A good food to entice the blue tang to eat is "Henry's food". It is a combination of different seafood fit for human consumption blended with cyclopeeze etc. Used it to start finicky eater into eating first, then coat your dry pellets with it and slowly your blue tang will eat pellets liao.
TLC (Tender Loving Care). try not to abruptly approached the tank as you may frighten it before it even recognised you as a friend.
You will be surprise fishes eyesights are much better than us.
Try to have small feeds but frequently i.e. feed lesser but more times per day.
This will let the fish relate you to food and thus will not be so afraid when you approach.
Btw way what are you feeding the blue tang? You might want to experiment different feed and see what you blue tang will take. Not all fishes will take pellets and not all fishes will take flakes. Also, in the wild, food does not drop from the "sky" like in captivity.
Hope it helps.
Aiyah, Dymax T5 have been in the market so long liao and when it was first introduce in begining of 2004 it create a stir what.
Its definitely not the HO (high Output) T5s but it will serve its purpose if you are using for certain LPS and FOWLR.
Anyway. Upz for your sale Nicken
Anemone host zoozanthae in them and zoozanthae needs lights to produce food and at the same time sustain the anemone as well. Thus they have a symbiotic relationship.
So when there is not lights most anemone will closed shop loh cuz no need to keep open to satisfy the zoozanthae.
Bro, you dun need a backett for a 2ft. Actaully what you can do is look out for a Aqua C Remora in the sell off / pasar malam forum. if it is selling below 250 with pump - grab it.
Another good hang-on skimmer is the Aquamedic bio-flotor recently I just got want from a bro here to be given to an organization.
Worse comes to worse get a weipro 2012 or a prizm, they are definitely afforable.
Run the tank with this basic set-up first and slowly save up for the lights. Anyway, with the entry of more afforable lights - prices will naturally comes down. But I assure you - a good skimmer will always have demands (especially for the first 2).
Actually the correct process is to scrub the LRs that you have bought to remove all dying offs. Its part of the LR curing process - do a search on LR curing process and you will know.
However, we Singaporean sometimes more "Ti Ki" or to put in nicely more "adventurous" and wanted a more convenient way out so alot never scrub loh.
List of stuffs that some people chose not to do in marine:
1) Never wash coral sand b4 placing into start-up tank
2) Never go through sand with magnet to remove metal debris
3) Never scrub LRs before placing into start-up tank
4) Never dechorinated tap water before mixing salts
5) Never alllow dechorinated tap water to aged into a tub with a powerhead before mixing salts
6) Never check salinity
7) Never cycle tank fully before added livestocks
8) Never wait till tank matures before adding sensitive livestocks
9) Never test water parameters
Anyway, the above is just the tip of the iceberg bro. Welocme to the hobby!
I am sure as you research more you will find more "Never". Good luck
that's why lar. sometimes i think the mods oso warn until "sian"..... maybe next time should get those repeated offenders to become mod for one day in-charge of policing the kind of posts and after that get them to write their experience on it.
actually he's trying to drive a point to those jokers that titled their thread with just one or two words. its happening very frequently this few weeks. dunno why??????
Think it is dying on you liao. if you pick it up and you cannot feel that its trying to stick on you and is slipping off - very soon you will notice an ammonia spike.
Btw the way, I still dun understand the logic of adding an anemone in a 3 weeks tank?
2ft should not be less than 24W
13000k is the PAR, the high the PAR the blue-er the light. Most people with use a mixture of 6500k, 14000k to 20000k to get the "perfect lighting" to draw out the colours of their corals. The lower the PAR the yellow-er the light becomes.
But so far this is the first I see 13000k being used.
Anyway, if you referring to the Aquamarin T5s, I believe its a good buy. Just that due to the fact it is new - not mush is known about it.
Check out the barnd and voltage loh. As a general rules a 3ft T5 should be 39w and not any lower. Also the brand of the T5s is important to, if no brand one - no point trying.
One of the most popular T5 brand is ATI, they are good but a little pricey.
Another brand that is cost effective and yet perform marginally well is the Aquaz distributed by our sponsor Aquaz.