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Thank you!Absolutely stellar workmanship on your tank! Keep up the good work my friend!
Nigel
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Thank you!Absolutely stellar workmanship on your tank! Keep up the good work my friend!
Nigel
Adam has some nice sticks. Did you got with a battle box or did you pick out select pieces?
Seven weeks since the last time I saw a flat worm or an egg. To celebrate, putting another batch of acros into quarantine!
Everything survived the dipping and most of my corals have continued to grow. Consumption of alkalinity and calcium go down for about 24 hours after the dipping by 20% I would estimate. I am going to perform one final dip in 3-4 weeks just to be extra cautious, but I think I am back on track.
Adam has some nice sticks. Did you got with a battle box or did you pick out select pieces?
This is my second shipment from Battlecorals, and I selected the gilded lily and tijuana taxi. Communication with Adam is excellent and I've had a good experience with both my orders.
I agree. Adam is great to work with. I would recommend for your next "gift" to yourself is get a battle box. As some of the battle box corals are not on his website or at least that I could tell and can be real gems!
What source of freezed dried mysis and canalas are you using? I have Evansi anthias and feel very similar about them as you do for your purples. I feed 5 times a day but would like to do 3 and use auto feed for the others to get some time back in the day. I am curious if you think the freeze dried stuff would work if you auto feed it to the return section of your sump as I have a large euro brace and would have to make a custom tube to accommodate it.
That's a great suggestion. Once I get everything back on the rocks, I'm going to take you suggestion and my next order will be a battle box.
I am ordering the freeze dried food from BRS. The mysis comes with a fair amount of powdered mysis which I sift out. Hard to say for sure what resolved my cyano issues early on, but I think cleaning the frozen and removing some of this particulate from the freeze dired food helped.
That's a really good point regarding the eurobrace. I was waiting for the new tank when I intially ordered the plank and had it on my rimless tank with no issues.
Transitioning to the new tank took a little work with Avast who were really nice to work with and incredibly helpful. I have a 1" double eurobrace that nearly 4.5 " wide. Avast built me a custom XL platform for the plank to accomodate 5".
Next, I noticed the food would tend to float to the top which was not happening in my other tank and is sort of what the plank is designed to avoid. Due to the height of my eurobrace, the tube was not submersed to the same depth in the tank and not giving the food sufficient dwell time to become hydrated. Avast sent me a longer 8" tube which solved the issue.
Regarding putting the feeder in the return section, depending on the set up it could work. In my sump the returns feed a manifold to the refugium and pass water through the media reactors. I would be concerned with this lay out it would pollute the system. In some situations it could probably work, but I think it would be better to situate on the tank to ensure the food is getting to the tank. My fish are fat!
Thank you for the details. I might have to give this a try in a few weeks when I get some more free time. I have access to a 3d printer and regular aryclic to see if I can make it myself. First step is to see if the anthias will take to freeze dried foods before I go through the effort.
Thanks!Hey nice job!
That would be cool if you can build it. The feeder has an auger mechanism where the food is contained that prevents clumps and breaks up the food as it gets dispensed. I like this feeder a lot.
What are you feeding your anthias right now? I progressed from live baby brine, to feeding frozen foods at the same time as the live food, and eventually mixed in the freeze dried food with the frozen. Now they will eat anything.
Thank youReally nice build you have here. Can you give us an update on the purple anthias?
Oh, sorry. I did not notice the date on those two post to see that they were very recent.Thank you
I have ten that survived past one month and are thriving after seven months. I think some of the keys were getting them to accept larger food and frequent feeding as with many anthias. I suspect having a decent number of anthias and placing them in the tank prior to a lot of more active fish helped the fish get more comfortable in the system which may have helped with getting them to eat. I feed the tank 8 times / day at minimum. Here's a link to a recent update, it's post#166
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/sdreefs-330g-cda-acropora-dominant-mixed-reef.778823/post-9170731
Post #155 has a couple of videos where you can see them eating freeze dried mysis via the automatic feeder.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/sdreefs-330g-cda-acropora-dominant-mixed-reef.778823/post-9149935
Here's a video from the dominant male with a display from this evening.Oh, sorry. I did not notice the date on those two post to see that they were very recent.