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No. The microbubbles from the protein skimmer will enter your tank and you will have salt spray problems.

Lots of small size elegance at Reb**n. Save them guys! Lots of blood shrimp, coral beauties, purple firegobies.

When he uses tablesalt to mix seawater and calibrate it by taste. (I used to do that when keeping fish I caught from the beach. The scat survived on tablesalt in a horlicks bottle. )

I have seen someone collecting glass shrimp along Pasir Ris Coast during low tide, near the mangroves. Beware of snakes though.

There are two types of mysis. One is the normal one sold under the brand Hikari. The other is the more expensive under the brand P.E mysis. If I'm not wrong Hikari uses saltwater mysis. P.E mysis uses mysis shrimp collected from freshwater lakes. If I'm not wrong it has been said that P.E mysis would be easier to digest as the fishes would not need to spend extra energy expelling the extra salt found in marine mysis. I don't feed frozen brine shrimp as I find it really low in nutritional value. Yesterday I fed my spotted mandarin P.E mysis soaked in Selcon. It ate like no tomorrow. But from this morning till now it has not been swimming much. Just been lazing around and breathing slightly heavier than normal. Hmmm..maybe I overfed it. Hope it behaves ok tomorrow.

Use mysis. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

I can get them for $4.

Would like to share my private "experiment" observations so far. Conducted using 3 spotted mandarins and 1 normal mandarin. So far only left with 2 spotted mandarins. One went into my overflow and got MD55ed. The other one still acclimatizing, the behavior not very normal (does'nt swim around much). Only 1 spotted mandarin feeding greedily on mysis. All fish I choose are bigger than 3cm and smaller than 5cm. I find this size just right for training. An important thing to note when I choose is I look at those with full or bulging bellies. 1) So far I find that the spotted mandarin feeds more readily on frozen mysis compared to the normal mandarin (I should get more to try). My spotted mandarin even chases after falling pieces of mysis. My normal mandarin does'nt give a hoot about the food (He is still fatfat as he is feeding on copepods). 2) I wean them in tanks where I can afford to flood the water with food. No fast eaters or big fish are around to stress the mandarins 3) Mandarins are kept 1 per tank. If you want to introduce them as a group you got to put them in all at once. Maybe when I have saved enough I will buy 5 mandarins at a shot to try. If you introduce more mandarins into a tank with an existing one, I find that the aggression is higher. 4) All tanks have copepods to sustain them should they take time to wean. Oh well, that's it for now. Time to hunt for more mandarins.

Maybe I should hang around bishan mrt more often.

Iwarna shipment came in today -lots of open brains, reds n greens -blastos -cat-eye bubbles -elegance -tonnes of baby blue tangs

I don't mind being kopi-boy. At least that location can see girls.

Used to have that in my old tank. The common name is tangora shrimp goby. Beautiful peaceful goby.

more than 5 years don't be surprised. I kept mine last time for more than 5 years.

SRC coffee house!

Golden angels are known to be tough fish, even for net caught ones. The batch I saw at the farms don't look like a cyanide obtained batch. Their color was there, breathing was normal, and swimming was normal. Cyanide caught fishes usually have damaged swim bladders leading to swimming problems. I rate these angels as tough as moorish idols or possibly even harder to keep in captivity compared to moorish idols. Some fish will never acclimatize properly in captivity due to their treatment from the collection point to the retail shop. Some fish like moorish idols if not fed constantly at the collection point to the retail shop will be almost impossible to get them to feed again. And no one really knows the natural diet of golden angels. Their coloration might be due to specific foods which they eat in nature such as certain sponges, which we are unable to provide in captivity.

ML -blue knuckle hermits -dwarf zebra hermits -hector gobies -I saw my dream goby! But can't give it a good home now, decided to pass -sri lankan scooters -thorny oysters and scallops -urocaridella shrimps -periclemenes shrimps (including heliofungia shrimps)

Yashias will take time to get used to the surroundings to venture out. It can take easily 3-4 weeks. Meantime target feed live brine shrimp, cyclopeeze to get them eating.

Fat fat mandarin feeding on mysis.

Finally got a ric.

A pic of my babies. In temporary housing now. They are so slippery I can't even catch them with my hands.

Hmm..need someone to advise on non-mammalian husbandry?

These gonioporas or flowerpot corals in nature are all green and brown colored. What they do is they soak these corals in yellow dye and pass them off as yellow gonioporas. Same goes for the recent yellow cup corals or yellow tongue corals. These corals will only survive for a short time as they will expel their zooxanthellae as a result of being dyed. Slowly, you will notice them losing their intense yellow coloration as the dye slowly dissipates into your water. Once they lose all the dye, it will be obvious they are bleached due to stress. Healthy gonioporas are already hard to maintain in captivity, let alone dyed ones. Boycott all dyed corals! You might want to consider throwing it away before it releases more dye or when it starts to die, contaminating your water in the proccess. It will never recover anyway.

I don't mind investing $150 for it for now. I can always use it about 2 years later when I decide to go sps again. Meanwhile I can use them for my 2ft tank.

There are a million things which can go wrong in an enclosed system. No matter how perfect everything might seem, one day something might just go wrong.

I get moths, beetles and grasshoppers in my sump.