Achilles Tang

THE FIVE SECRETS OF A PERFECT RELATIONSHIP 1. It is important to find a woman who cooks, cleans up and has a job. 2. It is important to find a woman who can make you laugh. 3. It is important to find a woman who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you. 4. It is important to find a woman who is good in bed and who likes to be with you. 5. It is very important that these four women don't know each other.

I'll start off! >Good story ... must read .... > >A jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft. The HR >manager interviewed him, then gave him a test, which was to clean the >floor. >After that the HR manager said "You are engaged, give me your e-mail >address, and I'll send you the application to fill, as well as when you >will >start". > >The man replied, " I don't have a computer, neither an email" > >"I'm sorry", said the HR manager, "if you don't have an email, that means >you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job". > >The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only 10US >$ >in his pocket. The man then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 >Kg >tomato crate. He sold the tomatoes in a door-to-door round. > >In less than two hours, He succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the >operation three times, and returned home with 60 US$. The man realized that >he could survive this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return >late. Thus, his money doubled and tripled day by day. > >Shortly later, he bought a car, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of >delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man became one of the biggest food >retailers in the U. S. He started to plan his family's future, and decided >to get life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and choose a >protection plan. > >When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him for his email. > >The man replied: "I don't have an email". The broker replied curiously,"you >don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Do you >imagine what you could have been if you had an email?"!! > >The man thought for a while, and replied: "an office boy at Microsoft! > > >"The moral of this story: > >1- Internet is not the solution to your life > >2- if you don't have Internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire. > >3- if you received this message by email, you are closer to be an office >boy, rather than a >millionaire.

Time to revive this favourite old thread!!! A young husband comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck: "Darling, I have great news! I'm a month overdue. I think we're going to have a baby! The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody." The next day, a guy from the electric company rings the doorbell, because the young couples haven't paid their last bill. "Are you Mrs. Smith? You're a month overdue, you know!" "How do YOU know?" stammers the young woman. "Well, ma'am, it's in our files!" says the man from the electric company. "What are you saying? It's in your files?????" "Absolutely." "Well, let me talk to my husband about this tonight." That night, she tells her husband about the visit, and he, mad as a bull, rushes to the electric company offices the first thing the next morning. "What's going on here? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue? What business is that of yours?" the husband shouts. "Just calm down," says the clerk, "it's nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us." "PAY you? And if I refuse?" "Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut you off." "What???? And what would my wife do then?" the husband asks. "I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle."

Hmmm, I'm kinda busy now, maybe u do a google on LED lights first? Here's a good thread with links to start u off on general reef lighting. I have no clue to how intense the light wattage for T5/PL should be and how much water surface turbulence you need to replicate a good 'glitter line' effect. If the ripple effect is just for visual aesthetics, then perhaps DIYing a row of white LED bulbs may give you that.

My choice! f_tigertimehokkien.zip

MH is the surest thing as it is a strong point-source light. An LED bulb is also a point-source light, you will get the ripple-effect. It's hard for FL or PL tubes to get this effect due to the light being spread out over a long area. It's possible to get this effect with strong FL/PL, but it will be restricted to just one tiny area, perhaps due to a spot of water having heavier water turbulence, thus causing enough 'lens' effect to make a tiny ripple effect.

Alright guys, give BH and his school a break. Perhaps he didn't satisfy the majority of people here with a clear explanation of how his project is going to be accomplished and has yet to clearly convince us with his motives and goals. Until the answers are given, I believe the time will come when the truth will be revealed.... so let's just wait and see. No malice was intended from our probing and I am sure there is no offence taken. Let's not make it any worser. BH certainly is enthusiastic but I am sure he has learnt how the public thinks and responds to the intended project. Let's just wait for a more concrete blueprint to be out and I am sure SRC members can be a valuable contribution later on, if help is requested. Till then.... peace!

Ancelot, One doesn’t have to purposely introduce oxygen into the DSB for nitrification to work! If there isn’t enough oxygen in the tank for aquatic life in the first place, providing enough oxygen for bacteria is a moot point! No one adds airstones to their reef tanks unless it’s a fish-only tank or a tank with very poor oxygen levels eg. Poor water circulation. A good example would be a quarantine tank or LFS holding tanks that are not skimmed. As long as there is exposure to air and there is sufficient motion for air-water interaction, there is no need for supplementary air stones. Ever heard of wet-dry filters? Most newbies have bioballs in their sump or overflow and enough oxygen is present for the aerobic bacteria to quickly process ammonia & nitrites into nitrates. One also doesn’t have to cater for additional airstones as the typical tank would have enough dissolved oxygen through the bubbles introduced into the skimmer column or water going through the overflow into the sump. You do NOT have to add oxygen to the DSB! The top levels will have enough oxygen to support nitrification and the bottom layers certainly should not be exposed to oxygen at all. Ozone is something not to be trifled with and should be only applied with caution and in minute amounts but with the aim of burning off organics & killing bacteria and not as a means of oxygenating the water, much less the sandbed! AT

By what statistics do you say this?

I like to remind everyone to discuss the issue and not off topic stuff like discussing methods of copepod cultivation.

The recent year had more & more evidence coming out against the long-term viability of the DSB. The about-face turn by a major authority & proponent of the DSB in the USA is also deeply disturbing. It's still a fantastic natural nitrate-reducing method and provider of natural zooplankton but recent evidence shows that it does contribute to 'old tank syndrome'. It seems like a big enemy of the reef tank, phosphate, will leach out over time... a major consequence of the DSB being a nutrient sink, causing unexplained algae blooms and corals becoming unhealthy. A recent study of my DSB has also yielded evidence that it has become rather devoid of microlife, a crucial factor in the effectiveness of a DSB. Without sandbed critter recharge kits with enough diversity, are our sandbeds becoming virtual deserts, a nutrient cesspool and a ticking timebomb? The trend now is that some very experienced SPS keepers are moving away from a sandbed and relying on just turbulent water circulation to keep detritus afloat, coupled with a very good skimmer and believing that if you prevent detritus from building up & export it fast enough, you can effectively control nitrates & phosphate. In their opinion, using starboard bottoms, although fake looking, is the alternative to a bare bottom tank. It will become natural looking over time with coralline algae (a little weird to have a pink-bottomed tank, IMO). With better and better water circulation devices coming up eg. Tunze wavebox, achieving the lifting of detritus, will this be the new trend in SPS reefing? Let's discuss the evidence. Keep it serious, folks!

Any possible form of contamination? Anybody sprayed insecticide or window cleaner around your tank? Throw some new carbon into your sump and add a polyfilter.

IMO, if your school lab is buying corals to do mainly research on corals, I don't see the need for buying that many corals. I also don't see the need for coral propagation. Unless its done on a very very large scale, the contribution to conservation is negligible. And there should be no sale of corals as it contradicts the motive. Unless its done on a very very large scale, the fund-raising profit from the sale of frags would be negligible compared to the money your school (I mean, the tax payers money) would have to invest in this long-term project. And the frags should not come from imports at all if the essence of your motive is to reduce the number of coral imports in Singapore. (then again, what kind of corals are you doing research/propagation on? Are you intending to research on every single species of corals or are you just concentrating on exotic coloured SPS? ). Corals do take a long time and a lot of care and effort to grow. SPS may take a slightly faster time provided you are willing to spend a bomb for their upkeep. Even then, species-specific, you may take a few months before you can break enough frags and WAIT a few more months for these frags to grow up. And if you break frags, how many percent of these will be left for 'conservation purposes' and how many frags are you intending to sell? So even if you can make the effort to grow frags into palm-size colonies, are you even certain that these corals will prosper if transplanted into the seas around Singapore? Have you even found a site for them yet? I'm curious about the conservation efforts that you talk about. We are not talking about filling a 6ft tank with coral frags to be viewed as substantial, we should be talking about at least a football field of frags to grow a reef bank at least. Frankly with the dark silty waters around Singapore not going to abate (with the new developments in Sentosa and the Southern Islands for the casino resort), I am quite sceptical about the visible viabilities (pardon the pun). Lastly, your project will only start in 2006? So where are the frags that you're asking for now going to reside? In your home tank? Back to the research objectives... what are they again?

The orangey-pink patches look like some kind of sponge growth. Is it soft? If not, its probably some kind of coralline algae. Do u have clearer pix? Is that the real colour?

Monkey or man... it doesn't matter. The Russians beat the US to space. i am a believer in the NASA Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy.

First time I heard of this theory. Carbon affecting the colouration of fish? What's the logical explanation for this?

You guys aint' seen nothing yet... pole dance or lap dance!

somebody mention fish pix? How can I be a true blue reefer and not check out the local marine scene? I have some pix to show.... later!

They are shore crabs, spending a considerable amount of time sifting through sand for food during low tide. I don't think they will thrive if they are always in water.

Barring all other factors, corals will generally darken when the nutrient levels are high, be it SPS or LPS. 1. Really depends on your bioload and your husbandry skills. 2. 12 hours would be alright. If you have intense lighting, you can get away with 9 - 10 hours.

A famous HK landmark... but I hear the standard of the food there has dropped tremendously.

Mega-yacht belonging to a famous Hong Kong magnate.