Achilles Tang

Yup thats a male lyretail... I have one too.

Your penalty for posting this in the SRC News and Announcement forum is immediate downgrading to plankton level. Now lose your fins, tail and scales and collapse into jelly NOW!!! Sigh... you people make me very busy, moving posts to all the right categories... at least 4 a day!

You lah! Monday blues izzit?

This is getting dangerously RA... why are we talking about tweaking nipples? Ok ok.. weak joke... proceed pls.

Whatever enters one end of a fishy is organic, what ever goes out the other end is much grosser organics. Decomposing dead stuff once was live organic matter. Haven't you heard of organic wastes as opposed to inorganic wastes? Non-recycleable? wastes, dissolved organics... same thing... MUST GET RID ASAP! Geddit?

This is off-topic: I love using Ken for SF!!! Ok ok... let's remain on-topic. Kel, I tried fixing the gif but it still wouldn't show... maybe the other site doesn't allow linking....

Kel... wastes and dissolved organics are very much the same thing.

Correction: Lee Chin Eng was Indonesian. He stayed in Bali and did most of his research there and later moved to Singapore. I read about him before.

You mean the other name for Lyretail anthias aka Jewel Fairy anthias Pseudanthias squamipinnis? or Truncated Fairy - Pseuanthias Truncatus or Hawaiian Fairy - Pseudanhias Ventralis Hawaiiensis or Longfin Anthias/Rainbow Fairy Basslet - Pseudanthias ventralis ??? Can you post a pix?

Interesting.... I always thought that anthias would chase those type of zooplankton that zips thru water, not the floating type coz they tends to look like debris or detritus.... alive or otherwise. You will know what I am talking about when you go night diving and you see lots of 'insects' crowding around your dive torch! I may be wrong... perhaps pacificbetta could be the first guinea pig to find out? I am sure if you're right, a lot of public aquariums worldwide will be asking for your advice! hee hee!

Yeah rite!!!! Oh, btw.... we hit 250 members today!!! And over 10,000 posts!

hmmm... nice skimmer I dare say... perchance is it a H&S Euroreef skimmer like mine?

Nice gregorian monks you got there... I can hear the chants... Bro... it's spelt as Gorgonians.

Sorry but I have to correct you. A PS primarily removes organics in the water. Why it's called a protein skimmer is because the the molecular structure of organics are similar in nature to protein... try blowing bubbles in a glass of milk and you will get big frothy bubbles. Do that with water and you get nothing. Similarly, the organic matter in water reacts to air bubbles in the water column and 'sticks' to the air bubbles as they rise up and collect at the surface, where they get stuck and are pushed up into the skimmate collection cup by bigger bubbles behind it.... Trace elements, plankton and other tiny stuff may get pushed out to a smaller degree but not as much as dissolved organics will. Also, you cannot count on the bacteria alone to break down waste materials, that may take a long time... and by then, all the higher lifeforms may have already died. A PS removes the wastes/dissolved organics/DOM/DOC much faster and efficiently then waiting for bacteria to grow fast enough to process them. That is why a very good protein skimmer is recommended because no matter what the 'skimmerless' people say... you should be taking out waste organics faster then you can put them in.. via livestock wastes or food that you put in... or your tank will show the effects ie. hair algae, cyano, dino outbreaks. It is happening in my tank now... as my current PS is unable to handle twice the load (under capacity).... I have hair algae growing like crazy now... I am looking into a DIY now... as I can't wait. I have a good lobang for a good and cheap PS from Germany from my HK friend... but I can't wait... maybe I will pass my lobangs to my fellow reef club members.... Oh... and trace elements are NOT wastes!!!! It is a good idea to dose Trace Elements into your tank once in a while.. to replenish them especially with SPS tanks and for those who dun want to change water regularly to replenish them. The Germans & japanese are strong believers in dosing trace elements... some US people are against dosing. AT

I got a joke for you (goes very well with your avatar) Are-uuuuuu-ken!

Yeah, she tells me biz has been good with so many of us reef club guys going there... she gave me a free pvc connector when I was there in X'mas Eve... who is Ken ah? You or Phang? I agree labour is expensive...

How to check if a man still virgin > > > > > > A very 'straight and honest' girl is going to Kuala Lumpur. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Before she left, her mother gave her some advice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Daughter, when you're in KL and if you're looking for a match > > > > > > there, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > you must take note of the following the requirements Mother set > > > > > > for > > > >you. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You must find a man that is 'faithful', not 'spendthrift' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and must be a 'virgin'. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > With this advise from her mother, the girl went to Town. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > After some months later, she came home to her kampung to get her > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mother's blessings to marry. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mother, I've met my match following your instructions. My future > > > > > > > > > > > > > > husband is faithful because when we went out for a holiday one > > > > > > day, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > he took care of me specifically even though there were > > > > > > > > > > > > > > so many prettier girls around." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Isn't that being faithful?" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Her mother nodded in agreement. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Then, since the day was getting late in the night and rain was > > > > > > > > > > > > > > pouring, my boyfriend decided that we stay the night at a hotel. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > He also suggested that in order not to spend too much, we shared > > > > > > > > one > > > >room only". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Isn't he not spendthrift guy?" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For the second time her mother nodded her head in agreement, > > > > > > > > > > but with a little concern. > > > > > > > > > > "And finally mum..., I know he is a virgin". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "How did you know he is still a virgin?" The mother asked with > > > >repidition. > > > > > > > > > > "Mmm....his 'that one' is new......still wrapped up in plastic, > > mum!"

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Hard to explain... it's like when you turn mouse trails on... every pixel of it will have a ghost image following it... now multiply it with every pixel onscreen!!!

Actually, I need to order my beckett first from overseas... Are you the one doing something with Hai Cheong?

Aiyah... bristleworm can make new tunnels anywhere they want. Just do it!

Sorry... you're out of topic! You can't talk about anything else but yourselves here....