Cleaner Shrimp

[Darylyap]

I suppose kalk = kalkwasser?

Me using seachem reef builder for KH, and seachem adv calcium.
almost forget my clam in the tank, I thot buttons, mushroom & clam all need calcium. So just raised cal level to ard 400mg/l few weeks back.
Have been maintaining that level ever since.

So what about magnesium?

[solonavi]

Ya. I like to use shortform. oops

400mg/l is definitely enough for ur corals. Actually, anything with 300 - 400mg/l is fine. Mushroom and button are soft coral. They dun calcify as much as LPS or SPS. Note that LPS/SPS are stoney corals.

Magnesium will drop overtime. But its not so drastic as dKH or Calcium. I did not bother abt magnesium until I start SPS. A gd article from advancedAquarist on Magnesium and what adsopt it. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2003/chem.htm

" Magnesium has tremendous biological and chemical relevance to reef aquaria. Fortunately for reefkeepers, it is present in abundance in seawater. There is, in fact, a fairly high turnover of magnesium in reef aquaria with rapidly calcifying organisms. The primary reason that magnesium is not more of a daily concern to aquarists is that the reservoir of magnesium in seawater is very large. Magnesium might be compared to a large lake, with the lake level only slowly responding to changes in inputs from rivers and export via evaporation and the outlet. Consequently, maintenance of magnesium levels is not typically a rapidly developing problem. If using an appropriate salt mix, it may never become a problem for many aquarists. Nevertheless, over the long run the levels can change significantly if the inputs and exports do not roughly match."

Cheers
JC

[Darylyap]

Thanks JC.

Haha. lucky din listen to the lady at ginza to buy magnesium from her.

Hey, what corals you think I can keep in my tank?
My tank info:
3'(L)x1.5'(D)x2'(H). Total volume ard 150 ltr (with rocks).
Undergravel with 1 power head (1000 ltr/hr), protein skimmer, fan 24/7.
1 external eheim 2226 (bio & chemical)
Temp ard 27 deg.
(Yup, I know about the "time-bomb" undergravel

[solonavi]

Like they always say. Listen to the LFS with a spinch of salt.

Undergravel filter? Dump it! Its gona be a nitrates factory. Remove it fast. Have u measured ur NO3 and PO4?
What protein skimmer u using? If u wan to try LPS, get a decent hangon skimmer.
What abt ur lightings? Type and how many watt per gallon?

I was keeping LPS with my 3ft tank using eheim 2026 cannister, Remora Pro, 6 tubes of T5HO and 2 AC fans.

Switch to a small sump, beckett skimmer and FR (PO4) to keep SPS.

Hope these helps.
JC

[Darylyap]

Like they always say. Listen to the LFS with a spinch of salt.

Undergravel filter? Dump it! Its gona be a nitrates factory. Remove it fast. Have u measured ur NO3 and PO4?
What protein skimmer u using? If u wan to try LPS, get a decent hangon skimmer.
What abt ur lightings? Type and how many watt per gallon?

I was keeping LPS with my 3ft tank using eheim 2026 cannister, Remora Pro, 6 tubes of T5HO and 2 AC fans.

Switch to a small sump, beckett skimmer and FR (PO4) to keep SPS.

Hope these helps.
JC

No can do bro... too much hassle... chia lart liao...
But I religiously do 15% water change weekly, hope this helps or else die liao.

Protein skimmer is hangon with motor, think it's aquavial.
Bought itfrom pasir ris fish farm...
4 arcadia FL tubes, 2 blue 2 white, think it's ard 20W per tube. Have plans to change to T5. 1 AC fan 24/7.

Small sump not possible cos my tank was a planted tank b4.
What's a beckett skimmer & FR(PO4)?
SPS are hard corals? and LPS are soft corals like buttons & mushrooms?

[Darylyap]

JC, are we allowed to mention names of fish shops in forums?
Is LFS= live fish shop?

[Justikanz]

LFS = Local Fish Shop

[solonavi]

I have no experience with aquavial. Does it produce gd skimmate?

If u intend to keep LPS, gd idea to get T5.

Beckett skimmer is something like a Downdraft skimmer but it pushes the water through a beckett. Something like this,

A Fluidized Reactor basically helps ur media to be exposed with ur tank water to the max efficiency. Typically, some rowa to adsorpt PO4 or some carbon media. Something like this,

SPS and LPS are hard coral. Note they both end with 'S' which stands for stoney. Buttons, mushroom, sponge are soft corals.

U got it rite abt LFS but I'm not sure abt policy in AQ on mentioning LFS names.

Cheers
JC

[Darylyap]

My skimmer initially produced thick & brownish foam (whic I think it's gd).
As it comes with UV which I din turn on, so had it removed and stuff with size 10 coral chips (in the hope of increasing calcium level) cos dat time din dose calcium. Then the flow got restricted and couldn't get the rich foam b4.
Dam my itchy hand...
What I would do next is take out all the coral chips, restore back the flow, and hope toget back the rich foam.

Will let you know again when it's done.

[solonavi]

There is some common guideline on how to determine is a gd skimmer. If u are getting "kopi O", the skimmer is gd. If u getting a cup of "kopi O" skimmate each day, ur skimmer is excellent! If u are getting only "tea O" skimmate, ur skimmer is ok.

Cheers
JC

[Darylyap]

last time got kopi siew tai, now getting kopi.
seems like ok, not gd, but ok...

[Darylyap]

Hi, First of all, Happy New Year to everyone !

I'd like to get a cleaner shrimp, anyone knows which LFS I can buy this
shrimp in the pics?

regards,
janazr

Hi janazr, hope i'm not too late...
yesterday just got a cleaner shrimp at jln kayu, $8 for medium size, I thot was a gd deal cos usually get small size and din make it.
So far it survived its 1st night

[janazr]

Darylyap, so far, the 3 shrimps that I got from Pasir Ris farmway LFS are still alive and kicking.

Hi janazr, hope i'm not too late...
yesterday just got a cleaner shrimp at jln kayu, $8 for medium size, I thot was a gd deal cos usually get small size and din make it.
So far it survived its 1st night

[Darylyap]

Darylyap, so far, the 3 shrimps that I got from Pasir Ris farmway LFS are still alive and kicking.

Good to hear that

[d2hpeter]

Hi janazr, hope i'm not too late...
yesterday just got a cleaner shrimp at jln kayu, $8 for medium size, I thot was a gd deal cos usually get small size and din make it.
So far it survived its 1st night

Hi Daryl, last sunday i was driving down jln kayu, off YCK road, somewhere near the esso petrol stn, searching for the AquaMarin shop. But couldn't locate it. The address given to me was 246 jln kayu.
Btw, which part of jln kayu did u get yours from?

[solonavi]

Hi Peter, if u drove further down towards Seletar Camp, u'll have seen it on the right hand side. Its the last stretch of shops along Jln Kayu.

JC

[Darylyap]

Hi Daryl, last sunday i was driving down jln kayu, off YCK road, somewhere near the esso petrol stn, searching for the AquaMarin shop. But couldn't locate it. The address given to me was 246 jln kayu.
Btw, which part of jln kayu did u get yours from?

Hi peter, you were almost there...! in fact if you drove further down, just like what JC mentioned, you'll be able to spot it.
Yup got it there.

[d2hpeter]

Hi peter, you were almost there...! in fact if you drove further down, just like what JC mentioned, you'll be able to spot it.
Yup got it there.

thanks.
your shrimp doin good?
does it eat algae or a general scavenger?

[solonavi]

Marine shrimp are either scavenger or "killers".

JC

[d2hpeter]

Hi peter, you were almost there...! in fact if you drove further down, just like what JC mentioned, you'll be able to spot it.
Yup got it there.

Ya, found it this afternoon. Damn, only missed by about 20m the other day.
There is a carpark very nearby, very convenient.
Guys there are very friendly! Was given 2 blue mushrooms FOC.