reef garden

Your tank is amazing! The colours are so rich and the corals so healthy. Kudos to you.

I hardly see anyone talk about this common soft coral. It's an interesting yellow polyps coral to me but somehow this fella always disappear in my tank after some time. Can anyone advise how to keep this successfully? Thanks.

I use fans and the following are ok: bubble anemone clam elegance coral Goniopora green star polyps leather coral mushroom Xenia Zoas and Palythoa Before I use a fan, some mushrooms became bleached under the high temperatures.

I'm off track but why do you want a pico tank in your bedroom? I hope I'm not a wet blanket here but if you believe in feng shui, putting a tank in the bedroom is not desirable.

Previously, I tried a few attempts to grow the bubble and feather-like Caulerpa, that I purchased from lfs, in 3 of my pico tanks without any success. I even resorted to maintain 247 lighting to keep them alive but they still melted away after a while. Then the feather Caulerpa started growing with hair algae as weeds from a live rock that I bought from a lfs. Somehow the Caulerpa spread itself and I managed to grow it in 2 tanks now without even bothering about it. The lights are on about 12 hours a day only and these tanks do not have any reactor with phosphate removers. Their behaviour baffles me but I am happy to let it grow.

My clown fish host an elegance coral and the Gonio.

Hi Fuel, I am unable to pm the following message to you because the system showed that you are unable to receive any new messages. Anyway, I am quite interested to try out some tank raised seahorses (a pair of male and female) but hope you can help to clarify my queries below for my consideration: How much is the H. zosterae if it is not $150? Which of the seahorse species e.g. H. reidi, zosterae, kudas, is more colourful and easier to keep in a small setup? What would be the size of the seahorses when they arrive? Are they captive bred or tank raised? How long would it take for them to be sent over (I probably need about a month or two to setup a tank for it)? Thanks.

Goodness gracious me. When I saw the list of fishes, I thought it would be in at least a 4 feet tank. But no, it's all packed into a 2 ft pico cube and some of the fishes are big! How did the fishes cope with the tight space and how did you manage the maintenance? Wow, they are so lovely anyway. Too bad you already decommissioned it.

The colour looks kind of washed out but otherwise I like the scaping. Well done and keep it up! I'm sure you will invest in some lights that would portray the rich colours of your sps sometime soon? I look forward to see the updated photos.

Nice tank setup! How's your moorish idol doing?

It was a black and white clown fish to begin with. There's no real brown clown. You just bought it at a time when the young brown clown was transitioning to the adult black.

I wish he didn't. He should have released it back to the sea.

Wow, beautiful scape and amazing sps! And do I see a Moorish Idol making a swerve in the water?

I have a clam that is growing bigger by the day in my tank and my flame angel has never shown any interest in it.

Your tank is so colourful and beautiful. It's no wonder that you will keep looking at it. Maybe you should get your wifey interested too so that you both can have fun and more bonding time starting and maintaining a bigger tank together.

Normally a new skimmer takes a few days to break in. Don't give up on it.

Wow, it's like sun rise and you have a sun coming up from the horizon.

You are so disciplined and are rewarded with such amazing sps! Well done.

I'm doing manual dosing too but find that the levels of Mg and kH fluctuate drastically and I have to regularly check the levels to prevent under- and over-dosing. I'm seriously considering the merits of a dosing pump for more consistency and ease of management.

You must be doing all the right things for the sps to respond well. What are your parameter levels (Mg, Ca and kH) to maintain the happy sps. Do you have a dosing pump or you do it manually? I just started sps and am weighing the merits of both. Do you dose other additives eg. amino acids? Thanks.

The cool colours of green, blue and purple from your healthy sps are so amazing.

It's resin, not raisin.

The one that is used to form smaller compartments in drawers?

It's amazingly beautiful with a range of colours, great sense of space without overcrowding, and healthy lps and fishes. I wouldn't be able to overcome the temptation of stocking it up with more stuff.

I agree with the bros that there are too many rocks that it looks too overwhelming and one-dimensional. It would look better to remove some rocks and you have the space to rescape it to create a more 3D effect with mountains and valleys, islands, overhangs and caves etc, to make it more interesting for viewers and fishes.