| 5/25 |
No
more hand feedings for anemone and corals. They seem to
be fine without them. Less hands in the tank. |
| 5/25 |
Added
20 pounds of live sand. |
| 5/01 |
Disconnected the UV!!
Big step convinced by conversation with Dr. Ron Shimek. |
| 5/01 |
5/01-
started DT's photo plankton 15 ml 2x week. Will increase
if I see results.
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| March
2001 |
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| 3/01 |
Adding Roti rich 25-30 drops 2x week. |
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| January 2001 |
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| Additives
and feeding |
I
discontinued the use of Roti rich twice a week as well as
coral vital 3 times a week.
I was having a hair algae problem due to what I believe
was an over abundance of nutrients in my system. I try to
run my systems as "natural" as possible so I was
not crazy about using additives in the first place. I am
hoping that the addition of the refugium will supply a good
source of micro organisms for the system. |
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I
also switched to Vita Chem. from Kent marine zoe. Same thing
and cheaper. |
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I
have reduced my feeding to 1 1/2 to 2 frozen cubes 3 times
a week again in an effort to reduce the high nutrient levels.
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| Fish |
Diadema
Basslett moved to the 40 gallon.
Over the next 2 months, I will be adding 2 gobies, 2 wrasses
and a mandrian. Exact ones are still being researched.
I am open to suggestions.
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| Inverts |
75
blue leg hermits has been reduced on purpose to 10.
I added 30 astrea snails
8 turbo snails left. They die very quickly. Don't know why.
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| Stoney
Corals |
My
pink stylophora is gone. The frag fell to an unreachable
place and perished. |
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| Equipment |
I
set up a 10 gallon refugium piped directly to my sump with
a maxijet 600 turned down for a flow rate of about 10 gallons
per hour. I set it up with 8 pounds of live Atlantic aquaculture
rock, a 2 inch sand bed and 2 kinds of calurpa: Caulerpa
mexicana or Caulerpa taxifolia not sure which one. They
both look the same. and Grape Caulerpa Algae (Caulerpa racemosa)
I seeded the refugium with a detortive kit from Inland
Aquatics. This contained the following: over 100 Mysis
shrimp, several Gammarus shrimp, a bunch of amphipods, copepods,
6 peperment snails, 10 baby bristle worms, 10 mini brittle
stars, 3 stomatella Varia.
I also removed all bio media from my sump.
My goal in my 225 reef is to run my system as close to 100%
natural as possible . I am trying to avoid using as many
processed additives as possible and develop the reef system
to maintain its own inhabitants. I believe that the refugium
has taken me one step closer to this goal. It is still a
long term goal. |
