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South American Eartheaters at MacRitchie Reservoir too... Help to clean our native waters of introduced species.

Go all Salifert...support the brands that actually work...instead of snake oil.

brine shrimp won't be effective.. What you need is very strong smelling food...like cyclops...or blended mussels, shrimp etc... You will also need a very strong skimmer to do cleaning up later.

I would reduce the fish load by half if I were you...or be prepared for very very frequent water changes. Fishes add alot of bioload into the tank. Especially active ones.

Yep...just make sure they are around the same size...As far as I know they are non-venomous. Unless you are talking about scorpion fishes..which are a different thing.

I don't think copper would affect the visible cysts....I think it only affects the free floating stages of the parasite? Not sure.. So even if you cure the white spots on the tang there will still be free floating parasites in your main tank...once you put the tang back it will get sick again... But IMO Melafix or medication by Waterlife is much safer... Or slimpy invest in a UV-sterilizer if you can't stand your tangs getting white spot all the time. UV-sterilizer attacks the free floating stages of the ich parasite.

Try a yellow coral banded shrimp (the anterior portion is yellow) instead...those stay smaller and are less aggressive.

Boxfish are very curious fish...I would'nt trust them with anything smaller than their mouths.

Think bubble coral would be quite safe.

Think it's of the Genus Rhodophytes (Red algae) Not sure of the species.

Oh yes....carpet anemones like very fine sand as substrate. Found naturally on the sand bed...not on rocks.

Maybe he meant budget as in not going sps ?

Oh yes...my first anemone was a carpet...caught from ecp last time...had it for about a year b4 i had to give it away as it was outgrowing the 2 ft tank. Kept in in atrocious conditions...>50ppm of nitrates...and just a 11W pl tube over it. Not saying you should do the same...but just giving info on the hardiness of healthy specimens.

They will eat anything. And I mean anything....even flame scallops. Just make sure it's not dying....especially when you hooked it up..did you damage any tissue? If it looks injured best to throw it back into the sea where it will have a higher chance of recovering... IMO one of the least demanding anemones...

Yep..just make sure you don't keep them with things with big mouths Amazingly my yellow watchman goby and my black faced jawfish leaves them alone.

Omg...it's a hydralisk!

I'm not that rich...besides...the harlequin shrimp is not my only pet.

Wear shoes or stand on a chair while you are working on your tank... You won't feel anything after that.

I agree...Sera gave me 0 reading for nitrates...tested with Salifert and gotch 50ppm.

Wow..such a beauty...i would leave it inside if i were you.

Try to separate that tissue from the rest of the branches...if not it might spread. Could be the dreaded brown jelly disease. You might wanna consider using a big pair of pliers to trim off the decaying branch.

bought for $8...aiya..nevermind la..once in a while must pamper it.

What is PE mysis? PE = ?

These are the basic few you should get..the rest are not really necessary 1) pH 2) Nitrate (No need to get ammonia or nitrite test kit as long as you are PATIENT in cycling your tank) 3) Calcium (If you are keeping hard corals) 4) kH a.k.a carbonate hardness Basically you would'nt need the rest.

Does'nt the head portion remind you of the movie 'PREDATOR' ?