tayhonglee
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iwarna super shipment. packed with lots of red, green and bicolor pratas, red blastos, metallic green gonios, moon coral, bubbles, elegance, frogspawn, true octos, very red open brains, red cynarinas, and lots of sps (but i can't recognise any of them...hehehe)
i got me 2 bicolor pratas, orange and red streaks (my favorite). plus one weird encrusting lps, also red and orange. one kind reefer told me the name, but i forgot. plus a gonio, a 4 head bubble and red blastos. mmmm......very happy now
still lots of croceas and squamos left. color from the side is so-so
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man, got tremors again. my fish tank water splashed out...
its still shaking now. pretty badly in fact. neighbours making noise, people leaving their homes.
got to clean up the spill....sian
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woah, general section now absolutely infested with ######. how the heck did ###### start invading src? i think on average there are more than 10 new ###### links from spambots with new registration.
but i must say that moderators are doing a pretty good job cleaning up the freakin ###### links. esp paris hilton....mmmm......hehe
i wonder if its possible to automatically delete a thread if more than 10 different people (or something) click on the 'report' on a particular thread. prolly makes things easier for everyone.
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pratas price dropped to about $90~$100 the last shipment bro....
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check out this guy....so romantic until i is also wants to marry him
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oh.. buy flat cannot eh.. cause we already apply for flat liao le..
hehe...bro, i is just kidding with you lah....
i proposed to my wife at a nice restaurant. somewhere a little quiet, romantic songs, lots of privacy.
my suggestion is this restaurant at mandarin hotel. top of the m or something. romantic, dim candle light, rotates around for a nice view of singapore, a little bit of wine to soften her up, plus they have a three piece band. can ask the maitre d for help too. i bet he has better ideas than what we can come up with.
the food sucks though. i ordered an entree that came with some freakin cheese in cups. taste like week old skimmate (not that ive tried it). and expensive too. two person will easily set you back by about $300. but what the heck, its a once in a lifetime thing. three red pratas: $300. lifetime of peace and quiet from happy wife: priceless
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confirm the BEST way to propose is to ask
"eh, wan to buy flat anot huh? now economy is good, is good time to buy flat leh. you is not young oso liao....."
very romantic.....
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hey mag,
thanks for the RO water lobang. i just ordered 5 bottles (min order), deliver to my place this weekend. very friendly people.
just out of curiousity, have you tested the water with a tds meter before?
thanks
henry
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i is like your tank very much!
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NAME!!!! THE!!!!!! BUNGHOLE!!!!!!!
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kareen, whats in the prawn head? i know i love to chutchut the yellow goo in the head when i eat prawns, but i have no idea what it is. tasty, but somehow a little sinful.
putting the mixture in used mysis packaging is a super good idea. i think i will try it the next time.
on a separate note, anyone knows how to make the food float? a couple of my previous batches float very well, so its very easy to feed. i just dump them frozen into the water and the fishes peck at it relentlessly until they get some love.
maybe blending the mixture for a longer time will introduce more air bubbles, which of course in turn will make the food more bouyant. i don't know...its just a guess.
also, any here interested in sharing some food with me the next time i make some? maybe another 2 reefers? im pretty sure borinz would wana share (although i have to ask him first), so that would make four of us. we'll split the cost right down the middle, no extras for transport and time and effort or all that crap. but you will have to come and pick it up from my place (near boon keng mrt). im seriously thinking of doing another batch, coz this one has too much tendons.
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ok, a little update. a little but sad update. this batch of fish food is a failure.
the fishes still go crazy over the food, and corals seem to like it (judging by the reaction in Borinz's tank), but there's a whole bunch of fish fillet tendons in the mixture. fishes apparently do not like to eat tendon, so everytime i feed, i have to separate the tendons first, which, in my opinion, is really too much of a trouble.
sorry guys, i added too much fish fillet this time around.
therefore, (this may come as a surprise) lesson learned is: DO NOT ADD TOO MUCH FISH FILLET.
everything else is a'okay
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oh yeah, i forgot to mention that i used to add mysis and brine shrimp. but i stopped after i realised that there's no way frozen brine shimp and mysis have more nutrition than this stuff. i also added garlic juice to one of my past few batches, but it didn't make much of a difference either (although i wouldn't rule out adding some if my fishes had ich).
**summary**
1. shrimp (shelled)
2. sotong (remove the cartilage and skin, blend thoroughly)
3. fish fillet (blend VERY thoroughly)
4. nori / seaweed (cut up into small pieces when DRY)
5. fish eggs / roe (without the sac, disgusting yet fascinating)
6. clam (quick blend will do)
7. oysters (if you are rich)
8. sea urchin (decapsulated, add only if you are really really really really fussy or mildly ######)
9. mysis and brine shrimp (make sure to drain the stinky liquid first)
10. cyclopeeze
11. golden pearls, phyto, etc
12. garlic juice
Mix and match! and finally, the ultimate secret ingredient!
Lots and Lots of TLC......awww....
that, and a really powerful skimmer, like my amazingly efficient and hardworking aqua c (i love you baby!)
BONUS PIC!!
i saw this singaporean car masquerading as a malaysian car along tanjong pagar not one week ago. some people really know no limits. shameless slut....tsk
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Bro, what a guide.
How much is the nori pack selling at Sheng Siong?
BTW, can show a pix of your fishes eating this home-made food?
sure thing bro, i will take some pics tonight during dinner.
i can't remember the price of the nori. its very cheap, something like $2 or $3 per packet. buy the dried unflavored ones. there are different colors, but i don't know the significance
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mix them up nicely in a big bowl, put them into plastic bags, flatten the bags, and dump them in the freezer. every time you want to feed, just break off a small piece.
that's about it.
i usually add clams and crab meat too, but i couldn't find any in sheng shiong this time around (which is why i bought the fish fillet).
as the fish food is really very nutritious, i really don't recommend feeding very much the first couple of weeks until your tank is used to the bioload. better safe than sorry. nowadays i feed about 1 inch cube a day.
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next step is to blend the shrimps. a few seconds of my turbo charged china made blender is enough to chop them up nicely.
blend the fish fillet very well. there're usually quite a lot of tendons (?), which really messes up the fish food righteously.
cut the nori into small pieces with a pair of scissors too. cut when dry. wet nori is like steel wool. very tough and mean.
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ingredient no. 6 and no. 7! cyclopeeze and golden pearls.
add them if you have 'em on hand. its not that important. i normally dump in half a can of cyclopeeze and a small bottle of golden pearls. good for corals and filter feeders and small fishes. plus they smell awesome.
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there you go. this is what they look like. lovely....
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5) next ingredient, fish fillet
note: i usually don't add so much fish meat, but it was on offer at sheng shiong (vely cheap oh), so i figured what my fishes don't know can hurt them.
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ta-daa!
a word of warning to the wise. please do not smell the eggs. nor taste them.
i did both, and you can prolly guess what happened.
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then, scrap the eggs off the egg sac. gently. the egg sac is very tough, and not good at all for mixing with fish food.
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here's how i prepare it.
first, cut the li'l bugger right down the middle
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4) fish eggs. they take a little more effort to prepare, but well worth the effort. very nutritious and drives my fishes crazy. and cheap...
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3) all time favorite, nori
please add more if you have lots of tangs.
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ouch.....
hehe....
there is a big difference from the past, but every tank goes through different stages