The Green Carbon Dosing Metalology (phytoplankton)

[sixty_reefer]

I think we are using planktons very differently at this stage though. Your goal is for them to breakdown and feed bacteria etc, while mine is direct feeding.

My thinking is this: it's much more plausible to have corals encoutering nanoplanktons, as compared to larger and stronger preys. For example, tubastraea, if individual coral polyps require their own food supply, it is gonna be much more difficult to fulfil if they rely on larger pods on the regular basis.

Another interesting observation is that with smaller prey, it seems like LPS can feed without the often seen "feeding tentacles" look. Yet they look puffy and healthy. (The aquarium is run with very low nitrate and phosphate).

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Yes, my ultimate goal would be raising microbes and micro fauna in the water column, to be able to feed one of my favourite corals. If this doesn’t work regarding the coral feed I may thrown the towel.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Day 5

All looking good still

Added further 20ml of PP to the reactor

 

[sixty_reefer]

Day 6

 

[sixty_reefer]

Day 6

 

[sixty_reefer]

Day 7

The PP reactor was getting to full, emptied it out, worst smell I can recall to date.

 

[MBruun]

Any updates ?
It's really an interesting test/experiment

 

[sixty_reefer]

Any updates ?
It's really an interesting test/experiment

There isn’t much to update at the moment, sorry, everything still looks the same as before, the snails doing a good work cleaning the rocks, the dinoflagellates managed to stay out of the way, will be doing weekly updates now as this will take months to see all the effects. In addition I’ve reduced my lights for a few days to see if this would affect the reactor, I noticed that the phytoplankton takes longer to break and this somehow affected the happiness of one of my corals Thad has been sulking since that change.

 

[btltez]

very interesting thanks for sharing

 

[Forty-Two]

There isn’t much to update at the moment, sorry, everything still looks the same as before, the snails doing a good work cleaning the rocks, the dinoflagellates managed to stay out of the way, will be doing weekly updates now as this will take months to see all the effects. In addition I’ve reduced my lights for a few days to see if this would affect the reactor, I noticed that the phytoplankton takes longer to break and this somehow affected the happiness of one of my corals Thad has been sulking since that change.

Im wondering about the difference b/w live Phyto and frozen phyto, and also the impact of rotifers. Are you expecting to do any experiments on this topic?

 

[Tritium]

Id like to see if your dosing has the same effect when just added to the water column, not into the reactor. Crazy how positively it has affected the tank thus far

 

[SuthernReefer]

What ever happened with this?