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As above..willing to do necessary cash top ups.

Check out my thread. Got a big piece of sun coral for $10..I'm getting too lazy to feed it.

Those are green zoanthids..or more commonly called button polyps. If the whitish stuff is a sponge, it should be relatively harmless.

Buy some boxing crabs and remove their anemones. Place them in the tank. They will help you remove the aiptasia from the rock. It happened to someone I know..just that he got the boxing crab without the anemone..then it went to find aiptasia to pick up instead.

No...25 storeys above ground level...but I have phobia of heights.

Nitrates? Still the same right?

Yo vinoth bro..check out eAquanature...got promotion for AquaC EV120 I think.

If my tank can be placed in the coridoor outside my apartment i can use loads of MH without chiller. Those who came my place know why.. Once step out of my apartment it's freezing windy.

That's when AquaCs, H&S, EuroReefs come into play....combined with relatively low fish biomass. Hmm..then you can witness even faster rates of calcification at such temperatures. Maybe next time will get a chiller. Chill to 27 enough already. Save electric bill also.

Lower bioload, feed less and change water. I got the same problem as you..that's why I sold off my fishes that poop alot..and feed only once a day now (compared to 3-4 times last time..due to purple queen.. ). Now planning to change 1 coralife bucket of water every 3-4 days..just changed a bucket of stale water today..

Learnt something from my lecture today...it was for soft sediments in natural habitats like mangroves, etc...not sure if applicable to marine tank. Anyway..it goes something like this... During warmer temperatures, metabolism of organisms increases, leading to increased oxygen consumption. Thus, the layer of sediment will have a thinner layer of aerobic zone on top, followed by a thicker layer of anaerobic zone below. In cooler conditions, water has the capacity to hold more dissolved oxygen. Metabolic rates of organisms decrease, using less oxygen as a result. Thus partial pressure of O2 in the water is higher. This results in the sediment layer being composed of a larger proportion of aerobic zone...with a smaller proportion of anaerobic zone. If the above can apply to reef tanks, if I ever upgrade my tank in future, I'll keep my temperature at 27-28 degrees celcius already. No point chilling it to 25-26. At such temperature, nitrate should be more efficiently controlled due to the thicker proportion of anaerobic zone. Well..what you guys think?

thor amboinensis.

Induce what kind of bacteria bloom? Anaerobic?

I'm tried using a hailea 6540 today....My I-box could not cope with the flow rate even with the pump pumping water up around 1.2m. Switched back to my weipro 4000 for now...outflow of the weipro pump is around 1900l/hr at a height of 1.2m. At least the I-box does not make gurgling noises. Dun think I can use a MD55. Either my tank overflow or the pump burn out. My I-box can supposedly support up to 800 gallon/hr flow rate..but then..dunno why the hailea 6540 is too strong...its max output is around 3000l/h if I am not wrong..at 1.2m should have drop by quite alot....Could it be because the horizontal part of the siphon tube is longer (due to customization) thus the lower capacity for 800 gph?

No..really...1cm to 1.5cm.

I have the priviledge of being the first offender..

Algae bloom is common for a newly set up planted tank. Do the above...50% waterchange every week. Cut down the photoperiod to only 3-4 hours a day..the algae will die before your plants. If in severe cases I did a tank blackout for 3 days before. After 3 days do 50-70% water change. Increase CO2 dosing. Amazingly last time i did so much water change without using any anti-chlorine..nothing died.

Planted tank is not as hard as marine. Just do weekly 20-30% water change and top up with fertilizer already..here was my planted before i changed it to marine. It lasted 2 years without replacement of substrate fertilizer. This was my tank just before i tore it down..cause base fertilizer exhausted already. From there it became my marine tank.

Any second hand pumps like hailea 6540 or 6550?

Ok..if it ever gives way then at least I will have a proper excuse to change a tank...evil thought of mine.

I'm a very paranoid person. Noticed I even had the I-box customized to accomodate the low water level from the top of the tank? 10cm of tank height is unused just in case

Been there before when I was younger..ever since I come to know of better LFS with better husbandry and healthier lifestock I have totally ceased going there.

Those into sohals check the weekly stock update... The sohals I spotted got some only palm size.

Ah..more stress. I have been issued a yellow card.

Everyday I look at my glass...looking if there are any signs of bowing. How can I not be stressed? Been doing that for the past 7-8 months already...