What are you feeding your blastos? How are you actually feeding them and are you turning off or adjusting the flow for any period of time?It is true that most softies and LPS can survive and probably thrive off of the N03 and P04 in your tank...BUT...If you N03 and P04 are at 0, then they will slowly starve to death. I found my tank N03 and P04 deficient, meaning 0 and 0, and it was slowly starving my Blastos. They were starting to show skeleton on the top polyps. I decided to manually feed the LPS frags and in short order, they are growing back, covering the skeleton that was being shown. They were not retracted in any way, just showing skeleton. They were fully extended trying to get as much energy from the lights as possible. Now, after I started feeding they are actually happy and growing again. Just something to think about and remember.
I feed them Reef Roids. I usually soaked the Reef Roids in KZ Amino's as well, but I am currently out. I turn off all the return pumps and flow pumps to allow them to feed. I use a turkey baster and coat them in the food. I wait until I see that they are no longer feeding before I turn on the pumps again. Usually they are off for 10-15 minutes.
Thanks. I noticed this on one of my blastos although I think I may have also had them in area with too little light. I changed their location and I'm going to try target feeding using your mix.
Just remember that you want to cast the food over them and not blast them when using a turkey baster. I only say this to make sure you don't put to much flow on the polyp.
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A few systems are able to process NO3 & PO4 so quickly that it is hard to measure residuals. The corals can get by as long as the tank is fed very regularly and often. It is not a tightrope I choose to walk but some are able to manage it OK like those bacteria driven folks running ZEO.It is true that most softies and LPS can survive and probably thrive off of the N03 and P04 in your tank...BUT...If your N03 and P04 are at 0, then they will slowly starve to death. I found my tank N03 and P04 deficient, meaning 0 and 0, and it was slowly starving my Blastos. They were starting to show skeleton on the top polyps. I decided to manually feed the LPS frags and in short order, they are growing back, covering the skeleton that was being shown. They were not retracted in any way, just showing skeleton. They were fully extended trying to get as much energy from the lights as possible. Now, after I started feeding they are actually happy and growing again. Just something to think about and remember.
Once you are fully running everything with GHL, it would be interesting to read a side-by-side Pros & Cons versus APEX.I am going to install the Propeller Breeze 3 4 fan along with a Propeller Controller in the next few days. It is pretty simple and straight forward. Below is the instructions to install both.
How to: Control Propeller Breeze fan via ProfiLux
Just put in my order for NeoPhos and NeoNitro. Is there anything that I should keep in mind while dosing these?
Not really, you just need to figure out how much you need to add. They have a calculation on the bottle. I am up to 100+ ml daily.
Yea, until I can get a load on the tank which will hopefully be today.
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