[Teal milli sps for swap]

Bro, I m at bp. What do u want to swap with?

looking for any type of sps. If u have fiber optic will be great.

[Some snap shot from top]

Actually only acrylic tank has same effect of a top down look like this right? Just feel with the coloration like these, u can only savour from the top and also need to turn off the pump.

[Teal milli sps for swap]

Hi, can't upload pic at frag exchange section so post it here.

Looking to swap wif reefers in bbukit panj as it's more convenient for both of us.

Looking to deal at nite over this wkend.

Size of frag is abt 2"

Parent colony

[Question on egg/sperm of Mandarin fish]

Had googled tat mandarin fish eggs are free floating and watched videos during the eggs releasing process.

Yesterday my mandarins were piaking n gave out I suppose eggs n sperm. But contrary to the eggs being transparent, I saw white "seed(0.5mm)" encased in a transparent jelly, machiam frogs egg. There are also some transparent jelly without the white seed.

I suppose I need to scoop out those jelly masses with white seeds only.

The question is how long I should wait before I do tat so tat I will not disrupt the fertilization of the eggs.

Thanks.

[Weekly shipment updates : 21st to 27th July]

Barlett anthias at lck

[Setting up shop for a Rimless 3by3by2]

An abstract from this link regarding

Dosing peroxide. So it confirm my observation is correct.

http://netclub.athiel.com/redox.html

"Adding hydrogen peroxide (not at all recommended, but some hobbyists do) will make the redox potential drop to the 70 or 80 mv level (actually one good use of it is when one injects ozone and has residual ozone in the tank - adding just one drop of hydrogen peroxide will neutralize the residual ozone instantly)."

[Setting up shop for a Rimless 3by3by2]

Finally decided to give up on biopellets.

Am using the npx brand. It seems to work more on nitrates than po4. Even though I dose nitrate, my po4 hardly budge.

Had also tried using peroxide to kill buable algae and hoping that it will aid in neutralizing po4 as it did lower the po4.

But had observed that my orp will drop from 29x to 22x if I utilize 50ml of peroxide. So wouldn't want to take too much risk while battling bubble algae.

The current test is on nopox by redsea.

For this type of carbon dosing, I find tat my po4 has a faster reaction in terms of reduction but my nitrate reacted much slower. Water looks clearer.

One important factor I notice is my orp which had all the while stabilizing at 29x, has increased to 35x after 2 wks of nopox.

Chilli coral is extending and for longer periods.

Previously when there's high po4, it doesn't extend at all. So I guess a reefer can use a chilli coral to act as a indicator for high po4.

But my thorny oyster shell opening is smaller. But seafans are well.

[One very unique way of fighting algae, diatoms, invasive macro etc]

I assume it will work as well on aiptasia. Will try this as well on the spot area with problem bryopsis. Difficult to get rid. Thanks for the info on peroxide.

actually it should work on all living organism.

[One very unique way of fighting algae, diatoms, invasive macro etc]

Hi LittleBurger, You dose 30 ml in one go or you drip the whole content over a period of time? Thanks

i inject into my bubble algae n some hair algae using a needle syringe. But I find my orp going down instead of up, from 29x to 22x, So do with care.

[royal gramma dying due to orange spots]

Hi bro, Anyone can help to ID what disease is this? Some form of lice? The royal gramma has been feeding well till 2 days ago. Under closer observation at night, I saw the orange spots over its body. If it is some forms of lice, that I am worried whether my other fishes have been infested!!! Any treatment that I should apply?

not sure if cleaner shrimp will help. But look like some organism tat attach itself to the fish. Maybe u need to consider the current health status before performing freshwater dip or other medication.

[Skunk Shrimp giving birth in my tank]

The fishes are too fast, the moment they saw it, they are like super excited for supper. I have also read up on the internet that its not possible to rear them in captivity.

who knows u can be the 1st ...

[Skunk Shrimp giving birth in my tank]

Was about to go to bed last night and went to take a final look at my tank, then i saw massive very tiny little swimming creatures on the glass and swimming all around. Thought it was pods or something else, then upon taking a closer look, Its the babies of my cleaner shrimp giving birth! Sadly think none survive as my fishes are so happily eating away as supper for them. Anyone encounter this before?

[Cleaner shrimps keeps shedding shell]

Once read tat iodine induces molting.

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Lck

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Cf Kind of sponge?? The lure fish in finding nemo whereby the antenna looks like a worm. Cardinal? Odd looking tang.

[royal gamma losing scales?]

Maybe flukes

ok thanks. Let me google on flukes.

[mutant xenia]

Hi people, got time? Need yr advice on two things: a colony of xenia is growing wild. Tried using knife to remove as much as possible but it grows back in no time. Does anyone know a more efficient method? It grows on rock with a v nice mushroom, otherwise I would have simply thrown it away. Second problem: some of my zoas are losing colour (mainly green, purple and luminous hues). Other corals doing fine. Any clue? Appreciate yr time!

can try apitasia remover or hydrogen peroxide and inject into them to kill them.

[mutant xenia]

Hi bro ... nobody is responding to yr question.. cos newbie give advice .. old bird will say they act pro... but they themself(old bird) just keep quiet ... this forum is going very slow nowdays...

which laojiao got say newbie act pro when newbie give advice?

[automated feeding of NPS corals]

Just wanna ask the bros here who keep NPS sea fan, sponges etc it is time consuming to target feed manually. do any of you feed mixtures of NPS food by using dosing pump etc? can share how you do it?

Doing auto feeding requires the consideration of water flow directions. Cos u dose at the surface and wait for it to sink into the water. If your flow is strong, all yr food will be blown away, leaving little chance/enough food to reach the polyps of the nps. I've tried 2 ways to do auto feeding but I prefer using a dosing pump. Just mix the food together but as these food will settle at the bottom on the container, u need to diy a stirrer.

[zoas infest with hair algae]

Hi guys, need help on this. My zoas infest with hair algae what should i do to clear it away?

they are pple using hydrogen peroxide to get rid of gha on zoas. Correct administration of peroxide u can google for peroxide n zoas

[Clownfish Spawning Behavior?]

Anyone?

hi, mine is ocellaris black n Bali clown but I suppose they exhibit same behaviour. They are clearing up area for spawning. They looking for a flat surface such as rock. Flat here doesn't mean those fully flat but when they sweep n sweep n nothing can be swept up, they will start spawning. If u have sandbed, it will keep sweeping until it find the glass bottom.

[2 free ipad apps for reefing.]

haha what does the app do? like a virtual marine reef fish tank? or like an encylopedia?

aquariapro has trend chart capability whereas fish room doesn't (I think) Fish room has an encyclopedia of fish, corals n inverts. U measure yr salinity, ph, etc n enters in the values. It can be set up as reminder to do maintenance n other stuff.

Since it's free, I just downloaded them n try out. Guess similar to aqua planner which cost a fee to download.

Aquariapro

[2 free ipad apps for reefing.]

Chanced upon these 2 apps.

1) the fish room

2) aquariapro

I would prefer the aquariapro for its sleek look and intuitive touch.

But the fish room got a list of fish, coral n inverts library.

[Fishes and Coral Prices]

Update for bicolor and black nox/ midnight angels. These are all outdated, mostly from 2010-2012 prices let's all try to update this? Prices here are rough estimates only and based on individual reefer's experience. Discounted and bulk buying price should not be used. Prices will vary from shop to shop due to many factors such as region/breed/size of fish, economic sense, operation cost, quarantine methods, import quantity, pellet/frozen food trained, bargaining, stock clearance, etc. Names of LFS should not be added. Clownfish False Percula (Amphiprion ocellaris) ~ $1 Black Ocellaris Pair ~ $75 to $80 Domino Clown ~$100 Midnight Clown ~$100 Naked Clown ~$55 Pearl eye clarkii clown ~$10-15 Picasso Pearl eye clarkii clown ~$60 - $70 Picasso Clown ~$10 to $300 (depend grades) Platinum Clown ~$350 ($600/pair) Snowflake/Premium Snowflake Ocellaris ~ $300 to $400 (depend grades) True Percula (Amphiprion percula) ~ Small $12 - $25, Better Grade $90, Pair $150 Tomato (Amphiprion frenatus) ~ $4 Tomato / Red Saddleback (Amphiprion ephippium) ~ $4 Saddleback (Amphiprion polymnus) ~ $5 Yellow Stripe Maroon Clown (Premnas biaculeatus) ~ $6 - $10 Tangs Pacific Blue (Paracanthurus hepatus) ~ $15, size dependent Powder Blue (Acanthurus leucosternon)~ Smaller $15, Small - $30, Big - $35 Yellow (Zebrasoma flavescens) ~ Small $23 Purple (Zebrasoma xanthurum) ~ $50 Brown/Scopas (Zebrasoma scopas) ~ $8 ($5-small) Sohal (Acanthurus sohal) ~ $60 Chevron (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis) ~ $120 Clown (Acanthurus lineatus)~ $8 Convict (Acanthurus triostegus) ~ $8 Alantic Blue (Acanthurus coeruleus) ~ $80 Achilles (Acanthurus achilles) ~ $160 Black (Zebrasoma rostratum) ~ $350 Gem (Zebrasoma gemmatum) ~ $2800 Orange Shoulder Tang / Mimic Tang - $6 - $10 Dwarf Angelfish Bicolor (Centropyge bicolor) ~ $6 - 12 Coral Beauty (Centropyge bispinosus) ~ $8 Potter's (Centropyge potteri)~ $35 Flame (Centropyge loricula) ~ $38 - $50 Argi (Centropyge argi) ~ $50 Golden (Centropyge aurantius) ~ $60 - $80 Lemon Peel (Centropyge flavissima) ~ $35 - $45 Herald (Centropyge heraldi) ~ $8 Rusty (Centropyge ferrugata) ~ $6 Shepard's (Centropyge shepardi) Joculator / Yellowhead (Centropyge joculator) ~ $380 - $550 Multibarred (Paracentropyge multifasciata) ~ $28 - $35 Multicolor ~ $130 Venustus (Centropyge venustus) ~ $38 - $60 Black Nox/ Midnight (Centropyge nox) ~ $8 Angelfish King (Holocanthus passer) ~ $200 Queen (Holacanthus ciliaris) ~ $120 - $400 Blue Face (Pomacanthus [Euxiphipops] xanthometopon) ~ $45 - $60 Gold Face - $240 - $450 Bandit (Holacanthus arculatus))~ $600 - $800 Emperor (Pomacanthus imperator)~ $40 - $60 Regal (Pygoplites diacanthus) - $60 French (Pomacanthus paru)~ $80 - $200 Clarion (Holocanthus clarionensis) ~ $4000 to $5000 Scribbled (Chaetodontoplus duboulayi) ~ $80 - $250 Rock Beauty (Holocanthus tricolor) ~ $40 - $100 Personifer (Chaetodontoplus meridithi) ~ $120 - $200 True Personifer ~ $800 Africanus ~ $180 - $400 Grey ~ $80 - $200 Blue Line ~ $80 Blue Angel ~ $120 - $400 Ear Spot ~ $90 - $250 Flagfin ~ $15 - $28 Orange Peel ~ $38 - $60 White Bar Maculosus ~ $90 to $110 Wrasses Radiance wrasse $50 Golden wrasse - $170 - 280 Flame wrasse male - $120-$150, Female - $90 8 line wrasse ?? Laboutei - $80 - 180 Splendid Leopard Wrasse $38 Potter Wrasse - $28 6 line wrasse - $8 Solar wrasse $10-$12 Scott wrasse $70-$150 Lineatus wrasse $150 - $250 Common leopard wrasse $7 - $10 Mystery wrasse $120 Yellow Coris wrasse $6 Coris wrasse juv $6, adult $10 Lubbock's fairy wrasse $8 Harlequin Tuskfish $30 Yellow Banded Possum Wrasse ~ $15 Blennies Tail Spot Blenny $8 - $17 Midas Blenny $18 - $60 Canary Blenny $28 Forktail Blenny $5 Algae Blenny $3 Anthias Barlett's anthias ~ $30 - $40 Lyretail anthias ~ $10 - $12 Sunburst anthias ~ $28 Dispar anthias ~ $8 - $12, (CF $6-male,$3-female) Bimaculatus anthias ~ $10-$12 Basslets Royal Gramma ~ $20-$40 (depends on size n locality usually Caribbean) Blackcap Gramma ~ $65 Blue assessor ~ $35 to $45 Yellow assessor ~ $80 - $100 Dottybacks Bicolor ~$5 Orchid ~$40 Strawberry/Diadem - $4 - $6 Gobies Blue / Yellow Neon Goby ~ $20 - $40 Half Moon Goby ~ $20 Helfrichi Goby ~ $120 - $140 Purple Firefish ~ $12 - $28 Red Firefish ~ $5 - $12 Yasha Goby ~ $18 - $28 Butterfly Fish Golden ~ $80 Threadfin ~ $8 - $15 Raccoon ~ $8 - $15 Long Nose ~ $8 - $15 Copperband ~ $5 - $15 Banner Butterfish (Heniochus Sp) - $8 Triggerfish/Fliefish/Puffers Clown Trigger - $28 (S) to $50 Niger Triggerfish - $8 Hawaiian Black Trigger - $15 Others Mandarin ~ $6 - $12, $30 or more for those weaned onto frozen foods Red Mandarin ~ $20 Moorish Idol (Zanclus cornutus)~ $10 - $20 Lionfish - $15 (s) Liverock from $4 to $7 per kg (CF above $12) Soft Corals Leather Coral (Sarcophyton sp., Sinularia sp.) ~ $5 - $120 (Ultra-green morphs) Yellow Leather (Fiji) ~ $40 Zoanthids: $5-10 for low-end variants, very high for rare color forms. Xenia (Xenia elongata) ~ $8 -$25. White Xenia (Fiji) ~ $40 Common Mushrooms ~ $5 - $10 for low-end variants, $30 for rarer forms. Yumas (Ricordea yuma): $10 for lower grades, $50 - $200 for rarer forms Rics (Ricordea florida) ~ Green $25 - $30, Blue and Orange $35 - 40, Multicolor $35 - $120 Carnation / Cauliflower (Scleronepthya sp.) Large-Polyped Stony Corals Japanese Sun ~ $80 - $280 Black Sun Coral (Tubastraea micrantha) ~ Super Sun ~ $60/colony or S$10/head Normal Sun ~ $15 - 40 Green Bubble ~ $30 Frogspawn(Euphyllia sp.) ~ $40-$60 Hammer Normal grade ~$15-25 Fox coral Normal grade ~$15-25 Torch Normal grade ~$15-25 Anchor Coral Normal grade ~$15-25 Short tentacle plate ~ $10-$20 Long tentacle plate ~$10-$20 Indonesia cultured sps mostly 3 colonies for $100. If wild colonies $50-$70 per colony. Australia sps wild colonies range from $120 per colony to $600 for large ssc colony which I personally think the recent price hike on ssc is ridiculous. A wild colony size easily can have 10-20 http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=10029&campid=CAMPAIGNID&customid=CUSTOMID&catId=220&type=2&ext=281359391708&item=281359391708'>frags. So you do your maths and see if its worth or not. In my principle, I dont mind paying extra 20-30% more for http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=10029&campid=CAMPAIGNID&customid=CUSTOMID&catId=220&type=2&ext=281359391708&item=281359391708'>frags that are stable n well encrusted on plugs. Assorted Invertebrates Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) $6 Small, $12 for Large, $12 for Sri Lankan Cleaner Coral Banded Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) ~ $3-12 Blue-Legged Coral Banded Shrimp (Stenopus tenuirostris) ~ $3 - $15 Yellow Coral Banded Shrimp (Stenopus scutellatus) ~ $3 - $15 Blood / Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius) ~ $12-35 Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) ~ $15 Tiger Snapping Shrimp ~ $15 Unspecified Starfish ~ $3 - $25 Unspecified Seahorse ~ Halloween / Electric-Leg Hermit Crab (Calcinus elegans) ~ $5 Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab ~ $4 Dwarf Scarlet Hermit Crab ~ $10 Nassarius Snail (Nassaurius vibex) ~ $5 Turbo Snail (Trochus sp. / Astraea sp.) ~ $2 Sand Dollar ~ $10 Coco Worm (Protula bispiralis) ~ $8 - $25 Common Tubeworm (Sabellastarte magnifica) ~ $1 - $5 White/Gold Tubeworms (Sabellastarte sp.) ~ $3 - $5 Emerald Crab ~ $15

[Who staying at bukit panj want to go LCK lfs today?]

Working today. Tomorrow will be good

sAt is yr working day?