jackywongto

lol yah... challenge with nano.... nvm lah. my 1st month. next month will be better. make mistakes then will learn. Of course ... a bit costly lah.

woohoooooo just saw my G goby. Its still alive hehe Think I realise why my water condition is worsening. I had overfed the Suns. Now they are puking out the remnants of the prawn and it is fouling the water. Another lession learnt.

lol I did not add buffer for the ph. That's the natural variation in my tank

ORP has also dropped to 311. Will do a thorough parameter test tonight.

update, my pistol has gone to burrow in another place. Can hardly see him now Think I need to raise my dKH to very much higher. My PH is still fluctating greatly. Morning was 7.95. Now it is 8.22. Might reach 8.3 later ... double

I was thinking of doing that but... when you have a family, you will understand... ren zai jiang hu, sheng bu you ji who would want to change water at 1 am

Yeah it should be rather healthy. i did acclimatize it. unless if it is a very very timid fish and I stress it to death during WC. unless if yours is a nano, anything bigger than 2 ft dun advise using acrylic. definitely not easy to maintain. why do you want acrylic? my case I am worried my girl will smash the glass when she swing things around. You can opt for high grade glass which gives the same clarity. Go check out ELOS tank. Glass tank can be as clear. just more expensive though.

i have seen white pods but not black ones. These are totally black and came out to grab food! eerie...... out of nowhere.

did yours drop from 8.3 - 7.9 like in 2 - 3 hrs?

no I feed it a pretty small piece. no idea where did that come from. hey one more question: I was feeding the suns and out of nowhere, came 2 - 3 bugs (oval shape, black colour about 3mm long) and they tried to take the prawn away. ever happen to you before?

One more thing, I changed 10% water and the PH dropped from 8.3 to 7.98 !!!! Maybe thats why the goby cannot take it. Maybe next time just change 5%. ORP has also dropped from 370 to 330

Thanks Zhimin. I have a spare Toshiba laptop for sale if you want. Quite high end 1 yr ago. Now should still be quite good. (i used it for gaming) Contact me if you wanna view. The goby is not yasha. its a high fin goby. but RIP already 1st casualty. regarding the 3 hrs, I was just slow that's why. I should be able to make it within 30 mins next time. The cleaning of the wall is really difficult.

Saw my suns devouring something white just now. Could be the prawn I fed last night. My feed was like 8 hrs ago. Did he have problem digesting? Some of the heads have enlarged beyond the size of a 50 cents coin. Wow... the effect of feeding? I actually prefer them to be smaller. kinda gross when they are so huge. There are also some small little cute baby heads all around the base. cute. Will take some photos next time.

Sadly it doesn;t appear much. I do not know if it is dead or alive.

Well 3 hrs and that includes the feeding of the Suns. Got so confused which head I have fed already and which one I missed. Gosh... there are about 12 large heads that I need to feed. But I was rather lethargic yesterday. So much slower and the cleaning of the acrylic walls is such a pain especially near the sandbed. And my silly pistol shrimp was at the tank wall. Did not want to frighten him. Bad news, Woke up and saw that my high fin goby dead. I last saw him just 3 hrs ago. The body was still intact so I guess he did not manage to adjust to my tank and was not attacked. I saw that he kept swimming in mid tank last night. I thought gobies only stay on the sand bed? Was that a symptom that he is already not feeling well? In memory of my high fin in his 1 night stay

Dang WC for a 20gallon Nano is not suppose to take 3 hrs! 4am now !!!!! Urgh ....

Saw this fella coming out just now to scavenge. I took a few photos with flash and it just slowly crawl back to its hideout. Does not dash back or anything. Rather calm and slow. Is this worm harmful for my nano reef? It is about 2.5 - 3 inch long I have very tiny fishes in my tank. (about 1 inch mini goby) Pls kindly advise.

That bicolour blenny alone gives out more waste than all my LS. These 2 tiny fishes & shrimp will not load much.

PMed.

you really amazes me... endless line of products to sell off.

ok ok. I will feed it twice a week 1st. Wonder why henry says he feed his suns daily. Maybe because he flood the tank and not by target feeding. A little stressful here coz I know Lorenzo loves them.

this is the 1st time I am changing the medias. So it has been almost a month. 1st time feeding the suns too. Intend to feed it about 2 - 3 times a week in small qty. Next feed will be 2 days later with silver fish and another 2 days later will be mysis shrimp.

Thanks Peter. Gonna feed it, clean off the algae, change the carbon and phosphate removers, then do WC. Lucky its a nano, else it will be a very late night for me.

See why i did not catch the name

Yes the ELOS is beautiful. +1 to that and the price! Yes he does, there are a couple more sand dollars.