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Yea..lucky i decided to catch a cab there instead. At least manage to snatch some stuff.

Hehe..so it was you Roidan! I was standing next to you only... You left some out on the lionfish side...enough for me to try..

Got sally lightfoots at eAquarist...Think sold out liao..coz only left 1 when i left...also healthy rainfordis...left 1..coz i bought 2.. ###### shrimps seen...

Catalina goby...or australian pot belly seahorse.

Yep..one type of sweetlips..

Getting nearer and nearer....eventually the one on the left pushed the one on the right back into the burrow..slight clicks followed..moments later can see the one with the smaller 'pistol' scurrying around looking for a new home...established a home next to my yellow-head jawfish. Hopefully nothing happens.

Finally they found out both of them are of the same ######..slight squaring off occured..

Introduced one male sri lankan pistol into my tank..to my horror, it swam to the other end of the tank into the established pistols burrow! A few clicks followed..thought surely one of them would end up dead..as I think both were male..in the end...all is well..but my antenna goby is still to be seen (maybe concussed by the noise in the burrow). Maybe sexual misidentification here by the fellow pistols.

Decided to give the rainfordi a try..bought 2 of them..here is one..within seconds of being introduced in the tank they can be seen pecking off rocks, and shifting thru sand like sandshifting gobies!

One out of 2 newly introduced sri lankan tiger pistols. Think I now have 2 males and 1 female in my tank. The female had eggs.

One of them in action..they actually started picking at detritus and algae on the rocks as soon as they touched the rocks!

Additions as of today....2 sally lightfoots...wanted to get more..but then a guy took most of the small ones..only left 3 to choose from. Real cute buggers..here they are during acclimatization.

Wah..heng I din sell my CO2 tank at 2nd hand price..din know the burkert solenoid valve so valuable...

Budget>>> Weipro If you have $$>>> AquaC Remora.

Try Seachem's reef buffer.

Pump them up with garlic. They should recover in no time. Soak the food in garlic. I recommend the human supplement type. Those are concentrated and can 'penetrate' into the food better.

The distance of the hole below the water surface depends on the individual. You gotta consider how much extra water your sump can contain...if it can contain more backflow water, you can easily drill the hole further down from the water surface. If your sump is already very full and cannot hold too much extra water...best to drill the hole as near to the water surface as possible.

I dun believe in a UV sterilizer in a reef tank. Maybe yes in a FOWLR tank for prevention of diseases. In reef tanks it would just kill off any beneficial zooplankton that might be in your water. Zooplankton is necessary for most corals. Just that we are unable to provide enough amounts. Installing a UV would easily make the amount of zooplankton really insignificant.

Ok..Then I think you would have to custom make another canopy...to prevent saltwater droplets from leaking to the sides of your tank. You are thinking of the dump bucket design? Whereby water from a powerhead fills the bucket constantly..then when the bucket is full it automactically tilts to dump the water before returning to collect more water? Tsktsk..you can consider ferry wheel designs too...

I thought the main reason for having a surge device is to increase gaseous exchange and higher dissolved O2 levels? If the splash were to be modified to minimise the microbubbles...wun the effect of a surge device be something like a pulsing Tunze?

Use pvc piping and eggcrate to stack your liverock. You won't need to buy so much then. Saves alot of $$.

Pistol says "you are welcome to seek refuge.."

Pistol emerging to see what's the noise about.

More eye candy. Think my yashia is EVIL..it's planning to hijack the other goby's shrimp.

I'm still waiting for the product to do its work...diatoms still present.