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Closer look at this specimen (I need a macro lens!)

One of my favourite SPS colonies I bought this one when it was bleached and as luck would have it, it turned out to be such a beautiful specimen!

Nope that's a baby leather coral I used to have this big piece which attached itself to the rock and while trying to remove it, I left a few strands of tissue there. Then after some weeks, it regenerated into a complete specimen again and after that, it remained this size till now

A very very slow growing frag...

Yes they are commonly on sale here because of their wide variety of colours

My laptop doesn't read CF cards and I don't have a card reader yet so uploading into the laptop would take some time considering that it is using the old version of USB. I'll post more pics in a while

From what I know, these guys' sting are more potent than others as in they would cause severe irritation to some people. They are also known to sting and eat up fishes in a tank

Some SPS shots Orange monti 4th generation frag

This is my tank shot 2/1/06 (the most recent I could find)

I'm using 2x250w BLV 20k with 2x54w T5 BluePlus

I tried shooting in RAW but it'll be harder for me to resize and post here I had some shots in RAW which I'll try to post later to compare. The white balance is only a little more bluish as those who has seen my tank in person will notice that my tank is really blue Oh and I'm using Olympus Evolt E500 with Zuiko 14-45mm lens

And of course a full tank shot Notice I did massive fragging to my tank to make space for the colonies to grow out

And this is one of the anthias my parents bought without my notice They sure do bring some life into my tank

Tried shooting at the fishes which had been really kind to stay at the same location for me to shoot. This chromis had been with me since my tank set up few years back

My green Palythoa sp. that is growing too big

Hi guys, its been a while since I posted on my tank thread. Got a new DSLR today so here's some testing pics. Enjoy!

I have a rather new Seio M1100 for sale Used for only 2 months Selling for $80 Interested pls contact me at 92986195

Welcome to SRC!!

After reefing for quite some time, I noticed that many reefers stay only in the vicinity of the hobby. What I mean is that this hobby is just about maintaining a nice looking tank and it stops just there. The hobby gets a little boring after the initial setup since its all about maintenance now (well maybe some still enjoy constantly "replenishing" their tank). Then after some time, people just give up or lose their enthusiasm and turn towards the big toys like giant skimmers or that awfully sick looking 5 stage RO/DI you see sitting there in the store corner. Then the fun comes in again working all these monsters and comparing who can get the most advanced, most "efficient" or most *ahem* expensive items on their system. We are almost always driven by what other reefers tell us and honestly, these information might not be true at all. How many of us had actually seen a reef or even a live marine habitat? I know I had and all the SRC divers had but these are just a minority compared to the other reefers out there. Probably the closest they get to knowing a marine habitat are pictures and NatGeo documentaries. Have reefers actually spent time to read up on coral biology, to understand why a DSB develops black stuff after some time or merely even thought of how he/she can give back to nature? The local scene is almost always driven by developments in foreign countries because the experts (as in those doctors and professors) there work with hobbyists and share their knowledge with them. Remember the time when acan lords were the fad or when the revolution of beckett and needlewheel skimmers? I feel that the reefing scene here is just merely tagging along with fads and not developing in itself. While other countries held events like IMAC, the closest we get to that is hosting Aquarama which even features that nonsensical marine tank competition. While RC has professionals such as biologists in their forums, we only have people who had been into the hobby for a long time sharing their experiences. I strongly feel that reefers should head out and explore the boundaries of this hobby and yearn to learn more about our precious marine life rather than sitting around watching your skimmer churn out nasty gunk. Go for guided intertidal walks by Blue Water Volunteers and Raffles Museum and join volunteer programmes like TeamSeagrass or get books that feature Singapore's marine life like the newly launched "Singapore's Splendours" by Dr Chua Ee Kiam, our reknown nature photographer. Think about it, you are the one who can make the hobby more exciting.

Something like this

Hey guys, anyone know where in Singapore can I find cowboy hats? As in those real ones not those plastic ones for parties And if possible, how much do they cost roughly? Thanks

Yeah Purple Up is the potent coralline algae drug

Do you have algae growing in your sandbed?

Yep like Ian said, the recommended (or at least that's what most reefers use) depth is between 3-4 inches. Do take note of providing oxygen rich water circulating around the sandbed if you're using very fine sand as you don't want totally anaerobic spots. The bacteria that convert nitrate to nitrogen gas occur in aerobic and anaerobic regions since they are facultative but the process of producing nitrogen gas would be in regions of around 0.5ppm oxygen if I'm not wrong and the process that happens in totally anaerobic regions would be the production of ammonium which is an even more potent nutrient for algal growth

Happy CNY all SRC reefers!