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the red one seems to be bleaching

don have. only got big toyogo box but i'm current using. paiseh

sony, wats the size for goldflake at LCK?

ok that will be great. i can collect from jack and pass it to you, or if u meet him u can get from him. either way is fine.

i dunno. it looks nicer somehow. maybe the sps grow out abit more so it looks more compact. oh i see both tanks have urchin. mm maybe leave it? if eat then... bo bian lor i dunno if pluck out how. must pluck with the "roots" otherwise i don't think they will survive. will arrange for collection end of this week when my exams finish. can? haha. thanks again

pistol shrimp. this species don't live with shrimp gobies. you can remove it if you want

they are very common in all LFS. but finding tiny healthy juveniles are not common. most of the time they come in too tiny and stavred, or too big to adapt. this guy was 1 inch, very full bodied and pecking on the diatoms and cyano in the holding tank. i got this guy at ahbeng.

sure haha. let's hope it last till then it loves eating diatoms. it cleared all the brown diatom film growing on my rubber air pipe.

hopefully see how. End of the day i will have to sell this guy off as it's an obligate SPS eater. which means my future SPS will probably shiver at the mention of this fish. This is unlike most angels and other butterflies. this fish being a specialised feeder, will actually eat sps polyps. if i manage to successfully keep this long term, i will sell it off. hehe. meanwhile it will stay with me. benett is beautiful but not the nicest. if it were an ornate or plebeius will be so much better

YES!!!!!!!! omg thanks for remembering can you keep it somewhere safe first? if possible? my tank will only have water and rocks this weekend and i need to cycle without lights ._. if not i can take it first and keep somewhere hehe. wow this FTS is very nice! did you do something? it looks much better than your previous FTS. (both also nice but this is fantastic man)

broken tail is fine. as long as not rotting, fungus or bleeding. 1.5' is a good size

that's why reading and research is very important. how's your golden doing? feeding yet? what size did you get.

red ocellaris clown is normal clown. it's the exact same species just that the colour is more intense. that's all.

:ThanxSmiley: omgoodness takes my breathe away!

hope it can last. sustainable aquatics and liveaquaria got their C. plebeius at 10mm and trained it to eat prepared food at that size. i got mine at 1 inch.... there's alot of difference.

eh this thread getting abit off topic. Original post was about water. threadstarter i suggesst you start your own thread and discuss there. or start a new relavant thread.

you need to go and read on the basics of starting a marine tank and coral, anemone care. One glance at your post is enough to tell me that zero research has been done. Not to sound harsh, but before we can help you, you need to do your part by reading. This hobby is not just a hit and miss. Research has to be done. Need details. Tank size? How long has it been running. What kind of filtration, skimmer, equipment are you using? What is top filter? never heard of it. stop saying your parameter is fine. how do you know if its fine? we need numbers. give us actual numbers to your parameters. Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, calcium, magnesium, pH, temperature, etc. What is ganopa? I assume its goniopora? Again research Leather corals will close for a while and re-open few days later. they do this to shed mucus layer. again, read. zoanthids not opening after 1 day? not good. usually open after 1 day. again, read? and parameters please. anemone? with a leater coral? Need to know the size of your tank. Two highly chemically aggressive animals in 1 tank is not good. Chemical allelopathy is very high. (Chemical warfare) Ok just answer some of the basic questions i ask you before we can help. Sorry for sounding harsh, but all the beating around the bush isn't going to help much. There are alot of important things that the others have missed out. Just answer some of the more important questions i have asked you.

declivis butterfly is very easy... feeds readily upon arrival and is very very hardy. temp around 26-28 is fine..... dunno about goldflake. Please post in an appropriate section.

you can use NSW to do water change in SPS tank. just wether colour nice or not

I hope that this won't encourage anyone to rush to their nearest LFS and grab fishes like these. do reasearch before buying. Never purchase any obligate coralivores. It is extremely hard to get them feeding and even so, it's useless. Unless you try juveniles around 1 inch or smaller. My bennett's butterfly is still a juvenile, hence the blue lines are not obvious. As they grow bigger, the blue lines become very obvious. Till now, have not heard of anyone successfully keeping this fish alive unless in a full blown SPS reef. I hope my little baby will adapt to captivity and be the world's first.

Chaetodon bennetti (Bennett's butterflyfish) This is one of the nicest butterflyfish IMO, but is almost impossible to sustain in the home aquarium as it is an obligate coralivore. Meaning that majority of it's diet is comprised of corals and nothing else. Most frequently acropora. In the wild, this butterflyfish feeds on acropora and some algae. I don't support buying of such fishes as they don't survive in our tanks. However, i chanced upon an article on captive raised Chaetodon plebius. C. plebius, like bennetti, is also an obligate coralivore. However they collected a tiny juvenile plebius and trained it on prepared food. It is very difficult to wean coralivores onto prepared food and even so, large specimens do not have the ability to utilise nutrients from prepared food. Being coralivores, their digestive system is adapted to export nutrients from coral polyps. The plebius was then sold on liveaquaria diver's den. However, there is evidence that juveniles of such fishes may adapt to prepared food when trained very early in their lives. Their body may adapt to prepared foods and are thus able to survive in our home tanks. Thus, ladies and gentleman i'm pleased to announce, the first ever C. bennetti in captivity that accepts frozen mysis and new life spectrum pellets. This specimen is just over 1 inch and it's still very juvenile. It's maintaining it's weight by eating nori, mysis and pellets. Let's hope that this fish will survive and be labelled as Singapore's first ever captive raised C. bennetti from juvenile.

peter pan lol

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long tentacle plate coral is very sensitive, more so than the normal ones. infact they are quite challenging. place on sand because they are found there in nature and the sand helps to cushion their delicate tissue. normal plate corals put on rocks is fine. they are more forgiving. Long tentacle ones usually get themself cut by the rocks and die from the bottom up. don't epoxy them there. it's worse. they are free living by nature and will bloat up and move around the sand. same goes for plate corals. they break off after awhile and live freely on the sand.

wow! your lamarck angel is quite male. the base of the pectorals have blue colouration. would like to see it become fully male. keep us posted!