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Agree with you. After being living in Singapore for so long, Aussie culture really got into me. Everyone is just so darn polite! Motorists slow down just to let you cross the road although you are still rather far from crossing. And all stores I went to, the staff will greet you. Common phrases are "Hi, how are you today?" (cashiers), "No worries" (bus drivers). And everyone thanks the bus driver when alighting. Something you don't observe in Sg. And I just love the university here. You can smoke in school and you can go into labs without lab coats. You can walk around bare feet even in lecture theatres and no one finds it weird. People even sit under trees or on the grass while waiting for the bus. There is no pressure in dress codes here either, even if you are going to town. Back in Sg everyone is oh so fashion concious and being fascinated with branded goods and stuff. Branded goods are available here too but no one really goes after them. Less pressure to dress well >> Save more $ as anything goes. I went to school in a singlet. Haha And not to mention the cheap booze. A can of beer is about the price of a soft drink. The nightspots are not as happening as Singapore's. However its easier to make friends there compared to Sg when girls are just so darn shy. I got treated to free rum by this aussie guy I just met there. Haha.. Have'nt been to the strip bars..maybe I should..when I got time..tsktsk..Haha..

A reason to boycott cleaner wrasses. Leave them in tle wild.

Yeast does not provide sufficient nutrition at all unless you grow them on a medium with will enable them to uptake HUFAs like EPA and DHA. Microalgae would be a better choice for artermia. Newly hatched nauplii only begin feeding 12 hours after hatching from the cyst. Feeding before this would only affect your water quality.

Not suitable. That's why you don't find marine hatcheries using daphnia.

Try biohome. It seems to work. I've removed my skimmer. And my tank if I'm not wrong has been rather overfed by my family members. About 1-2 months since the skimmer was removed. So far nitrates at 5ppm (it was at 0ppm when the skimmer was running).

3rd horse from the left shares a head with a hidden one that is behind it (Look at its left eye). As for the 7th horse. Either is a sketch on the body of the 2nd horse from the right, or its a rather vague idea of a horses head (made up of rock) behind the 2nd and 3rd horse from the left. So in total 8 horses.

Hmmm..I watched the whole thing. Was kinda eating as I did so. Kinda turned off... Gives us Chinese a bad reputation as a whole.

Sponges are known to release toxins. Just thought I should warn you about them. Especially so when they are dying. Air trapped in sponges is one of the common ways in which they die.

Try going pasir ris mangroves during low tide. Might be able to catch small shrimp for them to feed. Saw someone catching them there before. Watch out for snakes though, small and dull looks just like mud. Would be good to give the shrimps a brief freshwater dip before feeding to your horsies. Alternatively try harlequin aquarium. There was a point in time they were selling live shrimp juveniles (looks like live mysis, but not). Even my mandarins went crazy over them. They hunted them down and one actually died over-eating.

jkleejk: If its 100% transparent most likely it is dead. I have ever kept caulerpa with sps and other corals before under normal photoperiod (10-12 hours lighting period). It always looked a little pale after lights off (I turned the lights on a few hours later to check on it). Worried that it might go sexual and die off, affecting my water quality. The puzzling thing is that the following day (a few hours after my lights turned back on), they became fully green again. This happened over a month or so until I decided to sell it off to make space for other corals. boxfish: Don't think your macro died because of the lights. 6500K would suit them very well. Different species of caulerpa also fare differently in captivity. I was using a caulerpa sp. which is more thread shaped. These seem hardier compared to species like caulerpa taxifolia which is notorious for going sexual. You can drop by CoralFarm. I got my caulerpa sp.(not taxifolia or grape caulerpa) from them at a very reasonable price. If I did'nt remember wrongly I saw them before at Reborn, on the "algae" rocks or live rocks.

Razor blade..or if you prefer, razorfish?

Well deserved. Now with even Dan speaking up for water changes, hopefully those people promoting water-change free systems can shut up, unless they can reach the same level themselves.

If you are a loyal customer for many years (which I have been) just call Starhub. If you upgrade your connection they would fix up a wireless router for you free of charge. I chose to stay on MaxOnline 1500 plan. They sent me a letter to collect a wireless router and other relevant stuff from Sim Lim Square. After that just fix it up yourself or find a friend to help you. I did'nt pay a single cent more.

Seahorses in a reef tank?!

Moral of the story : Spend 15K on a bulletproof tank while $600 on the equipment.

Once upon a time... during the first infiltration of yellow-headed jawfishes into Singapore after many years of waiting.

Hmm..might be applicable to newly born seahorses. Not too sure. Thought you guys might want to have a look. Surface death syndrome Prevention of surface death

? Live larvae won't pollute tanks unless they die.

I can't figure out how can food, salts add up to $800 a month. Unless he was buying yellowhead jawfishes, flame angels, chevron tangs or maybe peacock mantises (Maybe that was how the glass cracked? ) to feed his frogfishes.

Hmm...a pushing factor for me to go PhD to knock some sense into them? No point arguing with them unless reporters see you on par with them. For one thing, slowing down water flow to prevent bacteria from being washed off the filter medium is the biggest joke I have heard. No good filteration media will be so smooth.

Hmm..was just thinking if bivalve larvae could be used as first foods for baby seahorses/corals, etc. Just thought some of you guys could try it out. I know they use bivalve larvae (trocophore stage) to feed grouper larvae. Bivalves spawn during 1)Temperature shock (Eg. fresh temperate oysters dumped into 28 degrees water) 2)Lowering of salinity (More oftenly used for tropical species) 3)Chemical induction using strip spawning (manually strip spawn a male and release the gametes into the water to induce mass spawning) 4)Serotonin injection into gonad.(used for bigger species like tridacna clams whereby gonad is easily accessible). Once they spawn, separate the oysters into individual chinese food containers to collect the eggs or sperm. The solution of eggs and sperm will look very different. You should try to keep things as hygienic as possible (Eg. U.V treated seawater, filtering of fertilized eggs later on) Mix a little sperm with the eggs. The amount to add can be found in bivalve literature. If you want to try by trial and error also can. Then leave the fertilized eggs in large containers with gentle aeration. 24 hours later they should start swimming, and can be gutloaded with the appropriate microalgae or just fed directly. Oh yes, 24 hours after fertilization they can be collected using a 25 micrometer sieve. Species that can be considered to produce larvae..hmm..not so sure for aquariums. Maybe large squamosas? Or maybe even cockles.

Anything which makes money goes. That's how things work around here, even though the consequences are apparent.

Nutritional information. Brine shrimp eggs from Great Salt Lake, USA (dry weight of artemia nauplii: 41.6% protein, 23.1% fat, 22.7% carbohydrate). Second best IMO would be from Tuticorin, India (dry weight of artemia nauplii: 58.0% protein, 23.3% fat, 12.8% carbohydrate). Other 2 sources would be : San Francisco Bay (dry weight of artemia nauplii : 50.3% protein, 15.9% lipid, neglibible carbohydrates). Hanibantota, Sri Lanka (dry weight of artermia nauplii : 66.8% protein, 14.1% fat, 12.7% carbohydrates) Generally for marine larvae or juveniles, a diet rich in essential fatty acids is important for normal development. Which is why choosing the right source of brine shrimp eggs is crucial.

Hmm..good news on your fries. If decide to go for decapsulated brine shrimp. Go for these sources : http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...pic=29988&st=0&

For LPS you gotta be careful. The sudden brightness (very bright) might just bleach them.