VANAN

funny i was thinking of the same thing too.... but never dawn to me to ask..

wow... My tank is only half as good as ur refugium... heheh good work...guess ur hard work paid off

I know...i am only trying to venture to hard corals after playing around with my tank and i am quite satisfied with my water quality... But i think i rather not go with SPS.... Wouldn't want them looking dull when they can look so much better in some other tank... I think i will just go with Softies and LPS... Any beautiful softies or LPS to recomemnd???

I think its avery good idea Ong... They wun have to look up for old threads for info... They can get the basic and still ask if they have doubts

So its not adviable for me to put SPS under my type of lighting even if i was to add another 10000k PL..... Hmm......??????

Tanzy....What combination should i have should i have inorder for me to sustain SPS in my tank... other than MH

Ok so i intend to put one 18W actnic FL, one 36W 10,000k PL and one 36W 50/50 PL. Is this alrite for a 2ft nano tank I intend to create. any comments???? I intend to keep Mushrooms, zooantids and xenias... is lighting sufficient

posted wrongly...sorry

Just wanna find out, would it be better if i use a 1700k Pl or a actnic Pl for the corals to glow... which is better actnic PL or actnic FL??? I was at downtown east LFS, saw a nano tank they setup...very nice looking ... noticed the pl light they use has one white strip and one blue strip. what Pl is that??? another thing, wads the diff between a normal ballast and an electronic one. which is better and why???

i once had a brown knobbed starfish. A real beauty... It was given to me by my fathers fren. I used to put my fish meat or shrimp meat directly under the starfish or sometimes just leave it nearby... i was astonished to see how the starfish raced to the point... dun noe how it smelled the food. There was once i forgot to feed it and it went around and digested two goni (given by the same person)... what an expensive meal. Unfortunatly, my pistol shrimp who was doing some underground excuvation caused one the rocks to fall on my starfish... and i didn't noe it. My starfish wasn't moving for a week and when i found out , it was with a deep cut and the a rock on top of it. ( funny i didn't see the rock on top of it for a week) and the starfish started smelling so i had to remove it.

Seriously, i have not used any PH test kit for my tank up till now.... Is 'cycle' a brand of bottled bacteria????

I cycle my tank with dead prawns and which after i go through another cycle with live rocks... I feel safe this way... It took me abt 4 weeks to cycle without liverocks and another two weeks with liverock.

I too do modeling in bed... but i usually go fishing, swimming, running or mountain biking.... But now i usually just sleep and seem to have put on abt 7kg...heheh

Hey i used to collect them here, since i live in pasir ris... Adult mangrove need silty sand or mud to grow.... But its really nice to swim in the swamp but just becareful of stingrays and catfishes... a real pain in the butt....

Rocky... a skimmer is highly recommended for marine tanks. It helps by removing certain organics before it reaches the bio filterations... Should definitely be included in your list. Dun skimp on this one and dun buy a cheap one.... get a good one so u wun regret later.... not all skimmer works as they claim... some are even hard to tune.... why Dun u look at some previous treads abt skimmers... might help u alot or just ask some experienced buddys over here...

wow tempting to hear that.... i think i wanna get it too for my new tank....

Tanzy wad kind of reflector is that.... looks good... Is it very good in directing light to the tank...

I wasn't considering glass beads but was once thinking of plastic beads.... But i too had the same idealogy as u AT... i was afraid that the bacteria might be able to colonize the surface.... Tanzy can the glass beads support bacteria growth... Pls enlighten me more on this glass beads...OM

Mr annoyomous, If you do not like the price you dun have to buy it... Tanzy is just selling off what he doesn't need. He is giving out alot for that sum of money... its abit n the high side because of its quality and the quantity... Its not really nice and fair to attack tanzy like that... Uncomfortabe with price is ok...tanzy is not forcing u to buy...

relax tanzy it wouldn't hurt to try rite....I am using a DSB rite now... but am trying other methods and choose one which is most suitable for me... I am more towards the old school of filterations rather than the new NNR methods... PEACE!!!

sorry for posting too much... heres what i found.. A denitrator is a very simple device, and sometimes bio-media is added to the first four or five columns of the flat-denitrator types, to produce a larger bacteria colony for the nitrosominos and nitrobacter to do their thing. Basically, as the water follows its journey through the system, the beneficial bacteria colonizes and begins to work. I don't need to get into how a wet/dry works, but the principle is the same for the first part of your denitrator. As the flow continues and oxygen is depleted, other beneficial bacteria take over, they are neither aerobic nor anaerobic, they are facultatively aerobic/anaerobic, commonly called nitrate respirators, sort of in limbo, not very technical but who cares. Once the oxygen is exhausted, this section of the denitrator becomes anaerobic and then these little bacteria guys take over and eat the nitrates produced by the aerobic bacteria in the preceeding stages. It is beneficial to have as much facultatively aerobic/anaerobic bacteria as possible. That is why you adjust your denitrator so that these little guys populate almost to the end of the line. Its not the aerobic or anaerobic bacteria which breaks down the nitrate but another group of bacteria which only survives in oxygen free water.... Maybe thats why no feeding???? comments???

well barra, lets just say that we bought from the same place....

http://saltaquarium.about.com/library/week...ly/aa092702.htm try checking this link out.... From what i have learnt there, they say that coil denitrators do not need to fed.... Anyway i will just try if it works without feeding

Phang, the 50ft of tubing ensures u that the water is completely free from oxygen(no oxygen)... normal denitrators need feeding becos there is presence of little oxygen(low oxygen) even with low flow rate. If what u say is true, that bacteria needs somt to sustain them in oxygen free environment then a DSB would definitly need feeding... A DSB doesn't need feeding becos its almost zero oxygen.... No oxygen and low Oxygen makes alot of diff... Barra got ur point.. besides did u buy the tube from pet provision which sells the 50m coil tube for 7.50

Phang, when the coil is more than 50ft, The water inside is almost in the absence of oxygen thats why you dun need feeding. but anything less than 50ft u will have to feed your denitrator... this is the info i have learnt so far....If u need feeding then it beats the purpose of having the 50ft coil there....