Roidan's 4ft tank

[terryansimon]

hahaha.

two towers of weipro.

and for the hordes that dare to overtake the tower, they will be met swiftly with skimmate. dark. smelly. dirty. icky skimmate.

[roidan]

who says i can't have the neat-cabinet look? hehe

[roidan]

frontal view....slowly placing the coral in the main tank...many fishes hiding behind the rockwork.hehe....more pics to come

[AquaRa]

so has ur powder blue started feeding?

[roidan]

sadly, the only one tang that dun wanna eat...anything i put in the tank...it doesnt touch..only wanna peck on the small weeds on the rocks....but it doesn't hide..always in front of the tank....

but i think without proper food intake, it wun last long..

[huskiesg]

I do share your pain. My purple queen has not been eating and is growing thinner and thinner day by day. I tried everything - from mysis to cyclop to live BS. Nothing seems to work *sigh*

[AquaRa]

how about feeding it marine algae? i suggested it some time ago.

[roidan]

here's a list of what i tried...

caulerpa...a few types....rejected...

pellets...rejected.....

live brine shrimp...rejected.....

newly hatched brine shrimp..rejected....

hikari blood worm...rejected..

hikari brine shrimp..rejected..

hikari daphnia...rejected...

hikari mysis shrimp..rejected...

cabbage...rejected...

lettuce...rejected....

NORI...rejected...

I wonder what have i left out...LOL...

[Dispar_Anthias]

I do share your pain. My purple queen has not been eating and is growing thinner and thinner day by day. I tried everything - from mysis to cyclop to live BS. Nothing seems to work *sigh*

Suggest you read more about purple queen frist before getting them..... IMO any purple queen that is not yet feeding should not be bought by a reefer unless he/she is willing to risk losing it(very high chances)... anyway purple queen is one fish that should never be attempt by newbie The purple queen i got was already feeding in the shop thus i dare to take the risk to buy it. Anyway since you already got it, IMo try cyclopeeze, zooplankton or maybe live brineshrimp to tempt it to eat..... Even so i would say the PQ has very high chaces of dying......

Anyway to get a PBT to eat is a fuss but to get purple queen to eat is a nightmare

[flubberina13]

try red bamboo...my five tangs love it...

[huskiesg]

Suggest you read more about purple queen frist before getting them..... IMO any purple queen that is not yet feeding should not be bought by a reefer unless he/she is willing to risk losing it(very high chances)... anyway purple queen is one fish that should never be attempt by newbie The purple queen i got was already feeding in the shop thus i dare to take the risk to buy it. Anyway since you already got it, IMo try cyclopeeze, zooplankton or maybe live brineshrimp to tempt it to eat..... Even so i would say the PQ has very high chaces of dying......

Anyway to get a PBT to eat is a fuss but to get purple queen to eat is a nightmare

It is saddening to see it avoid food and starving itself. It really is a nightmare. Guess that will put me off PQ for some time till I feel confident enough to really care for them. I will keep on trying in the meantime to get the fella to feed. Just hoping.

[roidan]

try red bamboo...my five tangs love it...

yeah..tried red bamboo as well..as well as the reddish kind of small grape caulerpa..as well as cyclopeeze.....other tangs eat either one of the stuff i mentioned here and earlier....but not pbt...sigh...one ticket in the grave liao i think...

[sjsheng]

Bro..

try feeding them with marine algae...

it works..

that what i feed my naso... at first it donwan eat... but saw my yellow tang eat it... the naso will soon follow it..

but my naso eat abit only... then donwan to eat... left over staff is eaten by my yellow tang...

but my naso is active... will swim around sometime stay in the centre of my tank... for quite sometimes... at least better then it hide rite..

thinking of upgrading to a 4x2x2 tank... but will burn a hole in my pocket... maybe in the future.. gaining experience now...

[roidan]

an anemone that is either pink tipped or bleached...4 days in tank already...moving around the rockwork and finally found a spot where it likes..my tomato clown was a tour guide for it....heheh

it is only after it stopped moving then i dare to slowly put my corals in from now...

[roidan]

[AquaRa]

yeah those nicely packed marine algae, $7, very effective

[Dispar_Anthias]

It is saddening to see it avoid food and starving itself. It really is a nightmare. Guess that will put me off PQ for some time till I feel confident enough to really care for them. I will keep on trying in the meantime to get the fella to feed. Just hoping.

Maybe you can try zooplankton, thats the main food for anthias in the wild

[sjsheng]

can give a try manz..

u wont regret..

[roidan]

seems that everything is running smooth...even the snails feel so comfy that they are laying eggs

[roidan]

today came back after dinner and saw the polyps of the sea fan open...faster go dose DT near the polyps.....hehehe

[roidan]

the black sun coral also opening its polyps

[roidan]

anyway, i happen to see this chart somewhere in my hard disk....maybe some bros here may be interested to know the colour temp...

[Nalin]

Hi Roidan,

Phew finally managed to go through 20 plus pages of your thread..blurry eye liao ( coming 4am liao ! )

I observe that the Ammonia alert that you are using ,you did not removed the protective patch ( center dot )

This will not work , as the center dot is the "thermometer" to trace for any element of Ammonia if you did not removed it.

The patch is protected to prevent wear and tear from Shipping and delivery.

Good nite...

[Achilles Tang]

an anemone that is either pink tipped or bleached...4 days in tank already...moving around the rockwork and finally found a spot where it likes..my tomato clown was a tour guide for it....heheh

it is only after it stopped moving then i dare to slowly put my corals in from now...

Looks like a Rose BTA

[roidan]

Hi Roidan,

Phew finally managed to go through 20 plus pages of your thread..blurry eye liao ( coming 4am liao ! )

I observe that the Ammonia alert that  you are using ,you did not removed the protective patch ( center dot )

This will not work , as the center dot is the "thermometer" to trace for any element of Ammonia if you did not removed it.

The patch is protected to prevent wear and tear from Shipping and delivery.

Good nite... 

actually hor...i did see a colour change as mentioned by some bros in the thread..the colour changed from yellow to light greenish....

there is a protective sheet as you said...but the protective sheet is the whole transparent white sheet that covered the whole unit...upon removing this transparent white sheet, if you still remove the center circle sticker that you suggested, then your ammonia will always be yellow (safe)...it is the circle yellow sticker that changes colour.....

whatever the case, whether to take out the center yellow circular sticker or not, it did changed colour even though i did not take out the circular sticker and thus showed its use anyway...well, cycling is already over long way back..so no problem....

i know petm$rt removed the center sticker....but somehow something tells me that the center sticker is the indicator that will turn colour....heheh...i think u see too many pages until you din notice the sticker change colour ah..hehe