The Scleractinia Shallows - Page 6

illumnae · 07/11/2016, 03:36 AM

That's not the sort of food you should be eating when you come to Singapore! Eat as the locals do in the hawker centres!

maxxII · 07/11/2016, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by FloformAustria

nice Dom!!

Singapore was an amazing expeerience for me!! never seen a so clean city

have fun mate

The fact that they will not hesitate to fine you 10K Singaporean dollars for littering or beat you with a stick does tend to deter litterbugs and other sorts of amoral behavior.

Singapore is beautiful, and I truly enjoyed visiting it while I was in the military.

FloformAustria · 07/12/2016, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by maxxII

The fact that they will not hesitate to fine you 10K Singaporean dollars for littering or beat you with a stick does tend to deter litterbugs and other sorts of amoral behavior.

Singapore is beautiful, and I truly enjoyed visiting it while I was in the military.

yes i was quite shocked when i saw the 500$ fine sign for eating and drinking in the train... specially while i was drinking my coke

reefmutt · 07/12/2016, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by biggles

You do know why they have razor wire hanging over the top of Freedomland don't you Dom ?

It's to deter the rabid monkeys from dropping down on stupid unsuspecting tourists mate - bet they didn't mention that in the bloody travel brochure.....

Apparently the color red really sets them off.........

Looks like paradise, Dom!
But I think Andrew got it wrong, the wire is not to keep the rabid monkeys out, it's to keep the rabid 'better half' out, who, for unknown reasons had to stay home and feed the fish!

Rakie · 07/12/2016, 04:09 PM

Last tank was beautiful, I don't expect this to be different !

FloformAustria · 07/12/2016, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by reefmutt

Looks like paradise, Dom!
But I think Andrew got it wrong, the wire is not to keep the rabid monkeys out, it's to keep the rabid 'better half' out, who, for unknown reasons had to stay home and feed the fish!

Wrangy · 07/14/2016, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by plyle02

Awesome Dom, so jealous mate!

It was amazing and very jealous worthy lol

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Originally Posted by mhucasey

Good lord that seafood! I would be 400 lbs by the time I got out of there

It was SSSSOOOOOOO GOOOODDDD

and cheap as anything!! I ate so much, so so very much!

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Originally Posted by joshky

Dom it looks like you had a great trip, did you end up trying a Tridacna clam? :P

It was a great trip but no I couldn't bring myself to do it haha I watched intently as to how it was cooked, prepared and served but didn't have the heart to try them myself haha

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Originally Posted by glaukos

i'm on a diet...i go in a reef forum to see some coral pics to forget food etc....and what my beautiful eyes see...???.....shrimps and food pics.....thanks dom.....

I'm on a diet at the moment haha the food was and is amazing!

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Originally Posted by FloformAustria

nice Dom!!
Singapore was an amazing expeerience for me!! never seen a so clean city

have fun mate

Clean, modern and amazing infrastructure!!

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Originally Posted by illumnae

That's not the sort of food you should be eating when you come to Singapore! Eat as the locals do in the hawker centres!

Don't worry there was plenty of that

Street food and hawkers markets are one of the best bits about Asia!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxxII

The fact that they will not hesitate to fine you 10K Singaporean dollars for littering or beat you with a stick does tend to deter litterbugs and other sorts of amoral behavior.
Singapore is beautiful, and I truly enjoyed visiting it while I was in the military.

Yes they are just a little bit strict

but I love it anyway, it's a wonderful city/country!

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Looks like paradise, Dom!
But I think Andrew got it wrong, the wire is not to keep the rabid monkeys out, it's to keep the rabid 'better half' out, who, for unknown reasons had to stay home and feed the fish!

It was better than paradise

just wonderful!
hahahahaha poor lovely, she did pretty good with the tank while I was gone though

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Originally Posted by Rakie

Last tank was beautiful, I don't expect this to be different !

Thanks mate

I appreciate the kind words!

Wrangy · 07/14/2016, 11:18 PM

Well I know I said I'd do the update at the beginning of the week buuutttt I got busy so it got put off but Friday is always a good day to sit down especially since I work the weekends lol. Alright enough waffling!
S.E.A Aquarium is one of the best I've ever ben too, it certainly shits all over Melbourne haha it has some of the best variety, diversity and well looked after and loved tanks I've seen! They're all phenomenal

The aquarium starts with a big ole' moray and anthias tank with a big tang tank right next door. The tangs are some of the best unicorns I've seen! lol ugly mofo's though..

Someone liked the kenya tree too lol he didn't move!

From here we move on to my favourite tank!! The hard coral, anthias tank

It contains some of the absolute best coloured anthias and healthiest fish I've ever seen around and they have the feeding regiment to match why everything in the tank is so amazing! From the tank manager himself when I sent them an email about the feedings:
"We feed our animals with fairly good variety of fresh seafood.
Feeds include:
Cyclopes
Red plankton
Mysis
Krills
Flakes"

Wrangy · 07/14/2016, 11:18 PM

The purple queens are oh-so-amazing and it just makes me love them so much more every time I see the tank!!

It's a pretty kickass tank!

From there we move on to a nice soft coral tank that was hiding a surprise that I waited 15mins to get a decent picture of!??

A gorgeous little Clarion

Right next to that is a cracking NPS tank that was hiding an even better surprise that I couldn't get a pic of

It was a stunning Candy Basslet! The sun croals were amazing though!

Wrangy · 07/14/2016, 11:19 PM

Some nice RBTA's in another tank

There were also some crazy awesome tube nems in some of the various tanks too

Their inverts were almost as cool as some of the fish they had!

There were half a dozen of these groovers in one tank lol

I think this is my second favourite tank! lol bet you can't guess why though...

Last but not least their selection of jellyfish tanks were pretty stunning too??

There are other tanks and an AMAZINGLY large open ocean tank but the pics from those were **** so I'm not sharing them as they didn't turn out all that great and they're blurry ol but that's what I've got for the amazing Singpore aquarium lol

Hope you all enjoy

aggie13reef · 07/15/2016, 05:21 PM

Awesome pics! I have been to the Atlanta aquarium here in the states (supposed to be one of the best) and it didn't have any tanks as cool as those that I can remember. Love the Anthias. Need some for my tank now that I think about it

FloformAustria · 07/16/2016, 12:54 AM

wow Dom your tank has grown... Mate what was your GF feeding while you were away partying?

glaukos · 07/16/2016, 07:42 AM

That jellyfish pic is sick

joshky · 07/17/2016, 03:10 PM

Nice pics at the aquarium! You should have stole that clarion.

Love the jellyfish picture.

Wrangy · 07/17/2016, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by aggie13reef

Awesome pics! I have been to the Atlanta aquarium here in the states (supposed to be one of the best) and it didn't have any tanks as cool as those that I can remember. Love the Anthias. Need some for my tank now that I think about it

I would love to visit the numerous aquariums throughout the US! The anthias were just amazing, I can't describe how good the colours were on them!!

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Originally Posted by FloformAustria

wow Dom your tank has grown... Mate what was your GF feeding while you were away partying?

hahaha

I think she was adding some uranium to food while I was gone

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Originally Posted by glaukos

That jellyfish pic is sick

Yeah the jellyfish tanks are pretty sweet!

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Originally Posted by joshky

Nice pics at the aquarium! You should have stole that clarion.

Love the jellyfish picture.

I wanted too, along with smuggle the candy basslet back with me! They are my number one fish

FloformAustria · 07/18/2016, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Wrangy

hahaha

I think she was adding some uranium to food while I was gone

that would explain the super red jellyfish

Wrangy · 07/18/2016, 05:33 AM

Tank video:

glaukos · 07/18/2016, 05:45 AM

That's agood start bud...lps related but still a good start

reefmutt · 07/18/2016, 12:43 PM

Dom, that baby is looking ready for acros.
Andrew better throw in a bunch of extras when you pick up your stuff.
He owes you after you let him have your corals all this time!

mhucasey · 07/18/2016, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrangy

Tank video:

Um, this looks more like the "Zoanthid Zone" than the "Scleratinia Shallows"

Wrangy · 07/18/2016, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glaukos

That's agood start bud...lps related but still a good start

It's all softie evils at the moment haha once I have the sump things will be drastically different

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Dom, that baby is looking ready for acros.
Andrew better throw in a bunch of extras when you pick up your stuff.
He owes you after you let him have your corals all this time!

I'm just about there I think

just waiting on sump for extra space to organise all my bloody frags lol

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Originally Posted by mhucasey

Um, this looks more like the "Zoanthid Zone" than the "Scleratinia Shallows"

Something, something... humble beginnings?

hahaha

Wrangy · 07/18/2016, 09:10 PM

Well I suppose I should have a little more of an update to go with the video I just randomly posted last night lol.
As I've mentioned the tank is a little bit of a softie mess at the moment as I don't really have any room to organise the frags and sort them out properly lol. Once I have my schmexy new sump under the tank I can sort it all out, change the scape up a little and get ready to stuff the amazing tank full of candy coloured goodness

I did my first water change on the tank yesterday and the first series of tests too and things turned out pretty nicely

Alk is way low but that's because I'm not dosing at the moment as I'm lazy lol but everything else was way better than I was expecting!
Alk: 4.5dKh
pH: 8
Nitrates: 0-5ppm, test was too hard to determine so it's somewhere in there lol
Phos: 0.009ppm, test with the Hanna low range Phosphorous kit.

The phos reading surprised me a little as I get glass growth fairly soon so it may be a little higher but then again I only just recently added some captivphos to sort out any silicates that might be coming out of the rocks

No signs of hair algae or anything just some great diatoms and glass growth

lol

All the corals are doing well and growing so I'm really happy with that front of the tank but there is some bad news at the same rate. Some really bad news

I've had some fish loses. It seems that my beautiful bellus and kole never really quite settled into the tank and each other. They were constantly squabbling and going after each other and it seems that that had taken it's toll in the end... both of them fell ill and have sadly died

massively upset about the loss of these guys and especially my bellus. It seems that it's purely down to their interactions with each other as both my wrasse's (earmuff and possum) are completely healthy with no signs of sickness what-so-ever.

It means I've also been giving my stocklist a really long hard think over the last couple of days and what I want from the tank. It seems like I'm heading in a bit more of a wrasse direction and smaller fish with just a couple of 'big' fish. It's going to be a pretty (read expensive) tank lol:
- A pair of captive bred royal grammas
- Lennardi wrasse
- A pair of flasher wrasse, haven't decided on species yet.
- Anything liopropoma that comes through Dave! Anything lol
- A new pair of genicanthus

- Tinkers butterfly (still lol)

It's a bit of a sad update but the tank is still progressing as I'd hoped which I guess is the silver lining in all this.

Wrangy · 07/18/2016, 09:19 PM

And some pics:

joshky · 07/18/2016, 09:39 PM

Dom I think the longest recorded success with Lennardi is like a year or so? Most don't last very long for whatever reason, I believe Sanjay had the one that lasted for a year so definitely not your average reefer. There are other Anampses spp. that are just as beautiful and have a better success rate if you're looking for one in that genus.

Can't wait for your to get your sump, I want to see those beautiful acros!! :P What's the ETA?

FloformAustria · 07/19/2016, 03:16 AM

coming together nicely Dom...

can´t wait to see this tank taking off!

love those sps

07/14/2016, 11:18 PM	#133
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Well I know I said I'd do the update at the beginning of the week buuutttt I got busy so it got put off but Friday is always a good day to sit down especially since I work the weekends lol. Alright enough waffling! S.E.A Aquarium is one of the best I've ever ben too, it certainly shits all over Melbourne haha it has some of the best variety, diversity and well looked after and loved tanks I've seen! They're all phenomenal The aquarium starts with a big ole' moray and anthias tank with a big tang tank right next door. The tangs are some of the best unicorns I've seen! lol ugly mofo's though.. Someone liked the kenya tree too lol he didn't move! From here we move on to my favourite tank!! The hard coral, anthias tank It contains some of the absolute best coloured anthias and healthiest fish I've ever seen around and they have the feeding regiment to match why everything in the tank is so amazing! From the tank manager himself when I sent them an email about the feedings: "We feed our animals with fairly good variety of fresh seafood. Feeds include: Cyclopes Red plankton Mysis Krills Flakes" __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/14/2016, 11:18 PM	#134
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	The purple queens are oh-so-amazing and it just makes me love them so much more every time I see the tank!! It's a pretty kickass tank! From there we move on to a nice soft coral tank that was hiding a surprise that I waited 15mins to get a decent picture of!?? A gorgeous little Clarion Right next to that is a cracking NPS tank that was hiding an even better surprise that I couldn't get a pic of It was a stunning Candy Basslet! The sun croals were amazing though! __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/14/2016, 11:19 PM	#135
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Some nice RBTA's in another tank There were also some crazy awesome tube nems in some of the various tanks too Their inverts were almost as cool as some of the fish they had! There were half a dozen of these groovers in one tank lol I think this is my second favourite tank! lol bet you can't guess why though... Last but not least their selection of jellyfish tanks were pretty stunning too?? There are other tanks and an AMAZINGLY large open ocean tank but the pics from those were **** so I'm not sharing them as they didn't turn out all that great and they're blurry ol but that's what I've got for the amazing Singpore aquarium lol Hope you all enjoy __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/15/2016, 05:21 PM	#136
aggie13reef Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: Rosenberg, TX Posts: 449	Awesome pics! I have been to the Atlanta aquarium here in the states (supposed to be one of the best) and it didn't have any tanks as cool as those that I can remember. Love the Anthias. Need some for my tank now that I think about it __________________ -Nick 65 gal DSA

07/16/2016, 12:54 AM	#137
FloformAustria Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Vienna, AUT Posts: 1,351	wow Dom your tank has grown... Mate what was your GF feeding while you were away partying? __________________ Flo from Austria ^Austrian Reef Club^ "Founding Member of CCC - The cool couch club of SPS keeping" - Biggles Current Tank Info: The Austrian Dropoff Tank

07/11/2016, 03:36 AM	#126
illumnae Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Singapore Posts: 322	That's not the sort of food you should be eating when you come to Singapore! Eat as the locals do in the hawker centres!

07/12/2016, 04:09 PM	#130
Rakie In Memoriam Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 3,059	Last tank was beautiful, I don't expect this to be different !

07/16/2016, 07:42 AM	#138
glaukos Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,106	That jellyfish pic is sick __________________ Mike Just doing my hobby and having great fun with it....no room/need for drama:) the only way to win with a toxic person, is not to play

07/17/2016, 03:10 PM	#139
joshky Acros & Wrasses Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Central KY Posts: 2,546	Nice pics at the aquarium! You should have stole that clarion. Love the jellyfish picture. __________________ Josh My 80g: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2677031

07/18/2016, 05:33 AM	#142
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Tank video: __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/18/2016, 05:45 AM	#143
glaukos Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,106	That's agood start bud...lps related but still a good start __________________ Mike Just doing my hobby and having great fun with it....no room/need for drama:) the only way to win with a toxic person, is not to play

07/18/2016, 12:43 PM	#144
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Dom, that baby is looking ready for acros. Andrew better throw in a bunch of extras when you pick up your stuff. He owes you after you let him have your corals all this time! __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

07/18/2016, 09:10 PM	#147
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Well I suppose I should have a little more of an update to go with the video I just randomly posted last night lol. As I've mentioned the tank is a little bit of a softie mess at the moment as I don't really have any room to organise the frags and sort them out properly lol. Once I have my schmexy new sump under the tank I can sort it all out, change the scape up a little and get ready to stuff the amazing tank full of candy coloured goodness I did my first water change on the tank yesterday and the first series of tests too and things turned out pretty nicely Alk is way low but that's because I'm not dosing at the moment as I'm lazy lol but everything else was way better than I was expecting! Alk: 4.5dKh pH: 8 Nitrates: 0-5ppm, test was too hard to determine so it's somewhere in there lol Phos: 0.009ppm, test with the Hanna low range Phosphorous kit. The phos reading surprised me a little as I get glass growth fairly soon so it may be a little higher but then again I only just recently added some captivphos to sort out any silicates that might be coming out of the rocks No signs of hair algae or anything just some great diatoms and glass growth lol All the corals are doing well and growing so I'm really happy with that front of the tank but there is some bad news at the same rate. Some really bad news I've had some fish loses. It seems that my beautiful bellus and kole never really quite settled into the tank and each other. They were constantly squabbling and going after each other and it seems that that had taken it's toll in the end... both of them fell ill and have sadly died massively upset about the loss of these guys and especially my bellus. It seems that it's purely down to their interactions with each other as both my wrasse's (earmuff and possum) are completely healthy with no signs of sickness what-so-ever. It means I've also been giving my stocklist a really long hard think over the last couple of days and what I want from the tank. It seems like I'm heading in a bit more of a wrasse direction and smaller fish with just a couple of 'big' fish. It's going to be a pretty (read expensive) tank lol: - A pair of captive bred royal grammas - Lennardi wrasse - A pair of flasher wrasse, haven't decided on species yet. - Anything liopropoma that comes through Dave! Anything lol - A new pair of genicanthus - Tinkers butterfly (still lol) It's a bit of a sad update but the tank is still progressing as I'd hoped which I guess is the silver lining in all this. __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/18/2016, 09:19 PM	#148
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	And some pics: __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

07/18/2016, 09:39 PM	#149
joshky Acros & Wrasses Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Central KY Posts: 2,546	Dom I think the longest recorded success with Lennardi is like a year or so? Most don't last very long for whatever reason, I believe Sanjay had the one that lasted for a year so definitely not your average reefer. There are other Anampses spp. that are just as beautiful and have a better success rate if you're looking for one in that genus. Can't wait for your to get your sump, I want to see those beautiful acros!! :P What's the ETA? __________________ Josh My 80g: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2677031

07/19/2016, 03:16 AM	#150
FloformAustria Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Vienna, AUT Posts: 1,351	coming together nicely Dom... can´t wait to see this tank taking off! love those sps __________________ Flo from Austria ^Austrian Reef Club^ "Founding Member of CCC - The cool couch club of SPS keeping" - Biggles Current Tank Info: The Austrian Dropoff Tank