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very beautiful scaping. happy new year!

bro sorry for the poison! LOL! thats a very beautiful piece!

dont keep tangs in a tank that size. too small. . perhaps some flame cardinalfishes? or firefish? flame hawk? these fishes do not need so much space compared to tangs. maybe a very small flame angelfish.. but 2ft hmm... will be a stretch for the angel but its possible. not as terrible as a tang! haha

the white coral banded shrimps are called ghost boxing shrimps. the image of the un-IDed wrasse is a yellow fin wrasse. Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis. the darkcoloured tang with blue borders at LCK is a sohal tang. Acanthurus Sohal

this is radioactive zoas.a whole rock like this costs only between 1-2 red notes in farms. its not worth much

hi bro kimkim. you can get almost all marine plants at coral farm, with the exception of ulva and chaetomorpha. caulerpa, bamboo, red grapes, etc are all available there and are very cheap. some LFS in pasir ris may carry them but the variety is not large, and not as big/beautiful as those at CF. do remember to provide your marine plants with good flow and trim them when they grow too large. flow is very important to prevent your algae going sexual. this means the algae releases spores and gametes into the water and will cloud your tank severely. the parent algae will die and the spores/gametes will be the future lineage to the parent. this can potentially crash your tank due to the abundance in nutrients.

tank size? anything less than 3ft is a no in my opinion. i feel tangs should be kept in 3ft set ups or larger. anything below will be inhumane. clown tangs are very difficult to get feeding, and if u manage to keep one alive, you may regret your decision since they are very aggressive.

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haha btw happy new year bro bro cool guy, there are some more nice africanus at LCK. saw some just now.

bro very beautiful wrasses! love the lineatus, flame and laboutei! cheers to a happy 2010 and may it be filled with rhomboids and roseafascia blastos from CF? so u got that piece good buy!

nice rock work!

you should not even be keeping any tang in a 2ft tank. just way way too small for them. tangs are active swimmers, constant grazers, need good and brisk water movements. they need space and a 2ft tank is really too small. dont forget that liverocks will displace water volume too. so the more stuff u add the less water volume. smaller fishes are reccomended for a tank of this size. perhaps a small dwarf angel? there are many other small and peaceful fishes for you to explore.

cannot win me. laptop crash on new year's eve. way more expensive to fix than any africanus angel . and lost too much data!

err.... ok... you should at least put in some form of mechanical filtration to filter out solid debris. try to aim your wavemaker at different angels to create for surface movement? that way the water agitation might dispel the surface scum.

this fish is available time to time. have not seen it recently though.

beautiful. try not to keep it in the betta box for too long. sand wrasses are very hardy and feed easily. no need to betta box them. they need sand to sleep in and dig if they feel afraid. without sand they will be very stressed.

sunburst anthias - shy - hard to feed - fragile fish that dont ship well. have kept a sunburst anthias for a few months. they will not be so timid, but generally stay closer to rocks. this is their nature. not an active open swimmer, more of a dweller amongst rock works. died for no reason one day. have not tried them ever since. as for ur surface accumulating "dust", this is due to poor water movement on the surface. try to improve circulation by creating more wave movements on the surface using wavemakers. do you have an overflow or surface skimmer?

in a 2ft? very unlikely..... space is too small for two dwarf angels to co-exist peacefully. even if its possible, i won't reccomend. the small size of the tank will always ensure squabbles between the two centropyges.

a tank full of brown warty at CF other than that nothing much. large giant size beautiful AT there too. dont think its feeding. ATs at LCK are feeding well. beautiful clarion angel feeding so aggressively on pellets. Sealief has large yellow belly regals..

impossible to use my school's lab in the sly. i will need to store it and autoclave it once im done. they will find out...

do a search on the above 4 species i mentioned. one of them might be the one we are looking for. as for lab, i do have access, but wether or not allowed to grow stuff there, i'm not sure. it will be pretty easy from there on. the only tough part will be to get permission

As we mark the end of 2009, a new year is about to unfold. May the year 2010 be filled with love, happiness, and prosperity, both in family, friends, work and of course, our reefing community. Unhappy incidents, bad moments are all in the past now. New year, new start! I wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR! - lemonlemon

LOL! great sense of humour! happy new year's eve btw!

for nitrobacter, manage to find these 4 species. so little? only 4? if this is all there is in Nitrobacter, it will be much easier to pinpoint which one lives in marine environments and what they need N. alkalicus N. hamburgensis N. vulgaris N. winogradskyi probably one of these species participate in cycles in seawater. not sure which one.

nitrobacter is a very big and diverse group of bacteria. almost all are gram negative rod shape strains. u coming across nitrobacter in the bacteria suppliment is no coincidence. nitrobacter is one of the main contributers to nitrogen cycling. it is present in many environments to aid in nitrogen cycles. but then, the exact strain is unknown to us. so most of the time they just write Nitrobacter. Sp i do not have the source for all the individual species conditions, neither do i have the source of ALL the species.i only know some by heart, which unfortunately, do not participate in Nitrogen fixation in seawater. it is possible however to do detailed swabs of liverock, filter sponge etc where they grow, and pure culture them in agar. from there determine the exact species and look it up via books/internet. this is tedious though... and u need a laboratory to do it in. thing is, i don't have a lab available to do so. otherwise it will be easy to pin-point what exactly is living in our tanks and what exactly it needs. this i feel, will help tremendously in the hobby.