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Sharan Guna

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  1. seems like you have some cyanobacteria problem. and also, maybe your tank's flow is not sufficient.
  2. thanks bro. Its quite a humble setup. Hopefully it will flourish in time to come
  3. no secret la bro. i just put carbon and use normal OH filter..... and the flow in my tank quite strong also so not much dead zone.
  4. Yeap. They seem to be more than surviving. They are thriving. My sps is like abit here and there but everything else is amazing. Just look at that seafan.
  5. hi guys, so i have since added many things to my tank but among these are a beautiful purple seafan with brilliant blue tips. It was abit injured in one of the tips but it recever so much in three days. i have posted a before and after picture. And i dont even feed it anything at all. My tank does not run a skimmer so i believe the dirt in the tank feeds it hahaha. My pictures cant come out straight. i tried rotating it!!!
  6. hi guys, another update on the progress. Seems to have grown quite abit now. And the rate at which it is actually growing has also increased which means i see more growth every passing day im pretty confident about this growing out to be a full colony.
  7. Hi edmund, i did not succeed in breeding them. In fact, i have since moved on to keeping a reef tank instead. But my love for seahorses has not gone away one bit! I guess i will return to seahorses when i have much more time on my hands
  8. hi guys, just a little update on the growth so far. Nothing much has changed, except for the tentacles that have seemed to grown abit longer and rounder. There is this little weed growing beside the baby torch that scares me. I'm afraid it will die if it touches the weed. Any advice guys?
  9. hi guys, here is a little update on my baby torcch and also some other exciting news. So, the oldest seed ( i should be naming this seed by now, so please give me some suggestions! ) is doing very well. It seems to have fattened up and has grown abit wider as well. the number of arms that are surrounding it is increasing as well. At this moment in time, my only worry is that this growing baby torch drops of the rock for some unknown reason. I don't think i am able to set up a separate tank just for this one baby.But it would be so darn worth it! So here is a picture of our little baby that was taken while she was sleeping tonight. ( I assume all torch corals are a girl because they all give birth) . On a more exciting note, i decided to contact our most helpful professors at NUS tropical marine science institute with regard to my observations seeking further clarifications. I have since been contacted by a research fellow at the institute who so graciously explained and clarified this observation. Here is an excerpt from the email. "This is a very interesting observation that you have noted. From the pictures that you have sent us, it seems like the coral has undergone an unique mode of asexual reproduction called polyp bailout. This process is usually associated with stress, for instance, moving the parent colony around or the water conditions are not ideal. This has been noted in different families of hard corals, such as the Fungiidae (mushroom corals), Faviidae (brain coral) and Pocilloporiidae (cauliflower coral). For each family, the mechanism of polyp bailout differs, for example, some corals would retract its tissue entirely to form structure that resembles a larvae."
  10. WOW! this sounds like a very good method. I was just thinking of a way to plant the seed properly and you suggested this! Thanks bro! i am definitely going to try this in the next few days!
  11. Hi guys, just a little update on my experiment Day - Why the "-" you may be wondering... because all my planted seeds dropped off. But the initial self-planted seed is still thriving so from now on, i will be doing an update on this one seed. This seed has grown a bit bigger in size and also the "arms" around the diameter of the seed has also become thicker and rounder. The general appearance looks less round now. Don't know if it has become injured or what. But i seem some growth every few days so i guess its still alive. On a side note, my torch fell onto a clam from the rock i had perched it on and the clam closed! and ripped of part of my torch head . Poor mother torch. Still got another head la. but quite saddening.
  12. Hi bro, dropped by to look at you awesome zoas. They look amazing and i love all the colours in ur photos! Hope your garden flourishes! Happy new year.
  13. it does remove chlorine. chlorine has a very low boiling point and will simply evaporate upon boiling. But im not so sure about the other harmful substances though.
  14. Hahaha no problem bro. But as seen in my experiment and as told by bro firestarter, 'planting'the seed is quite challenging. But nontheless, we can still try my seeds are free anyway ahahaha
  15. Hi guys, Just a little update on my "seeds". All my seeds have been picked off my rocks by my diligent coral beauty So hardworking for what???!!!!! I saw some seeds at 1 corner of my tank bottom Thankfully, the oldest seed that had already established itself is still intact and has developed a more stump-like appearance. Like become thicker la. This one looks real promising. And its in a corner where my coral beauty cant fit In the mean time, i don't intend to plant any more of the seeds. Must recce a good location first
  16. Hi Edmund, Sorry about your beautiful seahorse. Don't be too sad because i'm sure you did everything you could. Anyway, reducing the temperature will help a great deal with fighting off bacteria.
  17. Oh nice!!! Thank you very much firestarter! It really opened my eyes. Its goof to know im not the only one that had experienced this wonder. anyway, i will be updating my progress to see how far i get! Hopefully can go all the way!
  18. so... i discover this...can get phD? just kidding....
  19. Hi guys, so i just can't rest without trying to do something with this idea of mine. So i decided to take as clear and as close a picture of my oldest "seed" . And remarkably, what seems to be the mouth and and little baby arms seem to be visualized. Enjoy this picture guys.
  20. Bro, if my experiment succeed, everyone will have so many seeds because every tip of everyone's torch can make a new torch. Like that torch become free loh!!! ahahaha. i can give you all the seeds you want...FOR FREE!
  21. hi Edmund. Any updates on your seahorse? i hope it has improved in condition from yesterday
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