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I still think that 27 is best, because during rainy days, if temp is too low, there will be vapour at the external side of the glass.

So if the compressor is going to spoil, is it giving this tick tick tick sound or bing bomb bang sound? I dun want to get ppl to come and see, as the charges I can invest in part of a new chiller, haha. Mine is CL 450. But just wondering, if the sound is from the fan, is it because the turning part is lack of oil or is it because it hits the back metal?

Bro marine12, your chiller is it start making a bit of tick tick sound when it kickstart and last about 5 to 10 secs and have the sound again when it stops (also 5 to 10 secs)? Mine also like that, at 1st I thought its the fan sound, but I doubt so, I think its from the compressor. But it's still performing well, chilling the tank well.

Don't keep LPS, it won't survive in that temperature. Softies should not be a problem, but make sure temperature not higher than 30. Sealife keeping softies without chiller, and they maintain it quite well, but their shop is air conditioned, this could help in the tank overall tempearture.

I think u misunderstood the whole thing, buying of RO water may be a constant investment, but it saves us the trouble of using DI/RO unit, one pail of 19 Litres of RO water cost $6, plus delivery, I don't find it any bad points. Although I don't know if the RO water delivered is really RO or not, but I doubt they did cheat in any way. Consuming of water cannot be compared with using water for your tank, as your body won't grow algae, and stuff like silicate, phosphate, nitrate, copper is a lot more harmful to corals compared to your body, you drink water for the sake of drinking due to body requirement, you don't breath from the water. Old pipping tap water may have some copper in it as well. Water purifier is not simple, carbon is not cheap either, and you won't be assure that the water is as pure as RO/DI. If use DI or RO unit, both can be costly investment, and their rasins need to be replaced once exhausted. Although it may be cheaper in terms of long term wise.

What!!! Then their bottles they don't want liao? I think got Ice mountain one. But Ice mountain is mineral water and not RO water right?

Actually all plastic bottles can be recycled. By either giving them to the recycling bag, or drop them in the recycling bins. I have been buying the RO water from life source as well. But I'm wondering if there is really no bad content in the water?

Any dwaft angel anywhere?

You can follow how Sealife does on their display tank. Although they have quite a large tank, but you can follow their concept. Their is what I seen so far the easiest and very beautiful tank. This is mainly due to they keep only soft corals and fishes, it's enjoying watching their tank.

I change every fortnightly, I only change one pail per time. The pail is about the size of a coralife salt pail, smaller a bit. I use a maggie mee cup to scope the water and transport into the pail, as I don't want to use any pipes. I don't think "zero" changes of water is a good thing, as salt have most of the trace elements that your tank may need. If you have a very good filtration system, zero NH3, NO2, NO3, PO4, doesn't mean your trace element will remain constant. And the addictives we add are mostly iodine, strongtium, magnisium, calcium etc, there are still lots of other trace element that are required which we usually don't add manually.

Did you feed them? They need to be fed.

I use to have one, provide them medium or strong lighting. I use to place them at the bottom, which I think they love it, and they bloom well. But after a year, I shifted them to the right side of my tank which have a higher flow, and half of the mushroom was flying up by the current, and they shrink after that. Try not to place them at a high flow area, just gentle flow. They are great to observe. Saw one of them ate a cleaner shrimp before. But mine never happen.

Chaeto grows much faster, and they are easier to take care of. Red bamboo growth rate is a bit slower, but red bamboo is tang favourite. I don't think they like to eat chaeto at all, tried mine many times. Can try red bamboo feeding for your tang, they will grow real fat, the results is very obvious when you compare one with pellet feeding and one with red bamboo feeding. Actually the distilled water is not better than DI, but it just save you the trouble of making your own DI water. Since bro hammy tested with his TDS meter, I'm sure it is quite a good deal to buy instead of using DI or RO water from your machines. But I'm wondering if distilled water have the same content of oxygen level or not?

Mine I set it at 26 and kicks in at 28. Actually want to set it at 27 and kicks in at 29, but afraid that 29 might be too high. But mine kicks in quite often.

The l/hr is not always acurate, the l/hr shown on the pump is when nothing is connected to the pump, meaning with direct water flow out of the pump, the pump can pump 1800l/hr of water, but since you have soft pipe connected to the pump, and have to see where your chiller is located, whether on the floor or on a chair etc... The pumping of water rate will sure reduce a bit even if chiller is placed on the floor. Since the specs of the chiller specify that the recommended pump is minimum 1800l/hr, then use that as your pump, don't buy one that is below 1800l/hr, and don't buy one that is extremely powerful, it could cause leakage. For the 8 Degree below amd 15 degree below, I don't really know what it is about, but I guess it's mentioning the chiller can bring down a temp of 8 DegreeC and 15 degreeC if your tank size is what they specify.

Most harlequin will feed on blue or red star fish. I think bro blue should also feed on that.

Chaetos doesn't require very strong light. I'm using FL T8 in my sump and they are growing well. But I have a friend who was using MH for his chaeto in the main tank, and they grow like crazy. I think its a matter of fast and slow growing. But his chaetos is lighter compared to mine, I don't understand why, cas is'nt it a greater lighting will give a darker green plants? Btw which LFS is selling mangroves? I've been searching for them for quite long. They selling just the stalk or already with the leaves?

Lim chu kang is actually considered west instead of north, so it should be west.

Omg super glue, sounds toxic. Use e-proxy instead, but you need to hold them for sometime before they will hold tight.

I would suggest you leave the eggs as it is in the main tank. Cleaner shrimps fries are almost impossible to raise even by experts aquarist. Just treat them as food for fishes/invert/corals. Don't catch your shrimps out, you will stress it.

Get black sea cucumber like bro sonicfrank mentioned, no worries about tube anemones, inverts have their ways to avoid inverts attack.

What is the price?

Giant abalone!! Whiskers of a huge cat fish!!

Frog fish, lion fish.

No, pura No3 lock won't reduce much. If your NO3 is super high, the best is perform water change. Don't waste $$ to buy No3 remover/absorber. They are costly and you have to change / recharge them often. It will even cause you more effort in maintaining.