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    Joe's Reef

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    welcome back snowy!

    :P Hey... your dimensions are exactly the same as my setup as well ^5! :) your livestock will love all the little caves to dart into whenever you turn around and stare at them from your table. LOL

    Do I spot a YT and a NAso Tang in there already? :)

    :whistle

    Desi

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Hey all,

    need some advice here. The scenario is this.

    Right now, I have a small RBTA on a small rock hosting my little tomato clown in our refrigum with the lights on during the day and off at night of course. And they have been in there for the past 3 days.. hand feeding the anamonea with brine/mysis. And throwing in pellet food for my tomato... I don't know whether he eats or not cause I dun see him eating as the pellets land on the sand of my refrigum but when I check an hour later, the pellets are gone.. whether covered by sand or he cheongz after mommy leaves... god knows!

    AND then yesterday, we finally added our 2 black osci clown fish into the main display which has been on reserve for us for about 2 weeks @ reborn. :P They are really small .. about 2-2.5cm in length at most. but very cute. WE couldn't find a small hadonni carpet to host them so the poor things are just swimming around our big tank. Observed the whole of sunday and the tangs, yellow wrasse and firefish never bothered them at all.

    I am hoping to get a host for them soon but because i"m afraid my tomato would whack them.. I am holding back putting in the RBTA and tomato into the main tank until the black osci has been in the main tank for at least a week. Is this the right way? Since the tomato is in last, by RIGHT it should not whack the already "resident" fish right? I assume even if I can't find a little hadonni carpet for my 2 black osci, they should be alright swimming around?

    Last night, when lights out, they were still swimming around and not picking a small corner to "sleep"... I'm worried that they would "swim themselves to death".. :paiseh: since there is no host.... hahhah.. I know it sounds wierd but hey... we all need a place to sleep! :P

    :thanks:

    Desi.

    HEre's a pic of my 2 babies before collection. :P

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    3 by 1.5 by 2

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    HAHAha do I see eggcrate there too? :P I sense the EGGCITEMENT. :P Congrats on the new tank... :upsidedown:

    Please do your water parameters checks with test kits every now and then to make sure that your cycling done. Try not to use fish la.... nothing would set your spirits crashing down if you see dead fish in your tank.. you want to throw in something.. THROW IN DEAD PRAWNS to help cycle your tank!!!

    oh yes, and deshell them before you throw it in.

    :) Desi

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    hi, i m running a 4ft tank with 6 tangs inside, 1 black, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 blue, 1 powder blue, n 1 hybrid powder....my brown,yellow and black tang leave the powder tangs alone....powder blue sometimes chase the blue tang. n the hybrid is afraid of the powder blue, so he will avoid him when swimming in the open. but so far the powder blue is leaving the hybrid alone....how i add in my tangs? hybrid was added first since he is the smallest. followed by the blue tang...after 1 wk, the other 4 tangs were added...

    Thanks all the input.... :) We will reconsider adding powders for the moment. Yes, BEst to wait for a while more. Keeping fingers crossed that the desire does not overcome logic ALTHOUGH we will quarantine ... :P but still... .. as you all know the sight of a beautiful fish sometimes causes logical override and before you know it, you walk out of the shop with the bag of fish.

    :thanks:

    Desi

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    SO it really doesn't matter whether I add the powders first Then the YT or the YT then the powders? Just have to find means to reduce the aggression towards each other.... Btw.. I think the glass of the tank already act as a mirror because the first 3 days the BT was in the tank, it constantly banged itself against the glass thinking it's another BT but it's own reflection! :P

    HAH I thought YT is more aggresive than BT.. lol which is why I added in the BT first..

    Because if I throw in my YT now, it would mean another 30+ days before the Powders go in after quarantine. :P

    a tad confused at ze moment. :paiseh:

    Cheers,

    Desi. :P

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Hey all,

    after adding the coral, now we have a couple of fish in there. The big one is a 6 inch BT we got a fellow reefer, a banana (yellow) wrasse and a fire fish. ALl eating anything and everything I throw into the tank. :) Here's some pics.

    The old bubble from the 2 feet

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    THe Fire fish :

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    The view!

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    The pig of the tank at the moment with the wrasse behind him.

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    Already suffered one casualty whereby after 5 days, our little watchman goby cleverly swam into the overflow.. I managed to catch him the first time and throw him back to the main tank but this morning after trying a couple of times to catch him as he had gone in again over night.... I couldn't find him anymore.

    Anyway, currently we only have 2 fish still sadly swimming in a very sparse 2 feet tank which we are going to turn into our QT tank. It's a 3-4 inch yellow tang and a tomato clown. We will be Quarantining 2 powder tangs by the end of this week for about 30 days before putting into the main tank.

    I got a big Question!!! In the mean time, what do you guys think if I put in the Yellow tang into the Main display before I put in the powders? I was thinking of putting the YT in the sump first but that would mean the YT would be in the sump for 30 days until the powders are fully quarantined and added to the main display. Has anyone come across problems of adding powders to a tank with a YT in it? OR it doesn't really matter.. OR should I say.. it boils down to pure luck? Will the YT attack the Powders or even if I add in the powders first and THEN the YT.. the YT will still behave aggresively anyway?

    Really grateful for some advice..

    :thanks:

    Cheers,

    Desi

    Reefers from the North!!!

    in General Reefkeeping_

    Posted

    1) kikobananas (Bishan)

    2) Stevenkoh08 (Woodlands)

    3) Ketchup (AMK)

    4) Desideria (AMK)

    5) kimkim (Woodlands)

    6) bugattilambo(serangoon North)

    7) Greywolf (Seletar)

    8) vt_snowman87 (Woodlands)

    9) Daryl Tsc (Sembawang)

    10) Macrobutt (AMK)

    11) Poomoon (AMK)

    12) new_new (Woodlands)

    13) Richie13 (Woodlands)

    14) ogykogy (Woodlands)

    15) yongshun (AMK)

    16) sanjaypills55 (Yishun)

    17) Desi and & Ketchup (Amk)

    Let me add our names to the NOrth side Reefer's listing! :)

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    looking good desi and ketchup! becaureful on your coral placement. favia and euphyllias can sting very well. especially the favia.... they look cute and harmless in the day... but at night they are terror.

    hi lemon,

    yes we know, we have put them in a place with no other corals around them. :) THANKS though for pointing it out...hee hee... we bought 3 books on Corals, Invertibrates and Fishes so that we can refer to it but as you know sometimes books can't give exact info unlike fellow reefers!!! So don't hesistate to tell us anything u deem necessary. :upsidedown:

    last night, though sick, I couldn't sleep, so I woke up at 2am with a torchligh to check them out and yup... I see some tentacles coming out form both pieces. HEH. :P

    :thanks:

    Desi.

    Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

    in Members Tank & Specs

    Posted

    Hi all,

    ... did a new rockscape last night with ketchup.. took us 3 hours plus to do a bit of rockscaping, some VERY unsuccessful epoxy-ing .. I think we wasted half a packet.. :P and we got all the corals which we had reserved previously from the place we have a love-sad r/s with ( love of corals and sad being when you see the credit card bill of the damage done). :rolleyes:

    We have also been testing water parameters on a daily basis to make sure that everything is AOK. After adding the corals last night and liberally squirting in Zooplankton, phytoplankton and rotifers, and some coral additive called : SOL DOM (from this brand : www.coral-shop.com ) which supposedly has 3 vitamins, 8 carbohydrates ,21 amino accids and 2 mixtures of complex acids! Anyone used this before? Also Dosed in some Kent Marine Vitamin C as per the instructions.

    The water parameters after 24 hours of adding livestock are as follows as of 7pm 15th of Jan which is DAY 15 is :-

    PH : 8.4,

    Sg : 1.022 <-- on a mission to raise it to 1.024-1.025

    Magnesium : 1260mg/L

    Ammonia : 0

    Nitrite : 0

    Nitrate : 5ppm <-- slightly higher than last night's test results of 2.5ppm

    Calcium : 400-420ppm

    Phosphate : 0

    GH & KH : 8.3Dkh & 2.97meq/L

    Right now the livestock stands at :

    5 Narsi snails added on Day 13

    Added : Day 14 night :

    1 Coco worm

    1 Hammer

    1 Alveopora

    2 Flavia : 1 Flavia palida and 1 Flavia Specicosa

    1 Trechyphillia

    1 Lobophyllia

    1 Clavularia Sp (clove)

    And from the pathetic old 2 feet :

    1 super sun

    1 Cat's eye bubble

    1 octopi

    Will let Ketchup take better pictures of the whole thing but for now this is all I can take being out of sorts... :P only the purple atinics were on when these 2 pics were taken.

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    The tiny lump of cheato I manage to kapok from my colleague at work. So happy to find another marine fishy nut at work! So convenient to swap fishy stories :)

    hee he hee... now in my refrigum HAH! let's see how FAST it grows. :eyeblur:

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    That's it for now. :)

    another 3 more weeks for penductors, ordered skimmer and FR to come in! ARUGH!

    :thanks:

    Desi.

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