growth and how long have they in ur tank.

really minimal input with max output

2x1.5x1.5 tank

Lighting: AI hydra 52HD

Skimmer: Deltec SC 1455

Reactor: Minimax; rowaphos

Skimz  ; NP biopellets

Wave Maker: MP 40 WQD

Return pump: Eheim 1262

Chiller: Arctica 1/10 hp

 

A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel -- Proverbs 12:10

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Both have been around for >6mths, healthy and opening. when my fishes swim passed, they will closed

my T5 is not actually NO, i am using HO on my rainbxw light set ( which comes with NO, and yes, HO is actually brighter). when i check with the vendor. they said that for this shipment it can be "done". so what i have now is HO in NO light set. :P

子非鱼,焉知鱼之乐... (you are not the fish so you...)

Then: my 4FT low tech selling off tank... (2006)

Now: (2014)

@Sept 2014

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Bro, Lemonpeel angel u keep look gorgeous :yeah:

Is it reef-safe? Got peck at yr coral?

I always thought of keeping angels... but afraid that they will peck at corals and tubeworms... esp in my small 2 ft setup :nc:

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yo yo sorry to all those bros who ask me questions, i am busy preparing for my MSc exams....

back to the questions, i didnt use any additive to maintain calcium or other...

i used tap water plus prime...

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子非鱼,焉知鱼之乐... (you are not the fish so you...)

Then: my 4FT low tech selling off tank... (2006)

Now: (2014)

@Sept 2014

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