colinsoon

dat guy's a dumb shit. haha.

hahaha i did think of adding a pair of loveangels into my tank.. but i got 4 potential food sources for them.. and its quite impossible to catch them out after they go in, without destroying the look now, after i destroyed one side of it already. actually i opened up more swimming space is for my tangs cos they are bulldozing their way around my tank, hitting LPS and either toppling them or stressing them, causing them to shrink. tot that this scape might work, but turns out, they juz got more swimming space to pick up momentum to bulldoze their way around. haiz.

last addition to the tank. love them!

humongously big neon green cateye. nearly 10 inches when fully open. skeleton only 2 inches across.

this prata too. lovely..

another very old coral.. haven seen it open up so nicely recently, till i opened up more space on e SB for them...

other look.

my oldest coral in e tank. coming to 2 years old.

other side.

new scape under full lighting. it doesnt look that bad after all. but i still like my old one.

been tooooo busy e last few weeks to update. exams, assignments and reports are killing me. i so do not agree with final year workloads. anyway a final look at my old scape. i miss e fantastic amount of coralline growth.

i love them things in your tank. they are honestly beautiful! i think its true. nice guys will always have nice tanks. hate it that i cant keep anthias or wrasses. still waiting for your FTS!!! =)

i duno much bout QTs cos i nvr QT my fishes. my mum will skin me alive and collect my skin to cook roast suckling pig if i did intro another tank into my living room. but i do know is that juz have little shelters for them to hide in. something like containers turned sideways or pipes or tubes. something along those lines, eaiser for u to catch them in e future also. having the lights on 24/7 creates more stress. its like u keep seeing the sun 24/7, you dun haf time to rest, and over time u r gonna develop something weird. i dunno. skin cancer maybe? normal silicon is safe enough for seawater. i think its no harm getting a HOB skimmer like a prizm to run on e QT, since there is like no biological filtration to the QT, so e biowaste cant be removed effectively, hence creating another potential problem for your lil fishies... oh bout my water parameters, i haven checked it since over a year ago. i dun even test my salinity anymore when i mix water. i know its 3 cups of salt for 1 corallife pail. i know as long as i see everything opening and my fishes eating, my water is fine. yep a lot of u people gonna flame me for doing so, but then, i am not a big fan of keeping NO3 to zero, cos i figured out after 2 crashes from my old tank is that, its not the NO3 that kills, but the first step of the ANN cycle. both of my crashes happened cos something too big died in a tank too small, making me lose a lot of fishies. i am a firm believer in patience and stability. of course there are downsides to having high NO3, but i am not seeing any in my tank now.

upz

used for 3 months only. box and everything still intact. selling on behalf of my fren. $120. purchase price was $318. tag still on e box. sms me at 92709460 if interested.

i tested my tapwater at home using salifert also. not detectable. so i presume certain areas in sg has better water then others. my water topup is all from the tap. straight from the tap. even if u do introduce any PO4, its gonna be rather insignificant for a 300L tank, especially if u tested it as negligible. the PO4 from e tap water thing is too over-rated IMO. its not like there is a sizeable chunk of solid PO4 in every 500ml that you top up with.

all of which i am gonna say is from my own personal experience, which is from my current 3x1.5x2 ft tank. LS as follows: 1. PBT (4inch) -- intially 3inch 2. BT (4inch) -- initially 1inch 3. YT (4.5inch) -- initially 3inch 4. PT (4.5inch) -- initially 3 inch 5. sailfin (5 inch) -- initially 2.5inch 6. percula clown pair (1.5-2inch) 7. 5 x chromis 8. Strawberry dottyback (2cm diameter, 3inch long) -- its damn fat. 9. Damsel (1inch) -- oldest resident 10. longfin bannerfish (2inch) total LS count: 15, for a 280L tank. All of the occupants in my tank has been with me for at least 3 months. non of them are anything below mildly obese. (1) So 1 thing we can definitely dispell is that, there is not so much as an overload of tangs in your 4fter system, as i already have 5 in mine, 1 tang for every 55L. (2) ich is one thing that will always be present in tangs when u keep them. when white spots or patches appear on your fishes, its not the end of the world. as long as they are still fat and healthy or still eating, the best form of treatment is still to leave them alone. you never know that wat is causing them to develop the spots. it could be just normal stress by other tangs or actually dirt in e water getting trapped onto their scales. my tangs till now get white spots occasionally too, which i am never concerned, because all my tangs are almost a year old or older. non never came close to anything happen before (touch wood). leave them alone, maybe change a pail or 2 of water when u see something wrong. but my best advice is that they will heal themselves. (3) i think personally that you should not hypo your tank or anything when ich appears. cos it will juz add stress to the environment. i dont think u wan me to put u in an even more hostile environment when u r sick. u will juz die faster, doesnt really help much. (4) feeding of proper dietary. i came to realise, along with a few of my friends, if fishes start to turn into gluttons, they are basically indestructable. and having a complete range of food for them is important too. i am guilty of the fact that i only feed them Formula 2 flakes, and only that. i got frozen cubes on standby, just in case flakes run out. my babies (fishes) clear out 1 bottle every 18-20 days. thats how much they eat, and think bout the amount of shit they produce. (5) nothing to do your with your equipment: your list of equipment is damn good. i only have a skimmer in my system, macro AS250. nothing else. and it doesnt skim anything much out. it sucks. but its keeping my LPS reef rather well, with minimal losses to corals. when u get fishes, read up on them, ask around, before u get them. dun get more aggressive fishes and dump them into the tank first. anything else that goes in is gona get it bad. and really bad. know thy tangs, and they will live for u. reefing is about not doing anything constant to the system, but letting it stabilise. the stability of e tank is already 80percent of e battle won. just my 2 cents. very long 2 cents though. ps: i dont QT my fishes. its from the LFS, put over my tank, cut bag, and pour contents in.

did a minor rescape today, cos wanted to let my fishes have swimming space and stop them from continuously hitting on my LPS till they dun open. end product: SHIT.

The lack of proper circulation in the tank (absence of wavemakers from the FTS) can cause quite a problem in terms of diatoms. Especially for a new tank like yours. mine hit bout the same times as yours, but should clear up pretty quickly even without ozone or UV. installation of a wavemaker should help quite a bit too, as diatoms usually occurs in low flow areas. no need to switch on the chiller so early. nothing inside yet.. can save you some electricity. my tank is chilled down to 28 degrees. its all LPS inside, so yep, 28 is alright. all blooming well too. anyway bro, juz a thought of mine, your rockscape is too high on the leftside. its like already exiting the water. stuff might use the rocks and crawl right into the overflow box. and this makes the rockscape looks rather lob-sided.

its bout good time that you start again! if i were you i would have died from the lack of reefing already.. hehe

hahaha my PBT again! i dunno leh.. i should be letting go of all my tangs except for the PBT... i love it too much la.. haha! lai lai make an offer for a fatttt feeding active and long lasting PBT that i cant resist!

hey bro QX~~~!!! so long nvr hear from u le! haha yep, gonna get rid of my 4 tangs den get smaller varients of it, or get something new. no yet decided.. but... hmm.

haha alright bro.. will keep ya updated... need to find some time to get my rocks though.. =) this is how my tank looks like. in the dark. haha

i will be doing a rescape soon, after i get new rocks and cure them for a few weeks.. will be selling away my YT, BT, ST, and PT. anybody interested? confirm fat, healthy and ok! with me for 1 year minimum...

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