Achilles Tang

Ah no.. sorry... my tank just went thru a bad patch of cyano and hair algae... waiting for my big new skimmer to come in... before restocking.... kinda empty now.... I won't be having any tank viewing till I have more money to get more livestock. Keeping my bioload very low right now as my H&S skimmer is too small for my new tank.

To add on further to cycling LR... it's not a problem if done in-tank.... you just need to get a very good skimmer to help remove all the gunk. Doing a partial water change after the cycling is complete would also be good.

Subject: FW: CHICKEN & ###### > > Subject: Fwd: CHICKEN & ###### > > > > > >> > > >A farmer rears twenty-five young hens and one old ######. As he feels > >>that > >> > > >the old ###### could no longer handle his job efficiently, the farmer > >> > > >bought one young ###### from the market. > >> > > > > >> > > >Old ###### to Young ###### : "Welcome to join me, we will work together > >> > > >towards productivity. > >> > > > > >> > > >Young ###### : What ya mean? As far as I know, you are old and should > > >>be > >> > > >retired. > >> > > > > >> > > >Old ###### : Young boy, there are twenty-five hens here, can't I help > >>you > >> > > >with some? > >> > > > > >> > > >Young ###### : No! Not even one, all of them will be mine. > >> > > > > >> > > >Old ###### : In this case, I shall challenge you to a competition and > > >>if > >>I > >> > > >win, you shall allow me to have one hen and if I loose you will > have > >> > > >all. > >> > > > > >> > > >Young ###### : O.K. What kind of competition? > >> > > > > >> > > >Old ###### : 50 meter run. From here to that tree. But due to my > age,I > >> > > >hope you allow me to start off the first 10 meters. > >> > > > > >> > > >Young ###### : No problem ! We will compete tomorrow morning. > >> > > > > >> > > >Confidently, the following morning, the Young ###### allows the Old > >>###### > >> > > >to start off and when the Old ###### crosses the 10 meters mark the > >>Young > >> > > >###### chases him with all his might. Soon enough, he was behind the > >>Old > >> > > >###### back in a matter of seconds. > >> > > > > >> > > >Suddenly, Bang! ..... before he could overtake the old ######, he was > >>shot > >> > > >dead by the farmer, who cursed, "*expletive* hell ! This is the fifth > >>GAY > >> > > >chicken I've bought this week !" > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > >>> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > >THE MORAL OF THE STORY : > >> > > > > >> > > >NEVER UNDER-ESTIMATE AN OLD ###### .....

time to flex your brain muscles... Q1. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why? (This is probably the best known and most celebrated of all lateral thinking puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many possible solutions which fit the initial conditions, only the canonical answer is truly satisfying.) Q2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son! How can this be? Q3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man? Q4. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones? (This is logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle that can be solved by lateral thinking techniques. It is supposedly used by a very well-known software company as an interview question for prospective employees.) Q5. A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die? Q6. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out. (This puzzle claims to be the best of the genre. It is simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely satisfying solution. Most people struggle very hard to solve this one yet they like the answer when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it out. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^**^* Think first before you scroll down for the solutions. SOLUTIONS *^*^*^*^*^*^*^ 1. The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* 2. The surgeon was his mother. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* 3. It was day time. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ 4. A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* 5. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^**^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* 6. The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups-so the man no longer needed the water (This is a simple puzzle to state but a difficult one to solve. It is a perfect example of a seemingly irrational and incongruous situation having a simple and complete explanation. Amazingly this classic puzzle seems to work in different cultures and languages. )

Subject: The time of your life > Do you realize that the only time in > our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than > 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions." > How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a > half. You're four and a half, going on five! > > That's the key. > > You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the > next number, or even a few ahead. > > "How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're > gonna be 16! > > And then the greatest day of your life . . . you become 21. > > Even the words sound like a ceremony . . . YOU BECOME 21| YESSSS!!! > > But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound > like bad milk. He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, > you're just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? Wha t's changed? > > You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. > > Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, > you REACH 50 . . . and your dreams are gone. > > But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! > > So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE IT to 60. > > You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a > day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! > > You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT > lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. > > And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I > was JUST 92." > > Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a > little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" > > (May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!) > HOW TO STAY YOUNG > 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. > Let the doctor worry about them. > That is why you pay him/her. > > 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. > > 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, > whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's > workshop." > > 4. Enjoy the simple things. > > 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. > > 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only human > person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. > > Be ALIVE while you are alive. > > 7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, > keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. > > 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, > improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. > > 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next > county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. > > 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. > > AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: > > Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the > moments that take our breath away.

zat is zo funnie!

Spade, oh I see... so you are gonna do the pingpong shutoff. Rrrobt, Hmm... enlarge a reducer... what an irony... lol... j/k! AT

How come your collection cup's cap have no holes on top?

I think the blue polyp gorgonian is a deepwater variety... harder to keep. But you should continue feeding with phytoplankton.... I dun know if they consumer zooplankton like rotifers...

I haven't kept a leopard wrasse before.... as I only trust fairy wrasses... but if reports are true... I may consider a leopard wrasse next time!

I bend acrylic using a mini-blow torch that utilises a disposable cigarette lighter. The flame is 1000 degrees C! For PVC, cheaply u can use a gas stove but you must constantly turn the pvc pipe, dun let it burn.... you will get a lot of toxic fumes. Or to be safest, buy a hot air gun used by plumbers.. it's around $90 for a cheap one... low wattage... but can still can the job done! AT

It's called Aquarium Corals by Eric H. Borneman. Good book! I got it for US$31.95 from Marine Depot on sale. I can't remember how much for shipping.

Wah! that made my day!

I ain't gonna mess with a Power Puff girl!

Good site on reef-safe wrasse... good info on species and habits, diets, environment etc. Check it out here!

TTboy, that ornate wrasse is also known as the false leopard wrasse. Leopard wrasses looks like this: macropharyngodon bipartitus bipartitus (red sea species) There is a similar sub-species but only found in the Indian Ocean. Macropharyngodon meleagris (Juvenile). This is THE leopard wrasse commonly offered for reef tanks... All the leopard wrasse species are very hard to keep and die from starvation even in full blown reef tanks... unless they can adapt quickly to eating frozen meaty foods.

Ahem..... it has been up since 1 Oct 2002 here in this thread in the New to the Hobby Forum... Here in SRC! I have pinned it up so newbies can't miss it...

Still fiddling with the coding... Soon!

YOU!!!!!

If coralline turns white, it is usually because of a few things: 1. It is not used to exposure to very bright lights. 2. High levels of phosphates in water. 3. Low levels of calcium and alk.

Hmmm..... Well, I have started the ball rolling... someone has to open up their homes now!! Who is it gonna be?

Livestock prices vary according to the locations they were harvested from... some places are more pristine and so the quality of livestock is better. Some are net caught... so they cost more. Cheaper livestock from Phillipines and Indonesia are notorious for being cheaper but guaranteed to die quickly or in the short term as they are mostly caught using cyanide or dynamite-stunned.

They taste really nice when steamed. Serious! I catch them when I go fishing!

Scrapers with metal edges cannot last long in reef tanks... even in my FW days, those metal scrapers tend to rust after a while. I recommend to use magfloats, powerful magnets... I almost broke my fingers a few times when i wasn't careful... the pull of the two pieces together is tremendous... even on my 12mm glass... they are able to stay together for scraping... on anything less than that... you require a lot of strength to move the magnet on the glass.

All damsels only??? How many species do you intend to keep? WOW! You are a unique one!! Hope you know that damsels are highly territorial and lose their colours very quickly as they mature? They may also kill off their weaker tankmates... so you'll probably be left with one very dominant damsels and a few survivors.