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iwarna friday morning hawaii shipment 8.30, mega coral shipment 1pm.

yea...got some reefers complain about me and other ppl that this thread getting too diluted.. ): but wun say who la. anyway, its good that this thread be as clean and as purposeful as possible...afterall this is what it is made for

dun be sad (: u can have a nice tank with budget constraints too. im alsto 17 this year and currently using my savings for my tank. those equipment that can be substituted by proper husbandry could be eliminated from ur "wishlist" for now (: to help u save some money. for example, u can skip a denitrator, FR etc etc if u do regular water changes faithfully, change carbon and all proper husbandry techniques. i do 20% changes once a week and maintain fair water quality. i dont use a CR too. i manually top up calcium. i dun have an autotop up device, so have to manually top up water too. as for lightings, i dun have MH, only using T5s so can keep softies and LPS only haha. this is good too la for me. as its cheaper to maintain. and also, no chiller. not so demanding for my tank bah. using fan and sometimes aircon (: hope this helps u...just sharing my experience haha.

OH! im sorry i din know cannot mention also =x psps. lol. i tot cannot trade only. anyway, strong discourage anyone to buy blue rings ok? unless u want to sign ur will early. btw, looking for those white pumping xenias -.- anyone saw any?

oo yet another "LFS" that open in shopping centers.... there is one in plaza sing selling freshwater and marine. saw chromis, damsels, clowns, starfish and featherworms. but 90% of their livestock din look healthy and all had ick ): i hope the one at tampines mall is better..

coral farm sometime bring in octopus also. saw before. even bring in blue rings...-.-

GO only bring in corals. seldom or very very very rarely bring in fish. hey hammy, any idea of the size of the copperbands? any smallish ones? thanks

i love that acan!

if u dun wna feed, u can get those photosynthetic ones. but not so colourful la. uglier =x

yes. its an open brain, aka trachy

oh ya heard of these zoas growing on sponges only. very pretty

the scientific name for prata is scolymia

yes i am talking about the same thing as you. rhodactics are a kind of mushroom coral. anyway, if u wan fist sized mushrooms/zoas, u can try Golden cotopus or marine life. they do have stock of these small sized mushrooms and zoanthids. Especially golden octopus..whole shop is filled with small-medium sized rocks of zoas and mushies.

do u believe this is a kind of aiptasia? aiptasia mutibilis/couchii. if this grows in my aquarium im going to leave it there lolz.

ML has some very nice purple rhodactics around 4inches. or you can go pasar malam section and ask ppl sell u frags too. are u sure 7-8cm? thats quite big... usually around 4 inches only....7-8 inches is around 17.5-20.5cm thats quite big. try GO, or ML. the mushies there are around fist size and slightly bigger.

ur yuma is not for sale right? just wondering...

me oso getting old liao ): soon going to zoom zoom to NS then boom. adulthood

u can find mushies and zoas everywhere. ML has some very very nice purple rhodactics. GO always have mushies and zoos. they are always almost available at every LFS.

put the black longnose inside my tank let it get ich lor. become gem butterfly (:

looks like a cross between a tunicate and a sponge lol. ah the wonders of marine hmm? haha. enjoy it.

anemone might sting the zoos. its best to move them apart.

they can stretch and open their mouth to feed on the prawn. careful not to feed too big piece and dun over feed also

probably a sponge then. no worries.

oh no really? ): forget it then lol. maybe 10x more ex also XD