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always seem to find the female ones. watanabei angels too. the males seem less common Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

on second thought I might get one of those genicanthus angels(like a bellus) too hahahah. perhaps a male watanabei angel or a zebra lyretail angelfish Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

as much as i’m tempted to add more angels i don’t wanna risk my current coral stocking hahahaha. they’re definitely not reef-safe fish and trying to get one out of a 300G display is not gonna be fun. leathers might be safe but i do have clove polyps like this one below which might get devoured by new angels Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

agreed. especially if you can get your hands on some of the rarer ones. i was inspired to keep more of them after seeing this video on youtube: even more glad that one of our fellow reefers here happened to have the exact same species of sinularia as the one in the video so i got it from them some months ago Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

cool! what leathers are your favorite? here’s one of mine: a pink pulsing sinularia Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

carbon definitely does seem to help, when i ran it i noticed everything stayed open, i.e polyp extension was better and the leathers seemed to shed less often. when i had to turn my carbon reactor off for a couple of weeks or so to dose polyplab medic i noticed a few of them closed up for a while and began to shed. could have been the side-effects of dosing medic(peroxide) but i think more likely it was that i wasn’t running carbon during this period. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

yeah dwarf angels are definitely the second best option after genicanthus angels if you wanna keep angels in a reeftank. they’re not guaranteed reef-safe though, and larger angels are even less likely to leave your corals alone. perhaps you’ll have better success with captive-bred ones or ones raised from young trained on a diet. my annularis angel was locally collected on coastal waters in an area where water clarity wasn’t great by any means and in the beginning i had to test what coral it would and wouldn’t eat. in a month it cleared my tank of zoas and occasionally nipped my torch pretty hard. but i noticed it didnt bother with my gsp, leathers and toadstool at all. observed it for another 9 months and it was a model citizen so i decided to keep the coral stocking to what i know it doesn’t go for. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

you could try mounting the kessil higher above the tank bro. will help with it having more spread. the kessil lights are very good as focused lights if you need more par in a tighter area. good for deeper tanks but yeah spread is not their strong suit Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

I agree with Rob, mixed reefs are actually harder than dedicated softie/lps/sps tanks. there’s a lot more to plan and adjust for because having a mixed reef means more different types corals existing together in the confines of an aquarium. more likely for chemical warfare to stunt coral growth and you definitely can’t just place different types(softies/lps/sps) corals in the same area in the tank. different kinds like different flow strengths and light intensities which means planning an aquascape more carefully than if it were a predominantly softie or lps or sps tank. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

technically most angels other than those in the genus genicanthus are never truly “reef-safe”, even dwarf angels. you can keep them with certain corals but can’t be trusted to be considered reef-safe until you’ve monitored the behavior of individual specimens for a certain amount of time. in the past i had a regal angel and it didn’t touch my euphyllia. but it mowed down my gsp. in this case it’s the opposite with my current annularis angel that leaves gsp alone but will nip euphyllia, at least torches Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

that’s rough.. sorry for your loss. heart pain sia.. AT somemore. them being the same genus probably made it worse Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

them both being acanthurus species prolly made it harder too.. but good that ultimately it worked out more or less. i’m hoping my annularis angel keeps the sohal in check when i eventually add one to my system Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

in my tank, at the moment yes. over a period of several months i tried different softies and some easy lps to see which it would and wouldn’t eat. now i know it’s safe to keep with leathers(fingers, trees and toadstools), xenia and gsp species, clove polyps and mushrooms. coral it definitely consistently munched on before: zoas. It nipped at fleshy lps like my old torch before so i wouldn’t risk putting in stuff like lobos, scolys, acans and euphyllia. i’ve never tried sps with it but i never planned to to begin with cause the system it’s in is a low maintenance one, but based on what i read/saw online via the experience of others, sps are usually safe with large angels. generally their fav coral ime is zoas. if you’re a zoa or meaty lps fan, most angels are a big no-no Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

ah.. i’m assuming you added the maculiceps after adding the sohal? i’m thinking of adding a sohal as the last fish in my system. ideally a 4” one. currently have a blue tang, yellow tang and kole tang in there all around 3” with a 9” angel. so i hope it won’t be too aggressive Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

awesome. hope it doesn’t bully the sailfin instead now.. hahahaha the fact that you have another large tang in there with it is amazing alr. personally i find sohal tangs a lot nicer than ATs too Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

beautiful sohal bro. how long have you had it for? Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

yep used to have both. had them in my old mixed reef system that my current angelfish wasn’t a part of. thinking of getting a purple seafan again eventually, this time perhaps one of the species with thicker whips. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

thanks for the review of these tweezers! was thinking of picking up a pair too. i got the carbon fiber bubble magus scraper and never looked back. “stainless steel” or not, saltwater is just that corrosive that these carbon fiber products are a good investment going forward, i feel Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

thanks! [emoji1374] recently yeah. i got the japanese lemnalia just before the cb. am into different kinds of toadstool leathers and sinularia too. i run an ultra low maintenance system(not to be confused with an ultra-low nutrients one hahahah) with large fish stocking and feed generously so keeping sps is not a goal of mine.. which means the next best thing is finding more unique/rarer kinds of softies. and since i have a large pomacanthus angel, i can’t keep zoas, torches and other fleshy lps corals either. so having a variety of leathers fits best in my setup Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

yup, better to play it safe.. in a small system it could’ve been due to the water you used for your system Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

my bad, forgot to mention the need to consistently read 0 ammonia and nitrate over a the course of 2 days or longer. you’re right on that part. though in my personal experience most of the time after seeing nitrate readings i usually read 0 on both ammonia and nitrite Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

technically if you already see nitrate readings like that the tank is already cycled. longer cycles are just generally better cause they help to increase and stabilize beneficial bacteria populations for the eventual addition livestock Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

My beloved annularis angel that grew from 5-9” in the time that I had it. When I first got it some years back: More recent photo in late 2019: Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

awesome. i like how they bring a lot of swaying motion to the tank, especially in high but turbulent flow. here are some of mine: Common brown nepthea. turned more salmon/pink/orange over time in my system this one can be considered a kenya tree but it’s actually a lemnalia and not a nepthea. i got lucky finding this one at a LFS recently that came in with a bunch of other japanese neptheas. A pink nepthea(i think this is a japanese koji wada specimen) that recovered from tissue necrosis. When I first got it from a fellow reefer it had an infection at its base/stalk that caused its surrounding tissue to turn black and I had to cut off half of it to save the coral. used to extend thrice as big but just glad it’s doing much better now. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

cool. what corals do you plan on stocking up on eventually? Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app