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Photo taken on Aug 99

" Imagine a live coral reef in your living room! It sounds fantastic, but it can actually be done: and as more people experiment with it so much more will be learned about it that someday it may be a commonplace thing (e.g. S'pore)"

Robert P. L. Straughan, 1969 (The Salt-Water Aquarium in the Home)

Tank Setup (established since Dec 96)

This page is dedicated to the sharing & exchanging of knowledge so that our hobby and the animals we keep can grow. As my set up is really simple and proven to work for me, I will try to provide as much information to you possible and do feel free to email me. Help topics also available under "ONLINE REFERENCE" here.

** EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT SIMPLER. - ALBERT EINSTEIN  **

4' L x 2' W x 2' H on half inch glass with no sump tank

4 sets of 3 feet fluorescent tubes consisting of a Coralife 10,000K daylight (14/12/99), 2 x  Hamilton actinic blue & one Arcadia 9,500K marine white (14/12/99)  & 1 x 4 feet Coralife 10,000K daylight fluorescent tube (05/01/00)

A counter-current skimmer (1 feet reactor column)(12/96)

A Tunze powerhead (2,400l/hr) on powertimer provided the wave

An Aquanic 1500 powerhead provided the undercurrent

Plenum is about 2 inches with another 4 inches of live sand on top

Temperature is 25 deg C average

Occasional usage of activated carbon in one external Eheim 2226 filter

Supplements Used: Kent Series - Iodine, Kalkwasser Mix, Turbo Calcium,  Super Chelated Iron with Manganese, Superbuffer dKH

Seachem Series - Reef   Builder(Buffer), Reef Plus (Trace) & Strontium

Coralife Series - Liquid Gold Pro Plus (Trace)

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My Current Tank Mates

HARD CORALS:

1)Acropora (A.gemmifera)   2)Torch Coral (Euphyllia glabrescens) 8/99                                             3)Open Brain Coral (Trachyphyllia geoffroyi)   4)Red Button Coral (Cynarina lacrymalis)                        5)Trumpet Coral (Caulastrea Dana)    6)Brain Coral (Montastrea Valenciennesi)                                 7)Plate Coral (Turbinaria peltata)        8)Trumpet Coral x 2 (Caulastrea curvata) 11/98                          9)Flowerpot Coral (Goniopora sp)   10)Fox Coral (Nemenzophyllia turbida Hodgson & Ross)2/99  11)Flowerpot Coral (Red)   12)Purple Coral (?) 3/99   13) Bubble Coral (P.sinuosa) 8/99                  14)Red Moon Coral Blastomussa spp.12/98                 15)Sun Coral  (Tubastrea micrantha) 2/99       16)Montipora digitata 8/99  17)Acropora indiana 6/99

SOFT CORALS:

1)Strip Button Polyps (Protopalythoa vestitus)               2)Star Polyps (Erythropodium sp.)                     3)Star Polyps [Pachyclavularia (Briareum) violacea]      4)Mushrooms (Copper) (Rhodactis sp)            5)Mushrooms (Red) Discosoma sp.)    6)Clove Polyps (Clavularia sp.)      7)Yellow Polyps                  8)Zoanthus sociatus x 3   9)Parazoanthus spp. 11/98   10)Sea Rod Red ( P. flexuosa) 1/99                    11)Devil's hand (Nephthyigorgia spp.) 3/99    12)Sea Rod (Pseudoplexaura sp.)                                 13)Button coral (Cynarina lacrymalis)             14)Stick polyps (Acrozoanthus sp[KA4-ZOA-08])          15)Strawberry coral (Dendronephthya spp.)8/99  16)Xenia spp. (KA4-ALC-08) 8/99                     17) Colt coral (Alcyonium sp.)

FISHES:

1)African Pygmy (Centropyge acanthops)       2)Bangaii Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni p.)                  3)Hector's goby (Amblygobius hectori) 1/99   4)Filament-finned prawn goby (S. nematodes)               5)Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto) 3/99    6)Fire dartfish (Nemateleotris magnifica)                               7)Yellow goby (Gobiodon okinawae) 2/99     8)Rainford's goby (Amblygobius rainfordi) 1/99             9)Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)         10)Watanabe angelfish(Genicanthus lamarcki)10/99      11)Scarlet Hawkfish 10/98 (Neocirrhites armatus) 12)Lined dartfish (Ptereleotris grammica) 9/99          13)Blackfin coral goby (Paragobiodon Iacunicolus) 

INVERTEBRATES: 

1)Red & White prawn x 2 (Alpheus Randall) ?               2)Brittle Star (Ophiomastix venosa)                 3)Blue Starfish (Linckia laevigata)      4)Turbo Snails x 5       5)Red Starfish x 2 ?   12/98                       6)T. maxima & H. porcellanus      7) Tubeworm x 5   (Sabellastarte  magnifica)                                      8) Anemone Shrimp (Periclimenes brevicarpalis)  2/99    9)Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa) 3/99          10) Pistol Shrimp (Synalpheus sp.) 4/99    11) Pistol Shrimp ? 4/99

 

             Singapore Marine Aquarium Contacts

(OFTEN, I AM ASKED "WHERE ELSE CAN GET FISHES & CORALS?", SO HERE IT IS...HAPPY SHOPPING!)

1. AQUAMART TEL: 7412022 <SIMS DRIVE> (SELL EQUIPMENT & SETUP)

2. AQUATECHNIC (S) P/L TEL: 3480048 <TANJONG RHU> (SELL EQUIPMENT, SETUP & MAINTENANCE)

3. AQUATIC MARINE SYSTEM TEL: 7588675 <YISHUN> (SELL EQUIPMENT & SETUP)

4. LIVING WATERS PTE LTD TEL: 4872377<UPP PAYA LEBAR RD> (SYSTEM SETUP & LIVE STOCKS)

5.OCEANWIDE MARINE AQUARIUM TEL: 2819612 <TAMPINES FISH FARM RD 2> (LIVE STOCKS)

6. PACIFIC MARINE AQUARIA TEL: 3863225 <PUNGGOL MARINA> (LIVE STOCKS)

7. PETMART TEL: 2896471 <SERANGOON NTH> (ACCESSORIES , REASONABLE PRICE)

8. REBORN AQUARIUM TEL: 2879335 <TAMPINES FISH FARM RD 1> (LIVE STOCKS)

9. SEA LIFE AQUARIUM TEL: 7774047 <HONG LEONG GDN & BALESTIA RD>(EQUIPMENTS & LIVE STOCKS)

10. SUPER STAR AQUARIUM TEL: 5844288 <ELIAS MALL>

11.SUPREME AQUARIUM P/L TEL: 4823083 <SELETAR WEST FARMWAY 1> (LIVE STOCKS)

12.THE REEF WORLD TEL: 5843819 <LOYANG AGROTECHNOLOGY PK> (LIVE STOCKS)

13.WONG LOY KEE TEL:2229763 <CHINATOWN> (EQUIPMENTS & LIVE STOCKS)

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ONLINE REFERENCE 

(This is the place if U have questions like "What is" & "How to")

1) The Marine Fish And Invert Reef Aquarium - by Albert J. Thiel

2) The Small Reef Aquarium Basics - by Albert J. Thiel

3) The Tao of Marine Aquaria - by Adam H. Whitlock

4) Growing Coralline Algae: a cookbook approach - by LeRoy Headlee

5) Tell me more about THE PLENUM !! - by Joseph S. Jones

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Recommeded Books

1) The Reef Aquarium Vol 1 & 2 - by J.Charles Delbeek & Julian Sprung

2) The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium Vol 1 & 2 - by Svein A Fossa & Alf Jacob Nilsen

3) Q & A Book of The Marine Aquarium - by Nick Dakin (This book is available at Library@Orchard)

4) Reef fishes of the World - by Ewald Lieske & Robert Myers 

THANKS FOR VISITING MY WEB PAGE !

LINKS

J. Charles Delbeek's HomePage (Co-author of   the book "The Reef Aquarium" Vol 1 & 2)

Nick Dakin's HomePage (Author of "The book of the Marine Aquarium" & many others)

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