Working with it probably speeds up that ageing..
Yes, i blame frags,,,, little fragsDon't forget the micro bubbles on the weekends and to turn off the skimmer on Wednesdays
It actually took two sentences for me to get where you were going. Slow head today
But that's is something I don't really understand. Corals are not easy to keep, why not be happy when they are looking fine and growing slow? Is it because everyone is selling frags or just inpatients?
I know I'm getting old in this game
), this is where the new Aquarium will be. Under the grass! 
Gaw!!!
I think I use Potassium chloride to raise my ca, in past. FunnyNew for us, dipping Acropora corals in tank water with extra potassium. Raised the K from ca 400ppm to ca 1600ppm. Dip is going on right now. Starting with 20 minutes.
Testing with 6 different species of Acropora.
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It's gotta be true, it's on the Internet. HeeheeDid a search via Google and found some threads on other forums with the following claims:
-Small crustaceans might die if K goes over 600 ppm.
-Fish can start die at 600-700 ppm K.
I haven't looked up any more info on this, so this is not any evidens. Just someones notes on a forum.
I also found an in tank treatment example with potassium, killing snails, pods, and most things except corals. The aquarist was happy because the AEFW were gone
Anyway, might be a good thing to be careful when increasing the potassium level above NSW levels. It might work in a coral propagation tank with mostly corals. It might not work in a reef tank. I don't know.
Oh, great!! I'll be following!On a different note, everyone . Did you hear. My children of the sea. 18 of them coming.
Dendronephthya corals. Finally.
Are you drinking the German coffee instead of the Swedish stuff today?It actually took two sentences for me to get where you were going. Slow head today
Just regular coffee. But an Irish coffee would be better!Are you drinking the German coffee instead of the Swedish stuff today?
Soooo, back to the potassium chloride!New for us, dipping Acropora corals in tank water with extra potassium. Raised the K from ca 400ppm to ca 1600ppm. Dip is going on right now. Starting with 20 minutes.
Testing with 6 different species of Acropora.
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I'll get back with results after lunch
Did a search via Google and found some threads on other forums with the following claims:
-Small crustaceans might die if K goes over 600 ppm.
-Fish can start die at 600-700 ppm K.
I haven't looked up any more info on this, so this is not any evidens. Just someones notes on a forum.
I also found an in tank treatment example with potassium, killing snails, pods, and most things except corals. The aquarist was happy because the AEFW were gone
Anyway, might be a good thing to be careful when increasing the potassium level above NSW levels. It might work in a coral propagation tank with mostly corals. It might not work in a reef tank. I don't know.
I'm getting so inspired watching MACNA talk on Youtube, I just want start trying out breeding more species
So far we've tried and had good or at least okey succes with Seahorses(many times), Clownfish(one time), 4 species of jellyfish, Banggai cardinals(in tank, just catched the fry and gone from there) and Cuttlefish(S. bandensis). Not the most demanding animals to breed, but still need some special food etc. And we got all material we need to build breeding tanks, so the big issues for us to figure out are ways to grow or breed the right food source and to find rutines that's not too time consuming.
In a dream world we would have all kinds of live food going all the time. This is not the case right now
When it comes to larger food like live mysis and river shrimps we have tried to breed them. But so far not so much. During the summers we can collect a lot of mysis shrimps outside Gothenburg and buy river shrimps from Polen. During the winters we have no source to any of them. So getting a culture going would make it so much easier breeding Seahorses and Cuttlefish for example. And not just to breed, also to feed the adults with live food. Our Seahorses really enjoy chasing live food and are great hunters. And my guess is that the nutrients are better in live food as well.
Another live food we use is Gammarus, an amphipod crustacean. We can find them in both our cold water systems and tropical systems. They are possible to breed quite easy in small cups, but we mostly catch them from our refugiums. They are from 2mm up to 10mm. At least the ones we have, I know it's possible to buy Gammarus atlanticus in Europe and they are a bit bigger. Gammarus has been our first food for newly hatched Cuttlefish for example.
So where am I going with this post? I don't know, maybe just needed to go over our possibilities and challanges
On my wishlist are:
-a well working phytoplankton culture(or three, Nannochloripsis, Isocryssis and Synechococcus)
-upgraded kreisels - for fry or larvae or jellyfish
-a copepod culture, Parvocalanus would be great!
-a well working and not too time consuming culture of mysis or some kind of small shrimp species
When I write about our rutines, I mean stuff that goes into our daily to-do-list. So to add something that takes an hour a day is not possible. But 5 or 15 minutes a day might work, if you write a list for the coworkers thats not too complicated. If the new rutine works out it'll be a permanent task on our daily list, like hatching artemia or harvest phytoplankton have been.
Now I will watch some more talks on youtube!
It's great food for sure, but a full grown Sepia bandensis would have to eat quite a few adult G. locusta or G. oceanicus to be satisfied. But all the way from newly hatched to 4-5 cm lenght cuttlefish, those species are perfect to food. Also for seahorses, and I suppose mandarins(long time since we had any, but I would like to get a couple if we find breed ones). 
Soooo, back to the potassium chloride!
After reading some threads and looked at the corals that I dipped a couple of hours ago(they look fine, polyps extended), my way too fast conclusion is that corals, like Acropora, do well in high K levels. If that's the case, that opens up the possibilitys to either treat corals with 20-30 minutes dips or do long term treatment(3-4 weeks) in tanks with corals only(COWLR?!). Fortunately we got eight 100L tanks ready to go soon, so the long term treatment is kind of tempting to try. To let the corals be in the treatment more days then the AEFW eggs take to hatch(I think it's around 21 days).
Or dip them 3-4 times with 5-7 days in between. That's the question. The easiest would probably be the long term one. Otherwise we need to clean the tanks between every dip, and move the corals to new tanks.
Change some water weekly, fill up with filtered tank water would be easier. As you notice I just write what's going around in my mind now
Any input?
Yes, I'll try to do more dips today. Colonies I'm sure has AEFW.I think you need to dip a frag with aefw.
My test kit only goes to 500, my last dip was just off scale, increased dose of 51% strength, each dip only 5 minutes.
I love science but I've not used it enough recently, someone needs to do a cell structure test, my guess will be osmotic shock?!
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