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hehe.. ahsiao...the blue yumas from day are quite alright...you should be quite happy when he brings them to you

blackie

coming soon, all the corals in tentacles mood

should be whitish strands....seen those in dying anemones in LFS before

maybe your rosie missed you too much when you wen to usa? hehe anyway just curious jie...who look after your precious stuff while u were away

the sunken pouch and the gradual pouch are the ways for me to differentiate..which is female which is male..i dunno..but just get 2 with different pouch shapes and should be different ###### liao.hehe

lugols dip is essentially iodine stuff...it may help a little..but i think you better monitor it these days before it really turns into goo and wrecks havoc on your system.... all the best jie..

really really very cheem to use leh.... i think i stay to using calcium additives or reefez calcium...at least how much powder will get how much PPM increase in how much volume of water...this is easier for me..hehe but more expensive in the long run hor

not all clowns have to live with anemones and not all anemones have to live with clowns...i have seen clowns bully anemones till death and seen anemones eating clowns down..... it is a popular misconception that both need each other to do well when in fact each on their own will do very well without the other... if they do like each other...then let it be...if they do not like each other..let it be also...

yeah...actually 6 of them....2 with yellowish stripes..4 totally purple.. they have been eating on cyclopeeze, hikari daphnia, small Hikari mysis, even the brine shrimp provided the size is small.... i even bought the zooplankton from PR to standby...but in the end never got to use it.... as i mentioned in the thread...they hid for close to a week behind the rockworks before they came out to roam...

yes..all different brands of T5 should fit provided the ballast is for the same wattage.. interchanging brands of the same wattage should work

wah..all showing your precious ah..hehe how come bwilly so quiet today ah..i am sure he will wanna show us his *precious* also..hehe

no best types lah..i think u just trial and error till u get one that can thrive in your system....everyone's system is different...but you can stay away from those grape species lor..nice to look at..but create a small mess when they decide to crash...... but your system may be able to support it though...so just try abit here and there and then when you get one type that really grow alot and never melt away..then it's the macroalgae for you..

no problem... i dun want to see you buy a cute blue ring octopus one day and then even before you start thinking of what you want to feed it....someone precious to you or you yourself get into big serious problem..hehe next time..spend a couple of minutes going through some online marine life guide...then u can identify the general species that the livestock belongs to and its requirements... cheers happy for you that it wasn't a bluering octopus or a rockfish..hehehe

yeah..they are good...adds colour to the tank mah..but they dun really take up much nutrients..and even if they do...at too slow a rate already... they use up your calcium though

then just buy my setup lor.... lol...now i using it as quarantine tank and holding tank for bro blenny's rocks.....if you want you can PM me lor

think next time it's better you know what you are buying and its requirements before you buy it bro but anyway, it needs good strong light.....feeding is only done supplementarily, you can feed it meaty stuff like prawns...but it will do fine just by light itself usually...

u go search backwards..i posted pics of the types of macroalgae sometime back... if its those caulerpa type...you wrap the algae around the rock or just put the rock on some parts of the algae and soon you will find the algae hook up on the rocks....

from light i mean..not food... food are just supplements once in a while...mainly they need light

alive? yeah..clams and ricordias lor..clams are pretty much alive mah..hehe

i do reverse photoperiod....meaning when the main tank starts to dim off ....the refugium starts its day cycle... i tried 24 hours last time in my 2ft refugium...pretty ok....but it seems that some dark photoperiod is good for the macroalgae also...there are some topics here last time about it.... some bro here mentioned the dark phase is needed for the algae to engage in some cellular activity that completes the growth phase

probably.... i am running one now..i have all kinds of funny algae growing in the refugium..but the main tank very clean..even the diatoms were on the wool compartments in the refugium which i religously take out to wash every 2 days.... i think watever nutrients from the system is absorbed by the macroalgae in the refugium before it wrecks havoc in the main tank... and my macroalgae growing quite fast...thats why the nitrate test done a few days ago was very very low.... get a good skimmer to skim as much stuff as you can...then after that let the macroalgae trap the rest...be it phospates...nitrates..or watever.. and for the macroalgae to absorb and grow fast, u need strong lights.....i actually wanted to put a 150W MH to light the refugium also..but dun really like the idea of the heat enclosed in the cabinet...so i went T5s and the macroalgae, clams and rics in there are loving it.

very fast swimmer....but genna harass by some of my chromis in the 4ft...caught some of them out and put them in the sump...lol

new tank quite hard to keep acro..because the acro have to fight off the algae phases in the tank which may cover its polyps...so normally better wait till all the algae phase gone...or your macroalgae have a strong foothold on the tank nutrients before you try going major sps lor... i only got 1 right perched on the left top to try...as the ahpek told me to take coz that time so many... well, whether your algae phase over or not...maybe cant really tell...but at least make sure ammonia, nitrites and phospates are zero and nitrates as low as possible, even zero before you spend all your money buying those nice sps frags lor...