Kaykay's DIY-approach nano setup. 2'x1.5'x1.5'.

[MadScientist]

Sure. If you're keen, next Sunday afternoon around 3pm? Come collect your lights too.

Haha, bro, should be August. Haven't get my tank yet. You know where to get good lr?

[Terryz_]

Sure. If you're keen, next Sunday afternoon around 3pm? Come collect your lights too.

Me can join tooo??? LOL!!

[MadScientist]

Me can join tooo??? LOL!!

Later he must upgrade to container truck, haha

[kaykay]

Haha, container truck too extreme lah. Maybe downgrade to van can liao. But can only seat half-full of passengers. The other half reserved for plastic bags of live stock.

On a serious note, this Sunday is out for me. Wife's got an event planned le. Next Sunday (23/7) 3pm on? Scientist come pick up your lights lah. I'm waiting to test out our sets within a controlled environment.

[MadScientist]

Haha, container truck too extreme lah. Maybe downgrade to van can liao. But can only seat half-full of passengers. The other half reserved for plastic bags of live stock.

On a serious note, this Sunday is out for me. Wife's got an event planned le. Next Sunday (23/7) 3pm on? Scientist come pick up your lights lah. I'm waiting to test out our sets within a controlled environment.

As professional reefers, we must shop like a moving company, everything in the store must clear, that's explains the container truck.

Haha, bro, house no place put yet, you take it out and try?

[Terryz_]

LOL... To shop like a moving company, we must have a very deep pocket.. LOL!!

[kaykay]

As professional reefers, we must shop like a moving company, everything in the store must clear, that's explains the container truck.

Haha, bro, house no place put yet, you take it out and try?

I'm on leave tmr. After I settle the personal errand, I'll have sometime to test the lights. But it's daytime environment though.

I'll post the results on the equipment forum.

Haha, even if we can buy by container loads, we need an Olympic sized pool aquarium to display everything.

Let's arrange the Sunday after this for the Pasir Ris farm visit if you guys are keen ya.

[MadScientist]

Can't wait for the results. If possible, shoot in raw and show us the histograms,

You can always buy 100 skimmers and hook them in series. No protein can escape your filtration, No issue with air volume and contact time. I am guessing air volume would be 100,000 L/h and contact time would be like 5 minutes.

[kaykay]

Can't wait for the results. If possible, shoot in raw and show us the histograms,

Hi bro, how to post histograms? The primitive way I can think of is taking a screen shot of the histogram on the camera LCD with my handphone and post it here.

Or is the software be found with the nikon CD?

Can I also post the raw format of e photos here too?

[MadScientist]

Can always attach. raw cannot be seen as photo. Usually, I will upload both raw and jpeg. The software should give you a histogram reading. Alternatively, you can open the raw file using photoshop to get the histograms.

if you need file hosting, I can do it on my google drive account, haha.

[kaykay]

@Madsxientist, testing done and report posted in the equipment forum (new thread).

Your lights power sia..

[MadScientist]

If my equipment not power, I won't be called madscientist? haha. jkjk

[kaykay]

Saw the Yasha goby for the first few hours I let him into the tank. Have been missing since then. Almost 44 hours already. Can file missing person (fish) report.

Wonder if he's ok, or rendezvous-ing with the pistol shrimp he came with?

Btw, they went separate ways when they were released into the tank simultaneously. Will they ever meet if they're still alive?

Last seen of the Yasha. (@2300 08.07.12)

[MadScientist]

That's a question for cupid

[kaykay]

They are alive!! Hallelujah!

Found the Yasha Goby / Pistol Shrimp pair!

Shrimp found busy ferrying sand to make a deeper crevice. Goby just sat there staring into space.

Although their home is facing the tank front, they are one rock away from clear line of sight. I have to peep them from under a cave of the front rock to see half the goby.

Do I have to resign my fate of being a symbiotic peeping Tom, or can I coax them to the front?

Any ideas?

One more look at them before their release into the tank.

[MadScientist]

dig a hole for them and place them there. if they like the hole, they will stay

[kaykay]

But now they have a hole at the back, do I have to catch them together and displace them at the new hole?

Sounds difficult..

[MadScientist]

that's what I did in the past

[kaykay]

How did you catch them bro? Using net or just grab with hands?

To forcibly displace them to the new hole also sound like a challenging task, requiring nimble fingers. Lol.

[MadScientist]

I used to use a suction gun, basically a gigantic syringe. I would prefer to use hands, nets and scales don't hang out well.

You do not need to squeeze them into the new hole. Cover up the old hole. Dig a new hole. Release them in line of sight with the new hole. Most of the time, they will explore and choose the new hole since they can save digging. If you have a stubborn pair, can always keep covering the holes you do not want till they get fed up or dig at the right place, haha

[kaykay]

Molting.

My cleaner shrimp molts every 10-14 days.

It is growing too quickly. I chose one of the smaller specimens I could find, and now it's at least 50% bigger than at 2 months ago.

I know it's a good sign when they grow. I just don't want them to grow too fast and become disproportionate to the fixed nano dimensions of my tank.

This guy feels totally at home in my tank, often picking on my fingers whenever I feed the sun corals. I guessed it's probably due to this boldness that it molts frequently without fear of being eaten immediately after molting in this docile environment.

It has molted 5 times in total over 2 months plus.

The latest de-shelling.

[MadScientist]

reduce iodine? although it is not advisable

[starfish123]

They are alive!! Hallelujah!

Found the Yasha Goby / Pistol Shrimp pair!

Shrimp found busy ferrying sand to make a deeper crevice. Goby just sat there staring into space.

Although their home is facing the tank front, they are one rock away from clear line of sight. I have to peep them from under a cave of the front rock to see half the goby.

Do I have to resign my fate of being a symbiotic peeping Tom, or can I coax them to the front?

Any ideas?

One more look at them before their release into the tank.

could try peacemaker's idea. refer to his tread for info. think he stuck a piece of pvc in the sand or something. cannot remember

[kaykay]

Yup I saw that. And I think it's a damn good idea. I actually thought of doing so, but somehow I reckoned my shallow sand bed could not accommodate the PVC thickness.

So I gave it a miss. Thinking back, I should have increased the sandbed thickness.. Sigh now too late to build this underground infrastructure already.

[MadScientist]

Pvc quite unnatural. I rather give the pair work to do by allowing them to constantly remodel and maintaining their hole