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reference to earlier talks ...... Clean tank again without changing water . day 0 before clean - yellow and dirty day 1 filter wool only - clean and yellowish day 2 filter wool and carbon - clear but cloudy (no pic) day 3 filter wool and carbon - still slight cloudy (no pic) day 4 filter wool and carbon - clear crystal Actually picture attached still cant show how clear water becomes compare to the real time. .

Hi Bros, Wah biweely water change ... too.xiong .. hehehe My current tank is 2x1x1.5 with just an overhead filter ,9 fish and 3 rocks . I use to have a bigger tank few years back with UV sterliser,skimmer etc The only thing i see useful and bring along is the filter and is to wash it very often . I drop the canister filter as it is too troublesome to open it up and wash the wools. For the overheat filtering , removing top layer wool and wash it weekly at basin is really easy . My shirt usually remains dry if i do it lightly. The major cleaning of tank and 50% water change is every 2 month . And since i bump into getting 'crystal water' via carbon last week i am continuing and not change any water anymore. I will just do the same for another six months . Lets see if can still repeat getting clear water and still have my fishes in good health. My way of doing could be quite close to Bro cutebarra77 except for the biopellet . Mainly is to get all the fish poos into the filter wools and next be squeeze into the sewer. Not have it remain in the water system for chemicals or bacterials to break and remove them . God know how many millions of copepods i need to eat them off..

The theorys are always simple and perfect. . But we see enless discussion on water problem and water change. The practical aspect of using such and some other condition need to be there for the theory to work . There are a lot of facts around also . I still remember my UV stererliser . I bought a higher power type and on it hour +++ to supposingly kill off all the baby algae cell. I was very hopeful. But facts after was algaes still continue in my tank . Finally after ick also appears. I just dump the 70 buck rod into the dustbin. endless learning.

Over the weekend i manage to turn my saltwater into 'crystal clear' . My aquarium water undergo zero water replacement change since Jan new year. ie had to do it for 'new year' . Now i believe the ' never water change for years ' theory is not a myth ... . I was demotivated by the standard heavy chore with changing water, mix salt and dont like the idea of not having lots of fish and feed them very little ..... so i have a feeling i should be about to decomm soon or change to fresh water tank. But we all know fresh water tank can never match a saltwater tank. So the cycle of my tank since Jan is .... brown algae and brown dirt nitrate will creeping up due to feeding fish with flakes. Around every 1 month, brown wall will start at base ( my have no base substrate) and 1.5 month the side wall will appear brownish and have to rub off before brown algea totally blow-up reaching 2 month. Because i dont want to change water anymore , i just scrap all the glass with filter wool and i will see the water becoming completedly brown like tea 'o' and have lots of dirts spinning around. I didnt encounter fish dead but they are really confuse and hides in corners. I then will wash my filter wool off these dirts . Once 3 hour after cleaning the tank another wash is the next day. The best water condition i can get out of these cycle is light yellowish water with zero particle dirt . ie like very light blackish water. feels very irritiating. Last week i clean filter 4 time for 4 consecutive day . At the fourth time the filter wool 's water squeeze out is not any dirtier then the tank water. Therefore i believe light yellowish this is the max outcome. I then bought a big pack of those carbon soil which prints ' 'crystal clear' on the box. and add it in the water flow. There are mix commend from forum, some say work other say cannot. so i am a bit sceptically. My experience last time with carbon is not obvious. After putting the carbon soil over night the yellowish colour is completely gone and the water is really crystal clear with slight blueish. This is a very big surprise for me. I like to further tell some my condition i think contribute to getting such the success. First one is my is a no based-substrate tank ie crashed coral or sand . I already know these from my past experience . The base-substrate with collect so much poo and over time it is impossible to control nitrate phrosphate algae except via regular change of water. The second condition is the carbon soil can only clear the final fine invisible yellowish particle. If your main filter wool cannot block off 98% of the heavy dirt. The carbon soil will be overwhelm by these dirts and all cleaning abilities used up and become ineffective. For these part since my water is good now i intend to remove the carbon soil and let the filter wool do the filtering . I will replace the carbon filter back for a only few day after every cleaning of filter wool . I hope to experiment and prolong the life of carbon soil . Finally, my meaning of water is crystal clear through vision. I didnt do any water test kit check. If anyone wants to try this '6 month old crystal clear water' at chemical test kit level i am happy to work with you to lets find out and share here.

You are the champion ! Do post some pic of your Blueberry Sea fan under SGreef flag. Over at reef central the understanding is not liveable in captivity for a year. I am stuck with this beauty after unknowingly purchase from pasir ris pinnicles. It a very weird at first to come home and see all the other corals open up waving happily and see all hundred polyps of this Blueberry fan every single one closed into tiny balls. May I know the opening and closing cycle of your BBfan ? Does yours undergoes 12 hrs cycle Or is it always open never close? Or unpredictable. I like to take your as reference since your already done 8 month. Mine keeps opening and closing every 3-4 hour night or day now . It reacts to target feeding but it doesn't look any bit like a ferocious eater . Feeding or not it will close up nevertheless went time is up. I and now researching on nps suncoral 's open and close behaviours to get some handle.

Back from pinnacle pasir ris today. They still have 4 palm size BB fan. Incredibly beautiful ! Many hundreds of blue little polyps on spread-out orange branches opening up waiting for food. Handful of polyps close tightly seemingly they have caught something yummy in their tiny tentacles..... It's disappointing to know this is the hardest coral to live in captivity . Any bros like to update/impart their experience with BB fan ? ..... oyster feast, cyclopee, Filter feeder food, AquaPharm 5in1 plankton and Brightwell reef snow

Tank and sea environment is ultimately not same causing bleaching. We can only try to buy the coldest chiller, best disco lights and tons of supplements to make them happy. ... pic of same pink anemone found on the internet

This is one of the first question i ask the LFS uncle. Seem the LFS uncle who seem honest dont know himself . If it's dyed we should expect to see luminous green,red, blue,purple,yellow,orange soon if not long ago. This is seriously beautiful ! Why stop at pink ? I dont think pure white or light brown anemone with pink luminous dye can made this up. It needs to be transparent anemone like jellyfish color to start. It it's dyed the colour should fate away, I give it 6 month. Hope the anemone lives to prove it's chastity.

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My pink RBTA same same. The best/nicest part is when it shrink to 10cm dia while lights on with a playing clown. When dark, it become a big ugly hungry monster .

My pink RBTA same same. The best/nicest part is when it shrink to 10cm dia while lights on with a playing clown. When dark, it become a big ugly hungry monster .