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Hi guys this is a little project I’ve been working on for a few months and now looking for your views on this subject.
It all started with me getting a few non photosynthetic corals (gorgonians) and got me thinking in a way we’re I could give them a constant supply of food.
The project started by developing a continuous reactor of phyto to the tank, the reactor has been working now for 7 months without crashing so good news there. Started initially whith 1ml per hour and now am at 6ml per hour.
Step 2
Removed all the mechanical filtration from the tank so that the food isn’t removed from the water
Step 3
Added a starter colony of rotifers to the tank
The rotifers colony has been regenerating it self since week one, so plenty of food there the pytho culture the same just top up water and miraclegrow once a week. Since den I’ve noticed an explosion on my feather dusters growt the gorgonians open most day SPS got a good PE most of the day and the copepod numbers are crazy.
Now could this be a good way to keep more non photosynthetic corals in hobby aquaria I’d like to see some of your views on this thanks.
My aim is to share my experience on here to, the first 7months of the experience is here Continuous phytoplankton|rotifers Method
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...plankton|rotifers-Method.834542/&share_type=t do apologise but is to many info to copy on here
Currently struggling a bit with low no3 I’ve increased 6 chromis to try and resolve this, there’s 18 fish in the tank now 3 off them are quite large fish
Advantages I’ve seen
No need for a protein skimmer I’ve switched of mine at month 4
Less glass cleaning
Effective at preventing dinos and cyano by outcopeting this species
Increase in pod life
Crazy polyp extension
Has anyone seen a stylocoeniella like this before?
I’ve noticed many more but will keep that for future updates
It all started with me getting a few non photosynthetic corals (gorgonians) and got me thinking in a way we’re I could give them a constant supply of food.
The project started by developing a continuous reactor of phyto to the tank, the reactor has been working now for 7 months without crashing so good news there. Started initially whith 1ml per hour and now am at 6ml per hour.
Step 2
Removed all the mechanical filtration from the tank so that the food isn’t removed from the water
Step 3
Added a starter colony of rotifers to the tank
The rotifers colony has been regenerating it self since week one, so plenty of food there the pytho culture the same just top up water and miraclegrow once a week. Since den I’ve noticed an explosion on my feather dusters growt the gorgonians open most day SPS got a good PE most of the day and the copepod numbers are crazy.
Now could this be a good way to keep more non photosynthetic corals in hobby aquaria I’d like to see some of your views on this thanks.
My aim is to share my experience on here to, the first 7months of the experience is here Continuous phytoplankton|rotifers Method
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...plankton|rotifers-Method.834542/&share_type=t do apologise but is to many info to copy on here
Currently struggling a bit with low no3 I’ve increased 6 chromis to try and resolve this, there’s 18 fish in the tank now 3 off them are quite large fish
Advantages I’ve seen
No need for a protein skimmer I’ve switched of mine at month 4
Less glass cleaning
Effective at preventing dinos and cyano by outcopeting this species
Increase in pod life
Crazy polyp extension
Has anyone seen a stylocoeniella like this before?
I’ve noticed many more but will keep that for future updates
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