Monday, 9 January 2012

Training Lionfish to feed on market pawn

To train the Lionfish to feed on market pawn is not that difficult.

I sugguest the following:
  1. Always buy a juvenile to start... It is more easier to train a juvenile than an adult.
  2. Start off with live freshewater shrimp and reduce the amout through days....
  3. Always use the same methods of feeding. For me, I always use a white spoon when feeding the live food. Donot let the fish hunt for the food. They will not take food from the spoon if you do that. In long run, it is trained to recognise the white spoon and take the food from the spoon for my case, not to hunt for the food.
  4. Do not keep any small fishes in the tank together with the Lionfish. The lionfish will eat the small fish when it is hunger. Then you cannot train them at all.
  5. Now, my lionfish can eat Hikari frozen mysis shrimp.

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Third Largest Aquarium in the World - Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

In this series, I will count down the largest aquariums in the world from the third to the largest.

Third largest aquariums in the world is Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (1,98 million gallons). It is located within the Ocean Expo Park in Japan and was opened in 2002.

The main tank of the aquarium, called the Kuroshio Sea, holds 7,5 million liters (1,981,000 gallons) of water and features an acrylic glass panel measuring 8.2 by 22.5 meters (27 by 74 feet) with a thickness of 60 centimeters (24 inches), the largest such panel in the world when the aquarium was opened. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept alongside many other fish species in Kuroshio Sea. As of July 2010, there have been a total of four manta rays born in the aquarium.

See the Kuroshi Sea:



Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Feeding non-aggressive fishes in main tanks full of tangs and angels

I come across one articles on Mandrain diner  <http://www.melevsreef.com/mandarin_diner.html> on how to feed Mandrain fish in the tanks full of voracious Tangs. I found it very useful to feed any non-agressive fishes in main tank full of large tangs and angels.

All you need is a glass jars that is big enough for the small non-aggressive fish to get in but not the large fishes. You just put the food inside the jar.  This is how it looks like in the tank (from Melevsreff.com).




Monday, 12 December 2011

Marine LFS in the West part of Singapore

There are three LFS in the west part of Singapore that I normally visited when I am free.

LCK201 (Steven):
201 Neo Tiew Crescent



LCK160/1 (Ah Bac):
160 Neo Tiew Road

Coral Farm:
60 Lim Chu Kang Lane 6F



Pictures are countesy of Google maps

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

My Pico Tank

After giving my seahorse to my brother as I have no time to take care of them. Seahorse needs to feed them more than 3 times a day, to maintain healthy and fat.



I have reconfigure my 1 ft cube to a reef tank slowly. Video is taken on  4 Dec 2011.


The setup is very simple:
1. 1 x 1 ft cube Ocean Free Tank
2. 1 x Gex Hang on filter (large)
3. 1 x ADA nano internal filter (~200l/hr)
4. 1 x Boyu nano Skimmer (WG308)
5. 2 x Aqua Zonic (Super Slim LED Clamping Lamp, black - 32 white + 8 blue Bulb)
6. 3 kg of black sand
7. 1 x 1ft plastic partition.
8. 2 x  live rocks
9. 2 bags of bio-home filter.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Video: Ocean Oasis

Another interesting video that I like: Ocean Oasis





I like the King angelfishes. Hope one day I will keep one.

Enjoy it...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Video: Coral Reef Adventure

I like to this video on the Coral Reef Adventure.









For full video on 


It is one of my favorite video. Enjoy it in full HD and please save the earth or we will not have corals in our aquarium.