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LCK201 has barely anything left. Are they clearing stock for CNY?

CF yesterday had many flame angels...good to spruce up your tank for CNY. Also saw a number of pellet feeding powder blue tangs...look fat and healthy (dapao-ed one home myself)

Btw I'm not sure if there are still any available, but consider a pair of blackfoot clowns from iwarna as your clown pair. They're from the skunk clown family so are rather hardy and they're really cute. I went to iwarna intending to get snowflake clowns or normal perculas, ended up with 2 pairs of blackfoot clowns instead (1 pair for 3ft, 1 pair for nano). Both pairs are doing well!

Wah bro your latest scape quite "phallic" leh, if you get what I mean. Not going to be easy to place corals on the "spike" too. Usually reef scaping I see focuses on having platforms to place corals rather than the freshwater style of having rocks/wood "make a statement".

Are lck201 and cf open on Sundays?

Sigh...like i said, I don't face any micro bubbles issue. I just assemble the skimmer, hang it there and switch it on. No trick. Keep asking the same question, answer will be the same.

Wow Tunze 6015 in that tank! I was considering it since it's cheaper than the Hydor Koralia Nano, but I didn't dare try 1800 litres per hour in my tank! Where are you intending to run the Rowaphos? I find that after fixing the light and hanging the BM e3, I can't fit the OF34L media boxes into the IOS compartments anymore. I'm using the Prodibio Nano Reef Kit to keep NO3 and PO4 low.

I don't get any micro bubbles in my tank leh

Anyone spotted any helfrechi gobies? LCK seems to have alot of Hawaii fish (yellow tang, flame angel, barlett anthias)...any idea if they have helfrechi?

Yup you can, but the area where the flow meets the live rock is where you can't place corals due to the strong flow that will likely tear the flesh of corals. You'll have to adjust your scape accordingly as it will look weird to have the entire top row of the life rock empty

imo the only problem with relying on strong HOB flow is that the area directly under the flow is going to be hard to place corals, since the strong laminar flow can tear the soft fleshy portions of corals.

Maxspect for me

Yup that's what I'm doing.

My BTA has crawled over the sand from "island" to "island" to glass side, back to "island" before

At the moment crazy over ricordeas After I set up my ricordea garten in the lower right front, I may try and find spots for some zoas too. I just get a little uneasy thinking about fragging zoas due to their palytoxin. I also intend for at least an open brain and a Euphyllia sp. LPS somewhere near the back right corner

I'm using the Bubble Magus Curve 7 and the Bubble Magus e3 - both are extremely silent.

Shifted one of my rocks a little so that the anemone can be facing abit more to the front...overall I think it actually improves the scape. The tank now has a more "open" feel and from the side, it's actually a large arch created for fish to swim through and around. I think I like this scape better. Not sure whether to add another rock on the right side, or leave it open.

$16

Haha I said that I decided not to go with a budget system this time round....that's why decided to go with helfrechi I'm using a Bubble Magus Curve 7 in my 3ft tank. Used to give me a big cup of kopi-o, but after a few months liike not much skimmate leh. Dunno is it because my bioload is low (only 4 fish in a 322) or something is wrong. Thanks Still trying to get the scaping right and deciding what corals to put in

No more helfrechi at ah beng Please update here if anyone sees any!

Sigh, didn't see any when I dropped by on Saturday And I won't be able to go till this Saturday. Anyone stay near redhill or available for me to collect at night and dropping by Ah Beng can help me tompang?

Anyone spotted any helfrechi firefish?

collection where?

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The old office set up crashed and got overrun with hair algae. I suspect it has to do with lack of skimming (the Dymax iQ skimmer stopped working after awhile) and fish dying over the weekend. The ammonia/phosphate spike probably triggered the algae, and thereafter it was really hard to get rid of. Since the new year was approaching, I decided to just bring the tank home and bleach bomb it, and to upgrade the office tank 1 size up to the Ocean Free 34L instead (previous setup was OF 24L). I decided not to go with a budget setup this time but spend a bit more on quality equipment so that the tank can be low maintenance but still look nice (otherwise colleagues see the tank so ugly very malu!) Here's the details of the current set up: Tank: Ocean Free 34 litres AIO Filtration: 4kg live rock + Bubble Magus e3 skimmer Lighting: Beamworks 6x 3W (2 blue 4 white) Clip-on LED Substrate: Carib-Sea Ocean Direct Aragonite sand (10lb) Water: D-D Instant Ocean mix Pumps: Stock 480L/hr return pump + Hydor Koralia Nano 900L/hr Additives: Prodibio Nano Reef Kit Current Livestock: Swalesi basslet - 1 pair Tectus fenestratus snail - 2 Nassarius sp snail - 3 Rose Bubble Tip Anemone - 1 Super sun coral - ~10 heads Ricordea california - 3 Ricordea yuma - 4 Bispira sp. feather duster worm - 4 Future Livestock: Mandarin goby (pellet trained) - 1 Helfrechi firefish - 1 Percula clownfish - 1 or 1 pair More corals! Here's a picture of the current haphazard and ugly setup: Hopefully I'll be able to rescape it nicely soon!