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Or you can Pm him on this forum, his nick here is Joe_P

Where do you deal at? Interested to find out from you also, for your juv emperor it seems that you have been keeping it with some LPS and zoas, does it feast on them? upz for your sales

Heard that there might be Hawaiian shipment this weekend at Iwarna though

Yes they do

Hi apologies, Wanted to get all 3, but since only left with gorilla, I will give it a miss Thanks so much and upz for your sales

Hi I would like to acquire item 1, 6, 7 Could I pop by at your place to see? Can collect tmr, what is a good time? cheers

I love u

Nice frembli, may I ask where did you acquire your pc?

Yeah, I think discpline and commitment in feeding is very important. One of the challenges is to ensure that there is enough food suspended in the water column long enough, one way that really help me was the use of this customised continous feeding reactorwhich Joe_P build for me, it allows me to dump in 2 cubes of frozen prepared food into the reactor which mixes it and keeps it in suspension and release them into the tank for the next 6 hours at an interval of 15 min, with each interval lasting for 5 min. I dump 2 cubes in the morning, and 2 cubes at night. This is to simulate the tide which brings in nutrients twice a day. The reactor really aided me in ensuring that there is food in the water. This allowed me to feed moderately consistently rather than dumping large amount of food one shot, consistently feeding manually is really impossible for most people as we have to work and be away from our tanks. Of course especially during the weekend when I see them opened up, I will enticed them with Henry's food. Of course the next challenge would be keeping water parameters acceptable. Again I think that when you feed moderately and slowly as compared to a sudden influx of food, this actually allows your system more time and ability to breakdown uneaten food and process them. Imagine sipping a can of Sapporo slowly versus downing it in a gulp (though personally I prefer the gulp ) Also I have an excess of help in keeping water as acceptable as possible as I employ the following measures. 1) Oversize Skimmer with ozone 2) K1 media reactor 3) Biopellet Reactor (some literature also suggest that bacteria from the biopellet serves as a food source too) 4) FR reactor 5) Denitrator 6) Remote refugium with macro and chaeto 7) Bioball compartment (please don't flame me, it came with the sump ) 8) cotton floss (mechanical - which I removed as Rusti aka Russel from Aquafauna suggested that I floss requires regular cleaning if not it will lead to build up of rotting compounds and also at the same time with the mechanical filtration, we would expect to see more food for the corals) Some other NPS which shows good respond to the feeding regime The following seafan came with only a few polyps but it has since grown over a period of around 4 months, the picture you see is after 4 months. 4 months ago, it has only 1 branch with 3/4 polyps, I got it as a hitch hiker, but now it has a few branches with multiple polys.

Hi Is your Frembli still for sale? cheers

Yeah I have been following your NPS tank thread, I have picked up a few of the things you mentioned and using them as a recipe to see if I could push the boundary a bit further. I have been also trying to read up more about the habitat in nature, which consist of strong flows coupled with suspended food particles for a sustained period, this was to mimick tide changes. So I timed the wavemaker targeted at them to coincide with the continuous feeding reactor for 6 hours in the morning and 6 hours in the evening, but like what you and Terryz shared, it was really hard. 4 weeks of hardwork only brought me thus far, I will post again on the polyps extension in 4 weeks time again.

Some other NPS

I have recently acquired 2 branching orange sun corals from Pinnacle for about a month. Have read that they are very hard to maintain. Hoping to just chronicle some information and also learn from others who might have knowledge to share with us here. When I had first had them, the polyps were totally close. Once I brought them home and acclimatising, I did a food bath for about an hour or so. I drop the 2 sun corals into a still tub of DT water with diluted mysis juice/ cyclopeeze/ rotifers. The response to the food was very minimal, I did see some polyps but it was really insignificant. They were then placed in a shaded region receiving significant flow. This was coupled with 2 continous feeding of 6 hours at an interval of 15 min each. Once at 5-6am and once when I reached home, around 6-7pm. The mixture of food inside includes algae paste, cyclo, Coral Food & Supplements, (Ultra Clam, Ultra Min F, Ultra Min D, Ultra Min S, Ultra Seafan) garlic supplements, kentmarine C, Oyster feast, tigger pods from reef nutrition, rotifeast. I got all the food from bro Fuel/ Aquafuana. Mix all of them, freeze them and then drop 2 cubes into the reactor 2 times a day. During the initial first 2 weeks, whenever there was some response, I would take Henry's reef food and mix it with cyclo and target feed them. Though there isn't excessive blooming of polyps, the response was encouraging at least to me. This is my 4th week now. Water parameters: pH: 8.03 - 8.1 SG: 1.0253 Temp: 26 - 27.2 C Ammonia - non detectable Nitrates - non detectable (both using salifret testkit) The black branching sun also shows growth, it was in a rather bad condition when I acquired it.

Hi bigbird Where is the place to collect? Am interested in the butterflies Thanks

Apologies there, but i am an idiot when it comes to modifications or DIY, maybe I could get brother Joe_P to inform you, hopefully i am not dilluting the thread.

hi, is your watanabei still available?

Sure, glad to share, but this was an idea by brother Joe_P, all credits goes to him, I am just but an end user. This is a picture with food inside. The mixture of food inside includes algae paste, cyclo, Coral Food & Supplements, (Ultra Clam, Ultra Min F, Ultra Min D, Ultra Min S, Ultra Seafan) garlic supplements, kentmarine C, Oyster feast, tigger pods from reef nutrition, rotifeast. I got all the food from bro Fuel/ Aquafuana. Mix all of them, freeze them and then drop 2 cubes into the reactor 2 times a day. The reactor has a cap on top which allows me to place food inside. http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/gallery/image/1836-reactor-with-foodjpg/ Sorry I can't seem to attach the pictures, apologies

your watanabei sold?

sorry for the late reply. Perhaps I should be more specific, I had a customized continuous feeding system which was fabricated by Joe_P. I used aquatronica to time/switch on/ switch on an airlift pump which draws in water from my refugium into the feeding reactor. The feeding reactor also has an outlet directed at the return pump, thus the drawing in of water from the refugium will naturally force the food mixture in the reactor into the outlet tubes and eventually enter the display tank via the return pump. 3 min prior to the switching on of the airlift pump, the aquatronica also switches on a pump which is attached to the reactor, this is to ensure that the mixture of food inside the reactor is more evenly mixed and not settled at the bottom. I use the aquatronica to ensure there is this continous feeding in small dosages into the tank for a period of about 12 hours per day. You could also use aquatronica to control grotech dosing pump to pump in food. Some food which does not require refridgeration from the Brightwell series or Kentmarine series are suitable for such food dosing. But all the food i use are in liquid form, if you were thinking about pellets form, I am sorry to have misled u

I am an Aquatronica User. 1. Ease is quite easy, reliability in terms of reading various parameters depends on the reliability of the probes, which needs to be cleaned periodically. 2. Currently it allows you to read the following parameters Temp Salinity pH ORP (Redox) While these are good to know, but they can be easily read off other alternate instruments easily, maybe except for pH which require reagent tests. ORP isn't really meaningful as the probe for reading ORP could be easily affected by many variables. It does not provide parameters readings which are more crucial to us like Ammonia level, Nitrate level, Calcicum level, kH. 3. If you looking for a temp control, maybe AQtronica is an overkill, with the money, you could buy more things. I bought Aqtronica to sync my wave makers with lights to simulate certain night/ day patterns and also to control food dosing for my tank. Some of the friends i have use it to keep track of temp fluctuations as AQtronica keep tabs of these data and present them in table forms, one of my friends bought the ethernet module and is able to track his tank parameters and other data thru his iphone while he is at work or away for travel. Verdict: in my humble opinion, its a good to have, not a must have there is also another controller around known as the GHL profilux, I heard that hobbyist at Reefcentral prefer that more. You might wanna check it out.

Hi as melafix has clover oil in it which is an organic compound, the reaction from the skimmer is expected. In fact melafix would have given you these precaution if you read the fine prints i think. I dosed them before, it is advised to switch off the skimmer temporary The foaming is due to your skimmer trying to remove melafix

It's not really flow rate i think. It's more of ensuring that there are no deadspots or beads not moving at all. some brands of reactors creates vortexes which forces the pellets to swirl rather than just tumble, those are better at avoiding dead spots even without high flow rate. I know brother Joe_P can offer you some insights into this

Maybe we can try this