jackywongto

Hey bud Sorry, want to encourage you but also feel that you need a kick in the butt. hope I am not too harsh. Think you are just feeling so fatigue due to recent activities. When you come out to work next time, you will feel this way ALOT. That's one of the reason why a lot of people job hop. Tired, switch to a new job, start fresh, feel motivated etc. But that's not right. A lot of things you will need to rough it out. Life is a marathon, not a sprint, just pace yourself in whatever you do. If you feel burnt out (all of us do at some point of time), take a vacation or go recharge yourself doing something you like Sorry my naggy side is taking over today 1) microbubbles started to fill my whole tank (problem solved) good thing it was resolved right? take heart! 2) main return pump too strong, initial plan was to connect the pump to the chiller, pass UV and back to the main tank. Iwarna came, gave me an idea to run the main pump straight back into the main tank, and provided me another weaker pump for my chiller and UV.. so this particular main pump that i've been using all these while, suddenly became abit too strong for my tank... Talk to Victor and see if he can help revert to your plan. There should also be an easy way to reduce the flow. no biggy. 3) due to many projects and assignments commitments, didnt do WC for about a month.. (finally did it on sunday).. brown diatoms starts to appear on some part of my sand.. NO3 at 50ppm, PO4 just went down to 0 after my addition of rowa last week... neglect neglect neglect... Happens to all of us. you should see my tank sometimes... algae everywhere..... just stir your sand occasionally and clean the tank walls. Takes only 10 mins max. you will spend more time looking at your tank when it looks clean. and when you spend more time looking, you will spend more time doing minor maintenance. no need a lot of time one... maybe 20 mins every 2 - 3 days. Really other commitments cannot be used as excused. just get a bag of water from either AM, CF, GO, SL, Iwarna - then switch the water. doesn't take long really. most of the time, it is our procastination and laziness. I am guilty of that too. 4) collected some black sand from a reefer.. due to my laziness, dump the whole sand into my tank at night when the lights were out... RESULT: many "large" pieces of stone all over the sand bed.. so many and too many to remove...am still doing it slowly once inawhile... the fine sand settled down, but there were too many "large" pieces around... just thinking about removing all of it made me feel so tired and regretful that i actually just dump everything in that night.. Use a siphon to move all stones to one corner. then either use a net or a larger hose to siphon out lor. or as you see one, just use a long stick to "kick" it to a corner. slowly clear it up. Since it does not harm your water, you can either do it over time or clear it all at once when you feel like it. 5) want to reduce my bioload badly.. gf loves blue tang and pair of true percs, dad loves yellow tang, i love my black clowns, flame angel and mandrain fish, purple firefish had been with me since Day 1 (sentimental value), very reluctant to sell my royal gramma.. headache headache headache.. haha ... your greatly overstocked tank. related to point 3. the more livestock you have, the more rigourous your WC must be. Else it will be detrimental to the livestock. moderate your stocking level. I also wish I can house my fishes in my nano but discipline and common sense is very important. 6) impatienly waiting for the NP-biopellets to work, but still no sign of improvement. These stuff can assist in reducing over time but they are not miracle workers. The fundamental thing is that you need to create a balanced ecological system in your tank. So it is your stocking level, feeding regime, maintenance routine that are of utmost importance. Not biodigest, not np pellets, not AZ NO3. BTW, NP pellets also produces a negative strain of bacterias which you do not want in your tank. They advised putting the pellets near a skimmer so that they will be skimmed away. I have not used mine because of this reason. 7) thought of decomming the whole thing, but everyone told me to just stay on after all the time and money that i've spent on this hobby. I think you are just tired from your papers, assignments, etc etc. take a break, go enjoy yourself while doing minimum maintenance & additions to your tank. You will come back refreshed and stronger. No point deccomming because you 3 - 6 months later, you will want to come back to reefing.... hehe.... it is in our blood already. Not because of the you money spent but prob because it is your passion bro. maybe you wanna ask yourself that question, make a decision and dun look back already. 8) i seem to be worrying more about my NO3, PO4, fishes, corals, more than enjoying them... No3 is due to your stocking level and PO4 is prob from your fish food and water source. Reduce stocking level (especially the tangs) and they will improve lah. If not then do weekly WC lor, that should help too. Even if they are high, they dun kill livestock like some of the bros mentioned. Dun worry. Take up the challenge and reduce it. Peter's tank was running at 80 - 100 NO3 at one time hor..... 9) due to the recent changes, water parameters have been swinging quite abit.. one of my black clown died this morning extremely upset.. now the other one is all alone.. it happens .... now you can pass me the other one... haha..... A good reminder for you not to neglect your tank again 10) on the bright side, corals seemed to be doing well except for one colony of zoa and one lobo. yay... at least there are some positives. Corals seemed to like "seasoned waters". maybe they are nutrient rich. sometimes i tell myself, how i wish i can be free from all the maintanance, and just sit in front of my tank for an hour just staring at the fishes and corals, mini-mother nature at home... hire me to do your maintenance for you take more photos are your do your maintenance. People ask me why I always take the photos of the same old corals..... the secret is I do that alot after maintenance cause seeing them open big big and doing well in my tank really gives me motivation to do rigorous husbandry work. Keep the tank simple, Kiko. Simpler tank = lesser maintenance.

Oh nooooooo.... so sorry to hear that...... must be heart broken. If he was feeding well and all good the night before, and that the other fishes are still alive, then I guess the water params are ok. Where did you buy the fishes from? Do you know if they are hand caught or unknown? could be Cyanide caught .... I cannot think of any other reason.

The sorcerer's apprentice. I like the dragon http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5ug-zE2wQZE

Furry Vengence - comedy. Brendan Fraser put on so much weight! My girl will like this show http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-CimpBqZoiQ

how come you have such a thought... lol did not come across my mind...

I got my Mg from SL. I trust that Sam will not do something like that. edit: The food additives I bought from C328. hmmmm dun think they will do that too... hehe

another nice blockbuster Robin hood 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSqL9ygBCck

cannot remember leh... I think mostly unsealed. I cannot even remember if the Mg is sealed. (the liquid version). I dun recall that it is sealed leh.

most salt are. I am using Marine Environment.

** choking choke choke choke ....... speak english please....

Ip Man 2 wow... looks even better than part 1 http://www.youtube.c...h?v=K_uzG-WPQRA

** choking choke choke choke.....

true.... I so small size some more.... later he go dig out all my tax discrepancies also jialat......

I think nvm lah. My tank no space already. need to get rid of some corals or start sticking them on the rocks. Super congested now.

that one , I am not so sure, I only dose reef booster once currently using more of the reef nutrition phytofeast, rotifiers, oysterfeast + Kent marine phytoplex, zooplex, chromaplex, Strontium and Molybenum, trace elements + Seachem Reefplus.

Hope to see you there Joe.

update: H firefish still has white spots. might take another 2 - 3 weeks for it to clear. Can only try to keep it happy and hope he recovers. A piece of good news is that I have another baby Armour of God polyps. From 1 remaining polyp to 5.. wooohoooo. The colours are much better now compared to one month ago. The purple death has also grown much bigger and purplish instead of grey. Things seem to be looking good

Oh noooo... saw your status bro. What happened?

forget it. just go to purple or orange light......

Part and parcel of learning bro. take heart. I am still paying school fees here and there... but at the same time, you are getting wiser bit by bit

Zebradanio, if you can, invest in a bottle of CoralRX. Several positive feedback from the reefers using it including myself.

yeah 9.6 is good enough. just FYI : the higher your KH is, the more stable will be your PH.

you arh.... @#$#!$%^#%*&&()^*( set the knob to the wave power you want. press mode to till you see blue light. press set once. turn knob to adjust the pulsing interval that you want. press set and hold it till it blink blue green white to save your setting.

Now at least I have a name to spit, curse and swear at when I receive my tax payment schedule.

.....lol..... you simply want to raise his warning.... instigating him to post something related.