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Six months later....

pic of my seahorse tank

Looking for red reidi seahorse pair or single. Currently I have a pair of yellow reidi seahorse in my planted tank. Looking for another healthy pair to add on. Will be better if they are captive bred else wild caught but stable is good as well.

Wanted to add that the community support such as this forum is also a big plus to this fantastic hobby. Encourage and motivation are both key to overcome setback after setback.

I quitted once after I move house as no space to house a 5ft tank. Then I move again and finally decided to go back to the hobby again. For me, the 2 most challenging factor for this hobby is lack of space and lack of time. However once a marine hobbyist, always a marine hobbyist...will someday go back again. The draw of this hobby is too strong

Thks bro. Will drop by to grab some

Anyone spotted emerald crab

You can also go for bottled live tigger pods. MarineLife Henry sometime bring in. You may need to call him on stock availability. The cost of bottled live tigger pods is however 6 times the price of a packet of pods from LCK

yes, LCK201 carry live pods. I will get a pack from Steven once a month.

My 2 clown hosted anemone and hammer coral. But not all clown will do that. Depend on the species and habit. I have another one which will not host on any coral, not even anemone

bro xiggie is right, as long as it is not rotting or melting, just leave it alone. however zoa may close due to pest. you can try dipping it in freshwater for 10 mins, it should open it soon after u put it back. The other reason could be it is multiplying, for this reason it could close for days or even weeks.

Both yr cal and mg r on the high side. Hence better not to increase dosing amount but instead get the individual buffer fr iwarna to bring up the KH. Btw 8 - 9 will be fine

What is yr current KH level ? If less than 8 and yr cal is too high, u may want to dose individual triton bicarbonate to raise KH without having to increase solution 1. Iwarna carry the specific element to raise KH. But u will need to raise it slowly. Do note that both cal and mg level will affect KH as well

Nice setup. Try to check yr KH twice a week initially. Also watch the dosing tube for solution 1. It may get clog after a few months. If u notice a drop in KH it maybe be due to clogging in the dosing tube especially for solution 1. Change it when that happen. My earlier experience

Blowing at the sand will indeed prevent detritus from settling on it. I will probably need to add wave maker to create more current. I only have less than one inch of sand hence thinking of removing it since it is not contributing much to the biological filtration

Any easy way to remove the sand without stirring up all the build up detritus ? Thinking of clearing the sand to ease my maintenance and to keep the nutrient low

Anyone spotted dragonface pipefish in lfs ?

Taking this hybrid approach without going on either extreme end so far work for me

From the water test, sometime unwanted heavy metals elements are detected. These elements if allow to elevate further will become toxic to the livestock hence I have decide to still do water changes even though less frequent. From my last test in Aug, somehow my tin element is in the red and I was unable to determine the source as I did not dose anything else. So since I don't intend to do the monthly test, at least a monthly or bimonthly water change will help to dilute major deviation

The 3 triton solution cost $180. Base on my daily dosage of 80ml per solution, will be able to last for 3 months. Per water test cost $90. However after regular testing for the first 6 months, I have fine tune my dosing and administer my own test. Hence will only do water testing once every 3 months. Total cost per year will work out to be about $180x4 + $90x4 + $150x2(marine salt) = $1380. Not a low cost but cover all related water dosing and salt Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Agree with bro James that maintaining good water parameter with no water change for a SPS dominated tank is a challenge. I am a triton user for a year now. I have a medium bioload tank. In order to keep the nutrient down in order to maintain my SPS colour, water change maybe inevitable. However the freq of the water change can be lengthen to once every month or two

Anyone spotted velvet slug ?

Hi. I am interested in yr chiller. Can PM me on yr best price.

my contribution. Like the blue PE

My thanks for all the good suggestion too. I will try blowing a fan as it is the easiest method.