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oh yeah... and they really exhibit herd behaviour.... some are always on the lookout, once they see others gather in the main column, they dart out to join in a second....and following them are sub schools of maybe 4 or 5 others sharing the same den/cave but like i said, i really recommend those who wanna start out to decide on one species and stock only that.....like a whole tank of bartletts or whole tank of dispars or whole tank of tukas..... i believe this is a better way of ensuring less infighting/intimidation

no secrets lah.... maybe i was lucky to get the pioneer batch that were feeding.... from CF, a few males, a few females....they responded very well to what i fed them...cyclopeeze and even small size frozen food, which i in turned recommended bro deepblue to do so, which he feedback to me that the method was quite useful.... no special method...what i told him...was that the first few in the tank may hide in the rockwork...but although you cannot see them, you have to feed them.....and i flood the water column with feed at dawn and dusk and sparingly over the day light cycle....something i feel that sps keepers will not and may not do so at the risk of water quality drop...and i mean FLOOD after a few days....can really see them coming out esp at dawn or dusk to eat....which has been the pattern till today... now during normal hours, some will be swimming behind the rockworks...some will be in the water column, some hanging upside down in the caves/dens....but once the main pump is off, it seems that they can sense it and all will swim out and school...tat's when you see the whole horde of them...and it's SHOWTIME.....feeding time

bro joep: the pioneer batch have been with me since december/january...along the way add more and more to the current school size..... i always see them feeding during meal times..din know wat's the problem with that portion especially many says they are hard to feed....but the problem for me is not whether they feed or not...but how i am going to balance feeding and water quality..... headache...no hair algae "yet"...but got some patches of red slime...not very obvious from the photos, but its there... phosphate readings are back to zero, probably bound up in the red slime and the phosphate absorbers that i use.... will be patient and see if the red slime burns out....

anyway, at this stage, i kinda regret mixing a few kind of anthias in the tank....should have been less greedy and stuck to one species...but predominantly the majority are purple queens.... read that sooner or latter, as time passes, the dominant species will bully out the weaker ones....and the bold ones will pick out the weaker ones that drfit off the main pack and terrorize it ... i should have stuck to just purple queens instead of mixing a few other breeds..... sigh....hope that the queens will not get bullied out of the way as the months pass.... my personal suggestion for those who want to start their anthias collecting to decide on a specific breed....and then just stock with that breed for long term success

mine eating well, and eating enough.... but....water quality last time nitrates used to be at 0.something level...have to use low resolution scale... since i started those 3 to 5 times a day feeding regime....nitrates become easily between 2PPM to 5PPM.....sigh... tot that once pass 5ppm color mark, i have to take out some, but has been holding at this 2-5 PPM level for quite a few weeks already.... but this kinda water parameters are NOWAY for strict sps keepers, my LPS are ok nonetheless

mr helfrich become as rare as the helfrich in the ocean.... see it like see gold like dat heng i took many pics of it before it became too comfortable in those small caves/dens.... feeding time still got chance to see it...

last one of this morning

have a good week when term starts bro nothing much to update...pretty much the same this morning

keep anthias, must feed often.. keep sps, must not feed alot....hehe have to find a delicate balance like master morgan who can balance keeping the 2...that is a real master i feed minimum 3 times daily...maximum 5 times... the feeding load is

wah...very nice nice ...

peppermint has stripes running lengthwise along body from head to tail.. this shrimp in the pic has stripes from left to right of the body..... a big 90degree difference

very nice..can almost call it snow white

i go on weekday afternoon leh..u still in school mah..how to go?

have bro... most of the time they have it... u can go tomorrow to have a look

hehe...the yellow tang keep looking at it from the main tank... i shall name the yellow tang...MAGNETO....LOL aiyaaa..should have a purple tang and name it magneto....magneto is red and purple base....hahaha

those pictures are of it swimming in the clam tank mah...

redid the co2 connection... because i tried to simulate power loss or ph controller cut-off for the solenoid valve and when the valve reopened, alot of built up co2 went thru the bubble counter.. bro hon said shorten the distances aka tube length between regular,needle valve and solenoid valve and this will be reduced since there is less tubing to allow pressure to be built up.... anyway, redid the connections

no wonder at CF it looked more black...the blue horizontal lines aint so obvious...already did wat i can to aclimatise it slowly.... the rest, is up to fate....

not sure leh..but CF just lump it as Zebrasoma rostratum...black tang...but shouldnt be lor.... it's either a hybrid or some uncommon tang....probably a hybrid ...but like i said..who cares....it's an acquired taste i guess...hehe

aiyo..post so many pics and even video...already show time liao mah

yeah.. this one really professor X sia... sometimes body alot of black..sometimes show me the horizontal blue lines...wah liew... should call mystique instead

from what bro maxima suspect....can also be a kind of spotted black tang uncommon to this trade....

hehe...yeah bro.. just DID it...lol anyway, the blue-grey horizontal lines very nice to me....finally...can sleep soundly wait so long nobody carry professor X home....so i did it lor