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hehe..i was there in the morning to grab some stuff before the LFS shops came and grab them...lol... then afternoon went back to gia gia again and pluck algae weeds off the uncured rocks together with aunty.... saw a lady when i was there in the morning at the road before the stony path up...nearly smiled at her thinking was you....hehe

now i wonder if deepblue bro's nick has a deeper meaning...lol hehee..paiseh deepblue..for mentioning you ..coz your nick really quite blue..hehe

yeah..many huge slabs of turtleweeds today...uncle very happy today business so good and i was helping aunty pluck algae off the rocks...lol... the slabs are twice or 3 times the normal turtle weed rocks...very nice...but i still very mystified with the black sun corals....i wonder how they look when open.... what time were you there today flubberina jie?

agree with hon, i dun really like the yellow light..i prefer BLUER stuff

BBB: thanks...no need lah...i go quite a few tangs...i better get a packet myself..i know those unsalted, ones...normally dried in a round shape...must dip in water...so u soak in garlic? or just throw the seaweed in? hehe

mentioned somewhere in the thread....go dig it out...

haha...yum yum..i am waiting... not that i dun wanna paste ..but there is some linking problems when i past leh...coz of the sub menus i think..the url is just the general url that sends an error msg...hehe.. anyway, enjoy the yellow light tonite..haha

yeah...got the purple mushies from him too... he has a really cute and active dog....nice couple with a cosy home...

let me surf the page again and clear the path for u.. on the main page... click product and then the sub Product Catalogue then lamps for general lighting then High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamps then Metal Halide Lamps then TS Tubular double ended, clear then HQI-TS, quartz technology then HQI-TS, UV-reduced - Cap: RX7s - (24)/ Fc2 then click on the product numbers to get the specs 4050300437545 4050300362380 4050300412979

got got..the specs i gave got the UVS..meaning UV-stop..hehe

marine algae? issit the nicely packaged seaweed? or you mean those caulerpas in our sump tanks?

heres how to get to the page Catalogue Lamps for General Lighting High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamps Metal Halide Lamps TS Tubular double ended, clear HQI-TS, quartz technology HQI-TS, UV-reduced - Cap: RX7s - (24)/ Fc2

Product description HQI-TS 150W/NDL UVS RX7S-24 12X1 Technical - Electrical Data Lamp current in Amps 1.8 A Lamp wattage in Watts 150 W Luminous Efficacy in lm/W 75 lm/W Main frequency in Hz 50 Hz Rated wattage in Watts 150 W Technical - Light Technical Data Average luminance in cd/cm² 1500 cd/cm² Luminous output in lumen 11250 lm Technical - Colors Colour rendering group 1B Colour rendering index (Ra) Min. 80 Max. 89 Colour temperature in Kelvin 4200 K

Product details Product description HQI-TS 150W/D UVS RX7S-24 12X1 Technical - Electrical Data Lamp current in Amps 1.8 A Lamp wattage in Watts 150 W Luminous Efficacy in lm/W 73 lm/W Main frequency in Hz 50 Hz Rated wattage in Watts 150 W Technical - Light Technical Data Average luminance in cd/cm² 1500 cd/cm² Luminous output in lumen 11000 lm Technical - Colors Colour rendering group 1B Colour rendering index (Ra) Min. 80 Max. 89 Colour temperature in Kelvin 5200 K Colour temperature in Kelvin (HQI CCG) 5200 K

paiseh..the links wun work...u just go to osram website..then click lights for general use then go to high intensity discharge lamps and then metal halides...then u can see all their specs list for all their bulbs..hehe

issit the HQI-TS 150W daylight with UV-stop? see the sites below...osram never hits about 6000K http://catalog.myosram.com/srvc/z_myosram1...TM4MjAwNDM5MTc= http://catalog.myosram.com/srvc/z_myosram1...TM4MjAwNDM5MTc= http://catalog.myosram.com/srvc/z_myosram1...TM4MjAwNDM5MTc= the colours are 3000K for warm daylight, 4200K for neutral daylight...and finally 5200K for daylight... when i got my mh pendent, it came with this...very yellow..cannot tahan...went to change to BLV 10000K..hehe

BBB, do you mean metal halide or PL tubes? as far as metal halides are concerned, osram never made any 6700K bulbs...many people mistaken the colour temperature...in reality their socalled daylight mh bulb is only about 4000plus K..very yellow...hehe

thanks BBB, but then hor....maybe the baby powder is a vegetarian? lol... i put cyclopeeze, mysis, it didn't even look at them...lol... will try live brine tomorrow then

no wonder....geee....only the clowns gobble the mysis down...lol... must go get brine shrimp liao....

i think those are little tubeworms...great..it means you have lots of micro stuff in the water

this is the coral sand size 0...i believe some of the coral sand 0 is as fine as the earlier sand...but there are odd shapes and sizes in coral sand than the other sample...so it does not pack as compactly and tightly..

i tried frozen mysis....never eat leh...hmm...will try brine shrimp and see got any reaction... anyway, i did a comparison of the sand from my old 2 ft sump and the current 4 ft sump using coral sand size 0...my old sump sand is not coral sand...but i much finer and packs very tightly compared to coral sand 0...here are some pics....i cant seem to find this sand nowadays... this pic is the finer sand from my old sump

my powder blue not eating the veges or pellets leh...just nibbling at the rocks here and there....i worry for it....maybe its not aggressive because no appetite...no appetite means....one ticket to the grave..sigh..

thanks....many nicer tanks out there, but just that they never take photos of their tanks

good choice...the ignitor and capacitor of the metal halide is heavy and hot when in operation...