REEF OF THE MONTH - March 2023: Dragon Lee's NPS Paradise

[Dragon Lee]

Congratulations! I love this tank. I’m so happy for you. Well deserved.

Thanks so much!
A new pic for you.

 

[Dragon Lee]

Looking good! I love the Spotbreast Angel too! I'm partial to the Genicanthus genus myself!

Here it is!

 

[Dragon Lee]

I’d never come across NPS before - thank you for opening my eyes.

beautiful!

There is a new pic for you.I think you must have this.

 

[Dragon Lee]

I'm sorry but can you elaborate more on the brine shrimp part? How many grams of eggs do you hatch per week and how often you feed the tank with brine shrimps? Do you broadcast or target feed your corals?

15-20g eggs everytime.
Feeding twice per week.
I stop the pump about 2 hours and broadcast the shrimps.

 

[Dragon Lee]

Beautiful tank. And congrats for TOTM!

Thank you!
Hope you love it.A new picture for you

 

[Dragon Lee]

I think that this is the first tank I've ever seen that has truly blown my mind. I love those bright blue gorgonians. Very well done! Do you target feed your NPS, or has simply broadcast feeding been sufficient? If it's as "simple" as broadcast feeding regularly and keeping nutrients down, I might need to put some NPS in my 65.

I just broadcast feeding.Most of the claws can catch the shrimp.

 

[Dragon Lee]

Excellent...I am totally jealous.

Blue blue blue

 

[Dragon Lee]

Hi, beautiful tank, could you elaborate more on your feeding strategy? I did not know you could keep those corals on brine shrimp alone…..thanks for sharing

Darren

Broadcast feeding.15-20g eggs everytime.
Twice per week.Just brine shrimp 2 years.

 

[Dragon Lee]

There was one study conducted to determine the concentration of brine shrimps needed for Acropora Millepora, Horn Coral and Duncan to display their maximum feeding rates. They found that it takes between 50 brine shrimps per ml to 120 brine shrimps per ml for all three corals to achieve that goal. They also found out that it doesn't matter whether you feed the corals during daytime or nighttime.

Assuming there are 250 000 brine shrimp eggs in 1g, for a 155-galon tank that means:

• At 15g, the concentration is 6.4 brine shrimps per ml.
• At 30g, the concentration is 12.8 brine shrimps per ml.
• At 200g, the concentration is 85.2 brine shrimps per ml.

Reference: "Optimizing heterotrophic feeding rates of three commercially important scleractinian corals"

Thanks for sharing the information！

 

[Dragon Lee]

Absolutely gorgeous tank! Congrats! Well deserved.

Thanks.A new pic for u.

 

[Dragon Lee]

I'm not going to lie, I thought this was fake for a second until I clicked the banner and read the thread. This looks amazing

How about this one?

 

[Dragon Lee]

Congratulations dragon Lee big thumbs up to you and your reef

Thank you very much!
A new pic for you!

 

[Dragon Lee]

Such an amazing tank, and well deserving of Reef of the Month. Congratulations

!!!

Thanks!!!

 

[Dragon Lee]

Congratulations on reef tank of the month very beautiful system you have. Well done!

Thank you!
Look at the fishes!

 

[Nano_Man]

Thank you very much!
A new pic for you!

Amazing photo well deserved winner

 

[AcroNem]

Thank you!
Look at the fishes!

Are those recent additions?

 

[Dragon Lee]

This is in a league of its on and we are blessed to have you share your reef with us!! Thank you!

Need your encouragement!!!

 

[Dragon Lee]

Wow well earned , congrats @Dragon Lee , seconds thoughts here ... these pics make me want to change my tank as well

Haha Come on!!! Gogogo!

 

[Dragon Lee]

Love it.

How about this one?

 

[Dragon Lee]

Very nice tank. NO light or skimmer is so different than what we are used to.

I do wish you had shared more info about this setup. How much and how often water is changed? How and what exactly you feed? Specific NPS species and care requirements.

Out of all of the Reef of The Month write ups, this is the one where we could really use all of the little details.

Thank you!A new pic for you first.
I will update the details in the following post.