Project New Reef by Achilles Tang

[chanbi]

But i find that mine (so far i only have 3) prefer a "undisturb" environment (ie. less patron by fish) and i have best result if i put them in partly shady place near a cave or whatever. And it is also my favour! Still eyeing at AT's prata!!

[ryan]

I bought one about a mth back from Seletar T95. It is red with inner green. Selling at ~$25. Will keep u inform if i see it again..

seletar has a marine farm!!!???

where!?

[nivlac]

seletar has a marine farm!!!???

where!?

Supreme Aquarium- Seletar West Farmway 1 T95

[ryan]

WooHOooO!!!

i'm off!

i'll prob go later today!

so near my place!

[Achilles Tang]

Just a little teaser for those who are coming to my place for the SRC gathering/tank warming party on 14 Dec!

Here's my 2 x 2 x 1.5 refugium/sea-horse tank!

Front View:

Back View:

My yellow seahorse:

Another view of my seahorse:

Centre-view of my tank!:

[Tanzy]

Upgraded your lights yet?

[Achilles Tang]

I'll be DIYing a 400watt Radium to add on to my existing light pendant just for my acropora corner... that is... when I can justify it when I get some good specimens.

Acropora frag contributions will be appreciated!

[Achilles Tang]

[lion]

I have Acropora frag do you want.

[Achilles Tang]

Cool! Sure!

You coming for the party? Pls rsvp in that thread.

[Tanzy]

The clams won't do too well under 150W on the sand. You might want to bring them up higher up closer to the light.

[Achilles Tang]

Actually, I think they are doing fine. I have one piece that was just purple in colour (got it a couple of years ago when I thought that was the finest clam I saw in LFS... lol!)... now it is beginning to colour up with some green!

And on the sand too!... Don't underestimate the power of HQI bulbs...

Reefers have been keeping acros with 150 watt HQIs with no probs.

Anyway, once my 400 watt MH goes up, they will benefit from it.

[Tanzy]

HQI? Hmmmm, I thought you were using AB.

[Achilles Tang]

Yeah... AB Aqualine aquasunlight pendant... 2 x 150watt HQI, 2 x Actinic FL, 1 moonlight.

[Jeremy]

bravo......gear up for christmas???Santa will take a dive in your tank

[Chris]

Achilles, your old tank was already attractive but you new one is brillant. Well done.

[Achilles Tang]

Uhh... Chris... were you at my place for the gathering, you saw my tank in person?

[Chris]

A pity I have not seen your tank yet. I just got to know about this site days ago through a friend I met at Sealife. But, I'm impressed looking at what you have done. I'm a Tang lover but my 4X2X2 ft tank is more of a reef one. I also have a tiny one with one lionfish.

[Achilles Tang]

Oh I see... thanks for the compliments!

Sam and family from Sealife did come by later in the evening...

[Achilles Tang]

Alright... got my digital cam out tonight... I just fed my tank so I have a garlic film on the water.. heh!

I also switched off my Reeftecs, which my expanded carnation coral on the upper left corner absolutely loves the current they provides (those who came that night saw it was shrunken then but they do shrink and expand at diff times of the day... mine tends to expand more at night when I feed live phytoplankton)

Left View

Centre View

Right View

I didn't get my tripod out... so I won't post my whole tank view just yet.

[Chris]

AT,

How do you get live phytoplankton? I'm using the Phyto from two little fishes. Is it good enough?

[Achilles Tang]

I culture them.

Yours is dead phytoplankton in a bottle... limited nutritional value and limited lifespan... and ultimately expensive... compared to live plankton... as you can theoretically culture them forever.

I will be putting up more info on live culturing soon as Chan and Brandon have recently gotten their phytoplankton culture kits.

[chanbi]

I would like to thanks AT and Pacificbeta for the live plankton & rotifiers. I don't know whether it is true or my imagination, but i thought my corals open up bigger and all their tenacles coming out after i put some of those in? I have started my first culture last night. Hopefully it is not contaminated, not too sure how to sterilize. The colour is now light green. I think will need a few days to tell.

AT, just to confirm with u again.. If it crash, how can i tell? based on the colour? i don't have a microscope..

[Chris]

AT,

Where can I buy a plankton culture Kit or is it DIY? And how to culture them? Any article on this?

[Phang]

AT,

Your reef looks so different from the last time I saw it...

TREMENDOUS....

Wish my reef is as wide as yours.......