wah nice to meet you
i have yet to visit sabah

neways, just becareful when you feed em cock-roaches, better quaranteen them for like a few days after catching to see if they are ok to be safe fom pesticides etc...who knows where they have been before >.<

me just take out 20% using gravel siphon thingy...
pour anti-chlorine,,,
pour tap water directly from water hose

no i dont put Chlorine 1st then tap water...that is 100% sure disaster case.

I put Anti-Chlorine first, wait for 1 minute, then i go fetch the water hose (connected to my danki water) and pour loh.
But the flow rate i let into the aq is just moderate, not at max. takes about 30-40minz to fill back 20% water taken out.

Not sure about this method for those direct from water pipe cuz danki water is basically sorta like aged water also.

The anti-chlorine i using is nutrafin brand. been good so far.
I read up that prime dechlorinator is also good but cant really find in msia market here..

lol i was kidding on the 1st sentence la, i think you meant anti-chlorine
chlorine is what you are aiming to get rid off

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Added on March 4, 2010, 4:45 pmyeah, the water reserve (usually located at housing roofs) are more preferred cuz its sorta aged. safer

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 4 2010, 05:01 PM

Big water filter thingy?

you mean like those diamond water filters ar? lol i dun think i have those if you mean those but i do have smaller filters from the main tap.

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Added on March 4, 2010, 5:24 pmi read market prawns do good for coloring.

carrots and hikari pellets imo shud be good too but hard to train the aro to take in, so i resort to indirect method by feeding the cricket/worm with the carrot/hikari sticks and then after they finish then directly feed to the arowana

and of course clean water

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 4 2010, 05:24 PM

cucumbers? really?
how about calcium for the bones?

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 4 2010, 05:46 PM

feed the hikari sticks to the worms and crikets, right after the insects are done eating, straight away feed to the arowana while the insect still full of hikari lol.
That way the arowana wont know its eating whats good for it

GOOOOOD MORRRNINNNGGGG DRAGON MASTERS!!!!!

Me removed the 2 chillid shit factories today.
I exchanged for a really cheap fish that looks something like shark but got lots of silver scales and red tail lol...dunno wat its called...when go back i will take pic.

Totally reduce the ammonia production there man, i think the chillids really too messy lol altho they gave a nice contrast to the black background

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 5 2010, 10:34 AM

hehe later when i back home 1st
i noticed that my aro eats only certain amount lol...after its full it wont bother to look at the food anymore >.<
Quite disciplined imo hehe

I measured my dKH, constant 2 drops ( according to the lfs at oug, they said that is 1dkh) so instead of baking soda i using the azoo kh up, just slowly increasing the kh by 0.3 or so per day till it reaches 3dKH to be safe

lol not that i know off, are you referring to the krill aka ghost shrimps?
If so to share my experience with you, its really difficult to do that, need very good filteration and the feed for the new fry is a bit expensive, need those grinded brime shrimp....and the filteration must be really good, the amount they produce wont be enough to supply to arowana wan, this is from my experience lol

imo its cheaper and easier to buy them from lfs haha, here at k.l its like avg rm2 for a bag containing aproimately 20-30 of them

me want to go catch toooooo i miss those old kampung days where there are ponds and lakes nearby i can go play in =.= ....sigh

sorry to hear that, no worries most important is to remember the experience you shared with it
Happy memories

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Added on March 7, 2010, 9:35 am doesnt look anything of a lowly nature to me =.="

in fact it looks nnnnnnnniiiiiiicccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
The shine reminds me of some kinda warrior armour

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 7 2010, 09:35 AM

yeah...if you wana starve em together will be difficult...i suggest putting them in seperate tanks for starving and hikari sticks training,...

when they hungry, they get stressed and then everything looks like food to them :S

mine is just chew chew spit...ignore lol...

now even worse case...the wormies and crickets are ignoring the hikari sticks too!!!!

This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 8 2010, 09:12 AM

hey just wondering rite...anyone using uv filter for thier tank?

har you mean using uv filter made more algae for you? i thought it was supposed to reduce algae o.o?!

yah i also have that white slime thingy....i dont think that one is related to the uv filter tho lol, cuz i havent been using mine and i also have...
i think the white slime is like the excess protective slime coating thats in the water. Sometimes the ac we use does provide slimecoat properties and thus the excess get stuck to the silicone guah

yeah i guess uv filter is extra cost.....the reason i asking is cuz i was just wondering if it actually is good for the water or not.

logically...if its turned on...anything including free floating beneficial bacteria (bb) is killed in the water...and i dont think thats a good thing lol but the parasites are killed too which also helps :S

but then again if the uv filter is turned on then the only bb remaining are only at the filter media in our filters bb housings.

ya but it also kill the free floating bb that helps with the nitrification processes as well :S
Without those free floating bb (specifically referring to nitrobacter) to help with the final step of converting the nitrates to nitrogen, the nitrates are left in the water accumulated till we do the wc (20% weekly).

so i guess using uv filter can be a bit of delima >.<




This post has been edited by leong2084: Mar 9 2010, 10:00 AM