samuel88

frogfish can't be kept with stinging sessile inverts like the anemone cause they are weak swimmers they can't really swim fast enough away from danger.

i just went to Marine Life at Hong Leong Garden Shopping Centre yesterday, there was a new shipment of live rocks, you could check that out.

Thanks for all the input guys I've made my decision

if its a local brand do you think its just as good as kent marine's? if its just because of the location and not the quality i guess ZeRO would be a better choice.

perhaps it is a in-house brand. in that case i wonder if it is as reliable as kent marine. has anyone used the unit from madpetz?

Hi people, I've been looking at freshnmarine.com and madPetz.com for RO di units. I realise Kent marine units from freshnmarine cost much more than the ZEro units from mad pets though the specs on ZEro seem much better. (Kent marine 3 stage di cost 369 whereas ZEro 5 stage RO di costs 248) Can anyone shed some light on this? Or perhaps recommend me a different system from somewhere else

yesterday due to some emergency i had to do a huge 50% plus water change. after i did it, my acan began to open up again. i guess it must be the trace elements or maybe calcium, and not the absence of feeding.

i've been using a swing arm hydro ever since i've started keeping fish and no problems. maybe its specific brands. but i'm interested to know what will happen if water salinity is too high.

yeah it does, been dosing more often. hmmmm think i'll lay off the trace elements for a few weeks and see what happens. i'm thinking its either the trace elements or not feeding the corals that's causing this.

hi guys, about a few weeks ago i started adding seachem calcium and carbonate, as well as topic marin pro coral mineral (trace elements) to my 15 gallon tank. containing mostly LPSes and big zoa colony. ever since the addition, my corals have been slowly opening smaller and smaller. coincidentally it seemed to start when i forgot to turn on the lights for one day. so my question is, could the addition of the trace elements, calcium or carbonate be causing my corals to close?or could it be the one day when i didn't off the lights? so far its the LPSes that are closing, but my zoa colony is showing brighter than normal colors. somehow the additives have benefited the zoa colony or maybe its just unaffected, but my LPSes don't seem to like it. i have another 5 gallon fishtank, where all i added was the calcium and carbonate, i think i only added trace elements once, but the LPS in my 5 gallon are doing good. another side note, i never feed both my tanks at all since day one, should i start feeding? there are no fishes in the 15 gallon. nitrates are around 5 - 10 ppm. calcium in my 15 gallon is only at 270 ppm.

other than the algae growing on the left side, looks fine to me, haha but more details like how long the tank has been like this, how many gallons and so on would be nice

it looked fine in the shop, dunno leh, so sad, i couldn't chase the crab away in time. think i'll try again in a few weeks. maybe try acclimating it longer. hope its not the pistol shrimp that killed it cause its way harder to catch than the crabs. but the fish is fine though, right now lurking in a corner cause i think its still scared. i hope its scared and not in trouble. managed to catch one of the hitchhiker crabs, argh, i'm gonna try to catch the other one.

Today i went to ML and i bought a clapping shrimp, and a striped pipe fish. sadly, my clapping shrimp seemed to be in a daze, or dying when i put it into the tank, and the hitchhiker crab wasted no time in grabbing its body and pulling it into its cave. but i don't think the crab wud have caught it if it weren't dying. cause prior to being caught it seemed to be upside down. i introduced the fish and shrimp with drip acclimation for 45 to 60 minutes. does anyone have any idea why this happened? can't be copper cause i used to have shrimp in this tank, and i got tons of copepods and a pom pom crab. feel too sad to take a picture. maybe next time.

i've bought a few Zoas last Saturday, at first the zoas seemed to open up until the sexy shrimp started eating them, i know that because i saw the shrimp pinching the zoa and yanking his claw back and forth before plucking out something. sure enough when the zoa opened after i chased the shrimp away, bits of the zoa's skirt were missing, i sold the shrimp off the next day. but now my zoas are only open a little bit, hopefully they recover by this sunday and i can post some pics of them.

wow the tank looks really nice. hopefully one day mine will be like that some day. sadly i don't have the space to make that kind of filter.

I just added 3 new mini zoa colonies. and i'm selling off my sexy shrimp cause they've been nipping on my zoas, getting kinda annoyed by them nipping at almost any coral i put in. so i'm getting rid of them once and for all. in their place, i'm going to get more pom pom crabs and a glass anemone shrimp, or clapping shrimp, the kind that ML usually has. i haven't thought about biohome before, that's a great idea, i'll look into that. i guess i'll be on the look out for a nano protein skimmer. my airstone skimmer really wasn't of much use. sit there for a month but i think only got out 1ml of skimmate.

selling of my 3 sexy shrimps. $12 for all 3. west side. PM me if interested.

low temp: find a cooling spot in your house, or cooling fans, or i've seen a person use his house fan to blow directly at his tank (not on the surface of the water cause it causes alot of evaporation but at the side of the glass) its best to keep ambient temperature low. wave maker for a 1 feet tank i think a little hard to find, while water movement is good, but don't get too strong either. like until the fish have to constantly struggle. or if u keep LPS later the flesh get ripped from the skeleton. and not all corals like strong flow, some like gentle flow. i use a 400l/h HOB filter for filtration and water movement for my 20litre tank. of course a bigger tank is better, if you can spare some extra $$$ and space why not.

i'll start! 2 and 4 for $5

thanks for the advice, think i'll look for another bag to hold the rocks.

true true, well, its worth a shot. since i had to choose a biological filter

Update 8 week 11 Hi guys, sorry to be MIA for 3 weeks, didn't update cause never add in any new livestocks. but yesterday, i changed my 300 l/h Hob filter to a 400 l/h Hob filter with a built in oil surface skimmer, I also removed the airstone skimmer because it hasn't been skimming anything out at all. and i moved a rock that was in the way of the HOB filter. as you can see from the picture the frogspawn isn't open yet cause i just turned on the light to take a picture. today i shall share with you more about my filtration system. its basically just one yellow sponge, as a mechanical filter with as much 'lava rocks' as possible as a biological filter. the sponge is there for the simple reason that i don't want my lava rocks to have too much detritus on them. its also a biological filter since i rinse it out with old saltwater, and not tap water. the lava rocks were kinda thought out, i may be wrong about this though. lava rock is a very porous kind of rock. which i think is similar to live rock, and the reason why people don't like bio balls is because they produce nitrate too fast and there's no room for anaerobic bacteria (which live rock is supposed to be able to cultivate) to convert the nitrates into nitrogen gas. so instead of using bio balls, i use lava rocks because hopefully they are porous enough to have anaerobic bacteria grow on them. every week i change 5% of the water, and i top up freshwater once in between water changes. i've had bad experience doing it daily. but its all just my own assumptions i may be wrong. but nitrates have been low at a 2.5ppm. but it could also be due to my not over feeding and weekly water change. i bought this bigger filter in preparation for buying new live stocks, think i'll be visiting ML very soon. Thank you for reading!

thanks for all the info! =D

i think it might be a brain coral?but what kind? or a pavona coral? help would be very much appreciated. scientific names would be preferred.

hi everyone i have a question regarding how LPS grow. LPSes usually have a skeletal body with the polyps, so when they need to make space for more polyps do they just increase the size of their skeleton? or do they need to be placed near rockwork to spread? and also another question regarding an Acan i have. as you can see, the lower left of the acan, if i'm not wrong the polyps have somehow vacated that area perhaps due to fragging or something, i'm not too sure cause i bought it as a frag, is that spot going to be a 'dead spot' forever? or will the polyps spread over it? or is it not the Acan's skeleton but just rock that the Acan is attached to?