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  1. Saw this on the web. Looks interesting as it can test many parametres crucial to a healthy reeftank. Expensive though....

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    CM-750 CHEMTESTER: Test aquarium water like the pros! Medusa ChemTester uses sophisticated colorimetric circuitry to give accurate digital readouts of the most important chemical parameters vital to the health of your fish and invertebrates. Simply fill the glass test tube with aquarium water, add SeaTest® chemicals for the desired test, and place the tube in the ChemTester for an accurate digital readout. No more hard to read color cards or cubes. ChemTester measures saltwater ammonia, nitrite, high and low range nitrate, pH, phosphate and copper. Chemicals not included.. For saltwater use only. ChemTester, 4 test tubes, caps, pipette, mixing vial and hard plastic carrying case with foam inserts included. List: US$269.99.

    Anyone used this before?

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  2. I used it once and follow the dosage given... very sure all living parasites died after adding it in. But so did all my live stock - tangs, flame angel, damsels etc etc ..... only my cleaner shrimp and green buttons survived..... I am still reminded of that accident daily as my tank's silicon all turn blue after that incident, still blue today after more than 1 year......

  3. If you plan to get a plumber to do the job, make sure you refer to those recommended by NTUC or HDB. Tell them clearly what is the fault and HOW are they going to repair it and how much.

    The rest will rip you clean of your cash. When my mixer leaked, it cost me S$140 for a new one! But I watched how they did it and later repaired my own kitchen tap that was leaking.

  4. I have tried "Kick Ich" at S$50 per bottle butit does not work..... ich comes back the moment you finished the bottle.... bought two somemore..... :(

    That's when I tried my Spectrum and Kent Garlic and it has worked for me the last few outbreaks. One may come again as I just added a PBT into my tank and its definitely infected with Ich.... but somehow I am very confident it will work out well.

  5. I have kanna ich on my tangs a few times already.. the last time when I added a new blue tang to an existing group yellow, purple and sailfin tangs. All kanna ich including my flame angel etc. wiithin a week. Did my usual routine - feed twice daily with Spectrum pellet (attached) soaked with Kent Marine garlic. All healed in about a month. But the main thing is that they must be eating them.. any that starts hiding somewhere..... bad news...... But I know others have used Spectrum with mixed results w/o the garlic. Maybe together made the difference..

    Spectrum (note that they have two pellet sizes, get the ones that your fishes can swallow them!) can be bought at Pe****t while Se*L**e carries Kent stuff.

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  6. Some numbers here given previously by a SG Reefter. Good luck!

    Mr Lim

    Hp: 91065198

    All are 10mm thickness

    Pricing 4ft by 2ft by 2ft $300 (cupboard $400) total $700

    Pricing 3ft by 2ft by 2ft $240 (cupboard $350) total $590

    Pricing 2ft by 2ft by 2ft $200 (cupboard $300) total $500

    Mr Derrick Oh

    Hp: 94876388

    All are 10mm thickness

    Pricing 4ft by 2ft by 2ft $240 (cupboard $710) total $950

    Pricing 3ft by 2ft by 2ft $180 (cupboard $450) total $630

    Pricing 2ft by 2ft by 2ft $160 (cupboard $380) total$540

    Mr Money

    Hp: 98581239

    All are 10mm thickness

    Pricing 4ft by 2ft by 2ft $220

    Pricing 3ft by 2ft by 2ft $180

    Mr Yazid

    Hp: 91058382

    All are 10mm thickness

    Pricing 4ft by 2ft by 2ft $210

  7. hmm my previous Corolla was using V-power. the only difference I can feel is at the low-end part of the torque. aka low-end RPM. that one really got significant difference. anything above 4rpm, and it was dull. very dull. =\

    the only one true way to clear your engine and your exhaust of carbon is to pump in octane 95 fuel and rev as hard as you can! (= that amount of increased revs actually aids in clearing solidified carbon and what have you along the tracts. :P

    Anyone from the petroleum industry want to comment on this remark made by a 20 years veteran from one of the top 3 petrol companies in the world : "don't bother with 95, 98 etc as they are all the same... these are just marketing gimmicks".

    Words from someone who used to make S$20K a month from one of these companies......

  8. I have 3 x Aquablue and 1 x Actinic Blue (T5s) and the shot was taken with all turned on. Actually bear to cough out S$35 because its quite blue. Was very tempted by another small rock that had a orange and green Floridias... but could not do it.. :( Today already spent S$750 fot a 17" LCD....

    LCK110 still has quite a few pieces of various colours in the show tank near their working table. All placed near the top left section of the tank.

  9. They are very difficult to keep in the long run as their survival rate in enclosed tanks are very low. Frankly, I have kept a few and they did not last long. I remembered they need pretty strong currents (also to catch their "micro-food). They will look beautiful when they "stand" but after a while, they will just wither and die.

    But this is my personal experience. Not sure if other have better luck....

  10. 1) terryansimon (Bishan)

    2) flubberina13 (AMK)...

    3) Hecter (Woodlands)

    4) BarraCuda (CCK)

    5) Morgan (Outside AMK)

    6) Rumor (Sembawang)

    7) Bwilly (Sembawang)

    8) DeepBlue And Trigger Queen (Yishun)

    9) ridemtb(Serangoon)

    10) Yukon (Sam beh weng)??

    11) Stinger (Woodlands)

    12) Dinosaur (Si Hai Wei Jia)

    13) Volitan (Woodlands)

    14) OceanBlues (Yio Chu Kang)

    15) fangtooth ( woodlands )

    16) Dr evil (Woodlands)

    17) nutx (AMK)

    18) TANGT (AMK)

    19) Hippo (Bishan)

    20) Golden Tooth (Woodlands)

    21) hkching (Sengkang)

    22) Razo (Woodlands)

    23) lightningstrike (Bishan)

    24)Jazzben81 (Thomson)

    25) CKS (Yishun)

    26) aStRoBo| (Yishun)

    27) killfire (woodlands)

    28) Nicky30092002 (Woodlands)

    29) Valleyman (Hougang)

    30) uncleliew (woodlands)

    31) Aspire (Yishun)

    32) den04 (Yishun)

    33) alloysius(AMK)

    34) reeflobang (Admiralty Drive, Sembawang)

    ..

  11. Huskiesg - will try to post some pics of my sump and stuff. Mine is not very well laid out though as it was my first sump. I have seen spectacular ones here in SRC.

    My sump - skimmer and water top up box on the left side and the float switch is seen on the left.

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  12. Hi All

    Thanks for compliments.. an excuse to jump into ricordeas and more yumas!!! :D .

    Huskiesg - will try to post some pics of my sump and stuff. Mine is not very well laid out though as it was my first sump. I have seen spectacular ones here in SRC.

    ah^siao - I am using T5 - 3x times Aquablue and 1 x Actinic Blue. But in hindsight, should have just gone into DIY MH 150W instead (but will worry about heat as I don't have any chiller - now is about 28-29 degrees cooled by 2 PC fans). My T5 replacement will be very expensive in the long run - S$50 per tube.

    Danano - this has been my main tank all the while but I had a 1 feet cube some time back and transferred the livestock and some LR over to the main tank a few months back.

    Spicyball - my green buttons are my pioneer tank residents - surviving over-treatment of medication and other "incidents" when I was just starting out. Think I got them from T** but its more than 1 year ago. They are really growing since I started on DT.

  13. There's a special paint sold in Home-fix DIY shop that you just need to scrape off the rust (no sanding needed) and just paint directly onto the rusted surface. Average around S$10 for a small can depending on the colour. My wrought iron stand "kanna" rust on some parts so I am fixing it now.

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