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Awww so sweet, zebra and mombasa sitting side by side like boyfriend and girlfriend. They're almost holding hands!

Thanks for dropping by Roger! We need to catch up soon, it's been a long time!

thanks bro, I will try if possible, though I'm not sure if my lions will eat the caviar

Thanks for the condolences! Will be finishing the hyposalinity level lowering this evening, then start the 1 month hypo treatment to eradicate ich. Hopefully will be able to build up my livestock supply again soon. Reason that I'm thinking of doing without corals is that to remove the risk of corals introducing the ich protozoa to my tank, I will need to fallow it fishless in qt for 2 months. I currently don't have the type of QT tank to be able to do so, especially when qting new fish. the lights in my QT are very basic, and no chiller too. That's why I'm thinking of converting to FOWLR. I love corals, but I hate ich!

Wow your new scape looks like it's made of aquaroche designer rocks!

I used to use that digital refractometer but have now switched to manual. The digital one has error margin of plus minus 0.002 salinity, and after a year plus gets very inaccurate even after calibration. Using the same sample of water, I could get 1.056 as the first reading, then 1.042 then 1.036 before settling at 1.025

Very nice scape! I would strongly recommend a quarantine tank. Make the space for it. I have a quarantine tank but was too lazy to use it properly and I'm now paying for it. White spot outbreak wiped out half my livestock and I'm now battling to eradicate it from my system. It's slightly better with a fowlr since you can copper treat your tank, but if you do you won't be able to keep any invertebrates, even cleaner crew and anemones for your clowns. Clownfish can get very aggressive, depending on species. You can try to get a harem of juveniles of the same species to watch their natural dynamics in a group, but that would limit the other fish in your tank that you can keep, but not sure if this would work since you bought one already. I would recommend sticking to one pair in your tank, or max 2 pairs if you get 2 anemones.

Sigh... my tank kena white spot outbreak. Lost my 6 large sunburst anthias, kole tang, 3 yellow fin flasher wrasse (one jumped) and the dwarf fuzzy lionfish very huge and heartbreaking loss. I've removed all corals and snails and am doing a 1 month hyposalinity treatment to get rid of the ich. No more laziness with qt for me. I'm also seriously considering just going with a fowlr after the hypo treatment and add more predators and maybe butterfly fish.

Collection where?

Bro, your regal angel won't eat your corals?

No clue as I've never tried. I'm using just an ANS opticube tank now with no IOS compartment, so the q3 hangs directly on the back of the tank for me

Didn't keep any pics but it fit for me. I had the 34L version of the Nano Space. I'm using the q3 now and I don't think it'll fit as the outlet is wider than the e3. You can contact Razali from DE Lightings sponsor subforum as he's the BM distributor. Henry, Ah Being and Iwarna should be able to order in for you too if Razali has stock.

I saw Slayer arrive at new trio as I was leaving CF AT and black tang very nice, the black tang small and cute. Anyone see any emerald crabs or scarlet hermits?

I used a bubble magus e3 on my OF nano space previously and it worked very well. Fit nicely into 2 compartments of the IOS with space left over for media like carbon and phosguard

Please explain why "ideal" parameters for ammonia and nitrite are 0.1 and 0.2 respectively? We tend to strive for 0 for both parameters in our tanks. Do cuttlefish need low ambient levels of these toxic substances for some reason?

Will the biospheres work inside a hang on back skimmer like the bubble magus q3? I currently have it in a hob filter, but want to free up some real estate at the back to put a pump for chiller.

I use the bubble magus q3

Definitely not light, as that colony is near the surface and directly under the light, which is about 8 inches above the surface.

Thanks James! Let me try increasing my flow. I have 2x WP10 on this tank, plus a 1000L/hr HOB (holding phosguard, carbon and biosphere) and a BM Q3 all providing flow. The WP10s are only on 3 bar at the moment though (dual controller). Will increase and hope it recovers!

I recently bought a small SPS colony and placed it in a "cup/basin" area of my rock structure. The base of the SPS is not glued down, but it fits well into the "basin" with some of the lower "branches" of the colony touching the sides/base of the "basin". The rest of the colony is gaining colour (pink colour is deepening), but there is one branch near the base that is turning white. Is this because part of that branch is touching the rock so it's dying, or should I be doing something to reverse this dying process? Water parameters are fine (NO3 and PO4 undetectable).

SM203 It's breaking in at the moment, so got to tune it - tough when I'm at work all day and can't observe and make tweaks throughout the day

My new toy!

Possible to have pictures of the 3 ATs (non hybrid)?

Could it be a white spot or velvet infection bro? Just kena in my office tank today, bringing Medic to work tomorrow to start dosing

Thanks bro!