lawchan77

if the STN is continuing to spread, its better to frag in an attempt to save it. you may also consider dipping into coral RX to get rid of any pests. if a stable sps deteriorates out of the blue is usally a sign of pest.

Fishes reserved pending successful trapping. Thank you!!

Reducing bioload. Releasing 2 Hawaii yellow tangs feeding on pellets. Have been with me for about 6 months. Size about 2.5-3 inches. Have not been caught yet. Will trap them when I have confirmed buyer. Will give priority to buyers who can collect as soon as I manage to catch them to reduce stress to fishes. Price : $20 per fish. Please contact me at 96232880. Collection at kovan area.

Yup from Iwarna. What big teeth it has...

New addition to the tank A pair of crosshatch trigger Swimming together

You are absolutely right. Water flow is much better, fishes are more active and strangely enough, lesser rocks seem to have more space for more corals. I always thought if no space to put coral, then just add rock to create real estate. Lol! I don't think it's fungal. I've been overseas (still am!!) for 2 weeks and haven't been messing with my tank so my hand is getting better again. Haha. I sure hope my corals are doing fine. Fingers crossed.

thank you bro.. they are one of my favourites too.

thank you uncle mike. wasnt my intention to deliberately cull the sps.. i lost some treasures during the rescape and incidentally my T5 decided to go on strike for a couple of days. so some sps didnt make it. those that did are still 50-50 luckily the ssc and scepter is ok lah.. although a little stressed. but will definitely call you one if i decide to give up these 2... in the meantime, they are still enjoying the prime top spots in my tank. haha.. taken under white light during sunrise..

use Frag X Fragging cutter. takes little effort to make a clean cut to the frag plug stem. if you are able to make about 2 or 3 cuts from the each stem, can reuse them as mini frag plug to glue sps or zoas frags too.. i usually use a little glue to place them on normal frag plugs till they stabilize and then break the mini plugs from the normal plugs to glue them on live rocks. it will be nice and neat and barely visible.

update on fishes.. gem tang in May 2012 now as @ Feb 2013 achilles tangs

Tried wearing surgical gloves. Double and triple layer but doesn't help much cos: 1) water gets in. Tried to tie with rubber at wrist. Helped for a while. Had to release for blood flow haha. 2) gloves doesn't work well with epoxy. The epoxy sticks to the gloves and make kneading impossible. 3) reduces the touch sensitivity when placing and gluing coral... the pressure is inportant when placing corals against rock and wait for glue to cure, finding the right position in the crook to place involves rotating and trying out different angles. Impossible. 4) rock scape is not possible. Rocks punch hole into my gloves. Thank thanks... Really appreciate your offer but I peiseh lah.

That's all for the time being folks.... Taking some time off to recuperate my hand and let the water parameters stabilize. Need to TLC my hand.

Frag station holding some frags accidentally broke while working on the corals. Ssc, lemonade and fiber optic

Fire and ice Rainbow stylo Micromussa Supersun garden Lemonade Setosa Holy grail Royal blue Millie Ssc

Added some rocks today and slight relocation of a few coral. With this set up, the fishes seem more active and water flow is better. No dead spots. Debris coagulate at 2 front side corners of the tank. Makes vacuuming a breeze. Fts Right side Left side

Thanks bros

Frags all gone and collected.

posting on behalf of fellow reefer.. willing to offer $50 for mini colony or bigger frag of radioactive birdnest. please contact 97731722. thanks

Will continue to improve as I go along. Hand was getting better but after scape back to square one. Was stung by acro and had a reaction and slightly swollen. Wearing gloves is really inconvenient and doesn't work well with epoxy. Now dry and crack with no fingerprint lor.

Left only small frags.

Accidentally broke off a few frags of radioactive birdnest. FCFS. Please note that the frags are uneven sizes so the early ones will have advantage of choosing bigger frags. Collection at upper Serangoon road kovan area. Contact 96232880.

just for the fun of it... cropped and added a border. keke... i'll be working on the scaping still.. all comments welcome.

u dont feel that it is overcrowded with rocks in my older look?

finished my first stage of rockscape... but first a quick look at what used to be.... FTS from right side.. from left side NOW as @ 29 Jan 2013 pics look very blue and blur cos adjusted the lights higher so that I can work properly... and water is cloudy cos till doing scape.. will try to take better pics.. please do give your comments.. FTS middle part right side left side