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you mean from HK, he went straight back to states before coming back to singapore ah.... hmm...quite rush i agree... your tank ok already? the piping settled liao right?

wah.. can ask your maid to train mine or not? then i can go holiday with peace of mind...hehe

jie... should have asked you to lug back one iwaki for me kidding lah..i paiseh also... u have your hands full with your boy

you know, i know anyway, how's your stuff when you were in HK recently? who jaga for you?

that tactic sounds... very very familiar deepblue...dun give up leh...we will miss you leh... dun leave lah...why leave leh? outcome: deepblue wun give up/leave and never intended to right deepblue? right jie?

haha... wah liew jie.. u think after all the effort deepblue put in the tank.... he will give up so easily meh? i doubt so..... will be really a waste

you are the man er....can consider man already or not?

wah liew...red dragon dun play play ok.... very expensive lor..it's a large upfront payment...although it has significant running savings.. but i compared some models of red dragon and some iwaki pump prices and running costs... for some models matchup, it may take the red dragon up to a certain number of years to run before justifying the higher initial price.... the iwaki is cheaper at the start...but the higher running costs will catch up with the red dragon (high initial cost, low running cost) in a few years.. in other words, if one run the pumps together same time 24/7 for a few years... below a certain number of years, the iwaki choice will be better....above a certain number of years...the red dragon choice will be better...as by then it will cover the high initial price already and starts pulling away with the watt for watt running cost savings what i am afraid is that the red dragon fails before hitting the equilibrum number of years before it starts to represent real savings compared to iwaki....if i am not wrong the red dragon has 2 to 3 years warranty.... wat if the pump fails just after the warranty? that means before it can reap significant savings, it is out of service already.....then again it's german made and i have great regard for german engineering products generally but iwakis have been know to last years after years.....a proven track record in terms of durability

deepblue: yeah lor...dun worry, the ban lifted liao, should have more coming soon..hehe i know powder brown...kept one last time in my old 4ft but it went tang heaven...hehe....but somehow i din notice the white face then...hehe wah liew...no lah...i dun think you will give up your tank lah... but in the case you want to do so, remember the non-sps stuff sell me... the sps stuff sell weileong

no lah.... we are just trigger-happy reefers...keep taking pics.. so many reefers with impressive fishes and tanks who do not post or even not in the forum totally... we are just casual reefers with probably an equal love for reef photography in the dry.... not in the wet..coz we are not divers still squabbling...but slightly improving...seems that sohal wants to guard the mid section of the tank....but i dunno why he only targets the sailfin since the rest of the tangs hang around the area too

no lah... you think i am weileong, the avid tang collector ah power skimmer not here yet....must endure still no lobang to get my mx100 yet.... dun tell me i must fly to HK myself just to get it

yeah lor... u go put Acanthurus japonicus as search word in yahoo... got alot of links.. they call it also ..white FACE surgeonfish but some of the links also call it powder brown tang or maybe powder brown is the layman name for this tang lol..blur liao...

steady sia...never knew got japan surgeonfish until i checked... the blade at the tail must be as sharp as a samurai's blade

this is whitecheek

yeah... talking about ah beng.. i saw this tang there, i thought was white cheek..wondered why the cheek so white and big a patch... end up it's not white cheek tang...come home then realise it is Acanthurus japonicus [Japan surgeonfish]

haha i saw a very nice indian ocean mimic tang at ML last night.... reserved by a reefer for another reefer kschew saw it too....also agreed damn nice...

wah...blue tang ah... my gf keep saying i should have one..... but i say my tank background already very blue...add a blue fish not so much impact, instead add more shitload to the system....hehe eh...tomorrow or sunday you going lfs or not? i try to meet you and pass you the lobo

yeah... dun worry..it wun run away... seen any nice tangs around these few days?

yeah...u got it

nice...as long as you still see purple on them, means they are ok... only when you start to see the purple receding, then that will be a cause for worry...

dun worry...give them time.. they spent days on their way here...give them time to get used to the tank.. yeah..my gf also thinks i am mad for paying this kinda money for coin size stuff

yeah... how are yours? you never post? hehehe i got 3 last night..this is the 3rd one.. the angle not opening very good...

haha.... really drabby brown leh... anyway i have already stated in the post that it will be given to my preference...hehe between dispar and ryz, no offense, i know dispar better and saw him recently....so my preference would be dispar.... moreover, dispar post first, so even if not according to preference and in order of response instead, dispar also should get it.. so....it is dispar's but if dispar dun want in the end, i can consider passing it to you if none of my frens in here want no offense ryz

who wants this drabby looking prata.... can pm me...FOC... but i will decide according to my preference if more than one wants