Lance Ng

Simply obscene! - obscenely beautiful!

yea... even if shrimps are sensitive to salinity, but 2 minutes! wow! wouldn't they go into sort of a trance for at least a while 1st (surely more than 2 minutes) before either they die or start to acclimatize? i'm inclined to believe that there are some toxins at play in this tank. but what toxins can kill fish & shrimps in 2 minutes yet the brain, bubble, plate, hammer corals are not affected?

Yea... can be quite nasty to ungloved hands too man!

I read this somewhere before, & I agree that this is probably one of the most humane ways to let the fish leave..

Thanks iskay for the good reminder! indeed, if the habitat does not definitely already have the specie(s) intended to be released, the release might cause significant harm to the ecosystem, a good example locally is the peacock bass (pavon) in our reservoirs, threatening to displace indigenous species like the giant snakehead. & yea.. there has already been plenty of non-indigenous, potentially "invasive" specimens which reached our shores, adding to the diversity & vibrance of the society. so perhaps there really isn't any good enough reasons to introduce even more!

Hi ethantang, well.. yea.. Sentosa is definitely one of the places in Singapore where natural reef life is within reach. a few other offshore islands too. actually there is reef life even just off bedok jetty at east coast..

Definitely a hobbit worm! & the one you drew looks like the Frodo of the bunch!

found this vid which might be of interest to you

i used to have the same problem.. but like what pitto mentioned, I removed both of them 1st, but i didn't do a huge rescaping.. i did shift a few rocks around, but i added A LOT of red bamboo.. seemed like the red bamboo created some visual obstacle for both the tangs and they did not turn to each other with as much aggression as when they were in full, clear view of each other.. also, the extra food could have made them too happy to wanna fight for the time-being.. when all the red bamboo was gone, they were already used to each other's presence..

I remember i was faced with a similar scenario too.. I couldn't bear to see the fish die, nor could I bear to see it suffer. after much consideration, i decided to release it back into the sea (of course, not just any spot along the beach, but a one where I had physically seen thriving reef life). I thought to myself.. it could be because I did not do a good enough job of creating the ideal habitat for it, that it was suffering. So I decided to give it back to a habitat created by nature herself. Perhaps the better environment could reclaim its health? Of course, i know there there were risks too. - that it gets eaten by predators - that it cannot get used to the new environment. but i thought, if it were to be eaten by a predator, hopefully the death would be swift & it would have contributed back to the food chain. whether or not it can get used to the environment was a 50-50 which i was willing to take a bet on, in lieu of the possible advantages. guess what happened the day I released it? It swam on the surface a short while, probably a little lost, then quickly, dived towards the corals and other fishes as though it forgot its ailment.. I have never seen it so happy before.. I left the spot with a prayer for the friend, & a smile..

Marine ich? Cryptocaryon irritans Good chance the stress contributed to its development.

here's a horror movie..

Hey Kelvin, interesting! thank you very much! surely the Youtube video would be cool to watch! Cheers, Lance

looks like Aiptasia! quick call 1800-6-line-wrasse! hahaha!

hi klim, thanks for the amazing photo of the amphipods! you mentioned that they are not safe to the Zoas. what do they do to the Zoas? i know that although they are omnivorous, most of them are more inclined towards meat.. but do they eat Zoas? maybe if you have mandarins or wrasses, they will be wiped out before they can do any real harm to the Zoas?