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AM have mystery wrasse, helfrichi firefish, multicolour angel, flame angel. All going at super new year offer price Bought a mystery wrasse yest, this morning is out feeding and healthy oredi!

SUREFLOW kit and canister reserved. Only left Hydor Flo reflector, 36W PL tube and FOC dymax airstone skimmer.

DD PO4 Test Kit reserved.

Sorb 4 reserved.

Clearing stuff 1. 2 units of Hydor Flo. Excellent wave deflector especially for nano tanks. $10 each 2. DD high sensitivity PO4 test kit. Used only a few times. $35 3. Maxijet body with brand new SUREFLOW 1600. Creates super strong waves, up to 4ft tank. $40 4. Brand new 2ft PL light (36W). Tube is 1 side blue, 1 side 10k (white). $10 5. Brand new SORB 4 (big bottle). $50 6. Eheim classic 2213 cannister. With new O-ring that seals the top and body portion. $40 7. Dymax airstone skimmer. FOC (must buy ur own wooden airstone) FCFS please. Collection at my place near Mt Faber SAFRA. Interested contact me at 93874620.

Hi bro, haven't met u for a long time. Sorb 4 rated its content by weight. Rowaphos rated its content by volume. In terms of amt of material availabe, both bottle contains the same amt of media. That's why i consider sorb 4 cheaper, as the amt of media used per time is the same for me. Of course, there're some that always insist rowaphos is "better". I've used rowaphos for a long time, but switched to sorb4 oredi. I change my media frequently, once every mth. So Sorb4 is more economical to me. Just my opinion here. I'm not starting a thread on which brand is "better". It's personal preference. Cheers!

Cheap and effective PO4 remover i'm using is Sorb4. The 2 popular brands used here are Sorb4 and Rowaphos. Rowaphos is much higher in price, but is effective as well. Hope this helps

Was your tank cycled? When u introduce new LR from LFS into the tank, they're not fully cured, meaning there're still some organism on the LR dying off. U have to let the LR cure.... letting your system run for 1mth or so, let the water clear up, no foul smell. Only then can u safely add in fishes. I do not know the condition of your tank now, but i guess the fishes died due to ammonia spike after introducing the LR. Are you running any filtration for your tank? It's necessary so that dead stuff, dirt are filtrated from the water during this cycling phase. Don't add anymore fishes for the next 2-3 wks. Change 50% of the water, and let the system cycle first. Hope this helps

U need to let your system stabilise/ mature. Reduce your feeding, feed lesser amt so no food will be stuck in the LR. Get some cleaning crew to help get rid of the algae initially. Run PO4 remover such as Sorb4 to absorb PO4 , and run carbon to "clean" the water. Since u have no corals, reduce your lighting period to slow down the growth of existing algae. Suggested cleaning crew: Seahare, sea urchins (good at scraping off stubborn algae on ur LR), astrea snails. Remember that the cleaning crew only helps to clear off the algae, you need to get to the root of this algae bloom. Improve your water quality.

Yup, despite using CR, dosing ABC is still necessary as I've mentioned, CR only maintains KH and Ca. CR media does not release all essential elements required by our corals. ABC provides all these essential major n minor trace elements. I started off following the dosage. Had been advise by John to adjust according to tank requirement. As a "rough gauge", the diff colours of the 3 bottles symbolises the improvement to corresponding colouration of the sps (u can counter check this by looking at the elements provided by each bottle, do a search online and it does shows that it'll improve the corresponding colours of the bottle). I've since adjusted to dose more A and C, leaving B following the dosage. Been getting good colouration on my sps so far. Cheers!

I tink the M he's referring to is Grotech VitM (Vit plus amino acids). You're right, Grotech A already contains Mg, so dun need to add additional Mg.

I'm using ABC plus CR. ABC provides all the nec major and trace elements. CR maintains the KH and Ca level of my sps tank. For M, I guess u're refering to VitM? For VitM, I dose manually. ABC are dosed via dosing pumps.

Hi bro, I'm using CR, and dosing Grotech ABC. CR only supply carbonate hardness and Ca. Does not supply all the trace elements provided by ABC. I'm getting gd results using just ABC and CR. Hope this helps. Cheers!

Hi bro, that is a squamosa. Nice patterned squamosa u've got!

OR 3500 reserved. Left Weipro 2011 skimmer with pump still available.

Selling my spare pump: Low power consumption Aquamedic Ocean Runner 3500 pump. 3500L/H at only 65W! Selling $150. Condition very good. Selling Weipro 2011 skimmer with matching 2000l/h skimmer pump for $20. Condition very new. Self collect at my place, near Mt Faber SAFRA. (nearest MRT Tiong Bahru) Interested contact me at 93874620.

I hv 1/4 bucket of D-D H20 Reef Salt (from RD) for sale. sms me if u're keen at 93874620. Thanks

Likely to be nitrogen bubbles due to the actions of denitrifying bacterias in the sandbed. This is a sign that the bacterias are at work!

Selling my colony of yellow green milliepora. It's yellow body wif green polyps. Comes wif 2 acro crabs inside! Buyer gets a 3 inch multiple brand blue digitata FOC. Selling $40. FCFS pls. Collection at Telok Blangah, near SAFRA Mt Faber Contact me at 93874620.

WTS: 2 vouchers for Bintan Lagoon Resort stay. $100 per voucher (bought from citibank offer). Each voucher is for 1 night stay in Delux Garden Terrace any day from Sun-Thur. Original price for booking a delux garden terrace on your own online is about $260 per night. Voucher expires 31 Dec 08. Interested pls contact me at 93874620. Thanks

Bro, LCK still have 3 flame wrasse as at 630pm. Maybe u can try getting from LCK instead

Hi SantaMonica, The algae turf John builds looks like water is just running down the screen at certain parts. (pipe with holes rather than water flowing over the full screen). My question is, how do u slot in the screen into the pipe (with a slit cut on the pipe), yet ensure water is able to flow thru both sides of the screen smoothly? I guess this means that the slot cut on the pipe where the screen fits in must be bigger than the thickness of the screen. But roughly how much more should we cut to "even" out the water flowing down the screen? Thanks for this great thread, u've been most helpful.

my Hydor MIXO autofeeder dropped into the tank for a whole day. When came back at nite yest, it was soaking wet and spoilt. Anyone using this autofeeder, and wants to take the feeding compartment, batt cover etc as spare? Wants to give away to someone rather than throw away. If no interest by sun nite, i'll throw it away. Contact me at 93874620 if u're keen to pick it up. Thanks

Update of AM Katong: Lotsa cleaning crew! Sand Dollars (alot!!) Seahare (excellent hair algae eater) Astrea snails Sand star Sally Lightfoot crab Fishes Lotsa beautiful small sized Brown Tang. Very nice colours. Whole tankful of small sized Purple Tang Assorted wrasses Softies Lotsa newly arrived mushies: Yumas, nice coloured Rhodactics mushies, blue & red mushrooms Also spotted SUREFLOW 1600 at very good price!: Mod for maxijet into very strong wavemaker