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  1. quite easy to get them mah.difficult?most LFS have yumas.cheerd
  2. bro you soak garlic just before you want to feed you fishes.cheers
  3. bro percula can go up to 100++ must see the grade...
  4. bro common clown fishes are very prone to deseases.other clowns not so cheers
  5. bro How to use a feeding Station by Pete Gwijona: Seahorses respond very well when they are fed at the same time and place each day. They quickly learn the routine and will come to recognize their keeper as the one who feeds them -- the giver of gourmet delights! Once that happens, they will often beat you to the spot, gathering around their feeding station as soon as they see you approach. In fact, the aquarist can easily condition his seahorses to come a running at feeding time. Before you open the aquarium cover, make a point of lightly tapping it a few times or rapping on it gently. The seahorses will quickly learn to associate the tapping with the mouthwatering morsels that follow, and before you know it, they will respond by gathering at the feeding station as if you were ringing the dinner bell. To facilitate this process and make feeding them easier, choose a feeding station that's convenient for you in a relatively uncluttered part of the aquarium, and give your seahorses their meal right there every day. The feeding station should have some convenient hitching posts situated nearby as well. Avoid using an area where currents might whisk the food away from the seahorses before they can eat it. I know one hobbyist who uses a toadstool leather coral as his feeding station. He places the Mysis on the bowl-shaped top of the toadstool, which contains them nicely while his seahorses perch around the edges and scarf up the shrimp as if dining at a lunch counter. Not everyone has a toadstool coral to serve as a natural feeding station, of course, but it's easy to make your own lunch counter that will work just as well. Get a small Pyrex bowl or a similar shallow container made of clear glass or plastic (a large petri dish works great for this) and fill it about halfway with your tank substrate (Mike Kelly, pers. com.). Then sink the bowl into your sand bed until the substrate you placed in the bowl is level with the substrate in the tank (Mike Kelly, pers. com.). Leave the rim sticking up above the sand bed about a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch or so (Mike Kelly, pers. com.). The clear glass rim of the bowl is transparent and virtually unnoticeable, so don't worry that it will detract from the appearance of your display tank. Artfully position a few natural hitching posts around the bowl to provide your seahorses with a handy perch from which to snick up their dinner. At feeding time, place the frozen Mysis on the sand or gravel inside the bowl. A long tube of clear plastic 1/2' to 1' in diameter facilitates this. The bottom of the tube is placed in the middle of the bowl and the enriched Mysis are then placed in the top of the tube, which guides them exactly where you want them as they sink. The rim sticking above the sand bed will then keep the food in place while your seahorses dine at their leisure. Afterwards, any leftovers are neatly contained, making cleanup a breeze! Or you can always purchase a seahorse feeding station off the shelf, ready to go, as is. Artificial cup coral makes an attractive elevated "lunch counter" that does the job nicely. Elevated on a pedestal, the seahorses can perch around the edge of the cup, which contains the frozen shrimp nicely until eaten. The coral cups are very lifelike and make nifty ready-made feeding stations if positioned at a convenient (for you and your galloping gourmets) spot in your tank where currents won't whisk the Mysis away. Some hobbyists prefer a more natural looking, aesthetically pleasing feeding station, which they fashion themselves to suit their own tastes. They start with a piece of well-cured live rock that's approximately the right size and shape, and painstakingly hollow out the center to form a shallow concave depression. This shallow bowl is fashioned by grinding it out, using an electrical moto-tool (available at any craft store or hardware store) with a carbide burr or sometimes even a shop grinder. Once the bowl has been hollowed out, a series of holes are then drilled around the circumference of this depression. Red, brown or purple Gracilaria, green Caulerpa and/or gorgonian branches are planted in these holes to create natural hitching posts. As the macroalgae takes hold and fills out, this produces an attractive feeding station that looks completely natural. It's a great do-it-yourself project for the handy hobbyist. An upturned clamshell also makes a nifty natural feeding station that fits in perfectly in your seahorses' setup. Choose a colorful natural seashell for this, such as one valve of a Tridacna clam or perhaps a Lion's Paw Scallop shell, and you have an attractive feeding station that's perfectly appropriate for your tank. The concave interior of the bivalve shell acts as a shallow bowl to contain the frozen Mysis until it's eaten, and unlike some feeding stations that look out of place and detract from the appearance of your tank, a seashell looks as natural as can be in a marine aquarium. My favorite for this type of feeding station is a medium-sized Abalone shell. The iridescent, opalescent colors of the upturned interior, with its magnificent polished surface of mother- of- pearl, are spectacular! An upturned abalone shell requires no further modification whatsoever, making it the ideal feeding station for the unhandy hobbyist who's all thumbs. Other aquarists reserve a small, transparent glass bowl or clear plastic receptacle for feeding their seahorses. They merely place the bowl or plastic container on the bottom of the tank at feeding time, add the enriched Mysis, and let their seahorses gather round and dine at their leisure as though eating from a feeding trough. A few hours later, the feeding container is removed, along with any leftovers. Quick and easy! Seahorses most often pick up on the feeding station really quick once it's introduced to the aquarium, but occasionally it's necessary to train them where to go to get the goodies. There are a couple of fairly simple ways to accomplish that, which usually work pretty well. One way is to target feed the seahorses with a turkey baster, and once they are eating from the baster well, use it to lead them to the new feeding station. The old-fashioned ones with the glass barrels work best because the seahorses can see the Mysis inside the baster all the way as it moves down the barrel and out the tip. By exerting just the right amount of pressure on the bulb, great precision is possible when target feeding with a turkey baster. By squeezing and releasing the bulb ever so slightly, a skillful target feeder can keep a piece of Mysis dancing at the very tip of the baster indefinitely, and hold the tempting morsel right in front of the seahorse's mouth as long as necessary. If you can do that, it is an easy matter to hold a morsel of Mysis at the end of the baster, and use this tantalizing tidbit to lure the seahorse toward the new feeders by holding it just out of reach and leading the hungry seahorse in the direction you want him to go before you allow him to take the bait. This may have to be done in several steps, and it may take a while for you to get the seahorses accustomed to taking food from the baster before you start making much progress, but eventually you'll have the pupil perched close enough to the new feeders for you to drop the dangling Mysis inside the feeding station before you allow them to slurp it up. This method takes time and patience, but it allows you to make sure the seahorses are getting plenty to eat while they make the transition to the new feeder. And it's a gradual conditioning process that will eventually work with even the slowest learners. Net training is a similar technique that also works well and may be even easier to execute because it doesn't require any skill with the baster. It involves first training the seahorses to eat the frozen Mysis from a small fish net (a fine-meshed brine shrimp net works best for this), which they learn to do rather readily. Once that is accomplished, the net serves as a portable feeding trough, which the seahorses will come to and follow anywhere in order to eat, so you simply use it to lead them to the new feeders. Your next step is to rest the net inside one of the new feeders while they eat from it. After a few days of feeding them like that, you simply dump the Mysis from the net into the new feeder, and they will happily dine from there from then on. I know, I know -- they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. That's not a problem with these training techniques -- believe me, when you lead seahorses to a new feeding station this way, these seagoing gluttons can't wait to eat! The conditioning is usually easier than it sounds because you don't have to train each individual seahorse to come to the feeder. They will usually learn as a group, or when one or two of them have got it down, the rest will quickly follow their example. Best wishes with all your fishes! from www.seahorse.com/Aquarium_Life/Aquarium_Life/Feeding_Station/
  6. ya but grade 0 very trouble some bec the sand particles very small then can clog the drain pipe
  7. never heard of this brfore leh.not much you can do i think wait for more pro bros to help i not sure
  8. ya a sudden gust of water will bring out all the sediments.cheers just a while would be ok already
  9. bro but 1 side will be super hot right.bec if the fan stops due to salt or anything your whole tank will "boil"
  10. hey bro congrats my birthday was just yesterday 24/10 i gave everyone a public holiday the whole sg celebrating my birthday.just jk but my birthday on same day as hari raya.cheers
  11. bro hwdq try here REEFlith Calcium Media AquaPharm REEFlithâ„¢ 50:50 blend (2.5 - 5 mm) is a complete reactor media which contains calcium carbonates (CaCO3) at almost 99% and essential trace elements. High levels of aragonite that provides essential minerals to your stony corals, clams and invertebrates High concentrations of strontium that is essential for the growth and development of your corals CO2 consumption is much lower as it dissolves easily Available in 4kg. 4kg S$28.80 at AM they are selling pH meters too and Co2 tanks come check it out
  12. aiya get skimz beckett can do the job already hahasss cheers
  13. brp ridzwan21 do you have a skimmer?bec all you need is a skimmer and it will do the skimming for you cheers.where got sg so hot until condense?haha
  14. bro you know where to get?pm me if you are not sure
  15. bro just remove your shower head and attach the pipe to the chiller inlet.then go to your house's water control valve and turn it to max then after cleaning reduce the pressure back to normal.try this
  16. ya but i saw some powder blues at ponggol beach the other day!!!!!!!possible? water was dirty.don think so but look like leh
  17. bro they may have grown in your tank or it was on your LR when you got the LR.cheers not sure whether harmful or not hope other bros can help
  18. ya but very light marks only slowly going away.cheers thanks for all your info
  19. bro use........ Roti-Feast Reef Nutrition Roti-Feast is a super-concentrate of 5 million rotifers (Brachionus plicatilis, 150-275 microns) and 2.5 million eggs (40-75 microns), gut-packed with Phyto-Feast, and formulated specifically for your hungry reef carnivores. For hard corals (SPS, LPS), seahorse larvae, ricordea, mushrooms, anemones, gorgonians, marine fish larvae and many other marine micro fauna. Reef Nutrition is a product from Reed Mariculture, USA good for LPS
  20. bro where did you get somany sunnies?i use cyclopleeze for my sunnies then they open very nicely but mine have about less than 10 heads
  21. ya pls he really need a new home bec i am keeping sugar cane,######,cleaners in my tank.now eel in iso tanks pls take him
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