roidan

the broken tank

welcome to the club.... you and your gf are good looking enough to star in korean drama shows that are airing in singapore hope that you can bring some singaporean reefers around if they are holidaying in seoul...and anytime u are coming to singapore...let us know so that some of us here may be able to bring you around... have fun

"Ah the joys of hearing a child say "are we there yet". One of my favorite lines, probably due to its usage in the greatest television show of all times, The Simpsons. This may be the question we need to ask ourselves as we enjoy this hobby. We all have dreams of the days when marine ecosystems will be cheap, easy, and foolproof. Imagine a day where you buy a fish (basically free they are so cheap) and put it in your tank knowing it will live for years. Oh, and lets not forget the advantages of easy to find cheap lights that last 50 years. Imagine glass and acrylic there never needs to be cleaned. Live rock with corals growing all over them for the price of dirt. And yes, I know we are all still looking for some type of salt water plecostomus. Is the Marine aquarium hobby making progress? Does it need to make progress? To me, these are the questions that are important, and often overlooked. Let's start at the beginning, where else? The practice of keeping salt water fishes has come a long way during the last 50 years. Recent decades have seen leaps and bounds of great progress in other areas as the hobby expanded into Cnidaria, Mollusca, Arthropoda, and a mess of other wonderful organisms. However, the way I see it, the hobby is slowing down. How often do we hear a speaker or author making statements like "I've been in this hobby since 1962 and I can remember the days when...", give me a break. We can all see the changes that have taken place, but what about recent discoveries? While many of us in the reef hobby are thankful for the progress that has been made, it does lead to some concerns. The point I'm trying to get at is that with all we know our success is almost, well, too successful. Thousands of people are now able to keep marine organisms and have them thrive in their ecosystems. Mini or nano reefs are becoming more popular and it seems that even simple little tanks are doing the trick. We have the experience and the knowledge from years past to thank for this. Imagine where we would be without the trials of protein skimming, plenums, bio-balls, sand, algae, mud, rock, lighting, chemicals, and all the other items that have come into this hobby. But it seems that now we are at a standpoint. From my point of view that last 5 years have not seen the ingenuity and creativity, which previous years had seen. After the explosion of sumps and lighting improvements, nothing has happened. I haven't heard a speaker or author come up with anything original in years. In fact, the hobby is becoming boring. Where are the new ideas, where are the experiments? Most importantly, why does everyone have the same looking aquarium? Is there something that triggers our minds to say that a rectangle box, with rock stacked nicely along the back, having corals carefully placed, with bright lights, and a few fishes makes a beautiful living room centerpiece. It may be beautiful, but it just isn't right to me. For once I would like to see something truly unique. I would even settle for someone who dumps their live rock in the tank, straight from the box, and lets it land wherever it may land. Why the reduction in creativity and experimentation? My explanation for this is that we don't need it anymore. Or do we? Are people simply not trying new things because there tanks are already perfect? To me, they are not. As the wise philosopher Aristotle once said "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness". It is my fear that if the hobby doesn't allow and promote the ideas of individuals trying new things and striving for improvements then we will never make progress from where we are today. The goal is to make progress to a point where aquariums are perfect. So I guess the question is... are we there yet? As always questions and comments are welcome." Adam Blundell President Wasatch Marine Aquarium Society http://www.reefs.org/editorial/index.html

bro...the pic looks like those pasar malam games whereby you throw a ring into the board of nails and then walk home with prize. in this case...maybe u can ask reefers to throw wedding rings into the tank and walk home with the frag that their rings catches

getting abit crowded near the vege clip

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13022 new to the hobby and already got such high standards and good taste....

Mr Goldie says "I'm afraid of no tangs.....not even when boss of Roidan's tank (AT) is around...."

Mr goldie says..... "who says we are coral munching pests? We can be nice vegetarians too"

eh.... I am sure i did not buy 2 goldflakes

someone please tell me I ain't dreaming..... did my camera capture the goldflake in his usual vege-eating rounds again? or are my eyes deceiving me

PH shock?

a pose worth its weight in gold

vege-eating time again today...hehe

you can start reading from here http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?...ic=28370&st=195 hardy?...seems so in my case... disturb other fish and corals? .....does not...but got harassed by my tangs instead.... will it grow big in the aquarium? i think it will not grow bigger than my tangs....

news reported that he was in debt from gambling......sigh... and now casino seems a very likely prospect in the horizon...will we see more of these in years to come?

big bro, i think it's time we catch all these exotic fishes back ourselves ya...give me heraldi free i also dun want....i dun mind the marinecenter's hybrid lemonpeel though

bro, this fish looks more drab than the normal blue-eye lemonpeel... exotic name but doesn't come with exotic look/colours....definitely doesn't catch my eye... this is what catches my eye... http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthre...threadid=543231

i wonder who has the hybrid lemon peel that looks like the one at marinecenter... http://themarinecenter.com/angelhybrid1.htm the hybrids i see so far are only plain yellow with black tail....without the nice blue dots on the tail and bottom fin.

i would prefer setting up the new tank at the new place and slowly bringing your stuff over and once more or less the important stuff (fish/corals/equipment) are at the new place..... then shutdown the current tank...clean it up...and put it up for fire sale

of all the dwarfs i have so far....all are doing very well except for the coral beauty, who seems to be slimming down although still eating during feeding times.... hope it was not 'cyanide-d' the rest are happy munching on cyclopeeze, mysis shrimp, even pellets.

thanks... anymore dwarfy owners out there?

might as well say, where are the rest of the Justice League here you go, group photo and boy i am sure u didn't know that they are reefers too