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Got some zoas to let go once again! 1) Watermelon zoas , big polyps with yellow/light bright green skirtings $18 2) premium Spiderman palys, red skirting with pale blue centre, blast with LED for blue to come out. $25 3) premium Dragon Eye zoas, very bright colorations! $28 4) RARE super luminous green star poylps, the whole polyp including the stem is bright green in color. $10 mother colony Take all 4 for $75 FOC 1" branch of Radioactive birdnest frag from SMS/Whatsapp me at 9106-3934, Collection can be done at woodlands or pasir ris farm. Do note that all photos above are straight from camera without any form of photoshopping or over-saturation. The white egg crates are a good example of that. Thanks for viewing.

Thanks! Indeed, luckily there's 1 year warranty on it and im pretty confident this pump will definitely live pass it. Indeed it is! its time for the gyre generator, no more wave maker.

Very deep red! Hope i can hold the color! Its a recently aquired aussie acro Thanks but its far from great! im using Sony A550 + 50/f1.8 prime lens.

Updates: A couple new SPS frags : Royal Blue millie Red stag Interesting yellow/green acro with red polyps Mermaid Rainbow tenuis 20K Lokani Some fishes: Soon-to-be alpha male Blue eye anthias, been fighting with another blue eye of similar size and this fella's winning! Carpenter's flasher wrasse, really active fella! Midas blenny Solon fairy wrasse Big fat Melanurus wrasse my 3 surviving red spot cardinals I also switched to the Gyre XF-130 a week ago and im loving it!

Can get from Delightings, promotion have to ask Dr Evil himself! Thanks for the highlight, already published all the videos already. The gyre was actually priced in between jebao and ecotech's wavemaker, im not sure how much does tunze cost (in total inclusive of controllers) but i do believe the gyre will still turns out to be cheaper. The gyre XF-130 moves a total of 2300g/hr (9200l/hr) of water so a single unit is actually sufficient for tanks up to 4ft long. Take my tank for example, for the flow im achieve with the gyre, i will need either : -3x RW-4 -2x RW-8 -2x MP40 Yes, the jebao will still turns out to be cheaper but comparing to the ecotech here, the gyre will save you alot of money. However, all the jebao wavemakers i've used (WP series) have died within 1 year of service. If this gyre can last as long as what ecotech/Tunze will and maintain it's quietness, i'd say we got ourself a winner here. Thanks bro! I see you're looking for a similar tank size as me right? A single gyre will do the job! Right now its close to 6 blue notes. Best to consult Dr evil from Delightings for pricing. Video publish liao! The alternating gyre mode works in this way where it alternates between 2m, 5m, 10m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 6h, and 12h. Unfortunately these are fixed and i am not able to switch the modes as and when i liked to. I would only suggest using alternating gyre mode if you uses more then 1 gyre or had it placed vertically.

Now, we all know that when you place any wavemaker near the top of your tank's surface, it will start an 'air tornado' and starts sucking air in. Interestingly, this dosn't happen with the gyre. As it sucks water in from below and blows water forward. This video shows the gyre just 1" below water surface. It also doesn't splash water as much as a wavemaker would. Placing the gyre vertically creates a gyre that circles around the tank in the corners, probably leaving dead spot in the middle. However this can work depends on the scape you have, and for mine, its best to leave it horizontal.

videos in respective order Next is the alternating gyre mode. Its something new in the market but unfortunately, the flow of the reverse mode seems to be too week to do any good. As you can see in the video below, at the 40 second mark, the gyre's motor spinned in reverse and started blowing water downwards. The reverse flow here is set at 50%, at 100%, it will blow alot sand up and i think this mode is more suitable for bare bottom tanks or when the gyre is placed vertically. As mentioned above, changing the rotor allows you the gyre to move water in different direction. Here in this video, the right rotor is blowing straight as per usual but the left rotor is blowing water upwards. This is particularly good if you place the gyre vertically and have them in alternating gyre mode.

I got myself the Maxspect Gyre XF-130 and here's my personal review about it. First Impression The gyre XF-130 came in a well-structured box like any other products will come with nowadays. Upon opening the box, i was well prepared for parts to fall out and was astonished to find out that 2 boxes, a black tin box and another white cupboard box resides inside. Maxspect has taken packaging into a whole new level here! I don't have the luxury of owning high-ends pumps or marine equipment but i do believe none of them came in metal tin box! The gyre sits comfortably in the metal box surrounded by black foam, even the foam's finishing was professionally done and had a soft suede-like material. Seriously well made packaging. The manual and user's guide was simple and easy to understand with proper English. The gyre itself The first major improvement of the XF-130 over the bigger brother, XF-150 is the new vibration absorbing padding. This will greatly reduce noise which was the main problem XF-150 users faced. This results in the gyre being further away from the glass reducing noise too. The gyre XF-130's dimension are 10"x2.95"x1.57". The magnet will support tank up to 20mm. The recommended maximum length a gyre XF-130 can push water up to is 4ft. I will be testing this gyre in my 3x1.5x1.5ft reef tank. Controller Literally one of the best looking controller out there! The controller has a simple, sleek black design, 2 buttons and a circular dial. Top button changes the mode (Also turns off the device if you hold it for 4 seconds) from constant speed mode, to pulsing mode, to alternating gyre mode and finally a 10 minutes feed mode. All these are found in the Jebao controller (other then the alternating gyre mode) and i must say im a little disappointed there is only 1 new mode other than the common 3 modes. The 2nd button allow you to go into setup mode where you decide how strong you want the current to be, how fast or slow you want the pulsing to be and the time interval for the alternating gyre mode. Spare parts We all hate it when our pumps start breaking down or when we accidentally breaks any spare parts. Certain brands do have spare parts for sale while spare parts are hard to find for cheaper alternatives. Maxspect decided that they want to give buyer a better piece of mind, and included a couple of spare parts. That includes a pair of rotor and cages, a pair of vibration paddings and 2 pairs of rubber nuts. Power supply A 24v 3A power supply made by maxspect will be used to power the 35w gyre generator. cables provided are pretty long too. The Magnet As i mentioned above, the magnet mounts tank up to 20mm thickness. Whats interesting here is that Maxspect actually made the magnets removable. This means you can probably purchase stronger magnets from Maxspect in future, if you plan to house multiple XF-130 in a large aquarium. There's also rubber paddings glued to the magnets. Taking it apart Now, i was pretty nervous when taking it apart to switch the cages and rotors. However it was pretty easy to take it apart as well as putting them back in. Everything is pretty solid with good build quality. I also applied some strength on the rotor's fin and wasn't able to bend the fins even with a substantial amount of strength. Previous reviews on the XF-150 fragile fins seems to have been improved on the XF-130. The Rotors Maxspect provided an additional pair of rotors not only because they are spares, but also they can be swapped so the rotors faced different directions and thus, move water in different directions as well. With the use of alternating gyre mode, there's tons of direction the gyre can push water to. Action Time The XF-130 being 25cm long, appears to be just nice for my 45cm width tank. I would imagined a 2 - 2.5ft width tank having dead spots on the side of the gyre's flow direction. The gyre's flow cage can also be adjusted to blow water upwards or downwards. Its amazing how small or flat the gyre is. And yet move so much water in an all new different way. Even the ecotech MP wavemakers cannot match the gyre's sleekness Here's some video i shot with the gyre in action. Remember to watch in 1080P if possible. This video shows the gyre running constant current mode at 70% power. At 100% it will be too strong and will start blowing sand around. Now here's my favourite mode. The pulse mode. the controller allows you to set the power and also the frequency of the pulse. How fast or slow the pulse is, is indicated by the flashing of the blue light on the controller. This video shows the gyre on 100% power at the fastest pulse rate. This mode also pushes some sand around but not as much as constant. I do see alot more PE swaying left and right with this mode. The fishes seems to love this mode too! Next is the alternating gyre mode. Its something new in the market but unfortunately, the flow of the reverse mode seems to be too week to do any good. As you can see in the video below, at the 40 second mark, the gyre's motor spinned in reverse and started blowing water downwards. The reverse flow here is set at 50%, at 100%, it will blow alot sand up and i think this mode is more suitable for bare bottom tanks or when the gyre is placed vertically. As mentioned above, changing the rotor allows you the gyre to move water in different direction. Here in this video, the right rotor is blowing straight as per usual but the left rotor is blowing water upwards. This is particularly good if you place the gyre vertically and have them in alternating gyre mode. Now, we all know that when you place any wavemaker near the top of your tank's surface, it will start an 'air tornado' and starts sucking air in. Interestingly, this dosn't happen with the gyre. As it sucks water in from below and blows water forward. This video shows the gyre just 1" below water surface. It also doesn't splash water as much as a wavemaker would. Placing the gyre vertically creates a gyre that circles around the tank in the corners, probably leaving dead spot in the middle. However this can work depends on the scape you have, and for mine, its best to leave it horizontal. Thats all for video and here's what i think are the pros and cons of the gyre: Pros : - Revolutionary gyre generator, it could be the next big thing! - Strong yet gentle. The gyre has a distributed flow instead of cone-like flow from a wavemaker. You can never have SPS right infront of a wavemaker but with the gyre, sps can be placed pretty close to it without getting it's skin tore away. - Fishes appears to love the flow now, i've never had fishes swimming infront of my Jebao Rw-8 before and now my fishes are swimming happily above my SPS, infront of the waves! - Its sleek and its small for the amount of flow it gives. - Great build quality. Comparing to the big players like tunze and ecotech, the gyre here do not lose out to build quality in my opinion - Competitively priced. Yes its not exactly jebao type of cheap, but using 1 gyre XF-130 removes a RW-8 and 3000L sunsun wavemaker from my tank. They do cost alot more than jebao wavemakers but given that only 1 unit is required, its worth it. - Spare parts included. - Adjustable flow to all 3 modes - Pulse mode does not make the rotor stops completely. Jebao's pulse mode stops the impeller completely and some people have mentioned that this might spoil the pump/impeller. Gyre's pulse mode ramps the rotor up and down smoothly instead of stopping the rotor entirely. -Exceptionally well packaging. Not that it really matters,but who doesn't like a nice packaging? -Well explained and simple to understand manual and diagrams. -Appears to be more anemone safe compared to other wave makers. Cons: - No else/random mode. - In a silent room (Like your bedroom), the gyre can be heard whirring up and down (for pulse mode) if its power is above 70%, below that its almost silent. I've yet to hear from the XF-150 but with XF-130 at full power, its noiser than a RW-8 at full power. But its still alot quieter than the MP10/40. Not an issue if you don't have your tank in your bedroom. - No night mode. 1 week after Gyre Its been a week since i played with the gyre and currently have mine on pulse mode 80% Power. During the first day of running the gyre, my tank mostly remained 'dusty' with particles and debris floating around. Thats probably because i had more dead spots prior to using the gyre. I also spotted green algae floating around apparently being teared off by the gyre! I've yet to see a real improvement of Polyp Extension from my SPS, But the wave movements do sway their PE nicely from left to right! The best thing with the gyre is how fishes reacted to it. Prior to using the gyre, i was using the Jebao RW-8 and a 3000l/hr Sunsun wavemaker both on full power blowing on my sps (mainly top half of my tank). This resulted in fishes only swimming the bottom area of my tank as the waves were simply too direct and too strong for them to bear. A few moments after turning on the gyre, my wrasses were the first to explore the new currents and the rest of the fishes followed shortly after. Now my wrasses and anthias love the flow and is occupying the top part of the tank as well! Conclusion All in all, the gyre lives up to its reputation and hype its been creating ever since the release of the prototype and the release of the XF-150. We all know as this is not only a new product, its also a new range of water moving equipment. The one big question here about the Gyre is it's reliability, how long will it last before the rotor or the motor breaks down. With the build quality and how detailed maxspect was when designing the gyre, gives me the confidence that the gyre should be able to last a pretty long time with regular cleaning and maintenance done to it. Moreover, spare cages/rotors should be available for purchase should you happen to spoil it. Although there are still certain features that the gyre lacks but with the XF-130/150 being the first generation gyre generator, im excited what Maxspect has to offer over the next few generations of the gyre generator. Im pretty sure they are here to stay. Thanks for viewing.

As above. 1) brand new unopened skimz salt 20kg going for $50 2) dual output loc-line going for $8 Sms/whatsapp me at 9106-3934, deal at woodlands

Bump! duncan price reduced to $110.

Wow! Love the way u conceal the compressor away. Amazing!

Bump....

Left ultra carb. $10 anyone?

Clearing some stuff 1) Aussie Duncan - i counted 15 heads with 3-5 baby heads. - Have been with me for a loooong time - i feed it frozen mysis 2 times a week - Looks small when closed up but swells to bigger then my fist ( i have big fists) the brain u see there is around 2" big, so thats for scale nice green too Letting go at $120. 2) Aussie Mushrooms.... Just kidding! they are normal green/blue/turquoise mushrooms!] on a nice fully coraline encrusted rocks. Rocks are around 4-5" length. $15 3) Bi-color blenny - 2-2.5" size - have been with me for a long long time. - Eats anything reason for selling : Saw it nipped at my sps couple times. no picture as its in my sump now. $10 SMS/Whatsapp me at 9106-3934, Collection/deal at woodlands. Thanks for viewing.

Left rw8 and fm ultra carb

Letting go some stuff: 1) Jebao RW-8 Bought from aquarmarin in november 2014 (Sticker infact to prove) @ $55. 2) Hanna Phosphate reagent. Left 18 packs going for $5. 3) Freeze-dried cyclopeeze (60% Full) & Brightwell Iodion (250ml 30% full). The cyclopeeze should be rather hard to find in the market now. Both going at $8 4) Fauna Marin Ultra Carb 1L (80% Full) @ $15 Take all special price of $70 SMS/Whatsapp me at 9106-3934 thanks

0.03 ppm is not considered very high (let alone say critical) even for sps tank. Its considered to be in the range of acceptable po4 for a sps tank. Its normal for a sps tank to have po4 of 0.01-0.03ppm.

Doubt so, your main lighting period is not long in the first place, so the extra 1 hours does not do any harm.

I guess I was lucky, I placed it there and it immediately placed it's foot there. Didnt budge!

Cant seem to open the image but mine is definitely not prostrata, Prostrata are more similar to Milipora.

Hey, Believe me, i have no idea what's the name! I do know the name of the other aussie piece which is a A. Spathulata. Im only doing 10% A week now which i do what you mentioned. i also blow them off daily and they all get trapped in my filter sock. The algae have been greatly reduced since the start of using rowaphos.

The cardinals were doing great and even eating on TDO pellets, but as per what coral farm auntie predictions. I would only have half or less than half left, I believe my waves were too strong and out of 5 which died. 3 bodies will found, 2 totally missing. The remaining 3 are doing good after I adjusted my wave maker position

Update: Its been a week since i started running Rowaphos and its been 4 days since i stopped running AIO Biopellets. Friend was kind enough to help me test my po4 with a Hanna checker and astonishingly, my po4 is at 0.11ppm! Cant image the po4 level 1 week before (Which i've yet to start rowaphos). Now for some coral pics! A Pretty crocea! I've noticed some color changes after i stopped AIO and started rowaphos. Blue tip are starting to appear on my ice fire Desalwi's green is coming back Purple bonsai's purple is coming back too Bali slimmer previously was almost brown! Brown-ed out SSC Recently acquired SSC also browned out! Luckily color of my fav SSC is still not too bad Loving this blue tenius, my first 'test water' frag for this tank turns out the be a beauty, should've bought a colony instead! 2 new addition from auzzie As you can see from the coral pictures above, you can spot a great amount of green hair algae, brown algae and some cyano. Bought a sea hare hoping it will do some good! I've also been stocking up pretty fast and should be stopping collection of anymore fishes! Fish list now : 1 x True perc 4 x Blue Eye Anthias 2 x Dispar anthias 3 x Red spot cardinal (Damn, 5 died! 1 a day!) 1 x Mandarin 1 x Fairy solon wrasse 1 x Melanurus Wrasse 1 x Fork tail Blenny 1 x Midas Blenny Clean Up Crew: 6 x Sand-sifting star 10 x nassarius snail 4 x Astrea Snail 4 x Turbo Snail 4 x Spiny astrea snail 2 x Red leg hermit crab 1 x Abalone 1 x Sea Hare Total of 16 fishes! Most of them are small (1") only the mel and solon wrasse are bigger. Most are on TDO pellets only some new additions are yet to be trained. FTS Thats all for now! Thanks for viewing!

I test for: kH,Mg,Ca, Potassium, Nitrate on a weekly basis. But kH is tested once every 2 days. Potassium is one important element many people failed to noticed.

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