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A pair.

Was that the pair I sold you? Why selling? Can I buy them back?

I got CO2 system standby. But not sure if to use or not. My tank I think around 10 liters of water only. Scared I inject CO2 later everything float including my fish?

It's poop.

It will. But it will take very very long.

Mine. Only a few days old. Keeping 1 betta brownorum, pygmy rasboras, sparkling gouramis & cherry shrimps (I love these red guys).

Still got croceas at the big blue signboard.

Clownfish esp true or false perculas take time to settle down. My true percula pair last time did the same thing for 1-2 days before behaving normally. Clownfishes are one of the few fish that don't really ship well and might need time to acclimatize to new surroundings. If its not interested in food there is no point flooding the food with water as it will only deteriorate your water quality. So in the end the fish might die due to declining water conditions.

I find these guys reefsafe. They don't even chase after fish food. They prefer algae.

You want them to grow asexual, not sexual.

Show lah...mine will show soon once I have access to my cam. Think one of the smallest planted tanks around.

Big blue signboard - Atlantic blue tangs. - lettuce nudibranchs - some peppermint shrimps - royal grammas - sps including hyacinthus (I think)

So nice! So red!

Basically there are 2 schools of thoughts about conservation which will never mix. 1) People who believe in leaving things to nature. 2) People who believe in keeping specimens captive to safeguard against potential ecological disaster.

Cutting short your photoperiod for now would help too.

You'll be surprised. Last time I keep mandarins, yellow longnose butterflies, and many others, I fed them with live bloodworms and they take them.

Any chances of finding sunrise anthias?

Not sure about the black silicon. Remembered seeing some words on the silicon bottle stating that black silicon should not have long term contact with water.

Recently I got drawn back slightly into planted tanks again. Any fellow reefers care to share pics of their planted tanks? I still thinking how to improve on my aquascaping as my tank is so small. It can be lifted while it is filled with water.

They extend feeding tentacles during the night (after lights off). These will actually catch drifting zooplankton in the wild, which can be substituted with prawn in captivity since most zooplankton in the wild are made up of crustacean larvae.

The coral you posted does not take phytoplankton. It needs meat-based foods. Phytoplankton is more for sea fans, and other filter feeders like tubeworms, scallops, etc.

Yep Dan, it was never my intention to mislead newbies. I was just sharing information on the conditions needed to lead to the possible weaning of such fish. Such as the appropriate foods, the right environment, and the right companion fishes. I'm keeping mandarins without liverock but I have alot of rubble. Then again, my tanks are all high nutrient tanks with tonnes of copepods/amphipods. No huge boisterous fish are kept with them. The mandarins themselves are the largest fish in my tanks. I personally find that in most reef tanks, reefers are fearful of overfeeding and they do all sort of things to eliminate diatoms, which is essential to have a healthy population of copepods. Yep, only my spotted mandarin is weaned for now. The common mandarin is not weaned yet but is still fat on a diet of pods. Maybe the spotted mandarin is easier to wean just like how scooter dragonets are easier to wean compared to mandarins? I'll need to do more 'experiments'. In the meantime will be looking for one more spotted and one more normal mandarin for observation purposes. It would be good to find out which mandarin is easier to wean would'nt it?

Aiya if shy to give flowers have the florist deliver it for you. There is this shop at jurong mrt. That time I paid $50 to have a dozen white roses delivered to someone. After that she immediately sms me. Flowers do work wonders, even if you shy to deliver it yourself. Hmm..you as generous as me sia. Must really like her alot. Past 1 week I also spend 500-600 on someone. Makes her happy can already right? Money can always earn back one.

Those transparent shrimps are from urocaridella genus. Common name is rock cleaner shrimp. They serve a cleaning function. Much better than the common cleaner shrimp which tends to get lazy as they grow bigger. The rock cleaners stay small and will always clean your fish.