My 5 feet upgrade

[A320]

Aqsa closed for good......last i heard.

You from KB or Bandar?

Nice setup......you must get most of your stuff from miri?

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Hey bro A320, u a bruneian too?

Aqsa not close one, they moved to Tungku at Horticulture Market.

Got their stuff all over there but not yet open. THey are taking their sweet time starting back their business.

yes i got most stuff from miri. im from bandar btw.

[A320]

Yup...same kampong.......they moved eh? Oh ok......

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I am 95% done with the addition of livestock for the past 4 months. Below is a chronological order of how I added my livestock from the moment of first addition:

1ST TRIP

3 Feather Stars

1 Torch Coral (3”)

1 Bubble Coral (white) (12”)

1 Brain Coral (5”)

1 Brown Hairy Mushroom 25+ heads

1 Brown Hairy Mushroom 10+ heads

1 Scroll Coral (11”)

1 Hairy Leather (10”)

1 Metallic Green Mushroom 3+ heads

2 Hairy Green Mushroom 8+ heads

1 Red Mushroom 10+ heads

1 Cup Coral (7”)

2 Daisy Coral (4”)

2 Common Red Hermit Crabs

10 Turbo Snails

10 Nassarius Snails

2 Cowries

2ND TRIP

1 Tomato Clown (2”)

1 Black Cardinalfish (2”)

1 Coral Banded Shrimp

1 Long Tentacle anemone (Green) (24”)

2 Rock Anemones (1”)

1 Sand-sifting Starfish (1”)

1 Plate Coral (Green) (8”)

1 Hammer Coral (Green) (8”)

3RD TRIP

1 Gigas Clam (18”)

1 Maxima Clam (8”)

1 Derasa Clam (12”)

2 Common Red Hermit Crabs

1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

1 Multicolor Wrasse (4”)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (4”)

4 Paper-Bubble Shell Cowries

4TH TRIP

1 4-Striped Damsel (1”)

1 Naso Tang (5”)

1 Red Sea Sailfin Tang (4”)

1 Blue Hippo Tang (4”)

1 Scopas Tang (3”)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (6”)

1 Bicolor Algae Blenny (1”)

1 Black Blenny (1”)

5TH TRIP

1 Frogspawn Coral (Green) (5”)

6TH TRIP

3 Azure Damsels (2”)

7TH TRIP

1 Red Sea Purple Tang (5”)

8TH TRIP

1 Hawaiian Yellow Tang (4”)

2 False Percula Clownfish (1”)

2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

There you have it! The frequent trips to the LFS got me many goodies. The tank’s livestock is almost complete. Almost. My last trip will be to do with fetching the Marshall Island Flame Angel that I ordered from my LFS, and those elusive corals I want like the Scolymias and Acroporas. I’ve been stocking heavily in some trips so I did encounter losses everynow and then such as:

1 Torch Coral (fell from its place and died)

2 Feather Stars (somehow vaporized into smaller bits)

4 Common Red Hermit Crabs

(they picked on corals so I left them in the sump only to have them molting a few times and vaporized into empty shells)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (death by the Multicolor Wrasse’s bite)

1 Multicolor Wrasse (given away to my local LFS due to aggression)

1 Red Sea Sailfin Tang (Missing. Suspected culprit is LTA)

1 Blue Hippo Tang (stressed ich and died)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (Ganged up by blennies and died)

Apart from the problem I have with my Purple, Scopas and Yellow Tangs fighting with one another on territorial dispute, everything seems fine to me. To rephrase, my current fish livestock consist of:

1 Tomato Clown (2”)

1 Black Cardinalfish (2”)

1 4-Striped Damsel (1”)

1 Naso Tang (5”)

1 Scopas Tang (3”)

1 Bicolor Algae Blenny (1”)

1 Black Blenny (1”)

3 Azure Damsels (2”)

1 Red Sea Purple Tang (5”)

1 Hawaiian Yellow Tang (4”)

2 False Percula Clownfish (1”)

And still saving space for that Flame Angel. 

Until next update my fellow reefers!

[big_ben102000]

bro any pics ?

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hold up if i have some....the fish are quite hard to have them pose now ive got lotsa tunnels in my aquascaping. perhaps a youtube video?

[w3ish3ng]

will be nice if you can show us a video..

[big_ben102000]

haha anything is fine but do include a full tank shot.. should be pretty impressive with the amount of LS u have

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one youtube vid coming up. i tried tking pics last time but fishes wont comply. will take a few mins uploading the vid tho

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my bad...vid wud take hours to upload. 27.8MB so ill post pics next time then

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took a 100 shots or so but only came up with a few decent ones...really had a hard time catching up with the turbo tangs!! aiyayay!

first pic is the whole tank setup. not sure if anyone can see the details

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mushroom flyover with the yellow tang cameo

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the home trained naso now eats from the fingers and follows the food canister

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took 50 odd shots to catch this blue critter...the purple tang about to escape from the shot while the naso pose for hers

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lets have a race!!

the naso, the yellow and the purple going at it from corner to corner. the scopas had a bad start and was left eating sandtrails

[jervismun]

Long time no update... emm... how come your lighting is not evenly distributed? I think one of the reason your Tangs look blur is your tank is not bright enough... so the aperture speed becomes longer hence not able to capture the fishes

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my tank got bracing directly the same position my MH light shines. ill get a 3rd MH then

[jervismun]

Or maybe it's your photography effect... do consider properly before you add more heat to your tank

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heat, such a hot issue....

recently my tank has been soaring to record temps of 31c !!! wats happening with my system?

my chiller stays at 28c but show tank temp is 31C

ive got a small pump running my chiller, shud i upgrade it to a more powerful one?

[godzillaliu88]

check what's wrong with the chiller.

the chiller maybe faulty.

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heat probs fixt.

my chiller pump was too weak that my return pump overpowered easily. it seemed that the chilled H20 never got into the plumbing stream.

added a more powerful pump and me tank is running 27-28 now.

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those smileys describe how im feeling right now....

i bought 5 carnation corals, knowing what they were and seeing them in full bloom in the LFS.

but right after the transportation ordeal. some of them seemed to have melted and even shedded their fur. litter everywhere

i bought 2 purples, 1 orange, 1 maroon and 1 white

the white melted until it looked like a ragcloth

the maroon melted and now seems to go south

the orange shedded all its fur and now ###### in its unglory

the 2 purples are holding their solid state but seemed to be dropping by the hour.

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oh forgot to mention.

i went to, hopefully, my last trip to the LFS this year and bought stuff. i got meself a:

5 carnation corals

1 pink yellow brain

1 blue goniopora!

1 blue linckia

1 BT anemone green

soes my plight currently is the dendro corals

btw i also bought on an impulsive buy, a cleaner wrasse. *hides from flame*. the reason why i bought it was it ws harassed by the other kurzlinger wrasses. so i got one home and it covered itself with slime and acted dead.

few hours later it swam around but this morning i found it again lying on the sandbed not breathing. is it playing dead or is it REALLY dead?