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at least 12mm. but 15mm if you can afford is better.

WTS a pair of Red Sea swallowtail angels. (Genicanthus caudovittatus). Male is around 5 inches female is 3 inch. this species of swallowtail angelfish is rare in Singapore. An uncommon find and very beautiful. Bought at $110, selling at $120 for the pair. all genicanthus swallowtail angels are open water planktivorous feeders and show no interest to benthic life or corals. however there are exceptions but the chances are very slim. No obligation to buy. If no one wants it, i will just keep it. Owner must have a large enough tank of at least 4ft in length or large enough water volume to accomodate the size and activity of these fishes. no proper pictures but they look exactly the same like the one posted below. (pic from liveaquaria). females are white.

used this product upon the reccomendation of fuel. before testing. PO4 - 0.25ppm NO3 - 3ppm. dosed ultralife and tested 24hours laters. PO4 - 0ppm NO3 - 2ppm D:

i'm not a fan of anemone because they like to move. but that problem is settled if you create an island just for it surrounded by sand, and i did. the anemone will not likely move to the sand and be confined to the rocks. bubble tips are very tamed already. dont move much once they find a nice spot. yeah i like to have a tank with just as many nice fish as there are corals. these two go hand in hand and i never really liked those gorgeous sps tanks devoid of life. nutrient export is important! running PO4 and NO3 removing products as well as regular water change to keep nutrients low. will test my diligence when the time comes bah. i'm still a fish person at heart. so even when it comes to corals, even the basic and simple stuff is enough to satisfy me the real challenge will be maintaining the bioload. should not be a problem (now) as most of my fish are very small such as wrasses. have a few angels so will take that into consideration. thanks for all your comments! it's good to listen to such inputs coz many times i wander off and forget about the requirements of the corals and not just the fish alone!

8 anthias in a 2ft is pushing it too far............. sell some...

trust me you will be bored with 10 anthias after awhile. and when you want to catch to sell, very difficult. plus, 10 anthias means your choices of other livestock will be very limited. i reccomend 3-4 anthias. like that still got space to play other livestock.

3 2 2 is a fairly basic size and large enough to keep anthias. but not too many. i would only keep 3-4 maaaaaaaaaaaybe 5 (but that's abit of a stretch), anthias in a tank this size. take into consideration that they grow and need lots of swimming space.

silicates. present in the water as silicates (SiO3). not silicon dioxide. silicon dioxide is sand. to remove silicates, top up with RO/DI water and not tap water. diatoms grow well in high silicate content.

anthias wun chase each other if the tank is big enough. in a small tank, mixing too many species sometimes can cause some unhappyness. but generally for anthias, is not too problematic. but males of the same species may fight and kill each other. good example is bartletts.

here's another look at the Opistognathus lonchurus but at 14C and lower, this fish is impossible to keep in Singapore. not only is it ridiculously rare. so rare that this is the FIRST live photo since it's discovery 108 years ago. at 14C, your tank will probably be condensed 24/7 and your electricity bills could probably afford you a clarion angel every month. also, this fish is predominantly cyan coloured. cyan is a VERY rare colour for marine fishes.

chingchai's beautiful rhomboids. he has 2x achilles tang in his main display and 5 more in his quarantine tank. he has uploaded a video on youtube. would like to see how 7 achilles tang do in his tank. that's a crazy number of ATs

i love suns but my laziness always gets the better of me. seeing them turn from orange to grey due to STN caused by under-feeding is so depressing.

omg! quite possible the world's most beautiful jawfish. described in 1902, this is the first EVER photograph of a living specimen. talk about OLD! Opistognathus hopkinsi requires super cold water of 14C and below.

what size tank

omg it's real!! the white longnose does exist!! actually if you look at the dorsal and anal fins, there is some very fine yellow colour. means it's really real. but i think the white will fade back to yellow in captivity. baby tosanoides not nice yet. must wait till it grows bigger.

OMG! white long nose butterflyfish! judging from the black bar that covers the entire eye, this is F. longirostris. dunno if it's fake or not but i won't find it hard to believe if it's true also. we've seen pure white yellow tangs, and pure black longnose, why not a white one? if it's real, it's freaking gorgeous.

very healthy looking tank. the clove polyps and blue sponge are amazing

more photos of the hybrid takeuchi juvenile. not as nice as the pedigree one though.

tetra test kits are very inaccurate. no idea how to use them... i prefer salifert.

ur right. the king is really v v nice.

yes from iwarna. of coz i'm still stocking on sps! just very slowly lah. i don't want to rush into things... i've been busy with the diatoms that most new tanks will have. and also with some fish i've been collecting. can't get too many coz the bioload will be too high. the bubble tip is designated on it's own rock island in the middle of the sand. so it won't run around. i have 2 "islands". one for the bubble tip and the other for invasive soft corals like xenia and cespitularia. it's not impossible to keep SPS with a little bit more fish than conventional. and also with anemone and softies. i know most people advocate SPS tanks with no nutrients, no fish, no everything. running zeovit to keep nutrients so low that the SPS become pastel. i'm not a fan of this actually. there's two kinds of SPS tank from the way i see it. sps tank with no fish and just sps. and SPS tank with angels. one famous example is John coppolino from reef central. mpoletti (spelling) is another one. although i'm new with SPS, i'm willing to learn and take the risk and go for the second option. no one here dares to put angels with SPS. not sure is it because of the lack of interest, or the fear of their non-reef safe qualities. if you understand the fish and the coral, it's very possible to achieve both. bioload might be an issue, and though my system isn't as grand as theirs, with appropriate number of fish, it's still achievable. big dream, but hey. nothing is impossible right? hopefully 1 year down the road. i will post a FTS with healthy SPS ( dont have to be rare, just healthy), and gorgeous angels cruising the tank.

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give it time. they will go very very deep into some stupid hole and stick there until it's impossible to remove it. then from that spot it will extend out it's body and tentacles. bubble tips are very annoying in that sense.

mine eat until almost no more liao. im so happy. even the bloody bryopsis also eat. but i will wait awhile until my tank gets over the bloody new tank syndrome.

omg jungle of hair algae! where's your seahare!!