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That's a trueblue Aerofoamer beckett skimmer! Hon, I usually tune my water level to the base of the collection cup (above the neck).

Nothing much at ML today. Bartlett and Evansi anthias are sold out at PR today. Bio Ocean has real flourescent green carpet anemones. haven't seen those in a long time!

Splitting?

It's not that difficult. Just tell us what you're trying to say. PM me pls asap.

Ahem... tock tick! I'm in a good mood. What do you want your thread title to be renamed?

Blue chromis? They don't get imported. You mean green chromis?

Its Dow Corning 795.

NICE!!! I like your green staghorn on the right!

Frankly, for a public aquarium, their marine tanks are really horrible-looking. Maybe we should go over as consultants!

5. Foam is one issue and so is swirling water. If you have thick foam and its swirling, you will have a good skimmer.

Oh I see. Thanks for clarifying that up. How much Lanthanum Chloride does it take to remove 0.25ppm of PO4 in 100l of saltwater? I'm curious about this because it may be a viable substiture for iron oxide or aluminium oxide! Maybe Tanzy can shed some light on this?

Yeah, I use a big syringe to do the same thing too!

Holanthias borbonius No ID. All discovered at the 'Twilight Zone' aka 200-400 ft. down at Palau.

If I can afford the commercial branded equipment from reputable manufacturers in Germany, the USA or Japan, I WILL buy them. These are the benchmarks of well-researched and well-designed equipment. I'd rather drive a BMW than a Hyundai. I have DIY stuff eg. lightings, skimmer, Calcium Reactor etc, because I need to supersize my equipment due to my SPS corals. These corals really demand a LOT from me and I'm happy that my equipment has not disappointed me thus far. If I had to buy commercial versions, it would have cost me 5x the price. Eeks. Most DIY projects are based on commercial designs and may work as well as the real stuff as long as one understands the concepts of how and why they work and is able to adapt using local parts to duplicate the working principle. It takes a lot of time and expenses eg. transportation etc in the sourcing of individual parts, trials and errors with the risk of costly mistakes, compromisation of effectiveness with design flaws and workmanship... sometimes rendering DIY projects more expensive & time wasting than just buying commercial products straight off. I see DIY stuff as an alternative to commercial products which used to be sold at every expensive prices in the past but thankfully prices has come down locally, even as shipping freight and the strong Euro turn people off from ordering from overseas. Like I said, get the real thing if you can afford it as it is often better designed and made of better quality stuff.

Heh heh... one engine flying two planes? Nah.... I like the way you think but unfortunately... it doesn't work that way!

looks like mysid shrimps to me.

You might wanna keep an eye on the Sally Lightfoot crab... they are known to catch & eat fishes.

This thread is quite a chat channel huh?

Keeping jellyfish is not as simple as one thinks. You have to feed them BBS heavily EVERYDAY or they'll starve!

I strongly recommend that cleaner shrimps be employed for cleaning functions instead of doctor fish aka cleaner wrasses. They indeed have a poor survival record in captivity and will perish quickly once their food source aka parasites, finishes. That is, if they even survive the accimatization period! I have not kept cleaner wrasses for many years because of this reason until I picked one up that was kept for weeks in a LFS AND feeding on frozen cyclopeze and frozen food! What a lucky find! To date, its been alive for about 5 months and still counting! Doctorfishes removed from reefs cause a direct impact on the healthy fish population there.

Had that happen all the time. Keeping shrimps in a reef tank is a good idea because of their frequent spawning will create natural fishfood and coral food. If you want to culture shrimps, you have to culture them seperately then. And seperate the fry from their parents in a seperate grow-out tank. Quite a bit of work to feed them enough with appropriate foods and yet control water quality.

Do a search on skimmers.... you'll find a lot of suggestions.

I have emailed you at least twice since 26 Feb to respond to me regarding your past actions. I am NOT obliged to give you a little more time. Please don't test my patience. Read my email and you'll understand what's going to be coming your way if you don't respond. AT and the Mod Team.

Looks like a Antennata Lionfish to me.

Most large public aquariums use filtered seawater in a flow-thru system for all their tanks. Why would they be using a two-part calcium additive? I'm curious.