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will throw in a pack of red sea salt. bout 4 kg left.

Sailfin is at around 4 inches. super fat. YT and PT both around 3 inches over. still thinking of whether to let them go, cos they are my mum's favourites. Sailfin - $20. YT - $45 PT - $45 all fishes with me for at least a year. hoping to let them go fast. they are in my 12G cube now. waiting for their fate. call me at 92709460 for fast deal. hoping to deal by sat afternoon.

here u go. I AM NOT THE SELLER. DO NOT PM ME.

the other 3 pieces. the last piece is 80% covered in coralline.

cured and just removed from my tank, done a rescape. i got some new ones to replace them. roughly 8-10kg. 5 pieces, 4 pieces which are shown in the fotos below. the 5th still in my tank. will remove it when deal is confirmed. highly covered with thick coralline. selling at $30. hoping to sell them asap, as they are out of water already.

just remembered someting that my mummy taught me too (since u insist on so adamantly that i am a kid) always respect elders. they are NEVER wrong. my most humble of apologies to u sir.

LOL. http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/disease.html just something to share. maybe not all white dots deserve treatment.

like i said, i am not shirking responsibility. some nice and old reefers know exactly how i take responsibility for my words. if you are unsure, dont assume. go check around. i am sorry that you seem so overwhelmed and unable to cope with the amount of words that has been appearing in front of your eyes, how unfortunate. you are exactly one guy that likes to take his age and flaunt it to everyone else and treat it like its some prized possession that is worthy of boast. its like so passe. i dont advice people cos i read something that is UNVERIFIED on the internet. so have you really seen what is ich? or do u think every white dot that appears on your beloved 25mm tang sized bodies deserves attention and warrants them to be copper treated? there are other parasites that are in the form of white dots too, my dear EXPERIENCED one-who-has-been-reefing-longer-then-me reefer. in your analogy i think it would not matter to you if your bed is inside the toilet or within a room. i guess older people just dont get the idea as easily as younger people anymore. you pick up the tone, i pick it up with you. to avoid dilutiing this thread further and be responsible, if you wish to engage in further discussions with me, please create a thread in kopi-tiam and i will devote my fullest attention to one that is in deficit of.

to the first paragraph: maybe there has been too much words you are unable to comprehend such a large amount of words. to simplify: " I advice with accordance to my own experience. if i nvr did QT before, does that count as experience?" the second paragraph: if the reefer choose to blame everything bad that happens to him/her on other pple, so be it. i am not stopping them. my mummy always say, cannot swim dont blame swimming trunks too big. It takes a big man to blame others for things. It takes a much bigger man to understand what went wrong. the : say it like u mean it. keep your tone of speech in check. this is a forum to share, not to war. anyway i would love to see your 12G tank QT-ing 2 3.5 inch tangs. its a matter of perspective on how much stress u put them through when u put them in a small QT. i think u might like it to be kept inside a toilet cubicle when u recover from illness. maybe you will recover faster this way.

yep yep 4th year. i been going at it at my physio systems analysis all night. still trying to make sense out of the maths. think i need to look for my indian god fren already. he is so darn smart... i guess when i get out to work and den have enough $$$ to do up a new and bigger tank, probably i will plan some space in my house to do a QT. but right now its quite impossible for me to QT anything. i guess its a risk i have to take now, dat fishes are intro-ed right into it. fingers crossed, i think my tank should be alright. 1 thing i realised is that as long as u get them tangs to feed and turn into vaccum cleaners dat clean food right outta the water, no issue on their survival. my first and surviving PBT had this 50cent coin patch of i dunno wat at the side at one point in time, was quite worried dat it might go somewhere else where harps play, but den it went away after 3 weeks. during the period it was still behaving like a vaccum cleaner. i also realised its super duper easy to get tangs to feed, with form 2 flakes. more ex and dirties water faster, but sure thing to get all them tangs up and round. and wat u feed them matters. my mum feeds them flakes only though, cos i am not around at home to feed them.

in EEE specialising in biomed engineering. i am screwed too. and it doesnt help dat my maths background sucks. i know its better to QT them, but firstly i tried QTing them in the past. those that wanted to die just died, no matter whether i QTed them a not. so i sorta gave up. and i got no tank and space at home to give them a proper QT space. QT must have a tank for them to be relaxed in, meaning a decent sized one in proportion to the fish size. not just small 12G tank.

hmmmm i just saw the above post. not very friendly i must say. 1 bamboo beat 2 people. not very "nice" and "peace-like" wor. i wouldnt like to be compared. i am myself. i believe whatever that i do. maybe i am just not that kinda person that needs something academic to fall back on and worship it, for reassurance, and to blame whenever something doesnt work out according to whatever was written. i do a lot of reading up. reading is my secondary hobby. but like i would like to repeat myself again, i dont worship everything that's written. u can easily find sites that contradicts each other in terms of reef keeping. some say do this and the another few says doing this is wrong, u need to do that. so who is right? who to believe? i read advices and absorb. cross-reference with my experience, correlate them and conclude if they are true IN MY EXPERIENCE. not view. a difference of a word makes a lot of difference. must pay more attention to the words. this is a forum to share. i dont exactly like to be termed as a hero. its nice, but redundant. i cant buy food to eat with that title. i cant feed my fishes with the title. so maybe wat me and the other guy was trying to do, is to just share. and a lot of pple in this forum doesnt share for the simple reason that clever people like you are around, de-bunking all mysteries bout reef keeping and instating only your own as the ultimate belief. I dont mind being Hiro though. i could do with some skill of his.

hello fellow reefer! decided to take a break, and wiki bout leeches. Quote: "Haemophagic leeches attach to their hosts and remain there until they become full, at which point they fall off to digest. "

hahaha. my dear fellow reefer. i am in the midst of exams now, and before that was so overwhelmed with schoolwork i have no time to update my tank thread. reefers whom i am still chatting with will know that i plugged out my FR over half a year ago. juz a good old skimmer doing the job. anyway i do read up on the sites too. ok so the leech idea was not a very good example. a reefer did msn me and tell me so, but he did add on too that he quite agree with wat i said. thats the best i could think of right now if i am not gonna tell you about biomedical signal processing and medical imaging, which is what i am studying right now. i mean, its just a thought and sharing session which we are having here. there is no need to get all personal. he did mention that too. everyone has their own beliefs and thinkings about how to maintain the hobby. there are people dat run SPS tanks for years without skimmers. there are people who have everything in the world that doesnt work. and NOPE i dun QT fishes. like i did mention somewhere else in the forum, when i get fishes, i juz dump them right into the tank. QT for wat. the only belief that i always tell other people, is that fishes are just like humans. if they have a strong sense to survive they will. if they wish to die, they can be all fat and healthy and they can just wither away. had dat a few times b4. btw my tank is quite ich free. considering that i do wat i do when i get new fishes. so i always tell e people i talk to, dun listen to me, cos they way i handle my tank and LS, i have very very low casualty rates, but will have an extremely high flame rate. see its already happening! hehee oh btw, ICH, not exactly ITCH. Ichthyophthirius is the name, and the T comes after the H. :) reef onz!

urmz, i would just like to point out that, no matter how hard or how long you quarantine your tank, there will always be trace quantities of ich to be found in the main tank. its just a matter of how much. is it of an amount large enough to overwhelm a fish. we QT fishes so we do not cause a spike in the amount of ich introduced into the system. so keeping that in mind, we must also understand that ich needs a living body to multiply and multiply rapidly, and the only few living bodies available in the water that is suitable for it to do so are fishes. some fishes are supposedly more easily "infected" because they are the ones that allows the parasites to cling on. its the same principle as leeches. leeches wun cling on to bodies dat doesnt allow them to feed on, or have imcompatable blood or strong immune systems that will "reject" or even kill them. and as u did mention to dieran green, they are parasites, not bacteria or virus. and wat bro dieran green is also trying to say is that if your immune system is not strong enough, it doesnt matter whether the fella is free from ich and in a very weak state. immune systems in this case means how "strong and fit" dat fella is. in human context again, if he has recovred from a very heavy leech attack and is lacking in blood and has yet to recover, and then u throw the fella back into an environment where there is a possibility of him being attacked again, a small amount of leeches this time round can do the same amount of damage to his health. u get the idea. my angmoh not so good to really get the concept to you over the forum. feel free to call me if u need further queries. anyway IMO i dun really worship wat henry says, and everything i see or believe in is wat i had experienced b4. u see my tank u know. i dun go for fancy equipment. wat is said, u need to further understand it b4 u treat it as the absolute truth. the problem with pple nowadays is that they judge too quickly b4 they really hear pple out.

i just wanna share with you guys. water change is actually therapeutic. its like. OMG. destressing. haha, decided to come back home after 3 weeks for a surprise check on my tank, discovered some of my LPS not opening up well. decided to change some water, since i haven done so in months. will be doing a series of WC to perk up my tank condition again to optimal to welcome an upcoming stocking during dec and january! haha! 2 coralife pails change per 2 weeks, followed by 4 pail change after 1 month. i think should be able to do the trick. oh i haven been running an FR in my tank for months already. looking good. downside is that my chaeto seems to be still dying. i wonder why..

seriously bro. u been spelling my name all wrong for the last year.

item collected by a very nice gentleman driving a very nice car.

no news from intended buyer. item back up on sale. item to be cleared asap.

haha hence my deduction that e guy's a dumb shit. hahah

all PMs replied. the canister is in excellent condition. i am starting to believe that it has never touched water before. its very clean and new. juz tested it. its working well. price is fixed.

shrimps are the most susceptable to change in water parameters, so make sure u dun shock them. i had shrimps that stayed wif me for 9 months, laid eggs countless times, i also had shrimps that died for no reason.

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hahaha yeahhhh. figured that out. hence i do it the all natural way. i let them sort out themselves. and i am still waiting for ya FTS! i really like e idea of your tank design.. heh. hmm at least another year b4 i can start to think bout upgrading my tank..