Colin's refurbished Partition Tank

[jacobus]

aiya ... nvm liao ... finally collected ....

[colinsoon]

sorry bro... came back from work today, super shagged out...

anyway discovered my diatoms starting to bloom again.. haiz...

[colinsoon]

oh, forgot to add, my plate is dead. haiz. stupid me.

[TntR2]

oh, forgot to add, my plate is dead. haiz. stupid me.

wad happened?!

[regal angel]

oh, forgot to add, my plate is dead. haiz. stupid me.

check now your perimeter!

[colinsoon]

haiz. due to my stupidity...

anyway, what causes red slime? its getting to be quite a nuisance in my tank.. anyway of solving it...?

[thomas_lim]

What your feeding habit like? Red Slime are usually cause by high nutrient. You still feed market prawn for your prata/cyna? Try to reduce the feeding, the cyna need little feeding if your water condition is ok and steady.

Watch out your bio load as well. Take note tangs eat and shit a lot and not necessary help a lot with algae cleaning.

Go some mushrooms & other small corals which I can past you if you are interested. Need to clear some space for my SPS.

Give me a buzz.

[colinsoon]

hey thomas!

i am hardly at home to feed them, only back on weekends. so i only feed once a day, sometimes twice. I haven fed my corals in a long time, since my last posting on feeding.

with regards to the bioload, i know i am treading on very thin ice, with 5 tangs in my tank. but i am monitoring the water parameters. i dunno if its a good thing or not, but i was cleaning my seio juz now, saw a few specks of coralline algae on the housing. i think that might be a good sign my water is ok...? i dnno..

i am going for hammers, juz got another one today, with another prata and a gonio. stressed them a hell lot juz now by moving them around during the 5 hour rescape which i did. now they are not really opening.. will post fotos up soon.

[sunnymau]

bro from i see in the first few thread, i notice you using overflow box right? if i not wrong..

i use overflow box in the past too.. it is very important the overflow box can match with the return..

2cent

[jervismun]

t is very important the overflow box can match with the return..

Yes I agree to that... your overflow box must allow the huge amount of water turnover you may want to introduce to the system... in the end of the day... the 2 must compliment each other... or else... disaster is inevitable

[colinsoon]

my overflow box can match up to my return. if not my tank would have flooded already...

right now i am running a 4000L pump, so flow rate is actually quite high IMO.

oh my water is also quite yellowish. it only gets better when i change water.. wat can i use to take away the yellowish ting? carbon?

[jervismun]

wat can i use to take away the yellowish ting? carbon?

Yes... activated carbon will do the trick just fine

[colinsoon]

$$$$ again.

haiz.

[sunnymau]

what is your tank height?

look pretty tall to me..

this make it much harder to get the detrius up to flow into the box..

again wake maker comes in...

seio give you a more focus water output which is imo unable to produce good current like what tunze does..

with such a tall tank, you need a wake maker like tunze to create current across the tank evenly, and carry the detrius up. if not multiple pump is needed to get that effect, that is why i use total of five pump in my main tank alone..

one sieo with retutn only, i don think is enough IMHO.

[sunnymau]

oh my water is also quite yellowish. it only gets better when i change water.. wat can i use to take away the yellowish ting? carbon?

powerful skimmer can do the job too, $$$$$$$ again

[colinsoon]

i am using AS250. quite underpowered. but hoping that weekly water changes will do that job... dun think gonna change to another skimmer, cos will cos more $$$$ and also power consumption is also an issue. i dun wan my dad to be paying too much for utility bills each month...

[colinsoon]

what is your tank height?

look pretty tall to me..

this make it much harder to get the detrius up to flow into the box..

again wake maker comes in...

seio give you a more focus water output which is imo unable to produce good current like what tunze does..

with such a tall tank, you need a wake maker like tunze to create current across the tank evenly, and carry the detrius up. if not multiple pump is needed to get that effect, that is why i use total of five pump in my main tank alone..

one sieo with retutn only, i don think is enough IMHO.

hmmmm.

finally its starting to make sense. haha.. how does a tunze work? wat do you advice me to use??? 6060? its gonna be an expensive investment, i dun wanna make the wrong choice.. haha!

wat makes tunze so special over seio btw???

[colinsoon]

CA growth on my seio... hope it gets more...

[colinsoon]

interesting growth..

[colinsoon]

this patch used to be white. or nearly white. now its super strong purple..

sorry but i have been reefing for a year already, but having coraline algae growth is very new to me.. haha

[colinsoon]

my TBT, now MBT. haa... medium sized already...

[colinsoon]

look at its fat butt...

[colinsoon]

my ever shy, and almost hardly featured damsel.. been with me since the very very very start...

[colinsoon]

final shot, before disaster strikes...

[colinsoon]

feeling really down, so went on a retail therapy trip with bros raydiative and jacobus. got some stuff, which set me back by a lotttt... but nvm, came back feeling quite shiok.. till i started to place the corals.. had to rescape a bit. ended up had to remove everything and rescape. and only succeeded in stressing out the corals super a lot..

5 hours later... water still murky...