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Iwarna: 13 litres for $1. CF: 10 litres for $1.07 Both are filtered NSW. Matter of opinion which is best.

Common Clownfish $0.80-$1.20 Powder Blue Tang $30 for small ones and $35 for big ones Powder Blue Tang: small, $15+/- (LCK) Royal Gramma: Royal gramma: $20-$40 (depends on size n locality usually Caribbean)(LCK201 sells the lowest i feel for large Royal: $25) Mandarin $6.00 (Red or Green?) Mandarin that is feeding on frozen mysis / brineshrimp...may cost u about $30 or more Tail Spot Blenny $8 Bicolor angel: $8-12 (Jireh has a lot for $10 Coral beauty Angel: $8 (Ah Beng, Pinnacle, AM) Potter and flame angel- $35 Radiance wrasse $50 Sohal $60 Golden wrasse - $170 Laboutei - $80 Flame wrasse male - $120, female - $90 Blue assessor - $35 to $45 Yellow assessor- $80 Black ocellaris clown pair, $75 to $80 True per(small) - $12 Barlett anthia- $30 Yellow tang: super small $23 (LCK) Coral: Leather coral (Sarco, sinularia): $5- those morph of ultra green $120 Zoas: Low end zoas: $5-10 for one large colony. Zoas: High end: Sky's the limit, Xenia: $8 -$25. Supersun: S$60/colony, S$10/head used to be 120/colony normal sun: $15-40 Species: Skunk shrimp $6 for small one, $12 for large. $12 for Sri Lankan Coral Banded (normal): $4-12 (sz and locality) Blood Shrimp: $12-35 (size n locality) Coral band (golden or blue leg): $5- $15 Peppermint shrimp: S$15 Eel $X.XX Starfishes $3- 25 (specify type) Seahorse $X.XX Hermit (electric leg): $5 Hermit (dwarf zebra) $4 Hermit (dwarf scarlet): $10 Nassa snail: $5 Turbo snail (Astraea): $2 These r common starters n CUC maybe those kind to add in, may click on 'Reply' button and remove the 'quote' at the beginning of the message and also the end of the message. your kind heart is great appreciated by me and the fellow newbies

As far as i know, Cleaner Shrimp: Skunk shrimp $6 for small one, $12 for large. $12 for Sri Lankan. Other cleaners: Coral Banded (normal): $4-12 (sz and locality) Blood Shrimp: $12-35 (size n locality), Coral band (golden or blue leg): $5- $15. Low cost place for cleaners: Ah Beng. More selection at Coral Farm. Zoas: Low end zoas: $5-10 for one large colony. Likely to have hitchhikers, watch out. Check for nudi esp if other zoas around r close. High end: Sky's the limit, reefers here has some superb ones with price to match. Ah Beng, Iwarna stocks many of the lower cost but non exotic zoas. Go in PM to see color as light not on in the morning. Leather coral (Sarco, sinularia): $5- those morph of ultra green $120. CF has very large selection. Xenia: $8 -$25. Jireh has a lot for $10. A lot of hitchhiker aiptasia, hydroids larva as well so select with care. GO's xenia usually a little overprice IMHO. Gramma: Royal gramma: $20-$40 (depends on size n locality usually Caribbean) So far LCK201 sells the lowest i feel for large Royal: $25. Most sells for $35. Other gramma i dunno. Bicolor angel: $8-12. Jireh often have them. Coral beauty: $8 (Ah Beng, Pinnacle, AM) Specific ones in mind juz ask... Good luck!

I agree. Anyway, i go Iwarna, Ah Beng, Pinnacle, CF, GO, AM, JM, ML almost every 1-2 week for last 2 months. Quite familiar with common livestocks in each so if u can PM me if u have anything u look for. Tested water from iwarna, AM, JM, CF. All low to zero nitrates except JM. For small crabs and shrimps, still find Ah Beng cheapest. Eg. Randall pistol $9 in CF. $5 in Ah Beng. High fin shrimp goby: CF $14, Ah Beng: $5. Sexy shrimp:CF: $6. Ah Beng: 3 for $5-8. Cleaner are similar price. Different person in Ah Beng quote different price. Get from other than Ah Beng the other slimmer guy. Cheaper by quite a lot. One guy quote $8 for an anemone i like, the other quote $15 (the bigger size guy). Ah Beng $10. Same for firefish $5- 12 depending on who. Another advice. Try getting water from same place most times. Less parameter change. Corals and shrimps will not so easily up lorry if u do big water change. I got from CF nowadays but last week water change I used AM saltmix for 50% water change for my pico. My skunk cleaner immediately up lorry after water change. Most likely pH, salinity or some parameter shock. Yuma nearly died too. No impact on others so far.

Go to Coral Farm at LCK lane 6F. $2 per pack of 10 litre NSW. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate at 0ppm so far. Salinity: 1.021 most times. Water well packed with 2 layer of plastic bag and metal clip so car will not up lorry. Jireh Marine at old CCK also has NSW.... I dunno if i suay or what but last time i kena 20ppm for nitrates. $3 for 10 litre. Iwarna by far cheapest. $1 per 13 litre NSW. But better prepare container/newspaper else water all over car boot. Actually go there quite fast by car from Tuas cos i normally drive wife to Tuas then go Iwarna. 30 min. Personal opinion, Ah Beng's (near Iwarna) livestock is usually cheaper but everything also say can survive. Bought a heliofungia and sponge (tough corals to keep)and all up lorry after a few months. ML, livestock a bit more expensive but apparently good survivability. GO. Expensive corals in general. More SPS and high end corals but corals WOW. Reef Depot: more peripherals less livestocks CF: A lot of exotic crabs, shrimps, fish. More ex than Ah Beng by quite a bit. Got GST but livestock so far very good survival rate. my 2 cents worth

have lah. I went down to ml on thurs. Helfrich on the left tank beside purple. 120-127 per piece. I bought a Dwarf hermit instead. Very nice fish but cannot keep in my pico.

thanks for advice. Pico is indeed more challenging than I thought. Unfortunately my poor mantis became a victim of the experiment. It almost seems like softies n Lps are easier as they are surviving so far. Now hoping my yasha n tiger pistol survive the pico. Felt really sad when mantis died cos she was such intelligent and entertaining pet. More emotional attachment than most fish or coral tho she cost a lot less. Will get mantis next time when I get a bigger nano or convert my rsm to mantis tank.

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After someone advise safer not to dose for pico, I stick to water change. Saw mantis going to moult by shell color and activity dun dare to do water change for 4 days. Scared big parameter change cos prob. My hermit molted fine in the same water so not sure wat the problem is. Sad la. anyway got a black band shrimp goby n tiger pistol from CF. They got quite a few mantis including male of the species I kept. The goby is 9 at cf! Went to aquamarin c c look look. Nothing much. Nothing interesting at jireh tho got one mushroom rock got 4 variety of mushroom n one of them bright red. $8.Tempted but rock too big n tank too small. My other tank current too strong, mushroom always fly. Ah Beng there same goby $5. Wah Lao. Got a nice firefish for 5 n a skunk shrimp. Now Pico not mantis lair liao. If u guys wanna chiong Lfs on wed or Thursday lemme know. I can provide transport if free cos off on these days. Usually go cf jireh am iwarna ah beng go in one trip.

Thanks guys. I thought mantis are hardy as well. She was so interactive and cute. :-( Well corals are still alive so i guess i will just have to make do. Visiting CF later to check things out and change water. Got anything interesting, will let u guys know... Thinking of getting yasha goby and tiger pistol to replace mantis. Not sure if they have today.

Bad news to share... The mantis did not make it thru the moult. Started moulting 2 days back. After she constructed a large burrow in the middle. I can make out part of the moulting and can see she took hours just shift just a little. Today, I remove the rock she dug below and found her dead. She did emerge completely thru the moult but was probably too exhausted. Looks like the mantis tank journey is prematurely terminated. sigh...

Ah Beng.. Pasir Ris Farmway 2 (turn right when u see a orange signboard with Formosa) Do not always stock them as well so i usually juz pass by to take a look when i go iwarna to buy nsw. Cost usually around 40-80 per rose bubble tip. One of mine from there survived for nearly one year before suddenly dying.

I did that for my RSM. Semi dead rock cos the reefer gave me semi moist rock left dry for 1 day. Leather coral, clown, damsel as the leather came with the live rock. Ammonia was like 1-5 ppm in the first week!!! The leather did not look too good initially. 2.5 years on, the tiny leather coral is huge, the damsel is the big bully and the clowns happily resides in the 1.5 year old anemone. Started a 4G pico recently. Mantis shrimp is the immediate residence. One live rock from my RSM, NSW, mix of live and dead sand. Mushroom in on third day and all alive except 2 mushroom took flight. Ammonia almost zero from start. Nitrite spike a little then less than 1 week 0ppm. Nitrate still struggling. Things are growing all over in 1 month.

I think it is hexapods or isopod. Check out thread below. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-08/rs/index.php Some isopods like fish louse is not so good but yours does not look like one.

Yes, she is very smart. When i give cyclopeeze to let my suns open, she will standby to get mysis from the suns. She like to rearrange my corals are well. The GSP is favourite in terms of shifting around and throwing gravel on. One of my mushrooms on superglue flew away as well... not sure if she is responsible. The feather duster worm case got bitten through and now i think it's no more. After looking at how mushroom typically melt, i am pretty sure my florida ricordea was torn apart by mantis shrimp. Intestines and bit and part all over and its healthy beforehand. My yumas are doing great cos they are not at her entrance. The comby of cyclopeeze and once every 2 days mysis cubes brought my nitrate to 20ppm. Did a 50% water change. My baby sun polyps are not doing well unfortunately.