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Not sure if chemipure actually reduces nitrate. But I would recommend biohome instead. Natural biological filtration.

I was working part time at Sengkang once..for the DBS roadshow thingy. Does that count?

Just heard from someone who has done some experiment. Addition of phosphates into marine tanks actually caused the color of the fish to fade. Not sure how true is this. But I guess there would'nt be any harm in removing excess phosphates anyway. So why not? Help to reduce algae growth too.

$12? Are you sure? Coral banded shrimp they already selling at $8...

Hey..I'm malaysian. Not all malaysian beaches like that. If you have been to some pristine islands off the east coast of malaysia the sand is very very white.

Things I keep with my 3 Jann's and 1 bluestrip pipefish 1)Yellow Tang 2)Fire goby and purple goby 3)1 pair Black-striped goby 4)1 yellow watchman goby 5)1 black-headed jawfish 6)1 cleaner shrimp 7)1 blue-spiny lobster 8)1 harlequin shrimp 9)2 razorfish (feeding on frozen cyclops) No fishes with big big mouth.

Argh..my bluestrip pipefish....something happened to it. One of the eyes swell up and red in color...like sore eye like that. $10!! Noooooooo...hope it does'nt die.

Buy unflavored nori for it from supermarket. Or can try ulva picked up the beach. Just make sure you wash it clean. Can feed it with abit of mysis too. Not too much though.

Try feeding nori and some mysis. Remove any traces of phosphates in your tank. Hope this will do the trick.

Maybe can pass it back to Henry and put with the rest of the Moorish Idols? Once it sees the rest eating it might follow suit. Just like how my established pipefishes help my new pipefish to learn how to eat mysis.

Maybe overskimming is detrimental to the health of goniopora? They might require more nutrients in the water as compared to other corals?

Incurable. I would euthanize it.

If you have taken things from the sea...it could be fish lice that are irritating your fish. Those have even been known to attack human skin..let alone fish. The rocks might have been taken from waters contaminated from pollution. The color of your sand worries me...looks like a bacterial swamp.

If it was smaller I would'nt mind buying it. And not to mention drilling holes in my ceiling..not wat i had in mind.

Change your water frequently and by rights you should'nt be facing such problems?

His tomato clown has 3 stripes! Help him choose one..hehe

At least it's pecking. I got one before. It did'nt even peck.

I used to keep one goniopora in one of my first 2 feet tanks with only a canister filter. There was no protein skimming at all. I performed weekly 40% water changes. And the nitrates still remained sky high >50ppm. And I only had an 11w pl tube over it then... And somehow it bloomed until it almost took up half of the tank volume.

How do you define illegal? Over here...even captive bred specimens cannot be imported as the paperwork would not even be approved. By rights captive bred specimens beyond F2 generation should be legal under CITES. But some country just choose to formulate their own laws. You talk about animals being destructive to our ecosystem. If this is so they should just ban red-eared sliders right away and provide an alternative reptile that would be unable to survive out in the wild. As a matter of fact...even temperate species cannot be imported here. This makes no sense at all. What we are experiencing here is the mass banning of certain classes of animals without any flexibilty. Such drastic measures made by some country would definitely perpetuate the black market. I wonder how can conservation really work if such contradictory laws are made such that even local demand can't be satisfied legally. The agency controlling such importation should really read up on the animals and then pass laws. Not generalising everything. One such example is freshwater tropical fish. Do you all know that not to mention the introduced snakehead..there are also other exotic fishes breeding here? Just go to Macritchie Reservoir at night and you can see South American Eartheaters sleeping in the shallows. Who knows what other things lurk in the waters of this country. Oh well....no one is perfect. We can just hope time will change things.

Maroons will associate with carpet anemones.

The shop at tanjong katong rd (LiQ***D De***n) still have lantern fish at $10 each only....looks very stable to me...been there for about 4 days already. I bought a nudibranch from them. Black body with green spots. Took a chance as it has been alive in a tank without nothing to eat but diatoms and algae. So hopefully it will be like a turbo snail?

Hmmm...or are you referring to yourself as the 1.6m+ anthias?

HuH? Dispar...you mean got 1.6m anthias? Tell us which species name leh...we definitely go buy!

Copepods I think?

The poor fish. It's a wild animal. You can't always expect it to behave as you would expect it to. Why not just give up keeping prata corals? Is'nt there other more attractive corals like plate corals etc?