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yo boss, calling me ah here you go..i save the bloody shot to the last i promise..

wait i see your pics i cannot tahan..go put my atlantic in my system soon...lol... just coz to see how it looks like under MH...lol

this pic clearer than the previous one, can see the uv pl tube..hehe remember...dun look at UV units with you bare eyes will cause damage to your retina

ah siao: havent decided to hook this new UV to my room tank or the main system yet patrick: if i hook this one, then the system got 3 x 36w UV marineman: http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...18728&st=30&hl= when my new skimmer is up, i will restock on my anthias, then i can have both fat tangs and large schooling anthias again should be able to make it before year end weileong: thanks dispar: cool man! very blue under your lights, MH right? can't wait to put mine into my main system when i get the new skimmer

this side more handsome... can't wait to see the blue under MH illuminance, have to wait till my new skimmer is ready before intro him to the main tank... dun wanna overload my main system that's all for today

getting more and more blue..compared to the first day i got him... he almost had no blue on him

will run in parallel here's my atlantic tang today, has some bruise marks fighting with my prof X

neokn: that's a good one

dun try this guys.. NEVER LOOK AT YOUR UV LAMP WITHOUT EYE PROTECTION... best dun look directly at all... for curious minds there, this is what the tankwater faces in uv chamber.... at last, i know i have paid more *insurance premium* to keep my tangs in the best possible condition....if all my uv chambers still cannot prevent an outbreak in future, i got nothing to say

the spiralling staircase

safely secured

carefully inserting into the glass chamber

not massive lah, many people with bigger tanks... as i always refer them as the crouching tigers and hidden dragons..lol about the photos, will do so in good time

like opening the sniper rifle metal briefcase

looks familiar? yeah, this is the extra *insurance* i am talking about..

yeah man... but too far for me lah...lazy to drive down in the middle of the night also... afterall, i know the next day, which is today, if i go early, sure have enough for me i cannot stock too much yet....buy abit abit from each shipment of bartletts lor... dun want to overload my system at one go

today the blochii seems alright..no erratic swimming, then again, i paid more attention to the bartletts, yeah, of coz did not leave there empty handed

The lone AT there is nice..just the right size, not like those giants from the previous shipment... The bartletts are , chio.... many yellow tangs still the blochii tangs, both quite big...cute but not my kind of tangs

jesper: you are not wrong leh.. IOS is correct i think...not a built in sump though..hehe

actually IOS means internal overflow system or internal overflow sump ah.. i think is internal overflow system hor

yeah..dun let ich takeover the tank and destroy the fun of this hobby... if you are a coral person..then its ok...but if you are a fish person like i am...then to see a tank of ich striken fish is damn unbearable.. actually if u remove all the fishes from the main system...after a few months, we can be pretty sure that no more ich in the system as no hosts for it...the ich population die a natural death... but when u bring over the fishes to the quarantine....somehow ich will still reproduce as your fishes will bring the ich over....unless, you use copper treatment or hyposalinity which may or may not kill 100% of the ich cycle.... you may also end up killing your fishes which cannot tahan the copper treatment or hyposalinity.. but if you do nothing to the quarantine tank, all the fishes will just continue to be hosts for ich, just in a different tank....and even when you see no more ich on your fish and try to put back into your main tank.... you may be fooled, there are still some ich not visible and there the cycle goes again in the main tank and you give up.... all these are hypothetical assumptions...

siao ah...wat a high premium..hahaha anyway, congrats on your new toy, happy installing it tonight

yeah..things like uv or ozone cannot totally eradicate ich because they can only kill what is passing through the uv chamber or ozone chamber (ie ozone connected skimmer), at best, they can only kill such free floating ich in the water column...but we must know that those free floating in the water column only constitute a part of the ich cycle... so the cycle goes on and on and on and all we can do is to reduce the number of ich in the free floating stage so that they dun really get into a massive geometric progessive population that leaves even the healthiest fishes no chance.... by reducing the free floating stage, this means that less will eventually become adult stage, which also means less free floating stage larvae again.. it is a vicious cycle....and dun think because your fish body does not show the dots or it is not scratching means there is no ich in the system...chances are the level of infection is low and just waiting for a comeback if one gets too complacent