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Hitchhikers found: An orange starfish 1.5" wide Apista? Found some of these of my LR, seems bleached, but they do not close up quickly when touched. I'm thinking it could be some bleached out zoos or polyps. Anyone here can advice?

Double post.

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I've started a pico tank in my office after stopping for half a year. Today marks the first day of my office pico. Equipments: 4G Tank 12" (L) HOB filter 9W PL B/W light Skimmerless Water parameters: Temp 22'C SG 1.022 Liverocks 1.5kg

I have used 3 different brands of salt before. 1.Tropic Marin 2. Red Sea (non Pro) 3. BioMarine Tropic Marin - Although have good reviews from many reefers, I find that my LS don't do as well as using Red Sea. Dissolves fast too. Red Sea - Cheap and good. Dissolves average... will have some white powder remaining. BioMarine - No longer have stock. Its those cheapo salt mix that I use when I started. Poor solubility... alot of white ppt left floating and in the water. But however, I think its the best salt of the 3, because everytime I use it on a newly cycled tank, I had an outbreak of coraline algae in just a few weeks... Anyone seen this salt around please let me know!

Either a chiton or a limpet.

I want to decom my office planted tank and convert it to marine. Therefore giving away the following: 5 silver tip tetras 1 otto 2 danios (1 pink, the other striped) 2 anubias plants 1 unknown plant All LS are healthy... collection at Clementi C238 during lunchtime. Interested sms me at nine 6580 four one one.

Hi guys, Off topic but for those staying in Jurong area, where do you go buy your LS? LCK is quite far away, and the only other place I know of is ML. Any other smaller LFS selling marine fish/corals in the area?

I've been searching around for reviews on the iQ3/IQ5. Seems that majority of the owners have upgraded from their IQ tanks. Is the tank hard to work with given the size? Could someone provided the specific dimensions for both tanks?

Hi, any updates? Mind to share with me the price of your tank, cabinet and lights? Thinking of coming back to reefing after seeing your setup! Argh!

Slapper, your tank really blew me away! Are you sure its a 2ft? Looks more than a 2ft in the pics... anyway what is the width and height of the tank? Seeing your tank really make me feel that I want to start reefing again!

Please use DISTILLED water (which is PURE water) and not mineral water which has elements that can harm your fishes. Be sure to read the label properly before you buy them.

Tiffanydunk! you're back!

If its bryopsis, you're in for some trouble mate! Dont let it spread! Its one algae I never want to experience again. No fish would want to eat them becos it tastes bad... (You can try your luck on the bi-colour blenny) To remove it: Dont just pluck it out, it did the mistake of doing that which released it spores and instead spread to the whole tank. Use a tweezer to pluck it and siphon around it to suck all the bits of floating algae.

Yes I love shrooms! I'm still decided whether to stick to my current scape or remove all LR and place them on coral chip sandbed. I've found another secret to mushrooms is that you have to leave them alone for them to blossom! I've neglected the tank for awhile on purpose and they seem to be doing better. My other shroom nursery is doing fine as well.

Oprime, just out of curiosity, how long have you been into marine fishkeeping?

Hi Oprime, No offense intended but after reading your article, I think some of the points in your writeup are incorrect or inaccurate which may confuse any newly started reefers here. Peace.

Freshwater bacteria and saltwater bacteria are different. You need to start from scratch again. If you want to reuse your filter media you got to wash it thoroughly. Most reefers avoid medias like bio balls, ceramic rings, coral chips as they as known to be a breeding ground for nitrates.

A small update... added more mushroom frags from my main tank. All seems to be doing well. Surprisingly, almost 1 week and no signs of diatoms or algae outbreak.

Stumbled on this thread again! Almost 3 years on... this is how the plant is now on 21 Aug 2011.

I have to apologise for the pics... the colours are way off in real life. I need to get a decent digicam to get better pics. I had a sand star that was helping to keep the sand clean but it melted away. I'm still contemplating to do a major rescape to the tank. Also, coral chips will be placed over the sand for the mushrooms to attach to when they fly away.

Another pic..

Here's a pic that I just took... sorry for the lousy pic.

Hi thanks for the interest in my thread... I am currently in the process of propagating my mushrooms in my pico 'nursery' tank. I took many pics but can't seem to get the white balance in place... I can post them if you don't mind the blue hue.

Hi brandonm, its nice to see that you're made this thread alive again! Will have to read this thread from the start when I'm back from work, the pictures are too intensive to be discreet in the office.