More Photos on my Lionfish

As I am going to sell away my lionfish, I will like to keep some photos. This morning, I took some photo of him, swimming and looking at me....

My Lionfish

Lionfish is one of the unique fish to have. I have a Volitian lionfish with me for more than 9 months, it started as a very small fish about 1 inches, now it grows to 6 -7 inches. Very nice to have as it does not attack others fishes like tangs, angels, triggerfish and clownfish except small fishes (Chromis), very intelligent fish.

Initially it may be difficult to get him to feed dead fishes or pawn, through time it can be trained to eat frozen pawn and also pellets. Pellets only if there is no choice.

Product review: Resun Wave maker WAVER-2000 Updated

I have been using Resun Wave maker 2000 in my pico tank for more than 3 months, my one does not come with the magnetic clamp fixer. It comes with suction cup.

The suction cup now is giving way, it is not suitable for marine tank. Now the wave maker hung by the wire not by suction cup. I am very disappointing with suction cup one

I strongly strongly recommend if you want to get Resun Wave maker 2000, get a magnetic clamp one. The magnetic clamp is actually available in China through www.taobao.com

Pico Tank updated as at 7 Apr 12

During the last three water changes, I changed too much of the water more than 40% to 60%, the fishes show some stress, breathing very fast. I donot know why. That resulted my cleaner shrimp died in the next day. After a few days, all the fishes recovered.

The following next water change, I decided to check on the ammonia and nitrite levels found that the ammonia level remains at zero but the nitrite level went up to 0.25ppm to 0.5ppm after the water change. The large volume of water change have killed a lot of beneficial bacteria for ammonia to nitrite conversion portion.

Pico Tank as at 7 Apr 2012:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_-aeNm2ZCA



For nitrite level spike, there is no quick solution in the market to remove the nitrite effectively that is what I found out. The products such as Nite-out II will help to reduce the nitrite levels but it takes time (more than 2-3 days) to grow the bacteria before the nitrite level starts to drop.

As for ammonia spike, I always keep a bottle of Kent Marine Pro-Ammonia Detox for emergency. I found that it is very effective to bring down any ammonia spike.