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    WTG fish tank

    in Sell off/Pasar Malam Shop

    Posted

    HI Guys

    Have attached small fish tank to give away. Just tested and is leak free. Size: 11" width 16" length and 12" height, 8mm thicknees.

    Be good to use as QT tank and take only if you really need it. Collection be at Commonwealth area. PM me if you keen and 2 cans of coke as toekn be nice :)

    cheers

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    F....itchy

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    yeap. this is the one and there is different brands as well. It works for me even if i dose in main tank. I've chose to ignore if there any sudden apperance of "white spots". just do water change and ensure water perimeter is in tune. BTW, i run 50mg ozone as well.

    cheers

    F....itchy

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    Its true that prevention is better than cure but everyone have their own remedies and "cure" for white spots. For my case, i just ignore the white spots and ensure that the water quality and conditions are in prime condition.

    There is this medicine called "triple sulfur tablet". tried a long time back seems to work very well for white spots. anyone with experience with this medicine?

    F....itchy

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    After these few years of reefing. As with a few other reefers, we came to the conclusion "white spots" will always be in the system. As long fishes are feeding well and water conditions alright, just leave them alone :rolleyes:

    High death rate

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    Are we allow to indicate which LFS you referring to here? Just like the Tampiness Push cart incident, at least we know which LFS you referring to. This might serve as a notice to the LFS and if they are in this forum, they might want to clarify themself and fellow reefers will be more aware as well.

    Weekly Update - 28th Feb to 06th March 2011

    in Weekly LFS Stocks Report / LFS Info Centre

    Posted

    Hey lemon

    great. No hurry. Lets just have the common fish available in LFS, common name and scientific name. a short description why it's easy, moderate and difficult. Hopefully, with this little "bible", reefers can print it out or download into mobile and bring to LFS.

    I've told goudian and need to discuss how we can channel this efforts to support sgreef and MASS.

    Busy in the afternoon. Give me 1 hr. I'll complete the list at night and send u a pm

    Weekly Update - 28th Feb to 06th March 2011

    in Weekly LFS Stocks Report / LFS Info Centre

    Posted

    Well written bro but it's almost impossible to learn and know All the species available. Like I'm more familiar with Tangs than butterflies fish. However, what more disturbing to me is even some experienced Lfs is giving advices saying they are veryeasy to keep. Still remember I was told ornate butterflies eat pellets easily!

    I've a suggestion, if there are fellow reefers who willing to list and indicate all the common fishes local lfs bring in, categorize them. Eg easy or difficult , refrain from buying. I can volunteer to lay them out into a small booklet in PDF formats. By doing so, all reefers be able to bring the PDF along and not having to rely on the so call "experts lfs owner" perhaps a token donation to MASS be nice. Let me discuss with goudian as I think it's in line with Mass mission of responsible reefing

    Cheerz

    relax bro.

    you will never be able to prevent the collection. but you can certainly reduce the importing of them to as low as we possibly can.

    this is how it works. the collectors will catch all the different fish species (including obligate coralivores) and list them out in a stocklist. this stocklist will be sent to the LFS as an invoice.

    The lfs will order the fishes they want from that said invoice, and wether or not they order the obligate coralivores, it does not matter. here's a couple of scenariors.

    1) the LFS did not order them, and so they will not come. this is good. but this still does not stop the capture of the fish.

    2) the LFS did not order them, but they still come anyway. the supplier just put them in the fish shipment.

    i've placed many orders for different LFS before and i understand how the importation work. and the above 2 scenarios i've seen many times.

    we can only play our part by not buying them and hope that over the years, the collection will stop.

    but to be honest, it all boils down to ignorance. ignorant divers who don't know that these fishes are impossible to keep, and ignorant reefers who don't know that these fishes are impossible to keep. it's up to us ultimately, as the consumer, who have proper education and comprehension to learn and read up on not to buy this fish. it is not the philippine and indonesian collectors fault because most of them are uneducated and cant comprehand english. so expecting them to learn this on the internet or books is not going to work. instead, they will stop catching from experience if the fishes cannot sell. this is where the hobbyist come in.

    butterflies are always the unpopular bunch.and if ever they are going to be bought, sadly, i've seen hundreds of reefers jump at the opportunity to buy an ornate butterflyfish when it is deemed impossible. yet, the longnose butterflyfish which is so so easy to keep and reef safe, are always left to die because ppl they are not reef safe and difficult to keep.

    the internet is full of resources but the truth is, many people simply too lazy to research before they buy. then they bring the fish home, and then all the complaints start streaming out.

    and also global warming will probably kill these fishes faster. at the rate at which our acropora corals are dying, these obligate coralivores will die along with the acropora.

    and FYI to any hobbyist reading this. i'm sure some of you may say "oh, so and so manage to get his feeding on pellets and survive 2 months"

    well just a reminder. for every one obligate coralivore that survive, hundreds more die. you think it's easy and it's luck but it's not. when you go down into the behaviour and the overall physical adaptation of these species then you will understand that it's impossible.

    anyway if it's any consolation, these obligate coral eating butterflies are generally unpopular in the states and japan where people do research before buying. it's only in asian countries that people don't do research and generally buy for fun. perhaps because it's so cheap here that people take forgranted. and these butterflies are very abundant and common in the wild.

    ok sorry for the off topic. cheers and if i offended anyone in my speech, well don't be. i'm not targeting any reefers and if anyone here is guilty of buying them before, well, they died right? so learn from there and don't buy them anymore :)

    Lemon's butterflyfish dominated reef

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    This is really sad :(. Freeze it to find out the cause of death? could it be due to compression problem on aircraft? luggage holding area air pressure is not similiar to cabin air.

    It was solded to me... It started breathing heavily the 2nd night and didnt make it pass that night.. The corpse is still in my freezer...

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