Fishroom Reality Check

[User]

Just had my fourth return pump rapid off/on cycle in 20 minutes. I pulled the plug out of the apex and now have it on the independent circuit.

I’m going to submit a help report tomorrow- this is getting beyond frustrating. I feel like every morning is a gamble on whether I’m going to find a half chopped up fish in my DT, kinda like what happened with Craig

 

[Victoria M]

It just crappy.

 

[User]

It just crappy.

I was cleaning up and organizing in the fish room and I kept giving it the side-eye. I was 3 seconds away from boxing it all up a couple times. I mean- all its doing now is acting as a big expensive timer for my phyto and bbs lights, and auto refill of the main ATO from the RODI container.

Frustrated, to say the least

 

[User]

Spent the day blasting some newly hatched brine shrimp and white worms into the TTM3... amazing responses from all 3 fish.

 

[User]

Hanging brine shrimp hatchery

 

[DS204]

Loving the hatchery. You've inspired me to try something similar with either pods or maybe worms. Would love to be able to feed my fish live foods instead of frozen.

 

[User]

Loving the hatchery. You've inspired me to try something similar with either pods or maybe worms. Would love to be able to feed my fish live foods instead of frozen.

 

[DS204]

It's much easier to admire your setup than to implement my own! Ha.

 

[Malifry97]

following

 

[User]

following

Cheers! Appreciate it!

 

[User]

It's much easier to admire your setup than to implement my own! Ha.

No worries. Lol

 

[User]

What a difference 17 months makes. Taken from the same viewpoint-

 

[User]

 

[User]

24 hour growth-

 

[User]

So, just sitting doing the second Peroxide treatment, and about to load up TTM4. This little system I’ve got going on is working out very well. I turned off the air stone and heater to kill all flow, then harvested a bunch of BBS from the hatchery. I add them to start feeding, waited 10 minutes, then added peroxide to 150ppm. Ten minutes in, the BBS are still swimming around, eliciting a strong feeding response from all 3 fish.

I spent some time finalizing a couple things on the Smorgasbord. Did some volume calculations etc- and with the 3.5 gallon Copepod cultures I have, I’m probably going to be going through about a gallon of phyto a week just to feed one population. So I’m thinking I’ll have to run strict myself to on onevsoecies (Nannochloropsis) and do 3 x 4500ml cultures running concurrently. That gives me 1 gallon to harvest and the remainder will be seed for a 1:4 split.

I don’t think I’d have been able to pull off Tetraselmis at the same time anyway- temperature requirement for them is a lot lower than is typical for the fishroom so cultures would likely have struggled. I may set up a second phyto grow out for Tet in the other area, maybe above QT, but logistically that kinda a pain in the butt

 

[User]

 

[User]

@Victoria M

Post-TTM Observation tank

I feel so dirty right now, lol


That jebao is way overpowered for the 20...

 

[User]

Got my observation APEX controlled ATO installed. It used to never on the coral Qt when that was in the 20, but it had a 3D printed hook that worked on egg crate. Since I’m QTing jumpers, I made a different lid out of greenhouse panel cut offs that I have (make all my lids out of it- thinwall easyship panel 8mm). I also don’t have another spare 10g as ATO container, but I do have s bunch of 1g pretzel containers. Coincidentally,!large noose yoghurt pot lid fit perfectly- just cut a slash in it to pass cord and water line through. I fed the ATO line into the overflow box, since I didn’t like the fact I could see the rodi mixing with the tank water in the low flow area

Now- I’m thinking of picking up a super small Jabao powerhead like an ow10 for the some flow.

Once it comes up to temp, I’ll put some biospira in there for a semi- instant cycle, in anticipation of the guys graduating TTM 4 on Sunday!

Yay

 

[User]

Available at the local petco . 3”, a little emaciated $23.99 . Didn’t buy but it’s a good looking fish

And these feather dusters we’re hosting bunch of clowns. So weird

 

[Victoria M]

Great updates Neil. I love following your adventure. Sorry I have not replied enough lately. I have had vertigo pretty bad. The scrolling makes it worse. I am seeing a physical therapist who specializes in vestibular disorders. So hopefully it will get better soon.