Achilles Tang

Wooooo.. there's a babe in there... the one in the brown jacket!!! Anyone knows who that is?

It certainly is beautiful!

I have a hang on the wall plasma TV and it looks like this! Joking... I wish I can have a real plasma TV... for my PC!! Hon can answer you... he has a plasma TV.

Hmmm.... that's an idea! Maybe replace my back MH with T5 since they are quite close to the water? We shall see!

My bulbs are due for a change.... going to try the AquaConnect 14k bulbs to replace the 6500k... maybe I should cut down on growth instead...hehehe... and just go for colours!

He must have lent it to his wife!

Removing anemones is a lot harder than removing encrusted acro colonies!

Just did an guesstimation with a measuring tape.... I think this colony is about 14 inches across and about 9.5 inches tall!!!

One of the strangest thing to happen is that the polyps of my pink pocci colony suddenly turned flourescent green! So much so that when the polyps are out.. it looks like I have a green pocci specimen instead of pink! Ahh... the wonders of SPS!! (Apologies for the strange colour... damn hard to shoot under 20k bulbs alone!)

My hot pink acro milli frags are still growing strong... the hole where I fragged off one stalk for a good friend of mine has already filled up with encrusting tissue and new branches are growing out. Everyone calls this 'salmon pink' but I wish I can find back my very old photo of the mother colony when it was hot pink. Had to frag it when it RTNed.

Hehehee.... pruning...yes.... not fragging.... I'm aiming for the all natural looking grownup reef look... frags kinda get lost in my tank unless I create a special corner for them here and there... Growing frags to colonies is fun... but there's always room for 'cherries'! AT

That colony is that very well known hard-to-keep 'blue inside with red outer rim' acro!! It lost colour within a few days of purchase as expected and then appeared to bleach... so I kept it in a shadier area for a few months already, today, I just moved it up on top to give it a lot more light. Was worried that it will be a poor specimen as most other shipments were... but its ok. My priority was for it to acclimatize and because this specimen required a lot of water circulation around it... the only spot available was in a not-so-ideal shadier spot in the centre of my tank (where the two Stream cones collide). You can see the spot coz that's where I moved my reddish/orange montipora cap...! Now its COLOURATION time!! I'm gonna be monitoring it now closely, I'll report back in a few weeks. *fingers crossed*

SSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Remember this? Today... its like this now... all the tips been fragged off at least 3 times due to being burnt everytime it becomes 'low tide' when main return pump was switched off!

hehehe... the typical reply expected from a fellow SPS freak! Sorry Scarab... that's one of my beauties!

Nevermind, I'll link it all here for you to see! As of 110704! As of 210304! As of 130204! As of 100903! This staghorn colony has grown so large that it is blocking a lot of light to a 'purple with green polyp' acropora coral that is encrusted... arrggh!! I can't decide if I should remove the colony or to frag this staghorn colony!! It is also becoming a lot taller... I am sure in 5 years time, it'll crawl out of my tank and eat my dog.

Here's an update to the growth of my blue staghorn colony. Taken today as of 110704. You can refer to photos here for comparison.

Sorry guys, been busy and all... even my tank has been neglected, hehehe... Inspite of me using medication to try to get rid of red planaria, the flatworm plague has returned to run amok and the #$(&)@ montipora-eating nudibranchs are still steadily but surely chewing up my monti caps... still have a few bryopsis patches that refuse to go away... did lose some colour in some specimens due to the last flatworm killing medication exercise. The worst thing recently to happen was that my white xenia colony has split into at least 4 colonies and one of them got too close to my Tunze stream and got chewed up... and its toxins caused some minor RTN/STN patches. But overall, my tank's still doing ok... with growth of some SPS corals still exploding! My pinkish birdsnest constantly grows right up to the water surface and I have to break off the tips that get scorched everytime I turn off my return pump and the waterline drops, exposing about a centimetre of my birdsnest coral's tips, directly under a 400w Iwasaki bulb! No time to even change water (yeah yeah... excuses! ) but I have been dosing AquaConnect Energy Elements Trace elements to see if there are any effects and as mentioned by my friend who uses them... noticing that my reds & purples are alot stronger now.. *shrug*. Call me a critic before... but perhaps I have to eat back my words? Here's my latest tank pix...

Wow!! That's the most hilarious Karaoke clip I have ever seen! Tanzy... erm... your statement is too...

I think that tank is on a miracle mud sandbed system.... used with a refugium, its supposed to help reduce nitrates.

Hey.... that's nice! Its the same one I have!

Are you referring to this thread about BBS hatchery?

That is a priceless pix!

I have one. Was given one by the Hydor dude at Aquarama for review. Tried it and can give it a thumbs up. It does turn around well, deviating waterflow... its definitely much better as an add-on to an ordinary powerhead vs the brand of powerhead that swivels left and right (forgot the brand name) that is prone to jamming. Its so light that I can blow through the intake and the whole thing can swivel 360 degrees with little resistence, very nice gear system inside too... easy to break it apart for cleaning. Good for those with powerheads and have no corals in direct flow. The only problem with this is that you can't use it on a powerhead that is too near the water surface as the angle of the re-directed jet (when it swivels around, pointing 'upwards')can cause a 'bulge of current' under the water surface and cause splashing. I have used it in a vertical orientation and it functions just as well... perhaps even better in a typical horizontal position as the water points downwards in a 90 degree cone, enabling water current to reach the sandbed.

Another clue!