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You must understand that some people might think their way is right while others may think it's not. When you encounter such situation, it is up to you to decide. They may have their reason and might not want to listen to others view. If you think it's wrong, then by all means, find another method to follow. This type of situation, if you try to go against it, be it in the forum or the general public area, might cause some unhappiness and feelings might get hurt. My advice is go in 1 ear, come out the other ear lah. Nobody get offended and everyone is happy.

Try to get 5000k and above but below 10000k. These levels are good for plants.

Simply put, if you are on a budget, don't start a marine tank. It will either disappoint you or you would kill many live stock.

Very the hard to read your reply no full stop comma use spelling wrongly.

For my experience, I wasn't successful to keep an algae blenny. My 4ft tank could not provide the food the algae blenny need, even after the front glass pane is covered with the algae it consume. Tried a few times and none survive more than a year. Been more than a year since I've purchased an algae blenny.

Tank apa saiz?

Fish will acclimatised to lower salinity level given time, in your case. That is a known fact. Try placing corals such as pratas, cyarina, zoos, euphyllia species of corals and others and report back to us. You might be lucky and they survive or your tank will be stocked by coral skeleton.

New Tank Syndrome perhaps?

I have never tried keeping corals with 2 tubes only. But it is not only the number of tubes you'll need but also how long you can use a T5 tube. Having a chiller is a good due to the fact that it helps in keeping temperature level stable.

For me, I would wait it out to purchase the 1st fish. No use getting a fish that is common if your mission is to get those rare ones. Patience is key.

If the tank is not yet made, you might be able to use the Starmex inside the cabinet somehow. Been thinking about it for sometime now and I think it is possible but you'll need to use a longer cabinet. For aesthetic reason, the cabinet length would/should cover the length of the wall. And a portion of 1 end of the cabinet would be empty to direct away the hot air.

Still available?

Sharks do not have scales but they do have shark skin. These are skin that faces 1 direction to help provide the shark with a smooth forward motion. They are very rough to the touch, very similar to a sand paper. No idea if this shark skin is succeptible to disease though but I doubt it. The small fish that Ducados mention starting with the letter R is the Remoras. They are actually an opportunistic feeder that follow sharks as well as manta ray and even whales. They have a suction cup like appendages that is located above their head and they will use it to stick to the sharks, manta ray or whales in order to travel together without them using a lot of energy to keep up with the bigger fish long distance travel. They will feed on the bits and pieces that the shark left over during feeding as sharks usually thrash around when feeding and the flesh of the food the shark is consuming might tear out during these period. These is when the Remoras go out and grabs whatever is floating around near it. Another impulse buyer. There are people and organization that are fighting to keep these species alive and out of the dinner plate and noobs like you, not doing enough research on how to keep or feed these animal, are killing their young. It looks like the tank that you place these creature do not have enough filtration to keep with the bioload and the bacteria is overwhelmed. I believe that ammonia and nitrate is what cause the demise, rather than disease. Sadly, you have killed 2 of a species of the family that are endangered or are facing extinction in the wild. Do you think mysis and pellets would sustain these fishes? Hmm, come to think of it, they might die due to malnutrition or hunger, not disease as you speculate. I agree. Keeping a shark or 2 in this case, in a betta box, is cruel. Feeding them less than the amount they need is worse. Buying them and not knowing how to keep them is very bad. They might be small but they need a large grazing area. Need to maintain the responsibility-ness of this forum to protect the shark species from being decimated due to human consumption. I whole hearted agree with this. Better not to keep in my humble opinion. I've said my piece on this subject. Hope this helps!

Not the fault of the little fish lah. It was created that way. If you want to place fault, put it to you for not knowing how the fish would behave in the tank as you're the one who bought it, not that the little fish travel from the sea into your tank all by itself.

It's one thing whether to dose or not to dose the bacteria but it's another thing to keep them alive. How is your set up created? Does it have ample place for the bacteria to grow and multiply? Do you have true live rock whereby these bacteria would populate or do you have those so called dead coral skeleton type of live rock, which are really not useful other than to make the aquascaping look different?

Chiller-Mitsubishi Starmex Tank-4x2x2 Equipment- Bubble King SM250 Eheim 1260 return pump Tunze wavemaker 2x6100 Maxspect 2 x 160w Chiller activated for 30 min to cool down from 26 to 25 degree celsius and will rest for 2 1/2 hr. If it rains, it will rest longer, 3hr is achievable.

The flashing tilefish size that I got was just nice. I did saw the skunk tilefish while I was there but their size was too large for my taste so I gave them a pass. Now aiming for the purple tilefish, kept them before but they perish due to a freak accident, the fake live rock fell on both of them, cutting both their head open.

Hey LemonLemon, I managed to get my ikan bilis! I purchase around 30 piece for my 4ft tank. But the bonus part was finding what looks to be the flashing tilefish! It was flashing when I picked it up in the bag but upon releasing it into the tank, it stayed blue. I was lucky that they were swimming in the open immediately and it kept going for the 30 ikan bilis that I just purchased. Feeding them immediately was my top priority. Actually, there is another smaller fish I saw that is more close to a ikan bilis, it's the aioliops megastigma. There were a few bags of them while I was there. Kept them before but they end up as fish fodder for my green wrasse and chalk basslet. I knew they would also be consumed if I add them with the tilefish so I gave them a pass.

The BK skimmer you posted is the SM300 model, not the deluxe. Air intake is 2 x 1750lt/hr and water intake is 2 x 2000lt/hr. Pump wattage is 80w. All this info is taken from RD website. Except for the price, all the info in regards to the BK in the table you provided is wrong. Hope this helps!

Still have? Please reserve 2 for me.

Best is to rinse with tank water and remove the dirty water contaminated with carbon dust. Replace the amount of water that have been removed with new salt mix. In hindsight, you are doing 2 things, cleaning the carbon and doing a water change.

Someone managed that? Do you have a link Fuel?

Another tip which I've tried successfully is to take out the piece where the mini carpet anemone has stayed, out of the water and turn it upside down for an hour or so. The anemone will drop after more than half an hour. Simply pick them up and placed it where you want it to be. I bought a few but due to re-scaping period, can't placed them on the rock I want and instead I placed them in a disposable plastic container with a layer of small rock. The mini anemone pushed all the small rock away and hitch it's foot on the plastic container. Realized this happen when I wanted to relocate them from the container to the rock. I managed to pry 1 away from the plastic container but it was a tiring process and was exhausted after that. I then figured the above method and let gravity do the job. Without water, the mini anemone act like a jelly and was soon hanging upside down. Slowly but surely, all the remaining 8 out of 9 dropped off. While still out of water, I placed them onto the fake rock and wait for it to attached. Once attached, I place them into the tank in a low flow area. The next day, I placed the fake rock where I want it to be, near a high flow area. As a result, a few of them moved because they were placed too close to each other but still in the same fake rock. Hope this helps!

25 minute is already good in my opinion. Same as my compressor chiller performance. A 5 minute chilling time is unheard of for me.

What pump are you using?