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2 x 2 ft 55w pl still manageable but if your is 2 x 39w then in a long run not too good. Another way is to put tham higher but remember, not too close to your powerhead. However, if you intend to keep clams or other corals such as frogspawn or SPS. then you better start saving.

Hi bros & sis, I am not thinking of doing it myself but to pay some DIY gurus here to do it for me. So gurus, please PM me your advises and quote. And what our gov always does... I will take the best offers. :-) Thank you all,

Hi reefers, I have recently added a Lawnmower blenny (Jeweled blenny) into my tank after the uasual QT. After about another 8 days, ysterday evening, I noticed the Brazilian Gramma and my blenny seems to be involve in some fight. It was not those that bites each other but they were taking turns slamming their body onto the back of my tank glass. It seems that they are competing with each other to see who can eat more algae from the glass wall. This morning during my regular morning feeding the Brazalian gramma is not willing to venture out of its hole and the blenny also seems very tense. There seems to be a certain unhappiness between the two. The rest of my fishes are ok, they are out when the light are on and are feeding normally except these two. The water parameters are fine. Have anyone experience this before? Any advise for me? Thank you very much in advance.

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Hi Guys, I have a 60cm FL casing collecting dust and I was wondering whether any expert here can help me convert it to a MH. If it is possible, will the casing be able to take the heat? I intend use it for my 2ft tank. And since I have two switches on the casing can I subsitute the MH with another actinic? Attached are the pixs of the casing.

Thank yu bro Deepblue for the info, really appreciate it.

That's the norm bro. Sometimes I even have to flat out reject their enthusiasm.

With blueish light at the mouth is Electric Flame loh. Anyway, I really hope that I will not see any of them in any LFS in the future. Unless we know how more about its husbandry.

Hi Domino, By mentioning tube worm I guess you are referring to Feather Dusters rather than Coco worms. IMO, FDs are very easy to care for, they will just filter feed constantly from your water. Thus there are'nt much stuff you need to do, except making sure that they are not harrass by fishes, shrimps or water flow. As for Coco, they needs more care as compared to the FD, they are hobbyists that do regular direct feedings in order to keep them healthy. They are also the ones that frequently "loses their heads". If you are keeping coco, you will also need to do some form of suplementation of calcium as they require calcium for their tube. The diffrence between the two is easy. FDs live in soft tubes while coco's tube are hard. Hope this helps,

Yellow wrasses are well know to hide for long period. As for Angels, they will hide initially but will come out once they are acustomed to the tank & its routine. I have once experience a bi-color hiding for 7 days! By the way, you did not mentioned what Angel.

For me, I just get two dc fan from Sim lim and connect it to a mobile phone cahrger and wah lah! Mobile phone charger usually about 400mAh and 1 dc fan is about 130mAh so can hook 2 fan to one charger.

I totally agree with Mako, For those that knows a little betwen the two (Dotty's & Grammas) they will know that Grammas although are bigger and look just as fierce, they do not cause fatality. Whereas for Dotty, I will not trust any of them in my tank!

No mah, must try until cannot mah, if not how to be responsible reefer? But come to think about it, I should stop at $200. than I can go for Abalone! yum yum

Hi reefers, I wrote this thread with a heavy heart. The Electric Flame did not make it. I have tried my very best in getting it to feed effectively even direct feeding but to no avail. I have tried all Zooplanton, all phytos, Golden Pearls and all coral / reef food but still it slowing starve to death. In fact just for this scallop, I have spent over $400 just on hints of foods that it might consume . The reason of my writing is not to gripe but to share with all who read this thread not to get them next time they happens to come across them. Also, I hope that responsible LFS will not bring it in. Let's work together for a better tomorrow.

it cleared my cyno completely though... with long term use of slime remover might effect your biological system...so try not to depend on it too much....

I agree, Royal Grammas are very rare here. The recent imports are Brazalian Grammas, I bought two from ML. 1 for myself and 1 for a friend. But can anyone advise on the diffrence between the two except the stripe on the eye? The infos I gotten from the limited books I had seems to point that there isn't more different in term of temperament and behaviour. Some even claim that they are the same species but different variation. Please advise.

I agree. By rinsing Biophos in warm or hot water is to activate the product, if not it will stay dormant. Exactly why I don't know, maybe some chemist here can enlighten. Anyway, I have used Biophos for 1 month liao and experience significant reduction of Diatoms. Cyno-wise only a little, at the end, I ended up getting Redslime Remover from ML. Just my 2 cents

Hi Bro, Just PMed you

Hi bro, I believe so too, I dun foresee you spoon feeding us. Anyway, thanks for the efforts. I will keep a look out on the thread you mentioned.

Hi Rumor bro, I thought I am in your goby alert list? Never received any info from you leh. By the way, I am looking high anjd low for neon gobies, care to enlighten me? You may PM me. Thanks a lot,

Bro, can only vote once ah.... For me, I own the following: 1 x yellow prawn goby 2 x high finned banded goby 2 x firefish 2 x purple firefish 1 x Rainfordi 1 x blue streak So Rumor bro, when is our next "Gobie Watch" update? Let me you when you spotted any good ones ok.

Hi lightningstrike, Very sorry to hear about your predicament. I hope you will get someone soon. By the way, while you are there, why don't make the best of it by trying to get us some Peppermint Angel! :-) Take care bro,

Hi AT, Maybe you can consider to become a publisher yourself and publish a magazine. I know of good printers both in Sing & Mal.

Hi reefers, Below is one article gotten from the net: Rob Toonen writes... I'm going to guess that you are talking about "flashing" scallops, Lima scabra. Although these animals are called "scallops" they are not related to scallops by anything other than appearance, and are really file clams{scallops swim "forwards" while clams swim "backwards"}. Their care is identical to that of the flame scallops. In laboratory experiments, researchers found that plastic beads of the size of phytoplankton{5-10 microns} were ingested at the same rate as the phytoplankton themselves, but beads the size of invertebrate larvae{100-200micron} were rejected by the clams. Unlike most studies of invertebrate filter-feeding, addition of phytoplankton to the medium did not affect bead ingestion rate, and in this case, the animals actually seem capable of selecting particles directly by their surface flavor {which is why pea flour and yeast-based aquarium products probably fail at keeping these animals alive}. The primary prey of the animals were invertebrate larvae, and ~75% of larvae were consumed in a given trial. A good diet of mixed phytoplankton and enriched rotifers ought to be appropriate for keeping these animals, but I would suggest staying away from the typical aquarium "invert foods" I hope to file as many info on this animal as possible so as to help people who have accidently baought it or gotten it. If you have any other info, please advise.