Achilles Tang

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Aiyah... you hit the nail on the head... actually.. the shop I went to has ran out of 1" true union ball valves... stock coming at of the month.. sianz... have to wait another 5 days... this project kenna delay damn jialat! Hey Hon, you still my lobang for the starphire and tank maker or not? Can recommend you to get good price lah! Wah! I let go so much Singlish here!

Take some pix and show us!

They have opened up a SW section a few months back.... and till this day, I find that section very disgusting. They had a lot of dying stock during the first couple of weeks due to overstocking and a new un-established filtration system, I believe they are using a lot of copper as the water doesn't seem clear. Now... the water looks better BUT..... the overcramping of marine fish in small tanks is RIDICULOUS!!! Did you see how they can put like 40 + tangs in a small tank??!!! Within a week's difference... I can see that half are still barely alive... Did you see how they are so skinny to the point that they are just swimming bones???! (Not exaggerating!). Did you see the HUGE slashes on the bodies on many of the tangs because they cannot help but be aggressive to each other in such confined spaces??!) I have never seen such a display of stressed fish!!! And the amount of angelfish and butterfly fish for sale is shocking!!! As if they are as hardy as damsels and suitable for huge sales turnover... I bet they will all die at the shop!!!! I don't know whether to buy all the fishes to save them or to boycott them until they give up their SW section and stick to their FW fishes!! Just have to get this off my chest... I have never seen such a LFS that keeps marine fish in such disgusting conditions.

Actually, I was just gonna post a comment about Rainbow. Read about it in a seperate thread.

I used to get electrical shocks when I put my hand in the water. Ever since I bought my titanium grounding probe, I have never gotten any. Different school of thoughts..... I am a believer in grounding probes. You can try Sealife at Balestier... I bought mine from them two years ago.

I believe the key issue is to provide clean water to the adult BS tank regularly... coz the amount of waste they produce is incredible!!! ie. massive pollution. I gave up... coz it took too long... 2 - 3 weeks to grow to adult size and too much effort, past instar I & II) I hatch BBS every 2 days to feed my tank... and when newly hatched they are nutritious.... and my queen anthias can get their food. Some reefer's method of culturing adult brine shrimp.

I paid a very very high price for it.... 3 figures.. <_< But it's very rare to find it in this colour... so go figure... I have never seen anything like this in all my years of LFS visits.

My old tank using PL lights could crack a glass pane at least 5mm thick due to the heat. It happened not once but twice... what do you think? PL lights are known to give up a lot of heat, much more than FL.

I thought so! I also recognized the cyarina / scolymia species from them... I have two beautiful ones in my tank too! Here they are: lousy shots though coz i borrowed somebody's cam and I was learning how to use it for the first time... How much did you pay for your tank and whats the specs?

A couple of hours at least... 24 hours is best.

Yes, Sealife at Balestier may have sponge food.

Ans: The blue light is probably ordinary blue lights or it could be the true actinic 03 light. You have to double check. The diff... blue light is light blue in colour and does not make corals flourescent much. The actinic one is deep purple and corals glow in the dark! The price diff is also pretty obvious: actinics are very expensive for PL lights. PL lights, white or blue, are never too strong. The appearance of nuisance algae or cyanobacteria is because of excessive nutrients or phosphates in the water. If you are using 6500k bulbs, that might also be the cause as it is believed the high amounts of reds and yellows in the light spectrum is well-liked by algae. You do not need to change any lights as your 10,000k and actinics (pls check) are fine. Hope that helps. ps - I moved your post to this forum as it is more appropriate. Achilles

You can buy fans with a clip-on base from most lighting or electrical hardware stores.... LFS may mark-up unnecessarily. Go shopping!

Do you have a closeup view of the sailfin tang? Is it the Bali or Red Sea species?

I believe the Marine Life Hobbielist has a big range of marine food inclusive of the above... sponge type also. Call and confirm before you go down.

THE TANK IS UP ON THE STAND!!!! This morning! Yippee! 6 men came and the lifted the tank up from the floor, up to the stand. I took a video of it... I'll see if there is a way to upload it to the server so it can be streamed.... 6 big men ready to lift off Moving the tank into place The tank adjusted... My first live creature in the tank... a dogfish!!! Hahahaha!!!

Oh I get mine around $90 for a box for 150 gallons.

Panel Says Health of Seas in Peril Sun Sep 22, 6:52 PM ET By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer Six months before the first man landed on the moon, a presidential commission urged Congress to use more "fully and wisely" a different sort of vastness, one teeming with life but just as mysterious and far closer to home — the world's oceans. More than three decades later, a second presidential commission, led by a retired admiral who headed the Energy Department in the first Bush administration, says the urgency is even greater than when the Eagle landed. "The oceans are in trouble; the coasts are in trouble; our marine resources are in trouble. These are not challenges we can sweep aside," said James Watkins, sounding more like a lifelong environmentalist than a former chief of naval operations and national security expert. Since the last commission's report in early 1969, pressures have increased on coastal areas that are home to half the nation's population. Ocean resources once thought boundless are now recognized as having limits. About 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands providing essential spawning, feeding and nursery areas for three-fourths of U.S. commercial fish catches are disappearing each year, says the new U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, now halfway through an 18-month study. Of the fully assessed U.S. fish stocks, 40 percent are depleted or are being overfished, the commission says in an interim report being released this week. Also, 12 billion tons of ballast water from ships are spreading invasive alien species to new locales around world. The panel points to a need for consolidating the federal and state governments' myriad and often conflicting policies affecting oceans. "Individuals who work and live on the water, from fishers to corporations, face a Byzantine patchwork of federal and state authorities and regulations," the commission said. It cited more than 140 federal ocean-related laws administered by nearly 20 different agencies and commissions. "We're already assuming that there has to be a national ocean policy coordinating body," Watkins said. The commission found that: _Ocean pollution, largely from farmland and urban runoff, and human populations are increasing so much near shorelines that proper coastal management is overwhelmed. _Fish stocks continue to be depleted, and the advice of scientists too often is ignored at the expense of fisheries and the long-term sustainability of the fishing industry. There may be a need, for example, to more closely regulate aquaculture, the fish farming industry. _Not enough study has been given to the interaction between oceans and climate change, particularly in the Arctic Ocean. The presidential commission's work is being augmented by a similar effort by the independently financed Pew Oceans Commission, which plans to make recommendations next year. The Pew commission has been looking at, among other things, a need for federal agencies more often to consider the effects of their actions on marine ecosystems and ocean life as a whole, rather than focusing just on fish. Karen Garrison, who co-directs the oceans program in San Francisco for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said she hopes the Watkins commission also recognizes the importance of management based on overall habitat. "A key question may be whether they're really willing to look at the limitations of our current laws, and recommend new mandates that will protect our ocean ecosystems for the future," she said. Watkins' commission follows in the long silent footsteps of the Stratton Commission, which on Jan. 9, 1969, released its 300-page oceans report just days before Lyndon Johnson handed over the White House to Richard Nixon. Its recommendations led to creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1970 and the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1976 and Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976.

Yeah I read that article before. It did give me a little more confidence in Monaco systems... but again.. there are too many horror stories of those who didn't work. That's the wonderful part of this hobby... a lot of theories that work. For me... I believe in hybrid adaptations which will give us the best of all worlds... You can check out my Reef Project thread to see which route I finally go!

No... for an aquarium in Germany!

Take a look at this!!!! I will set this up in the garden when I install this for my reef tank.. hahaha!!

Bluebeard, You should ask these questions in the 'New to the Hobby' forum... Try not to dilute the original topic here .... And no prob on the tip... I think lobsters not really reef-safe, no matter how beautiful they look.

Hey Jeremy...!! Finally I see your tank... not too bad for a newbie... but I see a bad mistake happening... that big star fish is NOT reef-safe! You will find your coral polyps being eaten... better return it back to the LFS.

Niv, Your tank looks like a Aquatechnic tank...