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i am running aircon 24/7 most of the time, time to take out the antique fan to use liao...no more air con but seriously once in this hobby, you learn to take numbers with a pinch of salt. even the numbers on the bills want to save money, leaving this hobby is the best solution once i hear frens who want to start reefing, i say welcome to the endless pit

yeah patrick i also believe got typo... coz i decided on the mx100 with the impression that they draw about 300odd of power each... or maybe i just gotten factory rejects with the wrong stickers

anyway, i am going to wire it up.....lemme see........is this correct?

weileong, yeah, 300 sounds more logical..... maybe instead of 240...should be 340...lol terryz, hehehe....can shoot high high sia

thanks d00d

if only Singapore Power got "mileage rewards" size wise longer than the mx70, heavier also ... as for the specs, i seriously think there is a misprint, because i can't reconcile the fact that using 240W of power can generate 260W of power on 50Hz the other 60Hz of using 375W of power to generate 260W of power sounds more logical... never mind lah..maybe i gotten factory rejects i go try later...can spurt water can liao

seeing double?? yeah...you are seeing double

specs that i dun understand assuming we are on 50Hz..how can this pump output 260W of power with only 240W of input consumption?

landing its heavy feet on my floor tiles will do alfa....hang on

Unleashing of the Blue Beast

alfa.... patrick, skimmer next month.... slow and steady

the arrival of my monster pump no....not red mythical creature..... i call mine, the BLUE BEAST

yeah..i noticed squabbling between the new bartletts and the other existing anthias including that one bartlett that was with me since months ago but i leave it to them to settle their own issues. there is nothing much you can do except to continue to keep your parameters up and feed more for those anthias hiding to get their food till they are bold enough to venture into open waters to snatch food during feeding times

patrick, i believe bartletts or dispars are the more hardy and resilient anthias around. i seldom see my queens eating pellets in the past, but now, yes, i do see bartletts snatching pellets from my tangs in other words, i think bartletts and dispars are less fussy over food. as for how many, it really depends on yourself. I can't suggest much....add abit at a time to avoid sudden overloading if you are not too confident till you are satisfied with the final count 15 cubes a day is nothing when you want to sustain many anthias. if u were observant, you will notice that i was able to a sizeable number of them till may when i chickened out... but from the beginning of the year till may is barely half a year...so for the long term success of queens, i also cannot vouch for it. but the amount of feeding is seriously demanding.... between anthias and tangs..i prefer tangs now...but given the choice, i rather have both and have a bigger tank instead

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just to add, most of the lifespan numbers are more or less accurate only if you strike the bulb once and leave it continuously running...then perhaps you can get near the manufacturer's ratings... our usage patterns of striking and turning off day in day out will reduce the effective hours by alot.

the reasons why i had to cut down bioload... both my joys and my pains

Actually personally i feel it's not a matter of how many fishes you can keep but how much you think your system can handle before you chicken out for me...i believe i had more than 50 fishes, big or small in my system till some point in time when i decided that enough is enough, my tangs are getting bigger than what i have expected and with the same skimmers and nutrient export methods, it is time to reduce the bioload before the unthinkable happens.... so what i did was to net as many anthias i could during feeding times when they were distracted and as the anthias population went down, they were more aware and came a point where i could not net anymore out. So the next step was cutting down feeding from 5 to 6 times a day to 2 to 3 times a day....even the amount of food during each feeding time was reduced..coz i realised the tangs were getting fatter and pooing more from the food rather than effectively feeding the anthias.. so, it depends on what you prefer...if you want alot of anthias, i believe it's possible to hit 50 pieces in a reasonably big tank....if you want big tangs, then just a few big ones even in a big tank can set you thinking about bioload from the way they eat and poo... another solution was to maintain the anthias and give up the tangs...but personally i felt it's easier to get anthias back when i have the adequate system to support them..but not always easy to get back a stable community of tangs nonetheless, here are some pics to share when i had alot of anthias yeah...boss is right...even if you feed 5 to 6 times a day....you will not be able to sustain high population count as the months pass..that's the reason why i am getting bartletts this time round... i have frens who feed their tanks very little and yet their bartletts are doing very well

If i am not wrong, some gurus suggests resting the clam on the byssal gland side, because when it gets bigger, the other posture will actually add more strain to the internal glands/organs of the clam.... read it sometime back, forgot the source though

hmm.... why no one mentions about the freshwater dip that some *clamsters* in the states does... match declorinated tap water to the ph of the tank water ...dip the clams in the water for a few minutes, some prefer 20minutes that long...so far i have not breached 10minutes as i feel probably long enough to killl watever parasitic snails or bacteria/virus ...but if KS, then go for the full 20mins it is preferable to choose a clam that is still stuck rigidly on a rock because one factor of damage will be eliminated....because for a clam that is not on a rock...it may or may not have byssal gland damage while harvesting....byssal thread damage is not too serious... even if there is byssal gland damage, normally the clam is able to recover on its own, the damage itself is not a major point of concern...it's the tendency for a clam to contract primary and secondary infections to the wound site that is more worrying... but nonetheless, taking your clams out to scrub their shells of algae can be part of maintenance to see if any parasitic snails are around or other worms which may sometimes grow on the clam shells by building hard shells...these worms may or may not be harmful. www.clamsdirect.com may have more info for clam lovers

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nice nice..but can see the fighting with the sohal has left some temporary battle scars make sure feed it fat fat..hehe