Achilles Tang

Hi guys, I am selling my old marine tank.... it's an old Juwell tank. Slight leak in the overflow joint below the tank (can be patched up with silicon). Slight scratches on glass (it's an old tank what do you expect? ) 5.3ft L x 1.57ft W x 1.90ft H. Approx 117.5 Gallons or 445 liters excluding sump volume) Clearing together DIY PL light hood with 9 PL Lights (10,000k, 6,500k, 10,000/blue and true actinic 03) inbuilt timers and switches to control 4 diff lights... from all lights on to, just white, to blue/white/actinics to just actinics. I will be throwing in the big sump tank and custom built white metal stand (very strong). Estimated total of tank and components: $3000+++ (very conservative estimate). PRICE: $300 only! Collection in 3 weeks time! Not inclusive of delivery. Self-collect. Cash only. Interested, pls send a PM to me! Or email me at achilles_tang@yahoo.com. I'll throw in the wood boards and styrofoam boards for FREE! Heh!

Yes, there have been an influx of beautiful crocea clams last Thurs..... Would it surprise you if I said I didn't buy any because they weren't good enough for me? Hahahaha.... Anyway, I am pleased to know that you two didn't rush out to buy them because you knew that your tanks weren't suitable. In the past I would have bought first and worry about lights later.... especially when good grade clams are hard to find. Good example guys! But I hope eventually you'll have the means to upgrade to enjoy keeping clams in a suitable environment soon!

Please be advised that the shop there doesn't do over-shaped cutouts for overflow teeth. I went across the road diagonally to the first glass shop at Kelantan Road and they are able to cut glass, acrylic, plastic for you. They even do aluminium framings.

Hey Robe! So you're a diver too! Heh! Guys, it's true what Robe says... diving is a serious sport. You need to be in good health. Secondly, you need to have a good brain, as you have to always alert and expect the worst to happen so you can react quickly and save not just youself but your buddies underwater. I used to be pretty gung-ho myself... my wife and friends always complain that I only buddy with my camera! Once I nearly ran out of air because I was so insistent on chasing fish and became excited ie. consume more air... luckily I located my friends in time and ascended together... I literally took the very last drop of air molecue from my tank as I broke the surface. Whew! Go with a good school. Take the lessons seriously. Refresh yourself with the theories. Talk to your buddies and remind them of the procedues. Once more of us get certification, we can organise a SRC dive trip one day!

Welcome, Vanan! You're the 2nd bravest soul to post your mugshot for all to see. Now will the rest hurry up and intro yourselves? HON!!! You're the one with the bright idea... I expect to see your ugly face, I mean your handsome face here ASAP!!!

Wahahaha! Wait till you tell my Luohan fanatic friend... he'll turn you into an abomination of nature! Seriously, I do agree... they are ugly... eeks. And for $88,000 for a top-range LH, I can get a top-of-the-range reef tanks x 3! Gee... beauty does lie in the eyes of the beholder!

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That's great news for us reefers! Not great news for LFS!! It's double-ended? Is it HQI? I didn't realize that they come in 20,000k. How about 10k? A lot of people refer the white with bluish tint compared to the blue look of 20k. What kind of ballast comes with it?

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Yes, they are where I get my pvc stuff from. Going to pick up my stuff tomorrow. ? I dun think the true-union ball valves are that cheap. Depends on brand. Mine must fit schedule 80 pipes.

If you don't want to use the above... just make sure your bristleworm and pod populations have a chance to grow. Don't get gobies, shrimps or wrasses that love them to wipe them out. Grow them in a refugium, enough will get into your main tank. They will do the job for you. Try to get hold of a brittlestar but get the reefsafe type. Some are known to catch small fishes when they are asleep.

Interesting idea. Not effective IMO. Input and output too close to each other.... you are inputting CO2 and it won't have any chance to dissolve the media and will be shunted out into the tank too fast, causing a massive drop in PH and algae blooms as CO2 is a fertilizer to them. Flow will be too high. Hard to control. Any others care to comment?

So is it LCK we are going to tomorrow? Need to get send in my acrylic board for cutting. My contractor is coming in tomorrow to rectify an error in my renovation. It's gonna delay my project a couple of days as the weekend is here. Tomorrow is a very very packed day for me... I dunno if I can go along. Can someone be the head organiser and PM his handphone? Just let indicate who is going and exactly where. I will be there provided nothing crops up for me.

Go to any hardware store... they have rolls of it with different colour and netting hole sizes.

No, it doesn't. Water from a powerhead pumps water in and acts as a countercurrent against the venturi. I will do a product review for my H&S Euroreef over the weekend.

Try sharpening your photos also... when you resize them. Definition is kinda lost when you don't do that. You can repost again, Poisson

STOP MAKING US DROOL!!!!!! Hahaha.... just joking... ... nice colours.

No, not recommended. Tangs really need a lot of space. Put them in a goldfish bowl and they will die very fast. It's like putting a cheetah in a cage. And if you buy a baby tang... baby tangs are not recommended as they seldom adapt as well as the adults do.. meaning at least 3 inches long for the body (excluding tail)... but even that is no guarantee... Those are the skunk cleaner shrimps. Other recommended cleaner shrimps are the coral banded shrimp or the blood/fire shrimp. One is very fierce and can attack fanworms and small fish. The other is very very shy and unless you put it in a big group, they won't venture out. They are also very expensive.

Oiieh! I already put my photo up!! How about the rest of you!!? Lets see all the handsome faces leh! Do it in the Members Lounge under Site Info!

Try reposting your pix again. Please resize it to something smaller... it's way too big. A guideline would be about 640 pixel wide. I like the first pix I had to delete (due to half pix displayed). Very warm colours!

Good contribution Tanzy! I have fibreglass mat screening standing by for my new DSB. Phang, if you intend to get do a dsb or plenum and wish to protect the bottom most layer, you can use a netting of some kind like Tanzy said.

I think the blue-legged hermits are more reef-safe than the red-legged ones. There is a variety of red-legged ones which come very small... i think those are reef-safe. Are yours very tiny? But I find that hermits are more trouble than they are worth. Forever knocking my corals over. But they don't seem to attack snails except once in a very blue moon. Either that or they were cleaning a recently departed snail. They do however need empty shells (bigger than their current one) as they will outgrow and change 'clothes'. Sometimes they will kill each other to take over the shells. I have 2 in my tank now and I used to follow the americans who say you must have X no. of hermits for X no. of gallons.... that's rubbish IMO. If you have enough herbivourous fish like tangs you don't need too many hermits or snails. Snails are good for cleaning glass walls.

I knew that was coming! heh! My family drank from the fountain of youth many generations ago. We all look young! Now stop criticizing me and show me your handsome faces!

Thanks guys... I got a PVC pipe cutter. It's cheap and it's a really cool tool! I didn't know a 3-way valve costs like $50+!!!

Camel/Candy shrimps? I HATE THEM!!! They are a pain in the butt... coral polyp eaters!!! Very hard to catch, I have 5 of them that took me many months to trap and catch. No more such shrimps for me! Grrrr!