Achilles Tang

Congratulations!!! More and more SG reefers are getting acknowledgments from the world reefing community!! Stand up for Singapore! Scarab.... your TOTM article in SRC how? It's exactly the same! (background story: yours sincerely here has been very slow to put up the story! )

Funny how America changes their president every four years and expects the policies that each president makes to come to fruitation and then a new person comes along and changes things.

Sad to hear a repeat of this happening. Service, value and good workmanship is important.

Unless you have an extremely super forceful skimmer... you won't really skim live plankton out as it is mainly protein molecues that will adhere to the air bubble surfaces and not living plankton. If you really want to polish water, micron filters are good but again, you will catch all the good stuff as well unless you get the larger micron sizes.

The last four months alone we had 748 members signed up! Welcome to the fastest growing marine forum this side of the globe!!! To the newcomers, Wishing you a pleasant stay at SRC.... and may you learn lots from here and learn to share with and guide others likewise!!! Do be a responsible netizen here and be mindful of our house rules as our Mods can be quite overloaded at times trying to keep this place in order, for a more pleasant atmosphere and fruitful time for all here. Welcome again with warmest regards!! AT and the Mods SGREEFCLUB

Anyway, the topic is about fish. Unless you bring in a sea turtle, a dolphin, sea horses and other endangered fishes.... AVA allows you to bring in most marine fish, up to the personal limit specified.

True but if it can strain up to that size, potentially good live zooplankton will also be caught up. Also I think some diatom filters may leach silicates to the water... double-edged sword if you ask me!

Azra, You will get clumps of salt that will be very hard to dissolve. And your walls will have this white layer which are calcium deposits that have come out of the water due to ionic imbalance. Not recommended, this method isn't.

No reason to use them.... diatoms do not last very long in reef tanks. Once the fuel eg. silica, is gone... their life cycle is over.

Do an all-out attack!! Aerial & naval bombardment with ground blitz!!! Just do the above as we have advised you.... they will do major damage... and if all else fails, you can switch off your lights for max 3 days after a major cleanup effort. It may prevent the cyano from blooming (but watch your corals as they may bleach due to sudden intense light exposure again). A last resort nuke is to use chemicals that targets cyanbacteria but you may have casualties. And get your skimmer working soon! AT

Hi! Welcome to the hobby!! It's going to be one wild ride! My advice is to read as much as you can, get a good marine book (updated version to the last 3 years) and of course, surf to forums such as SRC and Reef Central to get the best tips from reefers who have gone thru a lot of heartache so as to prevent you from making the same mistakes! Take it slow and steady, resist procrastination and fight impatience to the death to prevent more deaths (your marine pets and yours when the wife finds out how much you are spending to restock/restart your tank)!!! Welcome to SRC!! AT

Add anti-chlorine to the water first before adding salt. Using freshwater that is free of high alkaline or phosphates is best... like RO/DI water. If not, just tapwater will do... you can remove these some other way later. Add salt to water and NOT the other way around to prevent calcium precipitation ie. snow storm. The salt will dissolve faster this way too. To speed up the process, add a Tunze stream in the bucket to churn things up. If the saltmix comes with some trace elements in a liquid vial, add this too. Let the solution sit for as long as you can... even overnight. Measure the salinity over time as the value will not stay the same initially due to different saltmix solubility rates. Once the salinity is around 1.023 to 1.025... you can add it to your tank. If the water change volume is large... you can cool the saltmix water down with frozen ice substitutes first before adding to your tank to prevent shocking any sensitive inhabitants. Sometimes using a powerhead to aid in speeding salt dissolving overnight will cause the water temp in the bucket to rise. Cheers, AT

Sea cukes will not eat cyanobacteria, in fact, they will avoid the patches of cyano and even climb up walls if your sandbed is covered with cyano! They only help to stir up the uppermost layer of sand and help turn it around. Try to improve your water circulation too... if there a lack of current causing pockets of 'dead spots' in the water, the lower PH in these dead spots will cause the release of binded phosphates from the calcareous sand and rocks that will feed the cyanobacteria. AT

Nothing eats cyano... not even sea hares. Don't get overly frustrated about cyano.... I have dived in spots where the whole seabed is filled with wavy strands of cyano!!! You not only have to target just phosphates when fighting cyano... they are known to thrive in nutrient-heavy water... so its a water-quality issue. Either you are lacking in good filtration or have too much of livestock overloading or overfeeding. Get a good skimmer, practice good water husbandry, get your nutrient levels low... they will help. Once the fuel runs out.... the cyano or other nuisance algae will cease. Its a cycle that will pass... albeit quite a long frustrating one... hang in there. AT

Excellent landscaping, bro!!! Finally you show your masterpiece!

I can imagine the face on the custom officer's face when you say... "I like to declare that I am carrying 5 pieces of live rock." and your face when he says "sure.... show me your CITES permit!" LOL!!!

I do.

Maybe you can wear a back brace when you do heavy work... it does help a lot. Anyway, if you really want, you can hire people to do the dirty work for you... you just sit down and direct and then enjoy!

Its easy to break apart epoxy.

Man!! You're making me regret not diving but going to HK this coming long weekend!!

Some species of flatworms can kill fish and corals when there is enough of them dying at the same time. Do not underestimate the strength of their toxins. Flatworms do not attack SPS corals. These are more commonly found in LPS and softies. Some flatworms are photosynthetic and may spread out and 'sun tan' on dead SPS skeleton surfaces but are not responsible for RTNing SPS.

I think u posted in the wrong forum. Pls be mindful where u post... you'll confuse everyone! I'll move it from Pasar Malam to the newbie forum. Cheers! AT

Yes, you can email them and they will make the arrangements. Not sure about the payment though... you can call and check?

You can speak to Ian from I-Aqua, he does fabulous acrylic sumps! Works of art and you won't be afraid of cracking a glass sump!

Hope whoever goes there will support the Admin and the Mods over there who undoubtedly have to set & readjust realistic rules to fit their system of upkeeping their site. I was just over there visiting the site and a few people in there are hinting about the 'money-making' people over here and yet wanting no controls or rulings about bulk orders or to keep promoting non-advertisers in the new place??? Hmmmm..... who ARE these guys?? Gee....