Achilles Tang

Morgan, You can also track this thread over at RC... http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showt...threadid=125359

Sorry Barracuda! Didn't mean to ignore you! There is a track this topic feature (bottom right hand corner of every topic)... have you tried using it? Usually I track the day's active topics by clicking the 'Today's Active Topics' link at the top right of the index page. as I am active every day here moderating this forum. There is a new software update to this forum but I want to make sure the bugs and kinks are worked out first. Hate to have this board go down and not being able to save the database or have big problems setting it again.

The only Greenex I saw was at Aquamart... but its an algae cleaner. http://shop.store.yahoo.com/watergarden/gr...reenex44oz.html But I finally found an online shop that has it.... US$2.77 for 1 oz. bottle. http://www.mops.on.ca/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe...7906+1036436885 If you are gonna order one... can you order one bottle for me together? Aquatronics has a lot of saltwater fish medication... even for internal parasites... check it out! http://shop.store.yahoo.com/worldwidepet/a...n-aquatron.html

Morgan, I remember having a small patch of flatworms once... when I bought a new coral. Within a few days... they were gone. I believe my six-line wrasse took care of them. He's always busy looking around the tank!

Another tip but it won't work for you as your tank is outdoors... Drop the temp to 76 or so then raise the ph to 8.3 or so then keep the dkh about 10-12 to get rid a tank of flat worms...

There are corals around Singapore.. just that you can't really see them... visi is really bad due to land reclamation around here.

I feed Golden Pearls, decapsulated brine shrimp eggs and live plytoplankton and rotifers to my corals/fish/live sand inhabitants.

Morgan passed me a packet of caulerpa... I think there must have been hundreds of brown flatworms inside!!! Needless to say... I hyposalinity treated the packet and killed the flatworms... Hyposalinity is one of the methods I have recommended to Morgan but he is wary of doing that to his reeftank as it is too big and his corals & liverock & pods may not take it too well. He doesn't want a sixline wrasse coz he's afraid they may peck at his clams... which to my knowledge, doesn't.

Your photo is not clear enough to see the hole. And yes the branch is part of the coral skeleton. Do you notice any fish, crab or parasites attacking that spot?

Hi Morgan, I think this might work if you are reluctant to get a six-line wrasse to try to remove your flatworms. Trouble is you have to find some of these! http://www.marinedepotlive.com/1223794.html

Geez! *rolls eyeballs at Tanzy*

It doesn't have any artificial preservatives or flavouring... its just plain dried seaweed. Very nutritious as it is mainly protein. Seaweed is also an excellent source of iron, fibre, vitamin A, and vitamin B12, which is rarely available in fruits and vegetables. Red seaweed is particularly high in vitamins A and B12. Seaweed proteins are similar to those of garden vegetables. Each category of seaweed (brown, red and green) contains the eight amino acids essential to human nutrition. Seaweed is also an excellent source of fibre, with a content similar to or higher than that of fruits and vegetables. The purplish brown colour is just the natural colouring. Why do you think the Japanese are known for their longevity?

I usually don't presoak it... just take the nori straight from the packet, break it into small bits and throw them in the tank. They will float but later sink once they soak up water. The tangs love playing rugby with nori... snatch and run... snatch and run... sometimes playing tug of war with each other! Very entertaining!

Norwin, it's not eating anything you put in the tank? What are you feeding it btw? If the fish is thin behind the head it's not a good sign... that means that it was already in starvation. Did you try feeding it before buying it? When I was at Coralfarm, they took pride in how eager their q-tined fishes were eating pellets with gusto.

Actually in reality.... most of the fishes are caught with cyanide. Especially the smaller ones like damsels, gobies, clownfishes and those which can speed away or instantly hide away in coral heads and rocks or substrate. Just a squirt of cyanide into the coral heads and rocks... and out float those fishes, stunned. The more indiscriminate collector (understatement) would break apart the corals or rocks to get at those stunned fishes which have locked themselves in with their fins or spikes. The corals themselves would be bleached white by the cyanide. Completely destroyed. If we actually got net-caught fishes in our LFS/farms.... we would have to pay a premium for them! Our hobby would far more expensive than we have so comfortably taken granted for. So far, only Coralfarm is willing to pay that premium for net-caught fishes as their US wholesale customers are more conscientious or knowledgeable that our LFS. I think it's commercialism vs conservationist practices... and commercialism always wins. Unless we do something about it. Already the enforcement of CITES laws has affected the importation of liverock and certain livestock like clams and hard corals. If our LFS gets livestock from CITES certified sources... we would be paying 3 or 4 times the prices we are used to. I read somewhere in another forum where someone said: If you don't have the money, don't go into the marine aquarium hobby. He got some flak for that but that is the truth. One which I agree for many many reasons... Newbies are going in with eyes blind, pockets tight and killing livestock as a result because they lack knowledge or they don't have the optimum equipment to create the right environment for marine life. I have known hobbyists who just want the colour and variety of marine life in their old converted FW tanks and who spend more money on replacing dead livestock than getting it right the first time. It is disgusting and saddening. Maybe disgusting is too strong a word. Saddening for the marine life is more appropriate. Till the day we can aquaculture most of the marine life and hard corals, this hobby is spolit by irresponsible people, from the collectors, to the wholesalers, to the import/exporters, to the farms and LFS, and US!!!!! I am coming on a bit strong here... but this is maybe just me.

Same colour... I have compared them. Same deep purple colour that produces the same flourescent glow effect on corals. Don't mix these Actinic 03 PLs with the blue PLs (brighter blue, less flourescence effect).

From my knowledge about fishes which create coral sand.... yes they actually do... these fish are commonly coral obligates (ie. eat corals exclusively). Examples are the humphead wrasses/parrotfishes (which when you go diving and can hear them crunch corals audibly)... you will notice that as they swim, finely crushed coral bits are streamed from their gills and from their anuses... The sandbed you see comes from a fish's ######... heh! Not all of it... I mean you get sand from erosion etc too. Triggers are not reef-safe... so I hope you have them in a FOWLR tank.

Hey Blue... I doubt it will survive in a 10ft tank either. It's not how big the tank is... it's supplying its dietary needs.

Gee guys, it's a candid shot! It just so happened that the sweeper tentacles were waving at the right spot at the right time. The Anthia was actually further back!

'Durian' coral attacks anthia! First captured image of a 'durian' coral attacking an anthia. When questioned, it denied the attack and insisted it was just a friendly massage for a friend. The anthia refused to comment.

Nope... there are 03 actinic PL tubes also. They cost a bomb though. Coralife has them.

Bwaaahahahaahaha! SPCA better not be reading this thread!

What's your tank water conditions like?

I strongly urge you reefers not to purchase any more cleaner fish. They are one of the 'impossible to keep' species for marine aquariums. Their diet is still largely unknown, and not just the parasites they pick from other fish. They rarely last more than a week, 4 at most. Even those who seem to be eating frozen brine or mysis shrimps will die eventually. Their disappearances from reefs have devastating effect due to other reef fishes not visiting those reefs and perpetuating life there. Leave them in the sea where they belong and the LFS will not supply these very short-lived fishes for the marine aquarium trade. There are other cleaner/doctor species like cleaner shrimps etc.

You should boil your vegs... helps to break down the tough cellulose to aid in digestion... and this is not a Yakult ad! Alternatively, you can keep your vegs in the freezer... same effect.