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The problem he getting now is not due to the "waterfall' effects but rather the microbubbles get passed from the 1st chamber all the way to the last chamber. This is caused by too much flow for the small sump to handle

Maybe let me rephrase it as my english is not good. I meant that Algae as method of nutrient export has it's limitation.

tips to get your tang fat, feed them pellets, like NLS pellets etc.

Nowadays lot of provision shop selling vingear har? Got time go down EAN see their 8" black tang then you saw nice or not

Yes can see some pattern on the fins. All the tangs all so similar. I give up trying to ID liao Ulgy doesn't mean I don't buy. I like ugly fish. This fish very dark one... only 2nd to black tang. Got time come my house take a look. *make you gian*

A better skimmer with higher turnover will extra the DOC before it has the chance to be convert into ammonia and finally nitrates. Take a skimmer with turn over rate of 10x the tank volume, most of the DOC will be extracted before they finally gets coverted to NO3. This also must work hand in hand with a higher turn over rate. You forget abt the function of LR and DSB. Yes they are not able to handle a high amount of NO3 that is why we need better skimmers. Better skimmer means sufficient size for your intended bioload and water volume. You can have a very small needle wheel which can really clean your water but the turn over rate is miserable 1-2x per hr. End up still lots of NO3 because the excess DOC not skimmed out in time are converted to NO3 and the amount of NO3 produced cannot be effectively reduced by the LR and DSB. If the nutrients level are sufficiently low, it does not matter how much algae you put in, it will still crash. Algae can only reduce the nutrient up to a certain level, does not matter how much you put in

This jewel tang not so commonly seen yet some pple didn't managed to get it and throw sour grape say it is ugly

Yeap. Just leave it alone if it is feeding. Remember don't stress it. Don't put your hands into the tank etc. Best don't even walk across the tank or go near it. Usually it's not the ich that killed the fish but all the funny chemicals we throw in.

I quote from a website. Therefore from what you described, it seems that when you see no spots on your other fishes, the trophonts has left the fishes and went on the other stage of their lifecycle. The reason why you don't see them on other fishes anymore is that the other fishes might have developed immunity to the parasite hence the theronts are not able attached to the fishes. Best to leave all these medication alone. The only known treatment that works against the parasite are copper based medication and hyposalinity, both which cannot be used in a reef tank. Anything that can kill the ich parasites will kill the corals as well.

That is poor man's short nose dark tang

Make sure you pour salt into water and not water onto the salt.

zeobak is not jump start but necessary bacteria for converting nutrients into biomass for skimmer to export it. zeofood is food for the corals. while zeostart are food for bacteria which is sort of jump start. You'll still need a good skimmer to export the nutrients at the end of the day. If nutrients becomes too low then your caulerpa will crash too. New school of thought, that is why we use more efficient skimmers to removed the DOC before it even has chance to be converted to ammonia.

reduce size of air valve on dunso and reduce the flow at the overflow pipe with the ball valve. That should further help to reduce the bubbles.

if dust_to_debris get the extrema then i'll get the 2014.

Not sure what tangs... no time to identify anyway. As long as I like it then I buy

Yeap. I agree.. when you get a tang that is skin and bone only and not eating one. Then you get it to start eating and pump it fat fat, the type of feeling cannot be described lol. BTW this is my favourite tang, got it for next to nothing. After quarantine and got pump up fat fat during the process Grew from 2" to ard 3" in a matter of 6 weeks.

You've to watch out for Roidan's Salifin... ah now that's the fat one heheheh. Beat mine no use one hor. Bro dradttg, if I used coolpix 5000 then I will state it in the post. The lens that came with the D70 got no macro capability so sometimes I've to switch over to coolpix 5000 until I save enough money to buy a new lens. The coolpix 5000 is a very good camera already.

grummy look saying hi to everyone

Finally found my "chao chao look" dark dark fish, just out of quarantine Guess what's in the background? heheheh

Happy look.

Someone asking abt my salifin?

Take some RO/DI water and test, see if you get low reading or not. Then you can come back to say it is always accurate

Can get from EAN

these are really overpriced and won't help your tank much. Might as well go for a commercial RO/DI unit.

they are not harmful, just keep them. Food for fishes