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Have tried a potassium dip? I tried this recently and it appears to kill AEFW (or at least knock them off corals). I used a Brightwell Potassion-P powder, but just about any potassium chloride salt should work. Credit to @FarmerTy for the idea.Not decided yet what method we will use against AEFW, but at least we have lots of corals, tanks and time to test what works best for us.
Have tried a potassium dip? I tried this recently and it appears to kill AEFW (or at least knock them off corals). I used a Brightwell Potassion-P powder, but just about any potassium chloride salt should work. Credit to @FarmerTy for the idea.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/b...ra-eating-flatworm.323713/page-3#post-4462442
One things that's new to us is that we probably need to get sponsors. Until now we've managed okey with our current budget plus some extra from our foundation. But having high goals with the new Aquarium money will be an issue and we will need to ask for help to reach our goals.
The only help we (The Aquarium) have gotten the last years is the great help from Triton Lab, which have donated ICP tests and addetives. For us with a quite small budget that does a lot, so I'm really greatful they do this for us! Ehsan Dashti from Triton lab has also done two talks on our Coral Symposiums at no cost for us.
We will investigate what we are allowed to do when it comes to sponsors etc, the City of Gothenburg has a lot of rules we need to follow, but hopefully we will figure out ways to do it correct.
One thing we've discussed is to do different packages, like gold, silver, instead of doing every agreement by itself. We're also of coarse hoping some large Gothenburg based companies would like to support us. One or a couple of large sponsors would save time for us
As you probably notice, I'm totally new at this thing asking for money So any ideas or advices are appreciated!
Hehe, thanks Not really my dream.. But you do what you have to. So, how does this Youtubing work?O boy, Sallstrom going to be ambassador of the sea, not only a Marine Biologists, but also business man. Welcome to the real world.
Yes, I think you are right. You'll have to give a lot back if you want sponsors. I'm not really a fan of talking on videos, just might have to figure out a way around thatMy guess is the more you can show off the marine world with photos, videos, eventually tours, etc. the better. Everyone falls in love with the ocean. Everyone.
There you go , your getting the hang of it. Volvo Reef, I like.Hehe, thanks Not really my dream.. But you do what you have to. So, how does this Youtubing work?
Yes, I think you are right. You'll have to give a lot back if you want sponsors. I'm not really a fan of talking on videos, just might have to figure out a way around that
We'll see, maybe we will open the new Aquarium with a Volvo Reef and IKEA kelp forrest
The coral sprint mix in h2o and let sit two days build up bacteria. Now the time move them small tank if possible. One above looking good. If you mail it to me. I'll let you know what it is.Another update on our test with the NPS corals Scleronephthya and Dendronephthya. What I wanted to test was to run them in water good enough for Acropora, and to feed them with mostly phytoplankton.
That didn't work out too well I'm sorry to say. Out of seven colonies, three of them are alive today. Only one of them looks okey(no shrinkage or loss of polyps).
Here's the healthiest one, bought as a Dendronephthya, but I'm really not sure on precisely what species it is. Anyone knows?
Since I wanted to try my idea all the way I haven't changed the feeding until recently, when I was sure it wasn't good enough. So first months we dosed many small doses of live and concentrated phytoplankton to keep the concentration steady. Last month I've changed so there are three larger dosings during the day, you see the water in the tank turn a bit green. Plus many small doses. Also added rotifers to the dosings. Can't say it has improved, but that one colony is still around and must take up some kind of food.
We have some Coral Sprint from Fauna Marine, which should be some kind of bacteria, that I've started to add. No results so far. Too soon to say.
All the Acropora, Montipora, Stylopora etc are doing great, even those who doesn't get much light. So at least they seems to like the feeding
Have you considered dosing yeast?Another update on our test with the NPS corals Scleronephthya and Dendronephthya. What I wanted to test was to run them in water good enough for Acropora, and to feed them with mostly phytoplankton.
That didn't work out too well I'm sorry to say. Out of seven colonies, three of them are alive today. Only one of them looks okey(no shrinkage or loss of polyps).
Here's the healthiest one, bought as a Dendronephthya, but I'm really not sure on precisely what species it is. Anyone knows?
Since I wanted to try my idea all the way I haven't changed the feeding until recently, when I was sure it wasn't good enough. So first months we dosed many small doses of live and concentrated phytoplankton to keep the concentration steady. Last month I've changed so there are three larger dosings during the day, you see the water in the tank turn a bit green. Plus many small doses. Also added rotifers to the dosings. Can't say it has improved, but that one colony is still around and must take up some kind of food.
We have some Coral Sprint from Fauna Marine, which should be some kind of bacteria, that I've started to add. No results so far. Too soon to say.
Nutrients are low, nitrate around 1-2 ppm and phosphate around 0,05 ppm. We're dosing nitrate at the moment. We started up this experiment dosing a carbon source to maybe get some extra bacteria for the corals to eat, but nutrients decreased so we had to lower the dosage to very low to not get too low nitrate.
All the Acropora, Montipora, Stylopora etc are doing great, even those who doesn't get much light. So at least they seems to like the feeding
Yes, I've read a lot of threads about yeast and have some notes on them. They are about the same size as Nannochlopsis salina/many phytoplankton, so they might be a good food source for corals that prey on mostly phytoplankton. But so far I haven't tested yeast. It's on my list(I have a long list of what I want to try out ). One thing is breeding sea urchins, so right now I will watch Martin Moe's talk on MACNA!Have you considered dosing yeast?
Thank you! This part was redone about two years ago, removed a very large S. hystrix colony and some M. digitata and removed some rocks to get more space up to the surface. And placed a lot of small to medium size corals from our propagation tanks. After that work I've hardly touched this part, just removed some corals when they grew too muchI can barely look away to reply how beautiful it is.