Achilles Tang

Yellow? Has it been dyed?

Far out colours man.... which you lots of luck with it! Tip: Remember to give it good water circulation... they tend to recede at the base of the branches if they don't get good water flow.

Hi Pikey!! A warm welcome to SRC!! We have had visitors from all over the world... surprisingly for a local club that's has very localized content for a small country like Singapore. I hope you'll be able to understand our local slang (its called Singlish - a mish-mash of english and local dialects of malay, mandarin & hokkien which is a local chinese dialect) which we are quite comfortable to use even if we can speak and write perfect english. Thanks for sharing your tank with us... if only we could do some frag exchange! LOL!! You US guys seem to get the better specimens of SPS corals! *envy* See u around! Achilles Tang Administrator and Moderator Singapore Reef Club

Woah... Tanzy... Caution! Caution! Red Alert. *sirens blaring* Be nice to women.... just because you're gay doesn't mean you have to be so against them! Joking!!! Seriously... remember my theory about Helm's Deep and PMS.

My white xenias have been with me since Aquarama.... my orange zoanthids (tiny clump) were given to me as a X'mas Party present.

Nope! Not yet.

Try sunlight. Free and high intensity. Replicates the actual sun.

Sun corals need to have EVERY single polyp fed. Beautiful but high maintenance corals... I've given up on them!

Yup... he is.

Err... you're in the wrong forum? I'll move this thread to the General Reefkeeping forum. AT

We'll be all there if you charter 200 jumbo jets for us! Welcome to SRC! You're halfway across the globe from where we are... but I think none of us will be able to make it.... unless work brings us there! AT

Try www.aquarealms.com.

Could be a Leptastrea bewickensis or Leptastrea pruinosa. It's definitely in the Leptastrea family. Characters: Colonies are massive, flat or hillocky. Septa are in unequal cycles with approximately six widely spaced exsert primary septa plunging down to a small columella.

Terryz, The septa and corallites are quite different from Diploastrea and Favia.

Sure is a hard coral to ID! Maybe I'll consult my Veron book instead of making a guess. But I'm gonna be thumbing though a whole of similar looking corals and STILL making a guess! Say... do me a favour.... bleach the coral and get a close up of the skeleton corallite! Makes IDing much easier!

Moving to New to the Hobby.

Ryz... it will only work for aiptasias that are easily accessible. Do it wrongly and you may even find a new aiptasia in its place if it wasn't completedly killed. I gave up using kalkwasser paste because there are so many places in my LR that I can't reach... and leaving them there will guarantee a multiplication of plague proportions. Even Copperbands may not even reach an aiptasia if it's in a awkward area. From my experience with peppermints.... I give them two thumbs up! Every single aiptasia, in nooks and crannies, on clam shells... were cleaned up within the space of 1 month. I have 4 peppermints and I see one of them with eggs... so it'll be even better coz I get natural and free coral and fish food! Peppermint shrimps are reefsafe and I have never seen them disturb any zoos or other softies like xenias in my tank. They scavenge the sandbed and pick at stuff on my glass.

Tanzy... you gonna tell them about magnesium sulphate? Still haven't used it yet.

PM Alvy loh.

Best to have both pendants side by side then... or you can consider a row of T5s for the back... being above a reefslope... it will give any SPS corals ample light. You'll have a slim profile then.

Hmmm.... I wonder if the Reefez Rid-Rust would work on the Rusty Angel... KIDDING!!!!

Agree totally with both barra and riot - Don't waste your light! Shift it to the front and angle back at the reef slope would be better.

Encrusting? Can you take a photo to scale with something? Looks like a Siderastrea radians.

This commercial is based on a similar joke! Still... its quite funny but I prefer the written joke.

There was some ST article or a TCS news coverage on our Naval Divers attached to our LST, 'storming' suspicious ships for checks. I think it was a month ago.