Alentino

Dr Ron Shimek has already cleared this myth of Hydrogen Sulfide gas poisoning in tanks. He said that Hydrogen Sulfide will indeed form in the lowermost layer of a deep sand bed. But It will NOT migrate upwards through the sand to poison your tank. It does'nt work that way. There has been no evidences that Hydrogen Sulfide may reach toxic levels in a normal well maintained tank . There's no need to worry about those black patches, just leave them be.

Rock on AT

AT.... by taking the initiative to set up this online forum for information sharing and interaction among hobbyist you have already done us a great favour. Don't feel corncerned about having to please everybody, conform to their expectations nor bow down to their will. Brood of vipers exist in every community, whether in the office or online. Don't ever let them feel like they have the power to bring you down merely through words typed on the keyboard to express their ill intentions. I encourage you to continue doing what you love here as your passion, and to treat this online forum to what it really is... just a forum. other than useful information, trade and healthy interactions, let other lame postings mean nothing to you. cheers, Alan

how'bout "Vampire Masquarade"? The graphics cool and gameplay's exciting. or "Silent Hill 4" if ya like scary stuffs too.

is it the one where Karen Mok stood infront of an oceanarium and said " Remember..... Corals belong to the sea, not in your home..." ?

i see.... i'd rather hope for the project to be cancelled. The construction's bound to dump in silt and smother somethin. some of our state government are incredibly short sighted and unfit for leadership.

does any divers know if the project has commenced? i never heard any news from tioman anymore except that it caused an uproar from many people since its announcement last year. I wonder if they have started to kill those centuries old corals on the sea bed

yep i've been dethroned since smaller gallons are popping up.

Respect her and educate her on reefing.

I have the impression that this Zeovit thing is only an additional expensive liability to your reef tank. There are other cheaper tried and proven methods to create SPS favourable conditions. I'd personally stick to DSB and other natural means too.

Strombus are usually found in fine silty sand flats. I can't say for sure whether he can easily dig through grade 3 but as long as there is organic food source in the substrate it should do fine.

hi there. i'd say go you could try strombus as i keep one in my tank too. it has grown to a scary large size. wish i had a pic to show you. and yes they do dig into the sand most of the day probably eating both detritus and diatoms on sand surface. In my opinion, using animals like these that turn over substrate slowly and does'nt harm benthic in fauna is better for a healthy sand bed system in the long run. cheers,

awesome..... your tank rocks

check out www.nano-reefs.com on maintainence and livestock issues.

Nice stuffs ya got there small is beautiful.....

Each time I try to feeed my corals prawns and stuff, fishes will come and disturb. pretty frustrating.

so calcium levels in s'pore waters is only 300ppm? thats pathetic.....

Nice.... nearly as small as mine.... keep it goin.

I pray for the Lord to be in control of this bad situation.

There should'nt be any problem with such a low bioload. My 1ft cube nano, possibly the smallest tank in this forum runs on no filtration and skimmer at all. I rely totally on organisms living in substrate to breakdown and recycle waste. Although it sounds crazy, its been with me for 2 yrs without any problems.

Christmas tree works better

i guess the only advantage of singapore's sea water is the high density of phytoplankton due to high nutrients. As far as i can remember, singapore water is either muddy with silts or greenish with high phytos density. but i read that singapore waters is still considered to be rich with marine life. wonder how that kind of water condition can support them.

I strongly believe DSB works as it did in nauture for millions or thousands of donkey years. Eric Borneman has been using it for years with success and no problems as he said so in his recent reefkeeping articles. The only problem is only mis-managed sand beds. Studies by marine biologists also agree with his suggestion that "sand sifters" or anything like that can decimate sand bed faunas. It is found that when sting rays digs and shuffle the sand bed to forage for food, pods and critters will be killed in its trail. So it is important to leave the sand bed as it is by not stirring them or stuffs and not adding TOO MUCH "sand sifters" in small aquariums. They will be decimated to oblivion. But i'm not sure how much is too much and i feel that adding just one or two should'nt hurt. As it is in nature, no sand bed is complete and fully functional if there is no live in it. The bethnic pods and critters are part of the bio-diversity and no ecology system can function without bio-diversty. They also important contributors to nutrient recycling in reefs by breaking down/feeding on settled detritus and waste. In my opinion, if there is little disturbance to sand bed to kill them and a continous supply of waste food, the bethinc pods and critters should'nt go through a population crash and make sand bed devoid of life.

[quote:u can keep a clam under pls the more tricky and important part is the water params in a nano and there are skimmerless systems for even very large tanks keeping some of the most demanding corals with no problems... DOC and pO4 can be removed by other ways such as water changes 2yr old nano? wow i can never keep a tank for more than 2yrs w/o upgrading hmm ever thought of modying to fit 32watt pl tubes... they fit in just nice in 1ft nanos or was it 28watt ] Thanks and agreed, there are indeed alternatives of removing DOC. I don't know why but i did'nt felt like upgrading or changing anythin all this while 28 watt light fixture, do you have any idea where i can buy them? Perhaps i can get 'em in future. [/quote:Wow! Great job Alentino,like you line(dunno wat itz called) More Bio,less Techno! How much LR do you have inside? How often do you change water? Setting up a 29gal with hang-on for carbon,relying on LR to carry out filtration ] Yup You can say that I'm a holistic reefer who uses a more ecological and natural approach, but I don't really dare to encourage this to anyone though You could check out http://www.nano-reef.com for articles on natural nano reefing. I've got 5 pices of medium sized LR and two smaller ones. I try to change water once a week but have delayed to once a month on occasions when I really can't make it My entire filtration is based on bio, ya know live rock and deep substrate.

True but nano experts from http://www.nano-reef.com say that its better not to skim nano tanks under a certain size. check it out. Uh no don't get me wrong i don't rely on the tiny critters as primary food source, i do feed them but i want them to be around. I position my clam on top of rocks nearest to the lights, seems to be doin fine there for the past 2 yrs. MH will really cook my tiny tank.