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

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)
Take a Virtual Tour in Asia's Largest Tropical Oceanarium HERE!


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