i will go for LED...less heat, less energy consumption, less damage when yr chiller fails....colouration wise, LED alone may lose out to MH + T5 combi...but u can use LED + T5 combi to give u the best of both worlds...
if u r afraid your maxspect is too strong for your corals...dun switch on for 8-9hrs after u install...start off with 5-6 hrs for a few days then increase the duration as days goes by....or u can hang your maxspect higher, further away from your surface of your water....u can check with dr evil on the customise hanging kit for maxspect G2 models....
Ivory Coast V North Korea 2-0 (the whole team is going to defect or AWOL after this match)
Brazil V Portugal 2-1
Chille V Spain 2-2 (this one i dun know how)
Switzerland V Honduras 2-0
well...anytime u r bored with anthias...i'll be here to take them...hur hur...
yes, the domineering male / female will tend to be aggressive during feeding time....wat i do is to scatter the food so that they dun gather at one area to feed.... weee....eeeee.....
hmmm...just try to get a alpha male...extra big, extra high fin..u know that's the guy u want...
if there's no alpha male...sometimes a dominate female will change to male...hur hur...
get them from the farms...cheapest over there liao...only thing is the distance...
Red sea is the cheapest $15 for 4kg follow by reef crystals at $18 for 4kg...but i tried red sea before...one word to describe it...suk...
http://freshnmarine.com.sg/estore/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=7d69124c7d8ea47721bfbaf8bcd690b5
fresh n marine..online store....as far as i know...iwarna is selling at $35 for 6.6kg tub..usual is $45 for 6.6kg
since u stay west side...alternative saltmix of similar quality comparable to D&D is brightwell aquatics at ML..but price wise is higher
end of the day, u cannot have best of both worlds...cheap n good, probably not...reasonable n good..perhaps..
you can balance the power by getting a dominal male...usually has high fin and mouth like sampan or a dominal male anthias of other species...the dominal male once establish himself will be the bully....if there r no dominal male..or the male has turn into female or ah kua...then the dominate female will be the leader...usually the biggest fellow in the tank...
last thurs i went to RB...saw quite alot...but its already passed one week...beta call them b4 u go down tomorrow...
wah...suddenly, demand for copperband go up...hur hur...
hur hur...suddenly my copperband got demand...cannot lah...just managed to train it to feed on frozen mysis n brineshrimp...precious to me now....
but u can get them at CF for less than $4 lah...it's a relatively inexpensive fish n has good re-sale value if u manage to wean them to feed on frozen food and pellets....
i've pm u...reef crystals is another average saltmix...btw RC and Oceanic...i choose oceanic.
u can still get coralife from LCK...$22 for 4.4kg...i think...
AM is selling ME at 3 for $100...quite cheap. i wd say this is above avg saltmix.