Kikobananas Marine Tank

[pokmingsheng]

i was at GO today at about 430pm..

everyone was so busy unpacking corals..

got myself a Green Plate,

to accompany my Orange Plate..

not sure what other colours they do have in the market.

i heard there's also Pink..

didnt stay to look at the rest..

definately way out of my budget...

GO is one colourful shop on Shipment day!

[jackywongto]

did u get to see the zoas?

Was too tied up at work to go down today.

At 5;30, was thinking of making my way down but the sky was so dark, so went home instead.

[pokmingsheng]

did u get to see the zoas?

Was too tied up at work to go down today.

At 5;30, was thinking of making my way down but the sky was so dark, so went home instead.

nope..

they were still in the boxes..

only the pratas/brains were out when i left..

[pokmingsheng]

Tank currrently not in good condition,

so no updates for now..

give me one more month, i'll upload pics

made my long awaited maiden trip to JM today..

very quiet there..

lady boss in the room doing her stuff,

her maid outside changing water...

IMO, prices looked reasonable to me,

didnt find anything that caught my eye..

the only thing that caught my eye was the artificial LR,

there was a nice scape of artificial LR that can potentially be filled with lots of gems if i place that into my tank..

looks good..

price around $100++

left the place empty handed...

on the way back dropped by Reborn to repenish my salt mix..

met Ketchup and Desi there!!!

how nice to be able to meet fellow reefers at LFS..

kinda sad that my tank was wiped out last month..

told myself to be more consistent on my weekly husbandry,

and i hope my tank wont crash again...

[MarcoVan]

Tank currrently not in good condition,

so no updates for now..

give me one more month, i'll upload pics

made my long awaited maiden trip to JM today..

very quiet there..

lady boss in the room doing her stuff,

her maid outside changing water...

IMO, prices looked reasonable to me,

didnt find anything that caught my eye..

the only thing that caught my eye was the artificial LR,

there was a nice scape of artificial LR that can potentially be filled with lots of gems if i place that into my tank..

looks good..

price around $100++

left the place empty handed...

on the way back dropped by Reborn to repenish my salt mix..

met Ketchup and Desi there!!!

how nice to be able to meet fellow reefers at LFS..

kinda sad that my tank was wiped out last month..

told myself to be more consistent on my weekly husbandry,

and i hope my tank wont crash again...

ehh bro, why did your tank get wiped out?

I thought everything was still fine when you were pming regarding vodka dosing :X

Happy Reefing,

Marc J.

[teebs]

made my long awaited maiden trip to JM today..

very quiet there..

lady boss in the room doing her stuff,

her maid outside changing water...

IMO, prices looked reasonable to me,

didnt find anything that caught my eye..

the only thing that caught my eye was the artificial LR,

there was a nice scape of artificial LR that can potentially be filled with lots of gems if i place that into my tank..

looks good..

price around $100++

left the place empty handed...

kinda sad that my tank was wiped out last month..

told myself to be more consistent on my weekly husbandry,

and i hope my tank wont crash again...

Be careful of using the artificial LR. It is porous and traps a lot of water in it and the water that is trapped will not be able to circulate and may foul up in the long run. You can PM Indian Chief on this as he used the same artificial LR from JM previously.

What happened to your tank? Usually tanks will not crash for no reason.

[pokmingsheng]

i didnt post this officially on my thread..

but i told some of the reefers..

my fishes were wiped out due to ich..

and of all fishes, the mandrainfish was the first one to go..

every morning i woke up with a dead fish on the sandbed...

surprisingly, the only 2 that were surviving,

and with no white spot on their body at all,

are my blue and yellow tang...

they should be the first to go right?

anyways,

during that period i haven been doing my WC..

i've been feeding quite excessively..

wanted to catch the remaining fishes out for FW dip,

but i cant do it as my rock scape makes it difficult for me to catch them out..

furthermore during that period of time,

i was facing microbubbles problem, and super strong flow problems.. (resolved already)

the added stress made my fishes weak..

it was my bad, and i truely felt guilty about it..

so i tore down my whole tank,

rescaped again..

this time if there's any fishes that i would have to net out,

it would be much easier for me to do so...

surprisingly,

corals are doing fine..

opening as usual..

only one of my blasto not doing so well...

hopefully this restart would help me to pick up my loose pieces,

and bring everything together again...

stocking up is gonna take some time..

i've to learn how to be patient again

[jackywongto]

Kiko

If you are looking at artificial rock, make sure the pieces you get does not have large holes that fishes can swim inside.

My tank fouled up becoz of that.

Fishes swam in and died inside. The water inside the rock foul up and I had to strip down the entire tank to clear that mess.

But imo, for 2 footer, better to go for live rocks.

If you are keen on the smaller pieces, I have 2.

These are ok coz they do not have large holes.

sell you cheap cheap.

Hope your tank goes well.

Mine is kindda getting screwed coz the fiji rocks that I got was really bad.

now I bet my tank parameters must be quite jialat.

[pokmingsheng]

Let me introduce to everyone,

my new addition... Leopard Wrasse!

Got it from AM's latest shipment..

reserved last week, but only brought it home today...

wanted to let my tank stable down before i bring him in..

so here are some pictures...

acclimatizing it in the bag..

finally released it after about an hour..

after half an hour,

came back to take a look...

[pokmingsheng]

This is for you vincent...

caught it roaming in the middle of the night,

gave it a flash bang by turning on my lights..

quickly snap a picture of it..

hope he'll do a good job with my algae..

if not i'll have him for dinner next CNY

[pokmingsheng]

sole survivor of my crash...

can someone tell me if there's anything wrong with these white patches i see on him?

as far as i've seen,

never seen any white spot on him before..

[LaW]

i couldnt see properly from you pic available.

but from ur description and my experience on them.

could be sign of HLLE. if worst, from white to red patches and lastly gone.

[tian1974]

very nice your leopard wrasse..make me itchy hands already..hehe..is that a seahare? huge!

[yikai]

yes law is right. kiko, your yellow tang is suffering from head and lateral line erosion, aka HLLE.

nutritional and water condition related disease. improve water quality and feed your yellow tang alot of nori, green stuff and pellets, flakes etc that contain some form of fibre. improve it's diet and variety of food offered. not very severe yet so still got chance to salvage. do it fast otherwise the damage will be irreversible.

[jackywongto]

i couldnt see properly from you pic available.

but from ur description and my experience on them.

could be sign of HLLE. if worst, from white to red patches and lastly gone.

yeah seems like HLLE. recall it was due to bad water conditions.

if water conditions do not improve, it might get worse and the patch will spread to a larger area.

will take quite some time to heal.

[jackywongto]

nice leopard wrasse

Those keen, better go grab it fast at AM.

Left only about 3 I think

[bugattilambo]

wow nice leopard

is it feeding? plan to get one but afraid it wouldnt eat

[pokmingsheng]

i couldnt see properly from you pic available.

but from ur description and my experience on them.

could be sign of HLLE. if worst, from white to red patches and lastly gone.

yes law is right. kiko, your yellow tang is suffering from head and lateral line erosion, aka HLLE.

nutritional and water condition related disease. improve water quality and feed your yellow tang alot of nori, green stuff and pellets, flakes etc that contain some form of fibre. improve it's diet and variety of food offered. not very severe yet so still got chance to salvage. do it fast otherwise the damage will be irreversible.

yeah seems like HLLE. recall it was due to bad water conditions.

if water conditions do not improve, it might get worse and the patch will spread to a larger area.

will take quite some time to heal.

arghh.. so sad to hear that..

NO3 currently at around 25ppm..

PO4 at 0ppm...

guess i've to try to reduce it further..

feeding for my only fish has already been to the minimum..

gonna do a WC again tomorrow..

hopefully it falls further..

so the remedy to this is,

improve water quality,

and feed it well with nutritious food?

[pokmingsheng]

very nice your leopard wrasse..make me itchy hands already..hehe..is that a seahare? huge!

its an abalone..

got it from vincent..

didnt know it'll be so huge..

but its doing fine,

so far not knocking anything over,

and doing a good job on my tank walls..

[pokmingsheng]

nice leopard wrasse

Those keen, better go grab it fast at AM.

Left only about 3 I think

hope they bring in Males in future..

but i doubt so right...

[pokmingsheng]

wow nice leopard

is it feeding? plan to get one but afraid it wouldnt eat

its feeding...

ah heng was showing me..

didnt get to see the rest..

was just staring hard at mine..

when my wrasse popped one pellet into his mouth,

i went "ok! i'll take it!".. haha...

[bugattilambo]

hope they bring in Males in future..

but i doubt so right...

Males will have but hmm for leopard wrasse I think that the females

coloration like much nicer more chio .

[yikai]

hope they bring in Males in future..

but i doubt so right...

Male splendid leopards are very rarely brought in. if brought in, usually in very few pieces and large sizes

Males will have but hmm for leopard wrasse I think that the females

coloration like much nicer more chio .

for leopard wrasses, some species are not sexually dimorphic. meaning both male and females look the same. examples are choati leopards.

some like meleagris and splendid have males and females looking different. and in these 2 species, the males are very seldom brought in.

[jackywongto]

if you buy 2 female, one of them will morph into male later......

[yikai]

if you buy 2 female, one of them will morph into male later......

not 100%. chances of them fighting each other halfway is higher than chances of one of them turning into a male. and it takes a long time for one of them to morph.

but you can try. it's not impossible.