SBB- Spring Fling Blowout

[Ado]

I got lots.

1). Culture at 1.022
2). 14 hours of light is perfect for a 7 day culture cycle, some people say 16 hours a day though.
3). I actually culture off hours, my lights kick on at midnight to 2pm, this regulates the water temp at night. I found that if they have light all day the temp gets too high (I'm using the Poseidon Reef Reactors so it is an LED strip wrapped around the glass so your mileage may vary).
4). Nanno is the easiest to culture, so start there. Tetra is easy too. Iso is the easiest to crash unless you ask @ros3to
5). F/2 medium varies, I've found the Mercer of Montana works the best from Amazon
6). Use a salt with lower calcium. I started my culturing with Reef Crystals since it was cheap, but it has high calcium which causes the phyto to fall out of suspension faster. It still works, just need to swirl phyto more frequent. I use the cheapest Aquaforest salt now since their Fowlr version is around 350 calcium and same price as reef crystals when on sale.

Let me know if you need more tips or want to buy some start up strains for culturing.
@ros3to did the bags help with culturing at all?

Awesome thanks! I screenshotted this for later

I have a supply closet next to my tank room so I'm planning on creating a fish area. My goal is to breed ghost shrimp, Molly's, and have a shelf dedicated to phyto

 

[Tony Page]

First Round of the game

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[ros3to]

Funny thing is that Iso is supposed to be the toughest to culture. I'm thinking you don't have enough light for the others. I use a light dampener for Iso since it doesn't like as much light and the first times i tried culturing it, it didn't take off until I lowered the light.

Funny enough I'm thinking that's my problem with the other cultures, I might add a white shop light to the others lol

 

[Zero_Cool]

Black

 

[ros3to]

I got lots.

1). Culture at 1.022
2). 14 hours of light is perfect for a 7 day culture cycle, some people say 16 hours a day though.
3). I actually culture off hours, my lights kick on at midnight to 2pm, this regulates the water temp at night. I found that if they have light all day the temp gets too high (I'm using the Poseidon Reef Reactors so it is an LED strip wrapped around the glass so your mileage may vary).
4). Nanno is the easiest to culture, so start there. Tetra is easy too. Iso is the easiest to crash unless you ask @ros3to
5). F/2 medium varies, I've found the Mercer of Montana works the best from Amazon
6). Use a salt with lower calcium. I started my culturing with Reef Crystals since it was cheap, but it has high calcium which causes the phyto to fall out of suspension faster. It still works, just need to swirl phyto more frequent. I use the cheapest Aquaforest salt now since their Fowlr version is around 350 calcium and same price as reef crystals when on sale.

Let me know if you need more tips or want to buy some start up strains for culturing.
@ros3to did the bags help with culturing at all?

The bags definitely made things A LOT quicker when harvesting, nothing like dumping and replacing. No more cleaning the vessel. Thanks for mentioning them!!
I might also need to switch salts still using reef crystals since that's what I have readily available and didn't feel like buying something else to store. Will definitely try them tho.

 

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[billyocean]

Pink

 

[Vinaka_vakalevu]

Pink

 

[Zero_Cool]

Pink

 

[billyocean]

Ehh...yall go ahead. I didn't know if anyone was playing.

 

[Zero_Cool]

Ehh...yall go ahead. I didn't know if anyone was playing.

Have you won any yet?

 

[Ado]

What do you think of the poseidon reactors? They seem pricey but cleaner looking

 

[billyocean]

Have you won any yet?

I did before...I know it reset but I didn't go ham on the sale like yall did. Yall need it more..lol

 

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[Zero_Cool]

White

 

[TannerWhatever]

Hey everyone , does anyone know which acro these are? Closest thing to it in the sale looks like the fire king but I can’t quiet tell

 

[ralphsbbcorals]

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