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Aqsa closed for good......last i heard.

You from KB or Bandar?

Nice setup......you must get most of your stuff from miri?

6ft x 2ft x 3ft

Suggestions so far.

1. Remove coral chips and ceramic rings and replace with live rocks. removed...looking for live rocks now

2. get rid of most of the filter cloth

3. First Buy!!! Skimz FR with Sorb4 and eheim pump

4. Re-doing the sump.....I~aquatic doing up the plans.

5. Lighting MH+T5 or T5 only? how many?

6. Chiller?

7. Wave maker

8. check valve on the return line to prevent sump overflow (great idea)

9. Refugium? Anything to replace it? a FR of some sort maybe?

Tank Inhabitants

1x Blue Tang

1x picasso trigger

2x Brown Tang

1x pygmy angel

2x Stripped Damselfish

3x False Percula Clownfish

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Yup...same kampong.......they moved eh? Oh ok......

6ft x 2ft x 3ft

Suggestions so far.

1. Remove coral chips and ceramic rings and replace with live rocks. removed...looking for live rocks now

2. get rid of most of the filter cloth

3. First Buy!!! Skimz FR with Sorb4 and eheim pump

4. Re-doing the sump.....I~aquatic doing up the plans.

5. Lighting MH+T5 or T5 only? how many?

6. Chiller?

7. Wave maker

8. check valve on the return line to prevent sump overflow (great idea)

9. Refugium? Anything to replace it? a FR of some sort maybe?

Tank Inhabitants

1x Blue Tang

1x picasso trigger

2x Brown Tang

1x pygmy angel

2x Stripped Damselfish

3x False Percula Clownfish

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  • 2 weeks later...

I am 95% done with the addition of livestock for the past 4 months. Below is a chronological order of how I added my livestock from the moment of first addition:

1ST TRIP

3 Feather Stars

1 Torch Coral (3”)

1 Bubble Coral (white) (12”)

1 Brain Coral (5”)

1 Brown Hairy Mushroom 25+ heads

1 Brown Hairy Mushroom 10+ heads

1 Scroll Coral (11”)

1 Hairy Leather (10”)

1 Metallic Green Mushroom 3+ heads

2 Hairy Green Mushroom 8+ heads

1 Red Mushroom 10+ heads

1 Cup Coral (7”)

2 Daisy Coral (4”)

2 Common Red Hermit Crabs

10 Turbo Snails

10 Nassarius Snails

2 Cowries

2ND TRIP

1 Tomato Clown (2”)

1 Black Cardinalfish (2”)

1 Coral Banded Shrimp

1 Long Tentacle anemone (Green) (24”)

2 Rock Anemones (1”)

1 Sand-sifting Starfish (1”)

1 Plate Coral (Green) (8”)

1 Hammer Coral (Green) (8”)

3RD TRIP

1 Gigas Clam (18”)

1 Maxima Clam (8”)

1 Derasa Clam (12”)

2 Common Red Hermit Crabs

1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

1 Multicolor Wrasse (4”)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (4”)

4 Paper-Bubble Shell Cowries

4TH TRIP

1 4-Striped Damsel (1”)

1 Naso Tang (5”)

1 Red Sea Sailfin Tang (4”)

1 Blue Hippo Tang (4”)

1 Scopas Tang (3”)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (6”)

1 Bicolor Algae Blenny (1”)

1 Black Blenny (1”)

5TH TRIP

1 Frogspawn Coral (Green) (5”)

6TH TRIP

3 Azure Damsels (2”)

7TH TRIP

1 Red Sea Purple Tang (5”)

8TH TRIP

1 Hawaiian Yellow Tang (4”)

2 False Percula Clownfish (1”)

2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

There you have it! The frequent trips to the LFS got me many goodies. The tank’s livestock is almost complete. Almost. My last trip will be to do with fetching the Marshall Island Flame Angel that I ordered from my LFS, and those elusive corals I want like the Scolymias and Acroporas. I’ve been stocking heavily in some trips so I did encounter losses everynow and then such as:

1 Torch Coral (fell from its place and died)

2 Feather Stars (somehow vaporized into smaller bits)

4 Common Red Hermit Crabs

(they picked on corals so I left them in the sump only to have them molting a few times and vaporized into empty shells)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (death by the Multicolor Wrasse’s bite)

1 Multicolor Wrasse (given away to my local LFS due to aggression)

1 Red Sea Sailfin Tang (Missing. Suspected culprit is LTA)

1 Blue Hippo Tang (stressed ich and died)

1 Pink and Blue Spotted Watchman Goby (Ganged up by blennies and died)

Apart from the problem I have with my Purple, Scopas and Yellow Tangs fighting with one another on territorial dispute, everything seems fine to me. To rephrase, my current fish livestock consist of:

1 Tomato Clown (2”)

1 Black Cardinalfish (2”)

1 4-Striped Damsel (1”)

1 Naso Tang (5”)

1 Scopas Tang (3”)

1 Bicolor Algae Blenny (1”)

1 Black Blenny (1”)

3 Azure Damsels (2”)

1 Red Sea Purple Tang (5”)

1 Hawaiian Yellow Tang (4”)

2 False Percula Clownfish (1”)

And still saving space for that Flame Angel. 

Until next update my fellow reefers!

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Long time no update... emm... how come your lighting is not evenly distributed? I think one of the reason your Tangs look blur is your tank is not bright enough... so the aperture speed becomes longer hence not able to capture the fishes :)

Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica

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Or maybe it's your photography effect... do consider properly before you add more heat to your tank :nc:

Tank 60x40x40 Optiwhite Glass Tank Sump Elos 500 w/ Tunze Overflow Protein Skimmer Skimz Kone SK1 Return Pump Hydor Seltz L30 Wavemaker Hydor K1 Illumination 150W + 2 T5 Chiller Arctica 1/5hp w/ Aquabee 1000 Water Top-up Tunze Osmolator Dosing Pumps Grotech 3-Channels Calcium Reactor Deltec PF 501 Computer Aquatronica

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those smileys describe how im feeling right now....

i bought 5 carnation corals, knowing what they were and seeing them in full bloom in the LFS.

but right after the transportation ordeal. some of them seemed to have melted and even shedded their fur. litter everywhere

i bought 2 purples, 1 orange, 1 maroon and 1 white

the white melted until it looked like a ragcloth

the maroon melted and now seems to go south

the orange shedded all its fur and now ###### in its unglory

the 2 purples are holding their solid state but seemed to be dropping by the hour.

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oh forgot to mention.

i went to, hopefully, my last trip to the LFS this year and bought stuff. i got meself a:

5 carnation corals

1 pink yellow brain

1 blue goniopora!

1 blue linckia

1 BT anemone green

soes my plight currently is the dendro corals :(

btw i also bought on an impulsive buy, a cleaner wrasse. *hides from flame*. the reason why i bought it was it ws harassed by the other kurzlinger wrasses. so i got one home and it covered itself with slime and acted dead.

few hours later it swam around but this morning i found it again lying on the sandbed not breathing. is it playing dead or is it REALLY dead?

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