Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

[User1]

Acropora babies at the Secret Home Lab. I am very busy

Pretty cool!

Virtual cigar

 

[tripdad]

That's pretty cool, good luck with settlement! Hope it goes well.

 

[LRT]

Beautiful!

 

[Thales]

The acropora larvae we’re starting to get stuck on the screens so it seemed like time to move them and substrates to the settling ‘tank’. There are many on the substrates, but don’t appear to have yet settled.

 

[User1]

The acropora larvae we’re starting to get stuck on the screens so it seemed like time to move them and substrates to the settling ‘tank’. There are many on the substrates, but don’t appear to have yet settled.

Pretty neat stuff you have going on in the depths of the lab. I think it would be cool to witness that in my aquarium so thanks for sharing (those of us not skilled ).

Would be neat to buy a frag of it if they grow out enough to do so

Edit: Name it something like Super Awesome Skimmate something or other and include a Tee Shirt for the low price of $100.00

 

[Brew12]

Edit: Name it something like Super Awesome Skimmate something or other and include a Tee Shirt for the low price of $100.00

I think he would be more likely to name it after a type of act that wouldn't allow it to be discussed on R2R

 

[User1]

I think he would be more likely to name it after a type of act that wouldn't allow it to be discussed on R2R

Lol. Roger that.

 

[Rick Mathew]

Awesome tank!!

 

[Thales]

New Episode! Took a bit to get it out, but we got it now.

EPISODE 12 - SIP Reefing by The SKIMMATE PodCast with Rich and Terence

Shelter in Place tank updates, impending coral spawn, COVID and the hobby/industry, new products that make us squint, and Rich’s favorite piece of equipment. Sorry for the off-balance sound. We fixed it in the first 7-minutes, but just wanted to get this out as fast as possible - if anyone would...

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EPISODE 12 - SIP Reefing

Shelter in Place tank updates, impending coral spawn, COVID and the hobby/industry, new products that make us squint, and Rich’s favorite piece of equipment. Sorry for the off-balance sound. We fixed it in the first 7-minutes, but just wanted to get this out as fast as possible - if anyone would like to do the rest, have at it, let us know, and we would be super-grateful!
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[Thales]

And the spawning has kept me busy. Here is a baby pic

 

[poomba]

This is a medium feed for the reef that took place over an hour, edited to about 8 minutes. First is a PE mysis flake feed. A little while later I add a chuck on PE Calanus to the auto feeder (not shown). Then a mix of PE Calanus, Hikari mysis, and LRS foods are added at intervals (normally added in different spots, but added from behind the tank for the sake of the vid). The video ends with a few minutes of the reef in silence with all the polyps open and feeding.

What's the basslet/dottyback in the center cave?

 

[Thales]

What's the basslet/dottyback in the center cave?

Can you screenshot?

 

[LRT]

This is awesome crazy numbers!

 

[poomba]

Can you screenshot?

 

[Thales]

Ah! Swales basslet. There is a pair in there. They are so old. Over a decade

 

[Thales]

This is awesome crazy numbers!

Ha! Tested again. Nitrate 50, Phosphate .93 - and the baby corals are rocking it

 

[HomeSlizzice]

Ha! Tested again. Nitrate 50, Phosphate .93 - and the baby corals are rocking it

Those numbers are crazy haha.

Nutrient ratios have been discussed in another thread, and I’m curious if you think the nutrient ratio being 53:1 Nitrateshosphates is related to your success.

Thoughts? @Thales @Big E @Randy Holmes-Farley

 

[Thales]

Just an update - we had a second spawn in May, so we did it - corals collected and spawned in 2019 also spawned in sync with corals collected in 2020. They went the entire cycle. We are so excited.
The settlers from April are doing well.

Coralline algae can engulf and kill newly settled acropora. Removing it is a pain, not just because of tiny tools and mag specs, but because you can damage or dislodge the settler accidentally. This is the grouping I have been visualizing the most post settlement, so I am happy that the removal went well this time. For scale, the polyp without the tentacles is about 1 mm across

Nitrate 50, Phosphate .92, alk 8.3

 

[User1]

Just an update - we had a second spawn in May, so we did it - corals collected and spawned in 2019 also spawned in sync with corals collected in 2020. They went the entire cycle. We are so excited.
The settlers from April are doing well.

Coralline algae can engulf and kill newly settled acropora. Removing it is a pain, not just because of tiny tools and mag specs, but because you can damage or dislodge the settler accidentally. This is the grouping I have been visualizing the most post settlement, so I am happy that the removal went well this time. For scale, the polyp without the tentacles is about 1 mm across

Nitrate 50, Phosphate .92, alk 8.3

Question. How does the newly settled acropora handle coralline in the ocean? Or is it a numbers thing and how they spawn?

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I think he would be more likely to name it after a type of act that wouldn't allow it to be discussed on R2R

Did I hear kama sutra