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I started with frozen brine and worked my way up. Hint: get the hikari stuff. The mysis in those cubes aren’t much bigger than adult brine.Your mandarin eats frozen mysis? I’m Jealous
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I started with frozen brine and worked my way up. Hint: get the hikari stuff. The mysis in those cubes aren’t much bigger than adult brine.Your mandarin eats frozen mysis? I’m Jealous
I don’t turn off my return pumps either. System is too big and I don’t want to go through the restart and the bubbles. I have a roller mat so I turn that off along with my skimmer for 30 minutes. Plus any excess that might get into the overflow will get recirculated back to the tanks or end up in my RDSB and feed the critters in there.I don’t like turning off my return pump unless I have to.. the sump fills, probes get fully submerged, and it jets bubbles when starting back up. It’s made it so I do t bother with a feed mode when feeding. Anyone else experience this?
I should probably just connect my Octo8 pump to the apex, so I can dial the flow way back rather than turn it off altogether..
I do the opposite. Keeping the return pumps going encourages the food to go down the overflows into the filtration. I turn off the return pump and keep the power heads on. This keeps the food suspended where the fish can easily see it. After a very few minutes the food is gone and I turn the returns back on.I will usually turn the power heads off but keep the return pump going. I put half the food in and let them eat it until the point it all is gone or settled to the bottom. I then add the second half of the food. Once that is gone or settled at the bottom, I put on one power head that lifts everything off the sand bed and back into the water column. After about five minutes I put on the second power head. Not sure if this is ideal, but its been working so far for me
should the probes not be fully submerged? Is that a problem?I don’t like turning off my return pump unless I have to.. the sump fills, probes get fully submerged, and it jets bubbles when starting back up. It’s made it so I do t bother with a feed mode when feeding. Anyone else experience this?
I should probably just connect my Octo8 pump to the apex, so I can dial the flow way back rather than turn it off altogether..
I don’t like turning off my return pump unless I have to.. the sump fills, probes get fully submerged, and it jets bubbles when starting back up. It’s made it so I do t bother with a feed mode when feeding. Anyone else experience this?
I should probably just connect my Octo8 pump to the apex, so I can dial the flow way back rather than turn it off altogether..
Can you elaborate on that and ... how you have your pumps programmed? I have 2 mp10 now for my 22 long. One on end facing long ways and other is on other end back wall (drain is on other side wall. Over flowNo I use Mobius.
Certainly.Can you elaborate on that and ... how you have your pumps programmed? I have 2 mp10 now for my 22 long. One on end facing long ways and other is on other end back wall (drain is on other side wall. Over flow
only turn off my gyres when I feed. I let my return pump run, I don’t even shut it off for water changes. I use a fish feeder that lets the food loose several inches beplow the surface so it doesn’t go down the return.I don’t like turning off my return pump unless I have to.. the sump fills, probes get fully submerged, and it jets bubbles when starting back up. It’s made it so I do t bother with a feed mode when feeding. Anyone else experience this?
I should probably just connect my Octo8 pump to the apex, so I can dial the flow way back rather than turn it off altogether..