My 4 x 2 x 1.5 Reef tank

[chamty]

Tank (from CR):

Dimensions- 4 x 2 x 1.5 ft

I chose 1.5 ft height for easy maintenance & better light penetration... regret after seeing hijacking's spectacular tank!

Age: 4 months (set-up in mid-August 08).

Equipment:

Light- 6 x 54w ATI HO

Skimmer- no brand from AM

CR -Xtreme CR with Aquapharm Reef-lith

FR - RM FR with SORB-4

LS:

Fish

1) False Pecula (with me for 5 years!)

2) Pecula Clown (with me for 5 years!)

3) Maroon Clown (with me for 5 years!)

4) Blue Damsel

5) Clarkii Clown (2 nos)

6) Sabae Clown

7) 6-line Wrasse

8) Royal Gamma

9) Mandarin fish (1 pair)

10) Yellow Goby

11) fire Goby (2 nos)

12) Purple Goby

13) Blueline Pipefish (1 pair)

14) Blotchy Anthias

[chamty]

More photos of fishes:

[chamty]

Soft Corals:

[chamty]

Sps, Clams & Sun:

[kueytoc]

Ya lime greenie Carpet certainly stands out in the 'crowd'.

[peacemaker]

Very nice... and this is only 4 mths old? You stock up really fast...

[TayHongSiang]

Very nice... and this is only 4 mths old? You stock up really fast...

Very nice...well maintained.

[ReDDeviLs]

nice tank

[mecedesfish]

nice tank

Brother,

veri nice LS, more pictures please

Cheers

[chamty]

Thank you all for the kind comments.

Have been working hard to control the nitrate levels...

If you look closely at the photos, you can see very large bunches of Chaeto on both sides of the display tank and in the sump... + bags and bags of PURA NitrateLock, Seachem Denitrate, etc inside my sump!

[Golden Tooth]

Nice tank bro... Keep up...

[hijackng]

Thank you all for the kind comments.

Have been working hard to control the nitrate levels...

If you look closely at the photos, you can see very large bunches of Chaeto on both sides of the display tank and in the sump... + bags and bags of PURA NitrateLock, Seachem Denitrate, etc inside my sump!

nice. love your green carpet.

shallow tank can be nice with TLC :-)

btw, wat the reading of your N03?

[chamty]

Thanks Jack.

Nitrate still hovering at around 5-10 ppm..

Ammonia, Nitrite, Phosphate at zero

The birdnest & digita (blue polyp) frags from you are doing very well..

The light blue tip acro frag has turn slightly greenish brown though... probably due to nitrate

[yikai]

Stunning. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the green carpet. Totally psychadelic! Very retro the colour. =) And i like ur mushrooms also

[hijackng]

Thanks Jack.

Nitrate still hovering at around 5-10 ppm..

Ammonia, Nitrite, Phosphate at zero

The birdnest & digita (blue polyp) frags from you are doing very well..

The light blue tip acro frag has turn slightly greenish brown though... probably due to nitrate

not dangerously high.

beside cheato, can also consider AZNO3 or BioDigest.

both product will help in skimming and reduce NO3.

as for Azno3, follow their instructions and dose with care.

[chamty]

More photos:

...and my favourite fish at the moment..

a pair of blueline pipefish (hunting for pods in the chaeto).

[chamty]

A new project:

10" x 5" x 8" ht nano tank (using acrylic box from 'MUJI') for sexy shrimps, Thor amboinensisand tiny gobies (from Henry):

Fishes feeding very well on Zooplex (MarineZooplankton from Kent Marine)..

[Firestarter]

I love your nano tank! It's so clean! Care to share what equipment are you using? Any overflow to remove the dust stuck on the water's surface?

[uLtRaMaN]

Nice setup bro!!!

[peacemaker]

Very nice nano! I've always thought of using these ready-made acrylic boxes, but I was afraid they weren't made hardy enough to withstand the pressure from salt water.

Btw, what camera are you using?

[chamty]

Nano tank set-up..

Water inlet: from FR

Water outlet: overflow back to main display tank's sump (through existing hole in acrylic box)

Camera:

using an old Canon EOS 300D, lense 18-55mm

[chamty]

latest FTS:

Latest acquisitions:

Skimz SM150

No complains so far..

SPS from AM:

Red Gonia from GO

Zoas from Nuclear Fibre:

(colours a bit reddish as I have added 1 tube of ATI Pro Colour)

Yumas from ML

Zoas from Irwana

(still waiting for polyps to open)

Xenia from Rebn

Clown anemone shrimp

Has been living in this coral for more than a week.. fortunately none of my fish (esp 6-line wrasse) is harassing it.

Super cute lionfish from Jirh

Only around 2.5cm long.. feeds greedily on frozen mysis.. in a quarantine tank that is slowly evolving into a fowlr tank

Ex-quarantine tank:

[yikai]

oo i see u bought their juvenile lion fish very cute eh?

[raydiative]

nice!

great scaping... allows viewing and coral placement from many angles!

[ambystoma82]

eh bro ur carpet stabalise its location already?

always admire those can hv mixed reef with e super stinger carpet..