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This is getting more interesting by the minute, noticed my Jann's pipefish snacking at something in the water. Turned the lights back on again, saw small larvae in the water! Confirm not any shrimp larvae cause I don't remember any of my shrimps having eggs that are due and furthermore don't resemble shrimp larvae. Suddenly it came to me that it could be larvae of the boxing crab! The larvae looked a little like mysis shrimp. They don't swim much, drifting with the current with occassional upward jerky movements.

Think my 6th sense slowly getting more acute, I actually saw something I knew was harmful in my tank from about 2 meters away when my tank lights were off. Went there, got a shock! I saw big harmful claws. Went to turn on my lights once again, and ripped out a flat piece of rock, turned it over...was my emerald crab (I thought : damn, did so much for nothing). As I was assembling back the rockwork, noticed something scurrying along the sand. I was right! Now it's banished into my sump to feed on food that flows into the sump.

Hmm..for the rock with green palythoa, if $20 sounds awfully expensive for a piece of rock with a colony of palythoa (literally grown from 3-4 polyps originally), I'll throw in a frag of blue discosoma. Here's a pic of the free gift (only 1 frag, taken from the loose piece of rock below).

This bunch of caulerpa sp. bought at coralfarm. One of the hardiest IMO, never crashed in my tank. Had it for months already. Have to clear as I'm preparing my sandbed for other purposes. Its on a slab of rock about the size of 3/4 your hand. Easy to move around. Going for $6.

This sps, been with me for many months. Should be able to colour up to a lighter tan of green if placed closer to the lights. Base is about palm size. Considered a colony already. Going for $40.

Pink cup coral, very small and cute. Polyps are pink with slight green tinge in the middle. The size from the top is about the size when your index finger meets your thumb tip. Going for $15

Green palythoa (yes, this is the one with dangerous toxins!) Going for $20 with heavily coralline encrusted liverock (around 600g-1kg?). This piece can be said to be aquacultured as it grew over a matter of 1 year plus. I turned on my lights to take this pic, which explains why some of them are closed.

Selling some corals in my tank. All been with me for quite some time, very very healthy. Firstly, short tentacled plate a.k.a fungia going for $25. Pic taken after lights off to show feeding behavior.

Black cardinalfish? Quite cool, when lights off the back half of the body turns opaque!

My sand mixture of grade 1 and grade 3. My black sea cuke still eats grade 3. It's ok as I'm not running dsb in my main tank. Terryz>>> That's a very harmful mollusc if I'm not wrong. Maybe a miniature conch that might harpoon fish??

1.5 ft height rocks! Can keep mini things! T5s will be enough too

I think I have found the true MURDERER of my pink bar goby, wheeleri goby, blue neon goby and maybe even my sri lankan scooters. This is the fellow! Threw the bugger down my chute. It's bigger than my thumbnail.

One of my favourite corals Im selling away today.. red open brain..

It's a triggerfish. Saw the fish in a banner on RC.

I used to have one that had a relationship with my maroon clown. They slept side by side every night.

Think it's always best to increase the amount of rowaphos used slowly esp if your system had high phosphate levels. Come to think of it, my acro frags seem to be growing more slow compared to before I hooked up my fluidized reactor. Oh well, between algae and slower acro growth I don't really mind the latter. Maybe rowaphos is so efficient that it is absorbing too much organophosphates in the water? Then maybe acros have not enough phosphates for dna synthesis, etc? Hmm...wild guess. People who feed their sps are actually supplying them phosphates in the form of food, but those who do not feed might be depriving them of necessary phosphates, the use of rowaphos could make this worse?

Sera test kits are obsolete..

Christmas tree worms normally live in sps species like porites. You'll need strong light to keep the sps alive although the worms don't need the light directly. The health of the worms might be directly related to the health of the sps they live in. Suncorals don't mind being in the light or in the shade. The only thing they need is proper waterflow and daily feeding (make sure every polyp gets to eat). Normally people put them in the shade to prevent algae from smothering the coral (esp if your tank is high in phosphates). Being corals that don't utilize sunlight, these corals have less defense against algae that might grow on them in brightly lit tanks. If you have no problem with algae growth, by all means put them under the light.

Yea..go get them weileong! Now is good time, considering last time the price was way much more expensive. Few years ago was around $200 for a piece? From the last I heard the price dropped to as low as $90?

Peppermint shrimps, blue neon gobies, catalina gobies at l*k1*0.

It takes a brave person to put down something he/she likes for the time being. I myself might lack such courage. Anyway, nothing wrong with reefing and studying at the same time. Why not just limit LFS visits to every weekend? At least you'll have something to look forward too. For me, I go LFS at least 3 times a week even while I was studying. The only time I remembered truly studying was 1 week before exams... Studying all the time can drive a person nuts. Not every person with a master or phd has the sanest of minds. Probably they fried their brains? I learnt lots through reefing, probably much more than what is taught in school (which is probably 70-80% pure memorising and regurgitation). Actually I find education here is deeply flawed, at least for my generation.

Has'nt AT already said something about commercial posting in your last thread?

How can a laterally compressed fish be a puffer or a cowfish?

coelacanth?

Discomas..waiting for them to open fully..