DJ's Mixed Reef - bacteria driven system

[Donovan Joannes]

Such a beautiful tank.

How to you keep that NPS happy? Are you adding anything to maintain the Oysters food wise?

NPS corals thriving on constant supply of fine particles food. Detritus is one of them, the very reason I don't have mechanical filters in the system. Blasting the sump with powerhead will keep the detritus suspended and goes back into the display as foods foe corals and other filter feeders.

As for oysters food, yes I am broadcast feeding twice a week with commercial filter feeders food. My bacteria reactors is producing constant supply of bacteria planktons as well. I am not sure how it happens, but occasionally my tank will experience phytoplankton bloom (water columns turns green). I cannot replicates the bloom, it must be happening randomly. I witnessed this phenomenon twice a few months back.

 

[Mandelstam]

Thank you. I am not sure about the oyster. We can buy those at wet market. It's a wild caught by local fisherman, along the coastline possibly growing on mangroves roots

Man, you live in the right place to be into reefing! I would love to do a tank with locally collected fish and inverts or even corals from the northern Atlantic but it would be a cold water tank and a bit too complicated for me at the moment lol.

 

[Donovan Joannes]

Man, you live in the right place to be into reefing! I would love to do a tank with locally collected fish and inverts or even corals from the northern Atlantic but it would be a cold water tank and a bit too complicated for me at the moment lol.

Haha. Yeah, my tank as been running high temperature of over 30 degree C and all local acros are doing fine. My aussie SSC is now officially KIA.