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Some of the corals that I've propagated from the main stock... Leather Coral. These babies were bleached during the upgrading of the tank but now they're slowing recovery and growing well. Somehow I find them way diff from the mother!!! This is the mother... This mother had been with me in the old tank since 4-5 yrs ago!

Hi DS, nice tank and set-up you've got there... BEAUTIFUL! is the word Juz to throw in an idea, I agreed that you might wanna consider using the overflow area as an algae scrabble, due to the height. U can use another LED spot light for this area and maybe fabricate something to allow u the ease to harvest or clean the scrabble. I do have some ideas for the design. Bio-balls looks nice and seems fine in the beginning but after years if left on it's own, it does get dirty and unsightly, juz sharing from my past experience. This is also the reason why in my new tank, I switched to a shallow OFS that allows me easy access to replace filter media.

This is the Rics garden...

My Rics and Zoos region. Hopefully they'll grow and multiply the whole rock works. The Zoos region...

A view of the "Deep Reef" from bottom up...

Hi DS, this is after dun know how many failed attempt! Tank conditions wasn't very stable after the set up, so my old paired of TP + all new ones died and my super old Golden Stripe Maroons died not long ago too. Hopefully this 2 new pairs will thrive!

Here are my new pairs of TP. Just got them last week from CF. Paired them myself successfully once again. This pair seems like their black patch will be full coverage! While this pair is great cuz the bigger one is RED instead of orange!

The "Drop-off"... The "Island"... The Island is where I'm trying to populate with mushrooms and anemones. This is also where I place fresh seaweeds (red grapes etc) from time to time for treats to the fishes. Now I'm cultivating my very own red grapes in the refugium.

As promised... here are some photo updates of tank. A FTS without flash, taken with a cam hp. A FTS with flash. LSS... (left side shoot) RSS...

Chiller still on sale @ $400/-.

Items still on sales... now going for $30/- a pcs. Must clear as I needed space in my refug. Kindly PM for enquiry.

Well chalky and sludge-like... Ok that I can accept but foul smell of the water and LS starting to die... this I dun think is normal. During that few days of switching to NP, I've reduce feeding to almost zero as I thot it might be a good idea for the system to take a break from all the nitrate and such. Well anyway this is my experience and I'm not saying that all reefer should switch out of NP ;-) Juz that those who face the same symptoms as what I've shared, can take a cue from here. Also spoken to one LFS and they too experienced one of their tank's water being fouled after using NP. But this was only observed in one of the 2 tank switching to NP.

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Updates... Totally replaced all the NP pellets. Water clarity returned to clear after one nite, after switching back to ROWA. Dun know if it's just me or the NP pellets got problem! When I was removing the rest of the pellets from the FR, the water inside was smelly and chalky with abit of foams. I'll be def giving this NP pellets amiss in the future. Just returned from my overseas trip and there was no casualty. Guess a big tank is indeed very forgiving. Was away for 4 days. Will post some pics soon.

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To add on to what are mentioned by Gouldian... This particular Pseudocorynactis I'm selling is not as aggressive as another species that I've witnessed at one of ML's shipment. That one was really cool cuz it aggression is fierce! I'm not referring to those small ones in his med sized display tank. Based on what I've learnt from these guys during my husbandry care for them. I've noticed that if clown fishes are healthy and no serious injuries on their body, they can be hosted by this anemone but should the clown fish be sick, esp their skin are injured and not producing the chemical they need to protect themselves from the stings of the anemones, they will become food for them! This anemone feeds on almost anything that cross into their path or within their reach. Starfish, snails, abalones, live fish, dead fish... even my fingers. Why most reefers said this species is aggressive? To me they're aggressive among the anemone family (as compared to BTAs, Tube anemones etc) but not the most aggressive! Some carpet anemones are even worst than them. I've got nasty sting marks by carpet as compared to corynactis.

Updates... water in tank is still cloudy as of this morning (11/06/10), 0900hrs and also detected a foul smell from the air holes of the skimmer cup. Checked the FR with the NP pellets and noticed the water is cloudy inside and also what appears to look like film of slime. 11/06/10, 0930hrs... Confirmed those NP pellets that are mixed with the defective pellets are causing the cloudiness in the tank and also a foul smell. This morning, I've to painstakingly removed those defective pellets from the whole batch. After I removed and place the correct ones back into the FR, the water in the tank started clearing up. Now in the evening, the tank looks clearer and all LS seems to be doing fine. In this incident, I've lost 2 clams and some fishes. Some of the survivals also got white spots. The "one" who distributed this batches of NP pellets in SG is really irresponsible caused till date I heard there is no action taken from this party! Really sabo the NP pellet brand and those poor LFS who trusted this party. Imagined my tank almost got NUKE by this case, tank almost crash! For those reefers who has the defective NP packages, PLS do not use them. Get them replaced and if not, sort out the odd pellets before using. TRUST me.

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Chiller is still avail for sale.

Yaaah... mine is the defective package. According to some reefers and LFS, it can still be use, so I try it but guess I'm a dumb dumb if all these cloudiness is caused by this! Yes I've put the outlet of the FR at the intake of the skimmer's pump. I've even placed a filter sock before that. Observation is that the sock clogged up just in 2 days time. Goes to show how much fine particles caused by the NP pellets.

Thanks for your reply. Today the skimmer had started skimming but it's very clear foam, not the dirty green or brown kind. Water is still cloudy. One clam died and all new neon gobies died too. Will continue to monitor condition and update here for lesson learnt. In the meantime, do continue to share your experience if anyone had the same.

Jus did a normal partial water chg and the nest day water started to turn cloudy. Salinity and water temp all are normal. Only thing diff is I replaced my Rowa in the FR to Bio-pellets. Had read in the forum that some of the reefers experienced cloudy water and no skimming after using BP. Not sure if my case is due to this. I've experienced sudden cloudy water before in my old tank before the upgrade. That was due to all the worms in the tank mating at the same time, releasing sperms and eggs all at one go for a long long time. Tank took abt 3-4 days to clear. That was after a water change too. Anyone with the same experience care to shed some lights on this???