yikai

ingenious and very creative backdrop. i love it! thinking out of the box (tank)!

Rocks are already placed and scaped. The 2.5ft width isn't as big as my 3.5 and poses alot of restrictions for the play of dimensions. i could not achieve a similar effect as with my previous tank. nonetheless i'm ok with it and will update a picture tonight when the water becomes clearer. my sump has an inbuilt refugium too, a small one, and it has miracle mud for the substrate. pictures later when water clears as well. having lost a whole list of rare dottybacks and wrasses in my previous tank, i decided to try to the best of my abilities, removing as many unwanted pests as i could with the rocks. i am not a believer in killing rocks completely to white, but i do promote some sort of pest removal for all live rock. i did a simple 30 minute soak in fresh water. this isn't fool proof, but it gets rid of the bigger critters. very small ones deep in the rocks may be unaffected but those shouldn't pose as much of a problem as the ones that do die from the dip. i had multiple bobbit and bristle worms, some quite big. a few crabs a pistol shrimp a mantis shrimp some parasitic isopods all a big no in a reeftank especially with smaller fish that frequent the rockwork.

Some updates for today. for those who requested to know the equipments that are running this tank, 2x Eheim 1264 return 1x Tunze 6065 1x Tunze 6085 1x Deltec SC2560 Lights will come next week perhaps, and since i used a CR for my previous tank, i'm thinking of trying a dosing pump this time for additive maintenance instead.

i absolutely love cube tanks. they are my kryptonite. looking forward to seeing you scape this tank!

tony vargas is slaying me with yet another haul of rare wrasses. this time from kevin kohen. attenuatus and roseafascia. he has another mystery cirrhilabrus that he has not revealed yet.

i found it here's a quick pic i took of the beautiful male right after it was unboxed. it was the most stunning blue i have ever seen and i had no idea what it was. i never even heard of P. aequalis until that day. it was a full grown male. 12cm.

pseudocoris aequalis is one of the more beautiful in the genus. the aquamarine hue is amazing in person! i need to find that picture i took from BH. attenuatus again? forever not coming to singapore. i love the fish too much!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/DraLtmocuWc video of kamoharai blenny. koji caught more 3. these are going to ORA for breeding.

koji caught another kamoharai for a U.S reefer who requested for one 2 years ago

extremely jealous. jake adams is recounting his travel to mauritius with me and he mentioned seeing this fish while snorkeling. WHAT!? Chrysiptera annulata is a very beautiful "polyzona" damsel. i want one! snorkel depth - very shallow damsel - easy to catch mauritius - we have shipments from there so that's 3 strikes! i must get one one day!

ecsenius oculus in the wild.

i love watching videos of fish in the wild. here's semifasciatus owning the reef.

a xanthic regal angel.

healthy looking copperband. feeding well? i always loved this humble fish

alpha male earlei, marjorie wrasse and Lotilia klausewitzi @ LADD.

female lancelatus and lunatus from koji to jim

i will do a proper update tomorrow haha. water + sands + rocks tomorrow. toys as in equipment? that's my least excited part of the set up haha. i don't care for equipments. but i will update nonetheless tomorrow.

stigmata blenny and "deepwater" coral beauty.

beautiful deborah angels at blueharbor. some of them have interesting blue markings on the chest.

Hi vincent 12mm. Bottom euro bracing only. My previous tank from you was 15mm

I want one! I'm srs

Yup

I'm a combat medic at 3SIR. Battalion ORD already and I'm sent bsck to HQ and there's nothing to do now. My unit is a ghost town until next intake in march nxt yr.