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One important element: Mg (Magnesium)!!!!! Coralline algae take up a lot of magnesium in their formation

The T5 ballast can be placed inside as it is about the same size as a normal FL ballast Its the MH ballasts that I want to take out

This is for Travy Specs is 2x150w with 2x30w NO tubes Gonna change the bulbs to 14kk next week when my chiller comes And still contemplating whether to change the NO tubes to T5?

can give me if you dun want

Beware if you have fishes as they can contract in 3 seconds to catch a fish

Nope no sponge Its true blue (actually orange ) coralline

Tank looks so much brighter

Thou shalt give light

This thing is damn heavy but I still manages to mount it

Here's little Davies playing with the styrofoam pieces

I needed to hammer in one of the legs cause its a little bent

Here's how it look like in the box The plastic covering dusty though

Yeah you heard frags More strains available in the future Updates: FINALLY got my MH Some pics to share

No exactly true sis... I got green, pink, purple, red, orange, brown and white colour coralline

you can use cyanoacylate glue gel if you want to stick it this way, you have to be quick

its actually expelling excess zooxathellae

Yeah good point to note for beginner fraggers I have seen an interest growing on propagation and this is my aim Keep it up guys!

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Thanks nicken, there will be frags available soon That's a sea cucumber (black sand sifting type) Its reef safe as its toxins are fish specific and would not harm corals but skim strongly just in case.

You can just use a scewdriver and hammer to chisel the piece off

Ok one by one now, octopus and other Euphyllia spp. can be fragged this way by breaking the hard skeleton Attachment to rocks can be done with cyanoacrylate glue gel and it will not harm the tank. The toxins produced by some corals are much more toxic than the solvent. Yes, mushies can just cut and they will grow back. Visit my tank's thread for some pics. I am currently propagating rhodactis and the frags will be available in a few weeks time. Bubble corals can be propagated with the same methods for octopus or hammer corals. Sun corals are individual polyps if I am not wrong. That's why you have to feed every polyp so that it will survive I am starting a brood stock of nice corals and hopfully, I will be able to give or exchange them for free

Hi guys, I would want to grab this opportunity to tell you more about coral prpagation. Sadly, this is not practiced my many of us here. The reason for coral propagation is to save our coral reefs from declining as divers collect corals for the trade. So why must we propagate corals? The reason is simple, propagated corals survive better in captive systems and we can ensure a good distribution of nice genetic strains. Its so simple and the mother colony will survive and continue to provide us with generations of its strain. There is a common misconception that only stony corals like SPS and LPS can be "fragged". The answer is no and in fact, all corals can be propagated. Mushroom corals are one of the most colourful and hardy corals that are kept in the aquarium. Their colours range from bright red to dark brown and their textures range from smooth to hairy. Its no wonder that these corals are one of the most widely propagated species. The procedure is simple by just cutting of the "hood" from the stalk or if you want more pieces, you can further cut the hood into 5-6 pizza shaped pieces. Each of these pieces will grow into a new specimen (visit my tank's thread for some pics). This way, we would not worry about reefers hogging LFS for uniquely coloured specimens. The more serious reefers can create a brood stock and collect nice strains to propagate and distribute. Soft corals like leather corals are also easily propagated by cutting a small piece off the mother specimen and this will also recover into a new specimen. But a point to note is that leather corals secrete a lot of slime and release some toxins when cut but this is easily solved by good water movement and strong skimming. Lastly, the stony corals by far is the easiest to propagate as you just need to break a piece off the calcium carbonate skeleton and attach the frag to a piece of rock. Do not worry if the frag is too small as it will grow very fast and you can frag it again. So I therefore urge all reefers here to practice coral propagation to some extent to help save the reefs and to ensure that nice strains are not lost but distributed around. LFSes shouls also do this and they can produce a constant supply of nice corals from their brood stock or from some nice deliveries from the distributors.

They are not nocturnal but they grow under hinges in the reefs so they do not like too much light

Well, the bigger of the pair is the female My percula still screaming for me to get him a "bu"

yeah, especially now when refractometers are so low costing Its a good piece of instrument and can measure accurate readings without the effect of temperature