ryz's new 3 feet tank

[bubble_gum]

wah go shopping hah? eh u have a powder brown rite? is it hardier than powder blue???

aiyo paiseh thought u bought new clams... my mum bought me a powder brown today!!! but she dumped it in my 2footer was supposed to go to the 3ft by 2ft by1.5ft in the hall now my tank no peace... used to be so quient n teraputic

[ryz]

Transfer it to your 3 Footer man.. Powder blue nice eh? haha... both Powder Blue and Powder Brown, without hostility and Ich, should be quite hardy.. good luck man..

[bubble_gum]

Transfer it to your 3 Footer man.. Powder blue nice eh? haha... both Powder Blue and Powder Brown, without hostility and Ich, should be quite hardy.. good luck man..

thought all tangs r hostile n can kena ich??/

[ryz]

If they dun have ich in the first place and your tank has no ich, they won't get ich... but if somehow ich is introduced to ur tank, they might get ich when stressed.. When I said without hostility I meant from other tangs or inhabitants.. if they always get disturbed by other territorial fishes, they'll get stressed and thus increase chances of getting ich mah.

[ryz]

one of my 3 latest acquisitions.

[ryz]

green bodied frogspawn with pink tips... can't really see the pink tips in this photo...

[ryz]

bubble... when I got it it was in bad shape... bought at a very cheap price.. now doing well..

[ryz]

closeup of my frogspawn

[FuEl]

Yea..these few days a lil warm..my tank mostly around 28-29...everything seems fine so far...=x

[ryz]

mount GSP!

[Ancelot]

Ryz, i think your MIA fishes should be because of your mantis shrimp. they are ultra super hardy and powerful predators.. not surprising to find losses with that ^*^*^@*&^*^@*%(** shrimp around..

TIME TO TAKE IT OUT!

anyway nice tank you got there!

[tineng]

one of my 3 latest acquisitions.

newbie question....

what is that 'tree branch' thingy with blue colored 'leaves'???

[nutx]

closeup of my frogspawn

This is very nice, where you got it?

[ryz]

Ancelot: rockscape too elaborate to get the mantis out... dun even know which rock it's burrow is on.. if I really wanna get it out I'd have to remove all the rocks and soak in freshwater or super saline water

tineng: thats a blue sea fan (gorgonian)

nutx: got it from another reefer...

[giantbicycle]

yar... try to get the rocks out if possible..and soak it with hypo...freshwater will destroy the good bacterial...

Just my 2 cents worth

[Ancelot]

well... i do not know how to get mantis out cos i never have this problem.. maybe can trap it? using the crab traps put some bait around and trap it?

[ryz]

cannot trap.. shrimps cannot trap one... hyposalinity cannot force it out.. must soak in super salty water... will force all the crabs out too.. but bro, my tank not like yours leh, mine so much rocks... probably wun do it man...

[loonz]

Hey ryz, sorry to hear your losses...good idea to hold on to your purchase of fishes..however, if after some time your existing fishes are still around...then possibly it wasnt just the mantis doing the killing...or you would have a starving mantis

[ryz]

yea... had an outbreak of ich too.. but no carcasses or ammonia/nitrite spike.. so I'm thinking they prolly got eaten up by crabs or mantis... I'm quite sure I have a mantis though... Here Loud clicks... So loud that I fear my tank may shatter.

[bubble_gum]

yea... had an outbreak of ich too.. but no carcasses or ammonia/nitrite spike.. so I'm thinking they prolly got eaten up by crabs or mantis... I'm quite sure I have a mantis though... Here Loud clicks... So loud that I fear my tank may shatter.

sure nt pistol shrimp? eh i do see lots of potential frags in ur tank cant wait to c it tml

[ryz]

pistol shrimp so strong meh? U should hear the clicks man... friggin loud and piercing... where got potential frags?? All cannot frag one lah... If can I also wun frag as of yet .

[weileong]

see which hole the bugger lives in then use 2-part epoxy to seal the hole.

I successfully got rid of one small mantis this way. Somemore that rock is at the base, impossible to remove w/o stripping my rock work

I know I was successful because I don't hear any loud "kicking" noise at night already.

[bubble_gum]

lucky y tank small man.less rocks so less chance to get mantis bro y nt get an octopus since ur tank so huge

[weileong]

won't octopus finish up the shrimps as well?

Sounds like a good idea to deal with those nasty crabs too. I've 2 that has grown to abt 1.5" already. No chance to get them with the chicken essence bottle.

[bubble_gum]

ya it will eat all crabs shrimps n ur beloved..........MANTIS!!!! sine u only have 3fish left, i wouldnt bother if the octopus gets hungry or u could sell them.