Saturday, July 26, 2008




Nemo and his father.

My kid wanted nemo and father, so I finally decide to add live stock.

Tank itself is cycle completed, but I had mini cycle due to livestock introduction.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Getting small amount of coralline algae





Will be adding fish coming weekend, my son is bugging for Nemo and his dead. I hope water is good enought

Diatom getting really bad


Dang it start getting diatom after the rearrange the rock work, might cause massive die out in the base rocks, or something else but not sure.

Shorten the light period. turn off the 34watt PC and only running 24watt PC.

Koralia power head and rearrange the tank






Rearrange the rock work
Installed surface skimmer.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

seeding live sand with sand from establish tank

Well, 3 days pass since I seeded my dead sand, and I am seeing some green algae coming up, not those nasty diatom kind but actually circular green coralline, hopefully I will get some pink or purple ones soon. No live stock yet in my tank. I am waiting for surface skimmer and power head for additional water movement before I start adding live stock it seems I am not getting good gas exchange due to the fact that i have oil build up on my water surface. I hope surface skimmer will help.

I will post pics once I received the items on Wednesday.

Just another week I will be adding live stock, hermit crab and some snails first.