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Following pictures are in the wild! all from reefcentral

most filefishes are not reefsafe. tasseled filefish is one of them

generally very easy fish. Some perish due to shipping stress. to facilitate it to your tank, a sand bed will help make it feel comfortable while it gets used to the tank.

it's not advisable to keep leopard wrasse, tamarins, yellow wrasse, coris etc in a tank without sand bed longterm. it's not impossible for them to adapt to a bare bottom tank. I know many reefers keeping them in bb. but it's a very important element for these fishes. they need the sand to feel secure and sleep in at night, as well as to hide when they feel threatened. For very hardy and easy species like yellow wrasse. bare-bottom for months no problem or even permanent. but touchier species like leopards and pencil wrasses may suffer without the sand bed. Talk to some of the resident wrasse gurus here and they will tell you the same. there's nothing complicated. it's just nature.

good. i TM that term liao. don't steal!

u can take ur own sweet time. i got so little time to play before i commit myself to singapore lol

me too... i think i can only add stuff in july or august... my lights not even ready and my compressor too.

eh. do you have a sandbed? no sandbed, don't keep wrasses that fall into these genus halichoeres sp, macropharyngodon sp (leopards), anampses sp (tamarins), pseudojuloides sp (pencil wrasses), coris sp all the above mentioned wrasses need to have a sandbed. if you are not experienced enough to know their scientific names, check it up. if any of the wrasses you want fall into the above genus, don't attempt unless you havea sandbed. Yellow wrasse - Halichoeres chrysus.

lck has golden angels?

oo i c. anyway jiayou! REALLY can't wait to chiong lfs with you go buy angels. ARGH. fingers dam itchy. i should be filling up my tank with water and doing rockscape now but because my stupid exams next week i can't. sian.. have to wait 1 more week.

if you wan the coral to die, yes.

alternatively you can use epoxy and cable tie them while the epoxy cures. then do the individual rockscape on syrofoam or a hard plastic. so you can easily transfer to your tank. drilling works too but you must know how to drill properly and slowly and where otherwise you will break your rocks into more pieces then good game.

a wise choice.

never head of it. but many fishes change colour temporarily when stressed, excited, happy or whatever. maybe this is the case. but from black to yellow? wow nice!

neoglyphidodon nigroris. sub-adult behn's damselfish. juveniles are very beautiful but when adult, are terrors and very fierce. when fully adult, will turn all black with no yellow on the tail.

pinnicle had plenty of them yesterday but all should be sold by now. call to check CF had 1 last week but not sure if still got. call to check

yes will be studying at home tomorrow. so will be home.

no hurry man take care of your boy

abalone

thanks cedric! section 3 will be a refugium for more finicky fishes before they go into the display. After quarantine, they will go to the display. However for fishes that need more time learning to feed, they go into section 3 to fatten up first. it will have sand and rocks with chaeto, but no DSB. it's not a big area so i don't think having DSB there will make much of a difference.

wait PO4 is 0.5? or 0.005? 0.5 is high and many corals cannot tolerate this concentration

i get so angry when i see people mistreat their livestock without reading. 2 zebrasoma tangs together? in a 2ft tank? go and read up on this genus and you will know that they are very aggressive towards cospecifics. it's not advisable to keep even one in a 2ft tank yet you have 2. i don't even reccomend keeping one, let alone two. it's impossible for both to co-exist in a small tank so none of the above advise on dispersing aggression will work. it's very possible to keep them in a bigger tank but in a 2ft, sorry bro, not going to happen. my advise, sell one away.

elegance coral disease can take more than 1 month to kill it.

it's the same. aioliops megastigma. dont keep them with fishes that might eat them. my banggai cardinals ate all of them before. yes... banggai cardinal.

ty bro