Actually if you look at the US site - some of the wellsi cost more than the merletti ....
I definitely vounch they are not rare at all. i spoke to a LFS - according to him it is harvested at greater depth - that's about it.
In fact some of the merletti looks much more impressive than the Wellsi.
Used to have a pair of cleaner shrimp - they spawn the first 30 mins i switch off the lighting .. so it is true that life become active in the night which is why your sps open up the polyp.
And they do that every 3 weeks ... so not a bad idea to invest in cleaner shrimp .... live zooplankton ... dont need to breed.
40kg is an understatement .....i can see almost 20 person on that thingy ... average out 50 kg x 15 person ..... 750 kg of LR
But ... look carefully at the picture ...the motorist is walking
Yah ... I shifted one of the piece to low lights ..... I have another piece with bright green body with red mouth ... putting it on strong lights ... will see how it react - read a article by Abert thiel that some could take strong lights.
no problem so far .... mime have short tentacles .... in fact my lobo stings is much more powerful than favia .... a few polpy gone alrady due to that but it is recovering
Sure got pastel color ... don't have to rush ... the recent LCK got alot of pastel colors ones .
It 's only a matter of whether the color you are looking for is available or not ... maybe we could put up a list on the "wanted colors"
Are you sure they are yellow body .... they looks bleached to me.. just pointing out ..no offence ...
I have bought 1 piece when place under strong MH they will bleachd out and looks exactly like he yellow body..
The bright green body usu have no problem except the dull green ones and the brown body ones
Nice tank and...amazing you can do without chiller, but the topup will be everyday I presume. You might want to automate it with float switches.
BTW, how do you maintain your Cal and KH - dose everyday ?
Actually if it is a nanos .... Acrylic tank is also not a bad idea. Given the cost and the clarity. Definitely the scratches will be a headache but if you do it cautiously ... it will not be so bad ... but the height this time is much more shallower so the maintenance will be very much easiler .....currently my glass tank got too much tattoos on them and I hope I have an acrylic tank so that I could remove all the scratches..
As for the coraline aglae growth for the acrylic tank - it will not be that bad if you use 14K or 10K .... if you switch to 20k lighting - it will be a different story, you might end up cleaning them up on your front panel. Another idea I was thinking is to have a sligthly bigger tank says 2.5 ft width for lighting with a 2 x 2 light coverage so that the lighting will not fall on the glass panel at least not directly.
DB,
Yah ... I was thinking of garden eel too .. they looks cool... but not sure how deep a sandbed is required as i am not a fan of DSB.
Tried a team of yellow-tail blennies but 2 of them went for a hunger strike - now left 1
Welcome to the world of Nanos
I think Boxfish will nip on the Polyp of the sps - just for your info.
They are not reef-safe and the beak are pretty destructive. And also bear in mind that the dice-looking fish looks cute when small but become quite ugly when they are grows bigger when the color fades