EDG 3FT Passion

[EDG]

Clapper shrimp getting comfy..

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My maroon got her new partner!! did lots of research and introduced a baby maroon slowly and it paid off!!

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my 2 inch baby squammy!! hopefully it will be able to last.. only a week old..

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my new sailfin..

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orange star basking on the rocks..

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my overgrown red zoas frag...

[Reefzzz]

Purple firegoby

bro, so envy of your purple firegoby. i never seems to be able to keep them alive. They usually disappear and hid into the rocks after i introduce them into the tank n never seen again

[Vlamingi_cont]

Hi Vlamingi bro, yup, the coraline algae will take some time.. hehe.. ya just a newbie, only 1 year odd into the hobby...

Nice job for a newbie... Perhaps you could add the Part A-B by aquapharm... It helps to make your pH stable and also maintain Calcium and Alkalinity at acceptable levels which help accelerate coraline algae growth...

[EDG]

bro, so envy of your purple firegoby. i never seems to be able to keep them alive. They usually disappear and hid into the rocks after i introduce them into the tank n never seen again

ya, they are usually quite timid, this goby has been with me for more than a year, used to hide alot in my 2ft tank, only comes out to feed, but it's happier in my 3FT , almost out for the whole day, only sleep at night..

[Solo77]

Nice setup. Can see that you must have lots of patience in the setup. Ya, purple goby is shy. Mine also hiding and will surface in the morning to eat. Always compared mine with those selling in the shop....somehow i feel those in the shop are more purple....maybe mine eat untill too fat and the colour has been diluted.....any advice to maintain their colour? Thanks.

ya, they are usually quite timid, this goby has been with me for more than a year, used to hide alot in my 2ft tank, only comes out to feed, but it's happier in my 3FT , almost out for the whole day, only sleep at night..

[EDG]

Nice setup. Can see that you must have lots of patience in the setup. Ya, purple goby is shy. Mine also hiding and will surface in the morning to eat. Always compared mine with those selling in the shop....somehow i feel those in the shop are more purple....maybe mine eat untill too fat and the colour has been diluted.....any advice to maintain their colour? Thanks.

Luckily so far, I've been able to maintain/improve the colour of my fishes. I try to feed them small portions several times a day , as fishes in the nature tend to feed throughout the day, in a aquarium setting, of cos, that is not possible due to our work schedule and so on, but I do make an effort to replicate that as close as possible. As I understand from some reading, this would help the fishes to retain the nutrients/proteins much better than a 1-time heavy feeding as they tend to defecate food at an increased rate over a long period. I also try to provide a balance diet of high protein food such as cyclopleeze and mysis together with pellets and seaweeds. Perhaps you should try varying their diet?

[Solo77]

Thanks for the advice. I mixed cyclopleeze(dry) with frozen cube mysis and brine and mixed with vitamin and garlic guard. Feed them morning and night. Also feed them mixed pellet - spectrum, formula 2 and another brand from AM. Also feed them flake cyclopleeze. This will be their weekday diet. For weekend, i will give them live brine shrimp or mysis(red colour one...always confused....wahahaha). For seaweed, they dont like or dont eat. So i will buy red bamboo for them. My flame angel only eat pellet.....so everyday got to feed a variety to suit different fishes in my tank....purple goby got different orgin? maybe like royal gamma - braz. is not as attractive as carib. one. Anyway...seeing the fishes swimming happily....one will feel happy also. Me also will be upgrading from 2 ft cube to 3 ft once i get my new flat....may need your advice on the scaping...hehe

Luckily so far, I've been able to maintain/improve the colour of my fishes. I try to feed them small portions several times a day , as fishes in the nature tend to feed throughout the day, in a aquarium setting, of cos, that is not possible due to our work schedule and so on, but I do make an effort to replicate that as close as possible. As I understand from some reading, this would help the fishes to retain the nutrients/proteins much better than a 1-time heavy feeding as they tend to defecate food at an increased rate over a long period. I also try to provide a balance diet of high protein food such as cyclopleeze and mysis together with pellets and seaweeds. Perhaps you should try varying their diet?

[Solo77]

Err....any method to try fishes to eat seaweed?

Thanks for the advice. I mixed cyclopleeze(dry) with frozen cube mysis and brine and mixed with vitamin and garlic guard. Feed them morning and night. Also feed them mixed pellet - spectrum, formula 2 and another brand from AM. Also feed them flake cyclopleeze. This will be their weekday diet. For weekend, i will give them live brine shrimp or mysis(red colour one...always confused....wahahaha). For seaweed, they dont like or dont eat. So i will buy red bamboo for them. My flame angel only eat pellet.....so everyday got to feed a variety to suit different fishes in my tank....purple goby got different orgin? maybe like royal gamma - braz. is not as attractive as carib. one. Anyway...seeing the fishes swimming happily....one will feel happy also. Me also will be upgrading from 2 ft cube to 3 ft once i get my new flat....may need your advice on the scaping...hehe

[EDG]

Err....any method to try fishes to eat seaweed?

what i did initially is to cut/chop the seaweed into very small pieces, like flakes, and i feed it together with their normal food mix. after sometime, the fishes will recognize it as food, and now i'm able to feed the seaweed on its own and in bigger pieces.. hopefully that works for u!

[Solo77]

Thanks bro. Will go to daiso or ntuc to get nori... and try out...if fishes dont like, i will consume myself....cook soup...kekeke

what i did initially is to cut/chop the seaweed into very small pieces, like flakes, and i feed it together with their normal food mix. after sometime, the fishes will recognize it as food, and now i'm able to feed the seaweed on its own and in bigger pieces.. hopefully that works for u!

[sunny03]

Thanks bro. Will go to daiso or ntuc to get nori... and try out...if fishes dont like, i will consume myself....cook soup...kekeke

solo you seem to live in SK if you want can go to pounglo to collect seaweeds if you dont mind the polluation there

ahahhaha

[Solo77]

Bro EDG, sorry to borrow your thread.

Sunny03, me getting those dried one lar....punggol beach...dont want lar....hmm...maybe can find one spot and cultivate clean one....wahahaha.

solo you seem to live in SK if you want can go to pounglo to collect seaweeds if you dont mind the polluation there

ahahhaha

[Vlamingi_cont]

solo you seem to live in SK if you want can go to pounglo to collect seaweeds if you dont mind the polluation there

ahahhaha

Hey beo sunny dun mind I interrupt your chat with solo... Actually Punggol Beach nothing take one except SOME pls take note some live clams not the giant clams but those like edible ones...

[EDG]

Past couple of weeks has been busy for me.. My 2 mth old Teco TR20 has some thermostat issue and it took a couple of services for them to fix it.. fortunately i had a external thermostat to cut off my chiller at 24 degrees, if not, my poor fishes would be gone..