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Philippines shipment arrived at Iwarna. Yellow patch wrasse, red margin wrasse, bleekeri damsel (uncommon), serpent stars, sea hares, hermit crabs, sea star snails, spuder conch, sohal tangs, assasi triggerfish, melanarus wrasse,

Hawaii shipment 11am @ Iwarna: Flame angels, lemonpeel angels, potteri angels, black/white damsels, achilles tangs, chevron tangs, kole tangs, yellow tangs, flame wrasse pairs, bartlett anthias, assorted wrasses, sea bass, tinker, declives, golden puffer, christmas wrasse, ringtail wrasse, cleaner wrasse.

Sold some today but I think should still have some left.

Carribean shipment at Iwarna delayed till 8-9pm.

Carribean shipment tomorrow at Iwarna (6-7pm). Small striped burrfish, 10-15cm Queen triggerfish, Lipogramma trilineatum (sold), Antilligobius nikkiae (sold), liopropoma carmabi, small french angel, argi angels, rock beauty, black cap basslets, swissguard basslet, royal grammas, redlip blennies, blue reef chromis, lightning damsel (chromis enchrysurus), stegastes planifrons, corky sea finger, purple candelabra, shy hamlet (sold), cuban hogfish (XL, sold), yellower head jawfish, atlantic blue tangs, bluehead wrasse, yellowhead wrasse. Items sold can be pre-booked for future shipments. Just pm me to enquire.

Fiji yellow tail chrysopterus clownfish at Iwarna too. Other fish siganus doliatus blue stripe and Lo Uspi.

One of the hardest, even public aquaria have problems with these.

White bar mystery wrasse at Iwarna. Only 3pc. Tomorrow Walt smith at 8am.

Triton will recommend how much of their individual elements to add to reach the desired levels. As they do not know the concentrations of other products, it is quite impossible to recommend users on how much to dose for other products. Thus if you opt for other brands of trace elements, you can only guess on how much to add and determine again with another ICP test. The cost of the water test is reasonable if you consider the cost of the machinery. It will take thousands of tests to even cover the cost of the machine, which is why not many companies offer this service. It is not an investment meant to generate lots of money. It's like collecting deepwater fish via submersibles for sale, the cost of the submarine itself is never covered.

Tomorrow noon at Iwarna: African flamebacks, Maculosus angels, Apogon dovii (flame cardinal), Gumdrop velvetfish (only 1), red head gobies, green band gobies, helfrich gobies, mystery wrasse. For grouper hunters: Cephalis fulva (blue dot grouper), Saddleback grouper 3-4", Saddleback grouper 25cm, plectropomus areolatus 25cm, 5-6" uncommon slender grouper (anyperodon leucogrammicus). Please enquire as these fish are kept elsewhere on the farm.

The cost for the test is mainly due to shipping cost. In future the machine will be shipped to Singapore so the tests will be less costly. For SPS that can cost up to hundreds, the cost of the test is a worthwhile precaution IMO. There are so many parameters that will be revealed that cannot be tested accurately by conventional test kits. This could very well be the cause for the mysterious RTN with acropora. Of course using high quality salt is a wise choice, I am using this salt as well. However, even with regular water change of a pail/day on a 650L system and religious dosing of trace elements I still ended up with Strontium deficiency. How regular the tests are performed is up to the individual, for me I will do the monthly test for 3 months. After which I will have an idea on the required monthly dose of the specified trace elements. From there I will cut down on the testing to maybe once every 2-3 months. It's amazing how different systems can complement each other if used correctly.

Personally I run a system by mixing both FM Zeolight system with the Triton method. Triton method recommends no/minimal water change as it works based on regular water testing to fine tune your water chemistry. The test results and recommendations are meant to correct individual parameters back to the norm. This will not be accurate if you are performing huge water change immediately after you send your water for tests. Of course if the tests come back with many irregularities, it would be wiser to do a big water change using a different salt or checking your DI/RO TDS or cutting down on your trace element dosing. Triton method has its advantage of being able to test for individual elements so you can tell whether you are overdosing/lacking a certain element. For me it is FM Color elements, I just find it a good precautionary measure to do the monthly Triton lab test just to ensure I am not overdosing on the additional supplements I am adding. For me the Triton test has enabled me to pinpoint Strontium deficiency which reefers rarely test for, it is one of the main solutions from Triton that I dose as after the test results come out they will provide recommendation on how much to dose to reach optimal value and the safe dosing amount per day. Not to forget Triton test is also helpful for the average reefer to determine sources of their problems. For example: Heavy metals due to using wrong salt, etc. These are the parameters that are just as important as Ca, kH, Mg, pH values, which manufacturers rarely disclose. While such levels may be below lethal levels, unless you are performing like 100% water change once a month, eventually these will accumulate to lethal levels over time. So while some brands of Salt may seem fine for corals, the impurities build up over time and after months/years reefers start experiencing problems with their corals. But never would they think it was due to the salt they were using all along from the very beginning. It's like how smoking does'nt kill a person immediately.

Philippines shipment at Iwarna around noon today. Besides the regular fare, some red stonefish, assorted grouper, melanurus wrasse, spider conch (great show piece and algae eater) and astralium calcar (full reef species, great algae eaters), rhinopias frondosa, colini angels, cirrhilabrus cf. lunulatus, cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus. http://reefbuilders.com/2014/01/29/pintail-fairy-wrasse-nuptial-colours-breathtaking-cirrhilabrus-full-display/

Gorgeous. I sell callouras for only a fraction of the price in Europe & it is still viewed as expensive. Rare marine fish hard to move, few people willing to pay. Amazingly local fish hobbyists are willing to spend on common fish like monster fish, arowanas or koi. Something I can never understand. The marine hobby here is still not progressing much, very unfortunate.

Just did Triton lab test for SPS frag tank running on this salt. Heavy metals with 0 microgram/L reading: Mercury, Selenium, Cadmium, Arsenic, Copper, Antimony, Titanium. Heavy metals detected: Lead (0.00101 ppm), Aluminium (0.089ppm), Tin (0.00307ppm). While these are detected, the values are still much lower than most average aquaria. *Test has not been conducted with freshly mixed salt so cannot rule out contamination of the above metals from other sources (magnets, pumps, thermostat probe, etc). The above-mentioned values are as important in salt as basic values, these will accumulate over time if regular water changes are not made. This purity is often reflected in the retail price of the salt, it takes a lot of QC to make sure there is negligible amounts of heavy metals.

Cebu shipment tomorrow noon at Iwarna. Bellus, purple queens, yellow tail basslets, Jann's pipefish, cuttlefish, velvet sea slugs, colorful squat lobsters, abalones, copperbands, sea urchins, sand dollars, white cap goby with shrimp, etc.

Dosing works well too. However let's say if you are dosing 200ml of kH/day, it is better to get a dosing pump that can dose for example 5ml @ 40times a day, compared to 20ml @ 10 times a day. The more the dosing is spread out the more stable the water parameters.

Thursday noon at Iwarna: True Hawaiin Flame Angel, African flameback angels, multicolor angels, cortez angels, pseudanthias cf lunulatus, pseudanthias fasciatus, walking bat-fish (Ogocephalus corniger), Panama barnacle blenny (Acanthemblemaria hancocki), Horned Blenny (Parablennius sp.), Canary blennies, small tinker butterflies singles and pair, Jaguar goby (Astrabe sp.), Helfrich gobies, Saddle grouper (Plectropomus laevis), Flame hawks, Red emperor snapper (Lutjanus sebae), Siganus laqueus, Atlantic Blue tangs, Cirrhilabrus roseafascia. Fishes have been quarantined in overseas facility prior to shipping.

Open till 8pm.

Tomorrow evening 7pm at Iwarna: Bank butterfly (Prognathodes aya), halichoeres bathyphilus, anthias tenuis, liopropoma carmabi, liopropoma mowbrayi, gramma linki, liopropoma eukrines, french angel (L), queen angels (L), black cap basslets, royal grammas, blue reef chromis, cuban hogfish (L), spanish hogfish (L), Thalassoma bifasciatum, halichoeres garnoti, blue florida ricordea, purple candelabra gorgonian, corky sea finger gorgonian.

Coming week is rare fish week @ Iwarna. Stay tuned for updates.

Iwarna can get it. But it will be expensive. Any fish that needs to be shipped in round containers and unloaded using machinery will never be cheap. The transportation costs alone cost more than the fish. The fish will probably end up costing a few thousands. Baby hammerheads can be imported as well, just that it is very costly.

Reasonable price. Tinkers this size goes above 1k in neighbouring countries.

Australia shipment 8am tomorrow @ Iwarna. Capnella, green sinularia, xenia, acropora 150pcs, duncan, lobophyllia, montipora, sun corals, starkii damsels, hooded wrasse, laboutei wrasse, lineatus wrasse, kuiters wrasse. More rare fish next week.

Shipment from Rufus Kimura tomorrow noon at Iwarna. Bandit angels (medium), tinker butterflies (small),vanderbilt chromis, lemonpeel angels, christmas wrasse, leopard filefish, yellow melatremus moray, thalassoma dupperyi, bodianus sanguineus.