jackywongto

Wow .... Great upgrade Milch! cannot wait to see your tank up and running.

Hey julia, your mandarins feeding on pellets ?

I saw my gonio extended by 3inch + just now... WOW!

just went to tidy my tank a little Update: Water Clarity My tank water now looks really much clearer now. The amount of particles in the water has been reduced probably by about 70%. The clarity should be down to 2 reasons. 1) the higher water flow through the Chemipure in the MCE 600. The chemipure used to be housed in the mechanical filter module of the Tunze Reefpack 200. The water flow and passing rate is really way too low. with the MCE, I can now have at least 3X the amount of water passing through it now. 2) Filter sock - This thing is really cool. Reefers with Sump really need to use this. I cannot find any reason not to. Coraline Algae Good purplish growth all round the rocks. The base of the tank has numerous purple spots too. I have not even dosed any KH buffers & calcium so far. Maybe I should to speed their growth up. The thing I realised is that there is no hairy algae presence.... why? I used to have tons of that. With the reset of my tank, it is practically the same as a new tank set up. but there is no new tank syndrome... strange. but this is good news Zoas growth A lot of the small frags I have multiplied. now a Lot of the zoas are placed too closed together. I need to reposition them (maybe this weekend) and space them out. A lot of the small frags I have and quite well spread. Looking forward to them blooming even more. Some of them are slowly regaining their colours. It takes about 1 - 2 months for the zoas in my tank to get back its colour. Rics The rics are also doing very well. expanded till quite large. Thinking of getting a few more to fill up the rics space... hmmmm.... Starpolyps Starting to encroach onto other corals now. They really look very nice in full bloom. very healthy currently. Need to find a way to contain their growth. Blastos Peter's mini blasto pulled through the ordeal and is back in pink of health already. So happy..... In short... all the corals are doing rather well and showing no signs of decline. Fishes are also doing great. I can even hand feed the Yellow tang. The yellow wrasse and tailspot is fine. My Helfrichi has put on weight and has been white spotless for 2 weeks liao. Everything is blissful and hope it stays this way

akan datang.. maybe 1 month later....

next time I pass my mandarin to you for training....

hi bro. They take in pods. can be live pods or artic pods. some do take in mysis after some time. you can try to use straw / syringe and drop mysis near him.

no lah happy with mine. staying with it till i move house .. if that ever happens....

bino's scape all the while quite minimalist type one leh....

he's hanging out at AM now...? haha

very well thought of Razali a very nice ELOS lookalike... except that it has better features and at a much lower pricing. - 3 sided crystal glass - neat joints and chamfered edges - overflow takes in water from levels of the tank - high pipe and overflow cover to reduce noise. - spacious sump for refugum, skimmer 1 word ..... SWEE!

paiseh .... still thought it is to reduce noise level in the overflow. or does it?

yep brittle stars.... see whether can grow to be as big as lemon's 1 feet across! hey BK, should start your tank thread bro!

reduce the noise level of water gushing down. The water level in the overflow will be higher hence no splashing sound.

yes

bro, 160W is the brighter 40 cm model. 170W is the longer 80 cm model. suggest if you can , go for 170W. Justin had both before, you can pm him for more info. maybe give Dr Evil a call and chat with him your requirement before purchasing.

woah...... becareful how you construct your sentence hor..... lucky Desi, AhSiang, Ray and Bino not online.... else sure kenna bombarded like siow..... kids say the darnest things.... so sweet.....

hmm just to clarify, even if you have cycled your tank for 4 weeks, you still cannot throw in 5 tangs in a single shot

Hope I did not misled him... but he seemed to have a sound mind. as long as he understand the cycle, should be ok.

ok your stocklist is more than what we counted that day... wahahaha glad your spotted mandarin is feeding. he does look very thin. show us the "put on weight" photo next.

seems like u might be a better drinker than me.... i dun drink...

This is my personal opinion hor. Of course I agree with Peace and infinity that cycling for a few weeks will be good. But if you are using Bioclean, live sand, live rocks from CF, then really don't have to wait for 1 month. At most a week or two. My tank started on 25th oct : http://www.sgreefclu...ndpost&p=839870 fishes added a week later on 1 Nov : http://www.sgreefclu...ndpost&p=841432 I added 4 fishes at one go. No problem. When I restart my tank, all new live rocks are from CF. No live sand. added bioclean. saltwater are all new. This is on 17 Mar : http://www.sgreefclu...ndpost&p=888825 3 days later, added all my existing livestock (a yellow tang, my corals and a gessingeri goby) from holding tub into tank and added new purchased tailspot goby, yellow clown goby and a helfrichi firefish as well http://www.sgreefclu...ndpost&p=889829 all fishes survived till today and looking great. So if you ask me, from personal experience, as long as this weekend, your ammonia, nitrite reading is zero, then you are good to go with 1 or 2 small fishes. Just do weekly water changes and add bioclean every 2 weeks for a start and things should be ok. As long as you understand what you are doing and understand the nitrogen cycle, then you are ready. Likewise, you can wait for 4 weeks for tank to cycle, but do not understand what you are doing and do not understand the nitrogen cycle, then disaster still awaits your tank. Hope I am not sounding too unorthodox. This is just my experience and gut feel. Of course if you are not using live sand and good live rocks, I would be saying otherwise.

which bacteria did you dose bro? if you dose bioclean, have live sand and LR from CF, I think you are quite good to go.... quite sure 1 - 2 fishe will be alright. just do a test and make sure there is no ammonia presence.

okie okie... SRC tees that night..... those who didn't wear will foot the bill

no lah i am not saying me..... i mean the pirate emoticon..... I dun like johnny depp..... haha but your pic damn funny.....