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still got two blue throat when i was there at 8 plus

enjoy http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/fish/Phy...ing_images.html

really great tank bro..me going NS soon...will need tips from you to keep my sps healthy when i am away!

bro...i think u are talking abt harlequin shrimp..they are talking abt harlequin tusk..a kind of fish

last time when i was keeping them....the same thing happened...asked around but no one knew why... however i know it isnt a sign of changing ######...cos even my two male anthias showed the same thing...all the female too have that....very very weird

hi alfa...i am planning to add MH then same way as u did...but also realised this problem...if the MH is higher then the T5..the T5 will block off the light from the MH and so like bro sunny, the front and back will be dimmer...so how do u go about doing it??

bro weileong..just a thought...if there is insufficient PO4 to feed the bacterial population...wont that also applies to the sps...then wont the growth of sps be slowed?

why not do animation...like what bro ervine said...its a new industry and alot of focus placed on it by the government?

colour of sps are from pigments of the coral tissue acting as photoprotection for the zooxanthella so as to prevent poisoning from toxic oxygen produced from the zooxanthella and also photobleaching of zooxanthella...did some research and i cant find anything that suggest a higher uptake of phosphate by plants as compared to other organisms....so i am thinking that excess phosphate might be taken up the zooxanthella as they have a higher turnover rate or rather a higher reproductive rate than other organisms...corals can only take up a certain amount of phosphate a day...same goes to algae... so my guess is low phosphate might indeed improve colouration of the sps...but having some phosphate is better then none..every single molecule of DNA has a phosphate group in there...every molecule of ATP has 3 molecules of phosphate..and ATP is the thing that gives us energy to move and our heart pumping... just my 2 cents worth

Kenji80, you know this is a kopi tiam thread...and everyone can voice out freely...and in a disagreement or misunderstand..there will always be two sides and people siding either side...i dont see a reason why u should react so aggressively against those who are against you...everyone can have their own opinion and u can never expect everyone to follow your views.. no offenses as for me..i stand neutral..and fully agree with what 35cents have said..see both sides of the story and hopefully jireh will be able to provide an explaination soon...

haha..thanks i planning to start learning my highway codes either this year or next so more convenient to cheong...but guess its gonna be hard to pass

i running 8 X 54W T5

any bros here tank too packed with sps and wanna frag some do pm me pls...looking for sps frags

wow..the sps have grown alot since i last saw it...and more beautiful and if u need to clear space...i dont mind buying frags from u...

dropsy is a infection of the fish whereby body fluids starts to accumulate and the body begins to swell, and swells so much that the scales begin to stand out like pine cones....fish also loses boyancy... supposedly incurable... just my 2 cents btw...nice tank...rock work almost similar to your marine tank eh the colours of cichilids are the closet u can get when compared to marine...nice tank!

ok lar..depends when u go..when their stock just come it will really have alot...what happens after i dunno....maybe ppl buy..or some other things well...i dont really dare to buy from there though... there is another one at bukit timah plaza....

yup...

how about some more attractive food other then pallets?

pH is very important...it will affect all the biological systems in the body....better if u buffer....however, better if u find more experienced reefers to explain it

the standard electrode potentials i quoted might be a little confusing, so i bracket them up in here so easier for u guys to compare for those at the cathode, the higher the standard electrode potential, the easier they are discharged Ca 2+ + 2e -> Ca (-2.87V) Na+ + e -> Na (-2.71V) Mg2+ + 2e -> Mg (-2.38V) H+ +e -> 1/2 H2 (0.00V) for those at the anode are the same 2Cl- -> Cl2 + 2e (-1.36V) 4OH- -> O2 + 2 H2O + 4e (-0.40V) thanks bro iantoh, hope it helped u to understand bro lester, tried to explain in the simpliest way...but dunno how to make it more simplier...sorry if too chim

ok..this is what i understand..how i accurate i dunno..after all i am a student...but hope it helps firstly, lets look at the main ions which we are concerned about: Ca 2+, Na+, Mg2+, H+, Cl- and OH- from the above, we can tell that Ca 2+, Na+, Mg 2+ and H+ will be reduced at the cathode and Cl- and OH- will get oxidised at the anode however for the ions at both the cathode and the anode have different ease discharged depending on their standard electrode potential for those at the cathode, the higher the standard electrode potential, the easier they are discharged Ca 2+ + 2e -> Ca -2.87V Na+ + e -> Na -2.71V Mg2+ + 2e -> Mg -2.38V H+ +e -> 1/2 H2 0.00V for those at the anode are the same 2Cl- -> Cl2 + 2e -1.36V 4OH- -> O2 + 2 H2O + 4e -0.40V from here..u can see that H+ is favoured to be reduced at the cathode and OH- easier to be oxidised at the anode...hence the oxygen and hydrogen as mentioned in the article...which also means the other ions wont get discharged as water within the region gets lesser, concentration of ions around starts to increase, hence equilibrium shifts and this results in the increase in the standard electrode potential of chloride ions and hence it is easier for chloride ions to be oxidised and hence the presence of chlorine gas at the anode as i mentioned that the ion concentration around the steel increases, using bro iantoh's example, calcium ion concentration increases from 300 ppm to 500ppm calcium ions combine with carbonate ions to form calcium carbonate which makes up the lime stone via the formula: Ca2+ + CO3 2- => CaCO3 with an increase in concentration of calcium ions, equilibrium shifts to the right, which means easier for CaCO3 to form, hence speeding up calcification hope this help u all to understand...well..in any case...thats how i understand like i said, how accurate i dunno, all these are what i learnt in school, still a student, but still hope it helps, and hope it isnt too difficult to understand just my 2 cents

once my cca (NCC) was having outdoor camp at the army camp...have to sleep out for a night...rest of the nights in the bunks... left side of the camp is power plant, right side is shipyard...and in the middle of the night i couldnt sleep and i heard chinese opera!!! so i quickly force myself to fall asleep another was last year hungry ghost festival..i was studying at the library till it closed...so i was walking to the bus stop when suddenly i kicked into something which diverted my leg to one side...almost fall down...i turned around to look...flat cemeted pavement...how in the world my leg could be pushed to one side!?!? it couldnt be a bottle or can or what so ever...something which could divert my leg would be heavy enough to remain there.... freaked out...so quickly walk to the bus stop

Ford factory recently got thrown dun liao...dunno making way for what

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