Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

[jackywongto]

The MacDonald Uncle/Auntie brigade...

wah you good...... 1 sentence hit 4 - 5 persons......

[tian1974]

Ok bugis 12:00 sharp.

outside MacDonald again.

Hope I can find it this time

u dun know where is bugis mcdonald's? u stand in the middle of the fountain and wait for us ya..hehe

[raydiative]

wah you good...... 1 sentence hit 4 - 5 persons......

he aiming you la..

[tian1974]

peter win liao lor...

[Ketchup]

Nice additions to your tank...

U didn't get the walking dendro???

Was thinking abt it but i think not worth it... It's just rare but not very nice so didnt get

[Ketchup]

actually we can go Chef Daniels at Illuma... apparently has some set lunch...

[jackywongto]

he aiming you la..

he stated uncle/ auntie.

auntie is definitely ==> desi

uncle...... either justin or me. I will leave it there.

[jackywongto]

actually we can go Chef Daniels at Illuma... apparently has some set lunch...

Are you joining the lunch Ketchup?

[tian1974]

he stated uncle/ auntie.

auntie is definitely ==> desi

uncle...... either justin or me. I will leave it there.

u both can take the titles. i dun want. hehe

[Ketchup]

Are you joining the lunch Ketchup?

Shd be ok... Friday Japan is holiday, i doubt anyone will call and bother me

[jackywongto]

Shd be ok... Friday Japan is holiday, i doubt anyone will call and bother me

Maybe we should all take afternoon off and play MJ

[karlyau]

wah got lunch outting le ... me wana join too kaka ... must enjoy now while waiting to start work ... if start work can enjoy like now le kaka ...

[jackywongto]

wah got lunch outting le ... me wana join too kaka ... must enjoy now while waiting to start work kaka ...

K K I add you in!

[karlyau]

kaka okok ....

[desideria]

bored.. so uploaded some pics that ketchup took yesterday.

And to keep track of our bioload... here is a listing of what we have so far ...

FISH

1. 1 TOmato CLown

2. 2 Black Oscillarious Clown fish

3. 1 Flame Hawk

4. 1 Green Mandarin

5. 1 Blue Tang

6. 1 Yellow Tang

7. 1. Scooter blenny

8. 1 Algae Blenny

9. 1 Enginner Goby

10. 1 Male Laboutie Fairy wrasse

11. 1 Golden Rhomboid Female wrasse

12. 2 Flame Wrasse <- 1 alpha male 1 turning male

13. 1 Doctor wrasse

14. 2 lienetus Fairy wrasse 1 alpha male 1 female <-- pray they survive!! pls oh fishy angels look over them!

15. 1 Yellow wrasse <-- alpha male

16. 1 6-line Wrasse

17. 1 8-line wrasse

18. 1 Green Emerald wrasse

19. 6 Bartlet Anthias

Total number of fish ( hopefully will not change after posting this ) is 27.

Invertebrates

1. 3 starfish

2. 8 Narsi Snails

3. 1 Strawberry Crab

4. 3 Bumble Bee Snails

5. 2 Turbo snails and 3-4 miscellaneous snails no idea WHAT THEY ARE<-- hitch hikers

Coral

1. 1 Orange lobo

2. 1 Blue Sea Fan

3. 1 purple Sea Fan

4. 1 Hammer

5. 1 TOrch

6. 1 Maxima Clam

7. 1 Crocacea Clam

8. 1 Coco worm

9. 3 Birdsnests ( 2 pink and 1 purplish green)

10. 1 True Octo

11. 1 Red BTA

12. 1 PInk Alveopora

13. 1 Red Gornio

14. 1 Blue Gornio

15. 2 Super Suns

16. 1 Aussie Duncan

17. 1 Orange Monticap

18. 1 Elegance

19. 1 Orange Plate Coral

20. 1 normal Clove

21. 1 red blasto (about 6 heads)

22. Assorted 4-5 Orange Yumas and 2 slighly purple Yumas

23. Assorted green, orange, blue and yellow ricordeas on 3-4 rocks

24. 1 Cats eye bubble

25. 4-5 rocks of assorted zoos ( Orange bam bams, eagle eyes, common figi zoos and other common indo zoos which are pink and green)

26. 2 Acroporas (which I think are gonna uplorry pretty soon.... so much for trying SPS!)

27. 1 Strawberry Cauliflower

[jackywongto]

No wonder your nitrate so high

[desideria]

I think my fish load is as high as the amount of fish luke has in his 2 feet CUBE.

[[V]tEc]

i think ur bioload is still okie for ur tank size. i have the same number of fishes in my 4ft. biggest fish is a 6inch black tang. my NO3 is currently at 20. trying to bring down using sulfur denitrator. but i also have abt 100kg of live rocks. reason for ur high NO3 may be due to u using very little LR as i can see most of ur rocks r replica rocks.... maybe u can try getting biohome to dump into ur sump.

[Ketchup]

yes, i was telling desi that we can put in more liverock and prob reduce feeding

We like to feed the fishes, esp when they just gone in.. but will reduce the feeding a little

[teebs]

yes, i was telling desi that we can put in more liverock and prob reduce feeding

We like to feed the fishes, esp when they just gone in.. but will reduce the feeding a little

Have you tried using Prodibio Bio Clean/Bio Digest? Seems to be effective in reducing the NO3. Also, you can try AZ NO3 to get the nitrates down but it will take around 2-3 weeks.

[tian1974]

ur fishes outnumber ur bacteria..hehe

[comycus]

I think your fish load is ok lei... do more % water changes to reduce it?

If I were you and I were kiasu, I would:

1) Add 1-2kg of biohome in sump

2) Dose 2 bottles worth of AZ NO3 according to instructions (prob worth 2 months for your tank)

3) Dose prodibio regularly for the next 6 months

Based on my experience, never had any problems with nitrates even with insane amount of feedings

[desideria]

Yuppers we are using Prodi Bio Digest & Bio Tim, doing it alternate week. doing WC weekly for now. Or should I dose the prodibio stuff weekly instead of bi-weekly?

Also I decided to try another product from the Coral Shop which is supposed to be their version of AZ NO3... I started on it 2 months ago but I stopped when we started trying the pbts as I didn't want to add anymore percieved stress.. so I am going to start dosing it constantly for another 2 months and see what happens... if it doesn't work, i'd try the famous : AZ NO3...

the product i'm trying is this : http://www.coral-shop.com/shop.php?code=detail&detail=221#detail

Thanks guys and I hope to bring down my NO3 to a 10-20 range from the current 50 ... or it could be even WORSE..... in 2-3 months.

[teebs]

Yuppers we are using Prodi Bio Digest & Bio Tim, doing it alternate week. doing WC weekly for now. Or should I dose the prodibio stuff weekly instead of bi-weekly?

Also I decided to try another product from the Coral Shop which is supposed to be their version of AZ NO3... I started on it 2 months ago but I stopped when we started trying the pbts as I didn't want to add anymore percieved stress.. so I am going to start dosing it constantly for another 2 months and see what happens... if it doesn't work, i'd try the famous : AZ NO3...

the product i'm trying is this : http://www.coral-shop.com/shop.php?code=detail&detail=221#detail

Thanks guys and I hope to bring down my NO3 to a 10-20 range from the current 50 ... or it could be even WORSE..... in 2-3 months.

U should dose Bio clean weekly if your nitrates is high. Once you get your nitrates down to 2-5ppm you can dose bi weekly.

The Coral Shop product is from GO?

I used to have nitrate level of 50-100ppm in my tank. After using AZ NO3 for 2 months, I managed to bring it down to 10-20 ppm and then I used Bio Clean and brought it down to 2-5ppm.

[Ketchup]

think we get from RB..