My tank upgrading plan

Upgrading plan:

1. Aquamedic denitrator NR1000 with SP3000 dosing pump.
2. 1/3 hp chiller. (Haven't decide on its brand)
3. Lighting - 14k MH + 2x T5 (ATI aquablue special)
4. Hydro 2000 Protein Skimmer.
5. Additional Cabinet for FR, denitrator, etc.

My tank update

So far, all equipments had being installed and running. Damned! I accidentally broke one of my nanostream clamp. Have to wait till August then got spare part stocks.

Currently fighting with diatom, Ron advised me to do 10-20% water change. Will do it tonight,.. hehe.

Just talked to Phillip from Geo-Aquatic. Will get aquamedic denitrator NR1000, comes with SP3000 dosing pump.

Get ready for it!!

On 23th may'07. Nothing much to do and thought of going to get DI unit. Prior of getting live rocks, I give Coralfarm a call first, to check on the arrival of Fiji premium live rocks. Finally, it had arrived from United State. So I booked a cab all the way to LCK lane 6f. All live rocks were uncured. Full of nuisance algaes, sponges, etc.

My concept of live rock selection is to create landscape with several caves for fishes to hide when afraid, sleeping and resting areas. After some selection, I stacked those live rocks and measured them using measuring tape to ensure the draft landscape that I created is able to fit into my fish tank.

Also, it is fun to see those fishes swimming in and out of the live rock scaping.
And that the idea of keeping fish as a hobby to relax yourself after work.

I bought 20kg of live rocks. The curing process had really stunk the whole house with smell like dead corpse. Argh...

One particular live rock that I bought was so huge that I have to use laundry container for curing. It took me around 3 weeks of water changing, srubbing to remove nuisance algaes, clams, sponges and some worms to have 80-90% curing process completion. During this process, no crabs, mantis shrimps found in the live rocks.

All equipments are almost ready. Will get DI unit (Crystal Pro)on 7th June at Aquamarin, as well as 2 bags of nature ocean live sand
Lazy to wash ordinary sand.. haha.