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today I went strangely no dogs leh... But uhmm... I drive la, so I drive right up to the doorstep...

Saw Venustus Angel at Bac earlier and also 2 nice mulitbar angels at CF (take note one piece is breathing rapidly thus pick the correct piece!). Lots of peppermint shrimps in LCK and some in CF Randali shrimps and some form of snapping shrimp in CF also.

Hi all, I recently got a tiger pistol shrimp pair which were together for the first 2 days. But after molting the female seems to have "broken up" with the male. The female left the nest and seemed to have made another. Have a few questions. 1) Do tiger pistols change sex? (I searched all over getting varying answers from different websites) 2) Is it normal for a pair to part? 3) Will they get back together? Hope the experienced bros here can help answer my questions.

If they are pods, you are better off buying a possum wrasse. A 24G probably can't sustain a mandarin. At least for a possum wrasse it will eat pellets too. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+3043&pcatid=3043 http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+3041&pcatid=3041 http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+1378+1396&pcatid=1396

Not ok to share, actually for non standard items like a feeding golden or surviving colini there is no benchmark. It's like how how people pay for specific items such as old notes, coins and livestock like birds, arowanas and koi. I guess you just have to keep your eyes peeled out for LFS which carries pellet feeding Golden angels and see how much they would like to sell it... Paiseh, I am unable to disclose.

Winner is scs88 @ a very good price of $102. Understand from a LFS that he had sold a pellet feeding healthy Golden at $180 previously.

about 30 mins before end of bidding, high bidder now at $100 by StangReef.... Good luck to all who are interested.

Don't worry too much about them, your peppermints will likely clear them up soon...

One more day for the bidding of my golden....

Wah.... I read the threads about Golden before purchasing to really give it a try, I also read other forums overseas. I must be really lucky cause this is my first Golden. Did you manage to get them on pellets? Could it be cause mine is bigger? 19 fishes is alot of effort and also money...

2cm.... Uhmmmm... can hardly see leh....

Ok my bad, I tell others to check rule but I am not clear myself...

Wah sad man! This fish does have some character. Yeah, I saw your post on it in the colini posting.

Less than 2cm? Uhmm... you mean less than 2 inch or 2 cm? 2 cm realy small leh....

What happened to your golden?

I knew this was coming, that's why been keeping low profile on my tank! But it has not changed since I added the Golden Angel in May, only addition is the tailspot blenny.

<br><br>OIC, silly me, I thought the hardest part was to get it feeding. It was quite tough actually, when I first got it, it had a broken left fin and a small injury on the left side of the body. It started healing up when it started feeding properly and was good in about 2 weeks. Now when I go near the tank it is still shy and swims away, but will swim back and stare me down.. <img src="http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=""><br><br> <br><br>I am not sure about pods, my tank is probably barren of pods cause of the possum wrasse. When the angel was introduced my tank was probably empty of pods, I strongly suspect it is the brown diatoms that helped. BTW now that I let out how I made the golden survive and thrive you still bidding anot. <img class="bbc_emoticon" alt="" src="http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/chair.gif"><br>

Any auction will reach a point in price where it is too high and others stop bidding way before Sat, this can happen very soon or much later. It does not matter, btw we are talking about a livestock here where some may feel it is junk and others treasure so there is no such thing as inflated price. Had not seen an auction in this forum so glad it seems there are still people interested in auctions. Mods, can I actually redo the closing date and time to be earlier cause my guess is most reefers who are interested would come in within 2-3 days. BTW thanks CadenS for bumping my auction!

I would have to say I probably would not try this again but this is what I did to get my Golden Angel to survive and probably to thrive. Just wanted to share with fellow reefers in case you want to try, BTW I am auctioning off my Golden Angel in the sale section as I think I prefer smaller fishes. I had posted the below on thereeftank and had actually PMed (paiseh, but I actually PMed you after I bought it) a senior member on his experience as the golden angel was nipping at my sand star (which eventually passed). Well, I have a Golden Angelfish and it is feeding on NLS 0.5mm pellets like a pig (I also tried NLS normal pellets and even finicky fish formula, but it prefers the 0.5mm, basically it sucks them in like a vacuum cleaner. For the normal sized pellets the Golden still has to chew). Bought it recently. Let me tell you my experience. 1) I allowed brown diatoms to grow on the sides of my tank, when the Golden is first introduced it will not eat pellets. 2) I dimmed my lights to minimum, increasing the lighting by 1 noch daily. This took about 10 days. And I started increasing the lighting only when it started feeding. (not sure how this would bode for your reef tank, will your corals be able to take this?), I also covered the sides of my tank with paper so it does not see outside, I started peeling out the paper bit by bit to reveal the whole tank only when it started feeding. 3) It was housed with Clownfishes, Possum Wrasse, Fire Shrimp and Starfish. I also had red bamboo algae and live rock, no corals. 4) When it was feeding time, it would not take a peck of pellets sometimes and spit it out. I waited 2 days and covered up my tank with paper and bought brine shrimp to feed it (On a Sunday), initally it ate very little. This process of eating brine shrimps took 5 days (Thur was the last day), I feed the brood brine shrimps daily after the feeding of pellets. 5) Thereafter, I only fed pellets by which time the Golden pretty much got accustomed to seeing the other fishes eat the pellets and started trying it out. 6) By the time it started liking pellets, it was 3 days later (On Sunday). In case it did not eat well, I bought frozen Mysid shrimps to feed it. Well the golden took a few bites and when I tried feeding pellets it very much prefered the latter. 7) It is now exclusively eating pellets, but I allow some brown diatom growth. I have never seen it kiss the glass for the diatoms nor peck at the liverock, but there are lipstick marks on the glass. Uhmmm.... Mine is not a sure fire way to get your Golden to eat and probably survive, but it worked for me. Now with the tank fully lighted up and open, the Golden swims out openly during feeding time. Also I have 2 small pieces of live rock, there is NOWHERE the Golden can hide and that was the reason for my paper trick. Maybe it helps that to embolden the Golden when it has no place to hide. Also I put my clown (the most aggressive fish) into a betta box for about 3 days when I introduced the golden.

Up, nobody wants vacuum? Last try before retiring it to the storeroom until I get big tank.

WTS: Golden Angel Starting bid: $80 Minimum increment: $2 The Golden Angel is fat and in healthy condition about 3 inch in length. The video below shows the exact piece taken on 4 July in the about 6.30pm under LED lights. I am thinking of switching to smaller fishes, it has been with me since May. Food preference 1) pellet 2) live brine 3) frozen, yes it prefers NLS pellets over even live food, don't believe you buy and try. Winning bidder will come up to my place to see the Golden Angel feed before netting. Self collect at Jalan Membina Void Deck. Pickup date on Sun 10th Jul 2011 between 7-9pm Bidding will end Sat 9th Jul 2011 2359hr Please check bidding rules in the sticky before commiting to bid. Do not PM me to bid.

I think the LCK201 has, CF has, Irwana has also, one of the sponsors M3Morph also has on their web. But many reefers suffer from aiptasia problems, so it does get traded as a hot commodity in the buy/sell thread. And remember to acclimatise them as CFOh mentioned, quite important for all shrimps.

Yes, I bought peppermint shrimps for aptasias. VERY effective (or maybe I had been lucky so far), but I usually buy at least in pairs when I need to clear aptasia, then I sell off in this forum cause at the moment demand is quite high. BTW peppermints are super hardy, had my tank crash once and the peppermints were alive even after some fishes died....

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