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Might be hole in head lateral line disease. How’s it doing? It should heal on its own with good nutrition and water quality Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

thanks for sharing your Seahorse experience bro. IME they are some of the hardest species to keep alive(kinda like mandarins that don’t eat prepared foods)unless you have a very well-established refugium to grow lots of pods as food for them in the Long-term. I have one now and it’s been doing well for 3 months now with no signs of starving but I had to setup an external refugium just for it to maintain it cause it wouldn’t even eat frozen food Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Cuttlefish are very hard to train to eat frozen food unless you buy captive-bred ones. You can actually catch plenty of small crabs at Pasir Ris beach at breakwater 14. Shrimp is more seasonal but when they are in season you can easily scoop them hundreds of glass shrimp out of the water at Pasir Ris beach and Changi Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

I have kept cuttlefish multiple times. IME they are not easy to keep mainly because they seem to like jetting backwards into the tank walls which might damage their tissue and cause infections. But if you’re keen on them, a Low-flow setup with plenty of rocks and substrate for them to blend in is ideal. Avoid sharp, protruding structures like certain corals and rocks because in a confined space they are blind to injure themselves on it Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Wow, that looks overstocked for a 5ft with fishes of that size and growth capacity unless you have a sump loaded with filter media. But thanks for sharing bro. I wish I had an extra tank for a FOWLR system, too many of the fish I really like I can’t get cause they’d eat all my corals Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

The mirror trick indeed does work especially when you’re putting new fish in. Gives the new guy some time and space to settle in so the fish that might bully him doesn’t get to pick on him cause he’s too busy fighting his own reflection haha Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Interesting concept but how do you get your flow in that thing? Hahaha Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Made a simple 20g look great. Thanks for sharing! Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

You can try Pacific Reef (ahbeng) at Pasir Ris farmway. They have weekly shipments from Bali. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Kinda looks like a variant of rasta to me Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

same, except mine has suddenly decided to move very near to where my Euphyllia corals have been sitting for the longest time x.x Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

You can try getting a simple acclimation box with the covers. I managed to catch much faster and cautious fish like tangs by attaching food like sliced shrimp on the ends of a wire and tie them inside the acclimation box, at the end that is furthest away from the opening. Then I just monitor them from an arm’s length with the lid open. If One goes in, push the lid down. But then again my fish are very used to feeding in the open and if your fish are more timid it’s less likely that will work Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Those are some impressive equipment bro! Hope everything goes smoothly for you Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Some Yuma species IME like the orange ones prefer more light than the green ones but yes all of them close up under stronger flow Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Pasir Ris Beach :x Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Iwarna occasionally ships them Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

I’ve been fishing and collecting marine species from local shores since my childhood years to keep in my marine aquarium and I’ve noticed that it is only recently that there are more and more people(who aren’t even enforcement or NParks officers) around the beaches tell me I’m “not supposed to catch anything here” despite there being no evidence of it being illegal to fish in certain areas(like Changi for e.g. which happens to be one of the few remaining beaches other than East Coast in Singapore where it is still worth fishing and LEGAL as well) I know Singapore started as a quaint fishing village, but with recent changes in industry and the shift toward conservation efforts(not that that’s a bad thing, I’m sure many of us would rather see nice natural scenery than buildings everyday in this concrete jungle), but it is beginning to look like for the recreational fisherman/collector, things like these are becoming harder and harder to do. Tanah Merah half a decade ago is another example, but that I can understand why(illegal immigrants and suspicious activities o the southern coast etc) But Changi, Pasir Ris..? I know this might sound like a paranoid concern but too many times have I been disturbed by people who are telling me not to fish in places where there are literally signboards for fishing as a recreational activity rather than a prohibition. Already places like Labrador are getting the “no fishing” sign down on for such activities. Nah not be such a bad thing considering how many unethical fishing practices are still being done today like large cage-trapping and driftnets, but it’s collateral damage for recreational enthusiasts like us. Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

On the flip side certain things we get from temperate reef places like the Atlantic like blue spot jawfish, they retail for close to 200 when in places like the UK they’re probably less than 50 pounds Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Shipping costs are a big factor in this as well. If the countries you’re referring to are places like The UK and the states, naturally their shipping costs are gonna be through the roof for livestock coming from places like Bali, Hawaii, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Philippines, The Red Sea. It’s much cheaper for us here because we’re in the southeast Asian region where most of the tropical reef animals collected for the hobby are. So naturally in Singapore you can find certain species of angels and tangs, and especially more fragile species like butterflyfishes that would cost more than double in other countries but seem cheap here, because of handling costs and things like that Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Just keep up with small water changes over a week and you’ll be fine. If you have a large system and sump filtration, it’s not a big issue at all unless you’re keeping really delicate corals Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Don’t mean to be a troll, but there’s plenty of chaeto during a Low ride at Changi Beach hahaha Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app Can relate, I have collected a Cowfish and boxfish from the wild too and yes they are more prone to parasites due to their slow locomotion and large surface area. Aside from that though, contrary to all the fears many have that these fishes will “nuke” your tank, I’ve had very positive experience keeping them, and I’ve found that feeding them is hard at first but once you can get them to feed, they’ll even willingly take food from your hand! Boxfish do seem to be more timid than Cowfish though.

I’ve kept both boxfish and Cowfish and I realize this is a particularly endearing behaviour and their way of “begging for food” mine usually do it when I get my stepping stools to do some tank maintenance, hoping I will feed them. They can actually spit water from the surface pretty far! Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Good idea. I think the availability of a sump coupled with a bigger display does actually lower the need for mechanical filtration, especially if you are going +1 on your skimmer and have a refugium with macroalgae. Just my 2c Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app

Great info here bro, props to what you’re setting out to accomplish. That said, even with optimal parameters algae is definitely gonna grow whenever it wants to. Can’t control nature bro, it goes where it wants to haha Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile app