I love the ext tanks, but ive always felt the aps stand is too short. Anyways, beautiful tank! Id personally go with some actual macro in the display opposed to the artificial plants, but it looks great!
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Thx!I love the ext tanks, but ive always felt the aps stand is too short. Anyways, beautiful tank! Id personally go with some actual macro in the display opposed to the artificial plants, but it looks great!
All fair reasons! Im 6'3, so a stand shorter than 40" is too short for me. Probably a good call on not keeping macros in the display, they can definitely take over. Especially in a tank too small for tangs/foxface.Thx!
I am enjoy the ext50 immensely
I think the height doesn’t bother me since I am only 5’8”. Lol
I considered macros in DT... like mangrove, gorgonian or even sponges... but in the end, I did not want them in the DT as a permanent fixture. I have a general idea of the final tank in my head. Lol
I may add couple of red gorgonian at later stage.
the artificial actually worked out well since 1) it gave my new fishes places to hide. The Midas first used it when first introduced. Now the wrasse uses it when hiding. 2) it adds nice color so I am not rushed to fill the tank with new corals. Lol. And 3) I know it’s just temp until the tank is ready for real corals
This is very cool. Where did you get the starter kit? I am seriously interested in trying my hand at phyto and ultimately pods.Equipment update:
started the Phytoplankton culture (pics)
Simple set up:
- Tetra airpump 60
- 4way splitter manifold
- Mercer culture kit (live Tetraselmis phyto, f/2 fertilizer, rigid tube, airline tube, syringes)
- led light (Amazon) on a timer (16 hrs on)
- empty 2liter bottle
- RODI salt water mixed to 1.022 (per instruction)
if all goes well, should be able to harvest and split in 5-7 days.
first time trying so let’s see how it goes. Lol
Plan is to 1) dose directly in the tank for the copepods and corals/fish
and 2) use some to grow separate copepod culture
note: not in pic, but the Bottle cap has one hole for the airline and a smaller hole as a bleeder.
I got it on amazon, like this one, from Mercer of MontanaThis is very cool. Where did you get the starter kit? I am seriously interested in trying my hand at phyto and ultimately pods.
I got it on amazon, like this one, from Mercer of Montana
I am still culturing phyto successfully.
however, I stopped the copepod culture.
Although I had several successful harvests, copepod culture takes more effort to maintain... almost like having another tank. Lol
Besides, I now have the pods in the refugium with chaeto... so I should be able to continue growing the pod population in there.
Phyto culture is pretty ez to do as long as u use sterile equipment.