Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

[yikai]

BIG WLECOME BACK MY FRIENDS

[DUCADOS]

Thanks guys... havent bought anything or update since August... keeping fingers crossed...

If everything ok, can start chiong LFS again

If water stable,condition allow u to do so...

Mai tu liao lo... Lol...

Chiong liao lo wahaha

[desideria]

LOL !! spiderman gloves!!! It was those coral gloves to protect the arms and hands when handling LS.. bought it JUST IN CASE need... but most of the time I just reach all the way in with my bare hands la.. can't be bothered.. until one day my finger nail kena whack by the pistol shrimp, I started using THAT... as at first I thought I had a mantis shrimp in my tank.

Managed to catch the shrimp during the decomissioning of the tank and here it is before I unceremoniously ended it's life....

I didn't use shrimp during my current cycling.. just throw in lots of Fish food and hope it rots.. I can see some of them rotting liow... hope everything is in time for the fish move on monday evening. The last time I cycled "properly" although after 10 days there was a spike of ammonia then it all dropped as per normal.. but this time... there was no spike so to speak... I just hope it's properly done.... all my precious wrasses and anthias! and my Blue Sea PIG!

*cross fingers*

anyway, I am also engaging GREEN CHAPTER to hook up the water feature in front of my house. Here is a pic of it. I can't wait to get it up and running as since it'e been raining, there is always water ponding and I have to manually scoop it out to prevent mosquito breeding. I just hope that Jake/Roland can come down ASAP to get it done. Been dropping in some lemon grass essential oils on the left over bits I can't scoop out to chase away those pesky mossies!!!! I kena bitten until now ketchup calls me a blotchy anthias.. basket.

[yikai]

LOL !! spiderman gloves!!! It was those coral gloves to protect the arms and hands when handling LS.. bought it JUST IN CASE need... but most of the time I just reach all the way in with my bare hands la.. can't be bothered.. until one day my finger nail kena whack by the pistol shrimp, I started using THAT... as at first I thought I had a mantis shrimp in my tank.

Managed to catch the shrimp during the decomissioning of the tank and here it is before I unceremoniously ended it's life....

I didn't use shrimp during my current cycling.. just throw in lots of Fish food and hope it rots.. I can see some of them rotting liow... hope everything is in time for the fish move on monday evening. The last time I cycled "properly" although after 10 days there was a spike of ammonia then it all dropped as per normal.. but this time... there was no spike so to speak... I just hope it's properly done.... all my precious wrasses and anthias! and my Blue Sea PIG!

*cross fingers*

anyway, I am also engaging GREEN CHAPTER to hook up the water feature in front of my house. Here is a pic of it. I can't wait to get it up and running as since it'e been raining, there is always water ponding and I have to manually scoop it out to prevent mosquito breeding. I just hope that Jake/Roland can come down ASAP to get it done. Been dropping in some lemon grass essential oils on the left over bits I can't scoop out to chase away those pesky mossies!!!! I kena bitten until now ketchup calls me a blotchy anthias.. basket.

wah nice! water feature?

[Ketchup]

Lemon.. this is done by previous owner... she did it up and left it like this, no pump etc. I think Jane already asked Green Chapter to fix up a pump and then the water will flow back down... maybe keep 2 small koi fishes for fun.

[Harlequinmania]

Welcome back desi and ketchup .. Looking forward to see more update here soon.

[desideria]

can't wait to cheong LFS and then can REALLY update with marine fishy stuff!!! Hope to see you larry , wilson, qiangz, kiko, lemon and EVERYbody @ LFS soon!

[puppet]

can't wait to cheong LFS and then can REALLY update with marine fishy stuff!!! Hope to see you larry , wilson, qiangz, kiko, lemon and EVERYbody @ LFS soon!

hows the ecolamp?

doing good still?

[qiang]

Lemon.. this is done by previous owner... she did it up and left it like this, no pump etc. I think Jane already asked Green Chapter to fix up a pump and then the water will flow back down... maybe keep 2 small koi fishes for fun.

y not convert it into a qt hurhur

[peacemaker]

You should have used the pistol shrimp for tank cycling.

[ming69]

Lemon.. this is done by previous owner... she did it up and left it like this, no pump etc. I think Jane already asked Green Chapter to fix up a pump and then the water will flow back down... maybe keep 2 small koi fishes for fun.

A couple of Nemos better. The waterfall thingy use as algae scrubber.

[klyve]

A couple of Nemos better. The waterfall thingy use as algae scrubber.

LOL totally agree with you sis...

Nice water feature you have

Anyway nice scaping looking forward to your updates...

[MarcoVan]

wow landed house! swee bo desi! hahaha

Let me know if you need help with your tank. Free to supply free labour

[Terryz_]

LOL !! spiderman gloves!!! It was those coral gloves to protect the arms and hands when handling LS.. bought it JUST IN CASE need... but most of the time I just reach all the way in with my bare hands la.. can't be bothered.. until one day my finger nail kena whack by the pistol shrimp, I started using THAT... as at first I thought I had a mantis shrimp in my tank.

Managed to catch the shrimp during the decomissioning of the tank and here it is before I unceremoniously ended it's life....

I didn't use shrimp during my current cycling.. just throw in lots of Fish food and hope it rots.. I can see some of them rotting liow... hope everything is in time for the fish move on monday evening. The last time I cycled "properly" although after 10 days there was a spike of ammonia then it all dropped as per normal.. but this time... there was no spike so to speak... I just hope it's properly done.... all my precious wrasses and anthias! and my Blue Sea PIG!

*cross fingers*

anyway, I am also engaging GREEN CHAPTER to hook up the water feature in front of my house. Here is a pic of it. I can't wait to get it up and running as since it'e been raining, there is always water ponding and I have to manually scoop it out to prevent mosquito breeding. I just hope that Jake/Roland can come down ASAP to get it done. Been dropping in some lemon grass essential oils on the left over bits I can't scoop out to chase away those pesky mossies!!!! I kena bitten until now ketchup calls me a blotchy anthias.. basket.

Nice water feature.... LOL... Make it into a Marine Pond... LOL...

[pokmingsheng]

Lemon.. this is done by previous owner... she did it up and left it like this, no pump etc. I think Jane already asked Green Chapter to fix up a pump and then the water will flow back down... maybe keep 2 small koi fishes for fun.

dont keep koi..

keep turtles..

another idea like what most of them mentioned,

have a pond of clownfishes!

it'll look nice..

my gf's home has a pond similar to yours,

low maintainance, nice to see...

[peacemaker]

I would think a pond of damsels will be better. Gotta be very hard working to maintain the WHITE water fall wall though...

[desideria]

wah 2 salt water areas? I think I peng san already You guys come and maintain for me la.... LOL:eyebrow:

... anyway Green Chapter too busy this weekend so I'm arranging for them to come this following week to hook it up. I hope their assumptions of the water flow and existing piping is correct since I have ZILCH plans from my seller about how it was originally done up. No la, we want some koi.... my parents like it and just 2 small ones first... know zilch about freshwater so just 2 small ones.. and slowly does it.

Algae SCRUBBER outside? wah liow..... My parents complaining about the tank stuff all over the place.. ... AHAHHAHAH ... well... update next week or so when the water feature is up and the fishes are back in..... I see the stuff in the tank rotting ( white film everything).

When I test with my Salifert kits, I get the following results just this morning :

ammonia and nitrite is zero,

nitrate is about 10-20ppm,

phosphate is 0.028ppm

KH : 7DKH

PH : 8.1

SG : 1.024

and oh yes, the ecolamp.. is still alive and running... been turning on moonlight the past week since tank is cycling, turned on some blue light today for a while for the corals to get used to some daylight once the fishes go in.

Kept my Gisseman in my store room behind.. JUST IN CASE.

[hellokitty]

wah 2 salt water areas? I think I peng san already You guys come and maintain for me la.... LOL:eyebrow:

... anyway Green Chapter too busy this weekend so I'm arranging for them to come this following week to hook it up. I hope their assumptions of the water flow and existing piping is correct since I have ZILCH plans from my seller about how it was originally done up. No la, we want some koi.... my parents like it and just 2 small ones first... know zilch about freshwater so just 2 small ones.. and slowly does it.

Algae SCRUBBER outside? wah liow..... My parents complaining about the tank stuff all over the place.. ... AHAHHAHAH ... well... update next week or so when the water feature is up and the fishes are back in..... I see the stuff in the tank rotting ( white film everything).

When I test with my Salifert kits, I get the following results just this morning :

ammonia and nitrite is zero,

nitrate is about 10-20ppm,

phosphate is 0.028ppm

KH : 7DKH

PH : 8.1

SG : 1.024

and oh yes, the ecolamp.. is still alive and running... been turning on moonlight the past week since tank is cycling, turned on some blue light today for a while for the corals to get used to some daylight once the fishes go in.

Kept my Gisseman in my store room behind.. JUST IN CASE.

nice house,welcome come back.

[wilsontantw]

Do I hear a housewarming or tank warming soon??

[comycus]

Wooh Desi! when ure done with this side of the tank, must remember to build the other side of the L-Tank k?

like i said, u will have no problems with drop in coil! lol

[desideria]

Well, the move of the fish back to the main tank is finally done... Except for 1 casualty... ironically one of the healthiest fishes which was the yellow wrasse.. it had grown twice it's size and started having alpha male markings.. found it at the bottom fo the blue tub last night when I got back home from work

Hope that everything remains stable and the fishes get used to the NEW rockscape and water... fingers crossed that they become happy critters again and I can go back to LFSING!

And here's a vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-hIA2ccq0

[pokmingsheng]

your sea pig looks like the king there

[iskay]

Better chiong fast before your LS get too comfy with the new scape. Especially if you intend to introduce some timid specimens.

[desideria]

Just thought i'd update with some pics... thank you to Milch for his elegance.. it's opening up nicely.... quite disconcerting as he had fed it a dead fish beforehand and when I brought it back, i could see part of the dead fish sticking out of the elegance.. eeks. oh well ..

HEre it is..

some pics of the fishes!

1 part of my zoo area since now it's a top down view... no proper camera so I'm using my Iphone 4 to take pics ..

And since last Sunday I realise that my Golden Rhomboid has a swollen eye. I couldn't catch it that day but I managed to fish it out on Monday when I came home after work to find it listless on the sand. It didn't even resist being netted. Anyway, I thought I had lost the poor thing as it was so lifeless and limp.... so I began syringing in Mysis ( soaked in garlic Guard and Selcon) every morning before I go to work and evening when I come back... and lo and behold.. the last 2 days ( been a week) it has begun to swim a bit in it's beta box.. everytime I walk by the tank, it will come out thinking there's food... I really hope it recovers. Fingers Crossed.

[pokmingsheng]

nice spot for the zoas..

my zoas that are near the surface, and those on the frag rack tend to grow faster...

i realise they do better with strong lights...