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Boy, its no joke hor.... really transfer your LS out. Dry the tank, rework on the silicon. if you dunno how, get some professional to do it. Rectify it ASAP. Last thing you want is for water to get into any electrical points and cause a shock to anyone. salt water flooding the house is no joke too... floor will be sticky and requires thorough cleaning. it somehow to crack open up and shatter the glass, its even more troublesome and could cause injury.

wow really awesome.....

The managed to sort out their hierarchy and were not longer fighting. but the timid one was a bit weak as he ate only once every 4 days. I missed the chance to feed him for 1 week as I was too tied up at work and he came out only during working hrs..... After that, I think he went suicidal. refuses to eat.... then just sleep and sleep to death....

dropped yours into my tank to pair them up

now really chicken and duck talking already ...... lol ....

bro... my previous replies to other newbies on the same queries on cycling. Hope these help bro. ================================================== When you start a new tank, add in live rocks (there are organisms on the rocks that are dying), drop a market prawn etc, these will produce ammonia. A strain of bacteria will slowly convert this ammonia to nitrite. another strain of bacteria will slowly colonize and convert nitrite to nitrate. Ammonia and nitrite are toxic to livestock. Nitrate is not. The colonization of this bacteria takes time .. maybe 3 - 4 weeks. People speed up this process by adding livesand, dosing bacterias etc. Once they are colonized, all ammonia and nitrite will be reduced to 0 (This is based on your current stocking level!) This is when your tank is cycled. Now that when your tank is fully cycled, it does not mean that the colonies of bacteria will stay forever in the tank. They may increase or decrease depending on amount of feeding, stocking level etc. Now assuming your tank is cycled and ready. You purhcase 2 - 3 fishes and put them in. Now the waste produced by these fishes may be greater than what the current amount of bacterias in your tank can handle. This is the reason why people advise to go slow. add minimum fishes, let the bacterias cope and multiply and then add another fish later so that there will be no ammonia or nitrite spike. Then to speed up the bacteria multiplication, they add bacterias starter to help dreak down the waste. So cycling is an ongoing process until you decided you don't want to add any livestock anymore Do note that if you add too much bacteria (overdosed greatly), they take in more dissolve oxygen too and if there are insufficent waste, they die off and your water quality will be affected. That's why you need to follow reccommended dosage amount indicated on the product and not to overdo it. =================================================== another reply previously: Cycling the tank. When you start up a new tank, your tank do not have all the benificial bacterial. Cycling basically means getting the tank to reach the equilibrium of having sufficent bacterial to break down ammonia (bad) -> nitrite (bad)-> nitrate (not so bad) as fast as they are produced. When you introduce the 1st fish (or some ppl use market prawn) in the tank, it will produce waste and ammonia will build up in the tank due to the lack of the 1st stage bacterial. Over days, the bacterial will slowly build up and ammonia concentration will decline but nitrite will start to increase. When the 1st stage bacterial are fully established, ammonia will be processed as fast as the fishes are producing it. At this stage nitrite will start to peak. Nitrite is also very toxic to the fishes. Again we have to wait for another batch of bacterials to grow in population to bring nitrite level down. When this bacterials are sufficient in numbers, the nitrate will boom so slowly nitrite will be undetectable. when nitrite is eliminated, the tank is cycled. equilibrium is reached. This takes approximately 4 weeks. The resultant nitrate is not as harmful to fishes. Large concentration of it does harm the fish well being and they might be more susceptible to disease. Reqular water change will help keep the nitrate level in check. Growing Mangrooves, installing denitrators, having deep sand bed will help too to keep nitrate level within acceptable levels. Now when you add new fishes, the balance is offset again. more fishes = more waste = need time to let the bacterial grow again. So even after tank is cycled, it depends how many fishes you add at one time. If you add several at one time and several again a week later, the bacterial will not be able to populate and break down the ammonia and nitrite in time and fishes die. That is why ppl say go slow, go slow Give the bacterial time to be established in your tank. Each time the equilibrium is offsetted (whether by introduction of new fishes/corals, increase in feeding frequency or quantity, dead fish/ corals unremoved) you need to give time to tank to balance the ecology system.

Market prawn will be more effective to ensure that you have a healthy colony of beneficial bacteria ready to break your newly added fishes' poo ........

throw in the market prawn. dose bacteria. wait 1 week. then take readings again ...... update us at that time.

lol.... guess everyone is waiting for that => thats why they have so many in stock still.

the blastos are at an offer of 3 for $100.

Yeah I t-loaned the lens from Peter. The macro shots I took last week were from taken using that lens. but photos turned out so so only cause of the photographer.... lol

!!!! you better dun try again within the next 3 yrs!!!!!

Comycus, your PBT has no white spot right? In my experience, fishes doing that when they are not really feeling well. white spots / skin irritation/ lack of oxygen etc. If your fish has been in your tank for some time already and has not been doing that before, something could be amiss. Keep a close tab on it.

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I did but its is at least 2x heavier than the canon 100mm. Tamron autofocusing is much more noiser too and slower the tamron lens gets extended when you manual focus, the canon's does not.

went down with siang,moss,karl today... all of us went off empty handed.... lol.... so you know the answer liao.... I am very very selective when I head there now, else kenna chop carrot head like nothing. saw some common zoas there seliing for 5 red notes (special discounted price) ... my goodness .... east LFS selling those for 1 green note only..... a lot of the LS also seem to be very old stock... health already declining quite badly already..... would suggest you save the trip and head to east or west better.

lol well, lessons need to start somewhere.... tell me more of your unorthodox methodologies next time ....

will keep you posted if I see another shipment again. I am still planning to get another one to pair up mine.

remaining... meaning the other died??

**slap.... haha.... kidding Terryz..... thanks for the advise. I will do more research 1st and make alternative plans too should plan A fail

Noted. thanks! but I do agree it has been very lenient over here.... that's why I am here and not in RC.

hey wilson, you can also try the circular wire mesh trap place it inside, off the pump and dump some food inside.......

hmmm... kiko... I think you need better shaped rocks...... go check out julescity artificial tonga rocks.... that 2 piece might be what you need.....

yay... all systems restored kiko! jia you! I saw some black ocel in RB today and they are really nice. Pity that the orangy head turns to black after some time......

bro, its not an LFS lah... its just a silly joke.