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Looks similar to head and lateral line syndrome, which is quite common in fish like the larger angelfish. But normally fish that contract this tend to behave normally, instead of the symptoms you described. You might want to check your tank for stray voltage just in case. You might want to transfer it back to the quarantine tank and perform a hyposalinity treatment to lower stress levels. Medication you could consider adding would be anti-fungal and anti-bacterial medications as a preventive measure.

Hmm...LFS I've seen selling A.randalli include Paradiz Reef, Reborn, and sometimes you could try your luck at Pasir Ris Farms. You could try Marine Life too. The cleaner shrimp won't attack your pistol shrimp, the pistol shrimp can fend for itself with the exception of very large and hungry fish, or other aggressive crustaceans like mantis shrimps.

Never ever feed live tubifex worms. These are always laden with bacteria and you would'nt want to imagine what these worms are fed. I kept f.w fishes for a long time. Once I ceased feeding tubifex worms and even stopped FROZEN bloodworms, fish just stopped dying. As you mentioned, the only surviving fishes are characins. The worms might have introduced some viral infection that characins have gained immunity against, but unfortunately not for the rest of the fishes. You mentioned a major water change. I doubt it would be chlorine in the tapwater as it has never been a major problem for me. I used to do 60-70% water changes without addition of anti-chlorine and nothing died. But I'm not sure how tapwater chlorine and chloramine content has changed compared to 4-5 years ago. If you did dose anti-chlorine, I have reasons to suspect that you overdosed it. Overdosing antichlorine will lead to such symptoms that you described (white slime produced on body). Basically their stress coat is being "burnt" off. Another reason I could think of is pH swing. Apparently all your fishes that survive come from areas of very soft and acidic waters. The other fishes that died are found in slightly acidic-neutral (danios and corydoras)-slightly alkaline (platys)waters in nature. Your tapwater might have decreased in pH somehow? Only way to find out is to use a test kit. That's all the reasons I could think of, the rest is up to you to investigate. All the best~

Not much sexual dimorphism in this species. They do fine even if kept alone. They're not always found in pairs in nature. If you are intending to find it a partner, your chances will be better if you find one that is much differently sized compared to the one you have. If they don't fight, things are looking good. If fighting occurs, most likely they're the same ######. A pistol shrimp will make an interesting companion, however pls choose the right species. Species you could consider are Alpheus randalli and Alpheus bellulus . These species will associate with your goby without much problems. If you are fearful of potential problems caused by burrow excavation, go for A.randalli as it stays small.

Haha..now hunt for gf must find one who is willing to spend on you..maybe even chauffeur you around. Times have changed! Men eat hard rice for so long already..time for men to eat soft rice.

A guy giving a girl what she wants is bullsh*t. A girl who really loves you will be independent and buy things using her own $. The thought of a girl relying on a guy all the time sickens me. What are we guys supposed to be? Saviour of women? Jeez. Spoil women too much and they'll take you for granted.

I always believe a DSB or a sandbed of some sort has its benefits. It will give you a natural zooplankton source if you have enough critters (like burrowing polychaetes,etc) to maintain the DSB. The danger of a DSB is when these critters are not kept in check and they decline to dangerously low levels. When insufficient movement occurs in the sandbed, that is when compacting of sand and building up of hydrogen sulphide occurs. My next tank will probably still have a sand bed, however if not for the purpose of denitrification, a shallow sand bed will still provide additional surface area for colonisation of bacteria and proliferation of micro-organisms which can't be a bad thing when you consider the potential micro-fauna that a sandbed can support. Leacing of hydrogen sulphide has been the concern of many. However, it is only dangerous if it leaches rapidly, which can depress the pH of you tank. Natural leaching occurs slowly, and a stable system should be able to withstand such leaching. In addition, it also depends on the livestock you intend to stock your tank with. If you go BB, you definitely can't have fish like jawfishes and other substrate dwelling fish. They can still survive, but it would be plain torture to them in my opinion. I've had flame scallops survive to close to a year in my tank with a "plenum" below a shallow sand bed. I don't attribute this to feeding as I believe some form of zooplankton were proliferating below this "plenum". It further convinced me when a Stongobiops nematodes goby went missing under this "plenum" for weeks. I thought it was dead since I did'nt see it feeding for many weeks. I was pleasantly surprised when it appeared one day with a bulging belly and almost 1.5X the original size it was. I believe this shows the potential benefits of providing a sand bed in which organisms can proliferate and provide a constant and possibly endless food supply if maintained correctly. Corals will benefit too, since they need protein sources other than light. Even SPS requires feeding for optimum growth. I always believe a thriving bioscenosis is better than regular addition of dead/concentrated protein sources.

Sometimes when turbo snails adjust their shells, their shells will knock against the glass. Can give you the impression that it's a mantis or pistol shrimp.

What an animal eats at any one time may not be indicative of their preferred diet, but might just be an attempt to satisy certain nutritional deficiencies in their main diet. In the instance of the blue legged hermit eating prawn meat, it might be just an attempt to satisfy nutritional requirements which might be lacking in their main diet of algae. Eg. if hermit crabs can't obtain certain essential amino acids/sterols from their diet of algae (rather limited diversity in aquaria), they will often scavenge for animal protein sources. Then again I've never witnessed my electric blue hermit (giant sized) actually attack small gobies. Their claws are more adept at scavenging and grazing, rather than predation. It's true on the shell part, you'll have to provide enough shells as your hermit grows.

Guess you won't be able to start up a rotifer culture in time. Your best bet is to find a friend or someone close to purchase or get rotifers from if not it'll be real expensive supplying them rotifers throughout their larval stage. I'm not that sure about the stage of development clownfish larvae will be at when they hatch from the egg. Assuming they still have their yolk reserves and they appear like salmon larvae that just hatched (non-swimming stage), they probably won't begin feeding till probably 24 hrs or more later. Just start feeding them when they begin to swim. Not sure if they require smaller sized rotifers, in which case normal rotifers will be too large. Even if you do manage to obtain the rotifers, you must make sure you enrich them sufficiently with the appropriate algae species. Good choices would be Isochrysis, Chaetoceros, Pavlova. Rotifers cultured solely on Nannochloropsis oculata do very well but unfortunately won't have enough HUFA content to get the larvae through metamorphosis. Green flagellates in general are not used to enrich live feeds due to their low nutritional content. An alternative enrichment would be emulsions of formulations like Selco. However, you might experience oily surfaces in your larval rearing tank which is'nt really desirable. You could pm marinebetta..he has experience in this aspect. He might be able to help if he is'nt too busy with work.

omg..goldfish..yucks..

I thought I saw a nudibranch.....

Alternative pumps you could consider would be Rio hyperflows.

The first one looks like the scroll coral, Turbinaria sp. Not considered sps or lps..maybe MPS? 2nd looks like the horn coral, Hydnophoroa sp. , quite an aggressive species from my understanding. Best to keep it far from other corals. This can be considered sps. As for the third, I'm not really sure..but it's a LPS for sure. cheers mate~

Carpet anemones eat anything. Many years ago I used to keep one..which ate many fishes and including a flame scallop..

Wow..no one watched it before? Hmmm..guess I'm not the only one who has'nt heard of this awesome movie back in Sg.

Once algae takes over the skeleton it is almost impossible for the coral tissue to grow back, unless the algae is exterminated. Get your phosphate levels down and add in some algae eaters. Hermits i find useful would be dwarf zebra hermits. These will climb all over your rocks and get rid of algae, and they don't get big enough to topple rocks. Try your luck at ML.

Does'nt sound like a worm...more details pls?

Anyone watched this movie? I was impressed by the gunfights..totally awesome. I would say it's definitely comparable if not better than the well acclaimed Matrix in many ways. I understand it came out in 2002 but it's weird there has not been much publicity about it.

Nothing will happen..haha..checked my practical manual..the biggest clam was the one used in the practical..supposedly its a T.gigas. My proff just stuck his hand into the clam to inject something, the clam closed on his hand and he removed his hand without harm. According to him when T.gigas closes there will be some kind of gap between the 2 shell halves. Did'nt really get what he meant by that though...probably just a structural limitation to closing fully. So in theory your hand/foot should be able to be removed without much work.

Wow..din know maximas could grow so large..here's another pic...the one at the bottom is the largest..compare the size of it to an adult black sea cucumber.. The mantles outstretched is much wider than my head...

Hmm..I'm in queensland doing a postgrad course in aquaculture. Want set up such a farm in Sg?

So excited..I've been given the opportunity to work on ornamental shrimp next semester! Will be taking over a fellow postgrad's work on the blood shrimp, Lysmata debelius and many more!

Blue swimmer crabs that were raised from inferior quality larvae.

Barramundi a.k.a sea bass that my friends and I raised from 1 day old larvae. They are cannibalistic buggers..