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Hmm...think it has stopped. I only ate 1 meal today.

Finally the photos that he has been holding back the past few months. He must have been waiting for everything to be perfect.

Same species you can try to pair. I know how to pair orchid dottyback already. Got sexual differences in appearance.

Go joo chiat look at vietnamese gals?

Hmmm, harlequin shrimp have been known to feast on the tube feet of sea urchins too. But since featherstars lack such tube feet, I doubt the shrimps will eat them. Anyway, featherstars themselves are impossible to keep in captivity unless you have a constant supply of fresh natural seawater that is laden with zooplankton prey. Lots of sea stars arrived at Iwarna yesterday. Orangey red ones though.

Don't be fooled by the marketing term "Sea monkey". It really means brine shrimp.

I have the urge to chiong out at 3am just to find food.

? I'm 22 already....and my appetite instead of getting smaller its getting bigger (it was lousy for the past month..maybe now compensation point?) Not sure also. Sigh. More $ gone to food.

? No tummy problem. Only crapped once today. Wonder where the rest all went.

? Where is polyart?

Last night did'nt really sleep...cause of coffee overdose. Woke up at 9.30am (usually noon) as I was feeling hungry. Ate 6 char siew baos. Watched tv. About 11am, ate mee siam. About 3-4pm, ate bak chor mee. Had dinner around 7pm. Came home, ate dinner again. And from 11pm till now I have eaten 3 loafs of hotdog buns. I'm still feeling hungry. I'm not even including the little cans of drinks outside and the titbits I munch at home...Why can't I feel full?!

Think at least 20 pcs. Shipment arrived around 5 plus. Also got lots of bright reddish orange sea stars and featherstars.

Got them at Iwarna...the only 2 special ones to me. Still got other unique ones but quite small. Many thanks to Victor for letting me have them. Reasonable price...but still the most expensive urchin I have ever bought (actually don't mind paying more for them). See if can ask him bring in pencil urchin or not (the hawaii type). Will I start an urchin trend this time?

Little treat for my fishies.. My mandarins are gluttons over them.

2nd ball.. Ok..this one looks a little creepy.

Presenting...my 2 balls! Will girls drool over them?

Iwarna (one of my favourite places to hang out). Sri lanka shipment arrived today! - Only 2 pcs sri lankan dottyback (Pseudochromis dilectus) - lots of sri lankan scooters - large blood shrimps - bulls eye pistol (Only few pcs, not symbiotic with goby) - One pistol species (resemble blood shrimp in colouration) - few sea urchins left (never seen before colors, only left few pc) - Longfin fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis)

Looks good. Guess the most pricey components were the end caps/ballasts?

Corals can't be open 24 hrs. Corals such as LPS enable their feeding mode at night, whereby tentacles come out to snare zooplankton and other foods available from the water. If you leave your lights on 24/7 it will be only a matter of time before the coral bleaches. They'll be making too much carbohydrates while receiving little or no protein in the form of meaty foods. You'll end up with white corals that are sweet to the taste.

Sun corals can be placed right under the light. In nature, they are not always found in the shade or upside down. They even grow upright on rocks. If you keep your water parameters good and have algae under control there is no harm placing them directly under lights. Corals that are not autotrophic tend to have less resistance to prevent algae growing on them. Which is why in captivity most people place them in the shade as most people have problem with at least some kind of algae. Sun corals need a moderate flow of water to stimulate them to open too.

That's what I feed my gorgonians with.

Hmmm, we should look at natural landscapes more often for this kind of ideas. Looks so natural. Too bad no shrimps that hop, if not can have hopping shrimps on the monti cap waterfall.

In my case the last time, the space between the impeller and the "shaft plug (the rubber part placed at the end of the ceramic shaft)" was a factor. Too big a spacing will lead to the noise when the magnet rotates.

As long as the corals don't touch each other & you space them out enough it should be fine. Take into account the sweeper tentacles of some corals like galaxea which can get quite long.