Hello, First time poster but I've spent many a night reading the posts to learn as much as I can. I tried to get answers to questions from my LFS(or LreefS) only to get burned many times. Anyway, here are my green questions I hope to find answers. Thanks for your time to read this and hope to get some feed back.
Current set up: 75 gal tank glass, 4'T5 four bulb fixture, 2x icecap gyre, one canister filter, 40lbs of pukani rock. fluval 110 HOB i use it as a skimmer. filter floss and carbon!
stock: yellow tang impulse buy(wish it was a one spot fox face) bangia cardinal, purple fire fin, 2 clowns(hosting duncan) 3 azure damsel(three stooges too busy fighting each other to attack any other fish.)splendid dottyback(killer of zoa eating pests!) blue neon gobie! loves to clean fish! I will always have one of these!
1. Condy anemone, I've read most stories of them eating fish, but will feeding them before placement stop/ reduce them eating fish?
2. Can someone share their experience with a HOB overflow? Do you have to get matching sizes or is it better to get alarger HOB overflow box to prevent the sump from getting too low? I have a 75 gal but can't drill it. (tempered glass) I'm not willing to risk it. However I would like to get a sump at some point.
3. Lessoned learned, while coral is photogenic, i've just learned about food! now the explosive growth everyone talked about is really taking off! So why don't people say that while coral can survive on light they thrive on food! ((FYI i target feed everything with pumps off.))
3.2 Will soaking mysis in aquavitro fuel fatten the food? I'm doing it for four months but not really sure if it helps more so than just the food itsself. No negative effects unless you count duncan rapid growth. (seriously went from one head to simultaneously growing four additional heads.)
3.5 What will duncan's eat larger than mysis shrimp? I feel that mine are too big now and need larger food. current head size is inch and a half across.
3.6 Coral and food, can you over feed coral? Seems like everything in my tank can eat once a day every other day. Am I just feeding them too little(size) food? My zoa, kenya tree, octospawn, torch, birds nest, clam, and gsp are getting phytoplankton gold. While my ricordea, duncan, Pit Viper Leptastrea, plate coral, blasto, all want mysis.
3.7 Will phytoplankton survive/thrive in a tank as they are light dependant?
4. Seems like my stocked tank is doing good with my fool proof way of dosing via purple up. Anyone else try this for calcium, mag, iodine dosing?
Current set up: 75 gal tank glass, 4'T5 four bulb fixture, 2x icecap gyre, one canister filter, 40lbs of pukani rock. fluval 110 HOB i use it as a skimmer. filter floss and carbon!
stock: yellow tang impulse buy(wish it was a one spot fox face) bangia cardinal, purple fire fin, 2 clowns(hosting duncan) 3 azure damsel(three stooges too busy fighting each other to attack any other fish.)splendid dottyback(killer of zoa eating pests!) blue neon gobie! loves to clean fish! I will always have one of these!
1. Condy anemone, I've read most stories of them eating fish, but will feeding them before placement stop/ reduce them eating fish?
2. Can someone share their experience with a HOB overflow? Do you have to get matching sizes or is it better to get alarger HOB overflow box to prevent the sump from getting too low? I have a 75 gal but can't drill it. (tempered glass) I'm not willing to risk it. However I would like to get a sump at some point.
3. Lessoned learned, while coral is photogenic, i've just learned about food! now the explosive growth everyone talked about is really taking off! So why don't people say that while coral can survive on light they thrive on food! ((FYI i target feed everything with pumps off.))
3.2 Will soaking mysis in aquavitro fuel fatten the food? I'm doing it for four months but not really sure if it helps more so than just the food itsself. No negative effects unless you count duncan rapid growth. (seriously went from one head to simultaneously growing four additional heads.)
3.5 What will duncan's eat larger than mysis shrimp? I feel that mine are too big now and need larger food. current head size is inch and a half across.
3.6 Coral and food, can you over feed coral? Seems like everything in my tank can eat once a day every other day. Am I just feeding them too little(size) food? My zoa, kenya tree, octospawn, torch, birds nest, clam, and gsp are getting phytoplankton gold. While my ricordea, duncan, Pit Viper Leptastrea, plate coral, blasto, all want mysis.
3.7 Will phytoplankton survive/thrive in a tank as they are light dependant?
4. Seems like my stocked tank is doing good with my fool proof way of dosing via purple up. Anyone else try this for calcium, mag, iodine dosing?
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