ADA 120-P + Elos Mini dual NPS tank journal

[uhuru]

Thanks buzzy nice to see you here I love your coldwater tank!

I only took that 1 FTS and I forgot to clean the glass, and move the magnets out of the way before I did it too! I will try to get some better ones in a couple of weeks (will be out of town this week).

 

[buzzy]

cool look forward to it

 

[dancewithethan]

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Looking real nice. Question, how come your drain pipe sitting so low in the overflow?

P.S I love those ADA tanks.

 

[muzzler]

did you ever test the biopellets for NFS?

 

[uhuru]

Looking real nice. Question, how come your drain pipe sitting so low in the overflow?

P.S I love those ADA tanks.

Thanks! The drain pipe determines the water level in the overflow. I don't see any benefit in having the water in the overflow chamber too high, only possible negative consequences.

did you ever test the biopellets for NFS?

No I still have it in the back of my mind but haven't tried it yet. I know Aquabacs is using it though. I have noticed a decrease in bacterial film on the glass since I stopped dosing so much phyto though. I have also noticed my tunicates are all shrinking. Its tough to find the balance to please everything. I'm going to be ordering H20 Life's Nanno 9 live phytoplankton product soon to try it out. Aside from Ultra Clam it will be the only phyto I dose so I can see if there is a difference.

 

[Aquabacs]

Mike, I think there is still a lot to learn about the pellets. As each week passes different companies are jumping on the pellet bandwagon (there is a lot of money to be made off of all of us). I might be working on a project to help clear some things up but it is too soon to comment on it. Honestly, regardless to some of the claims, I believe we are all the beta testers for the product right now. I will say this, if you intend on using them; start at 1/4 of the recommended dosage, soak them 24 hours in RO water (helps reduce floaters), have a way to control the flow into the reactor (needed once they start sticking), use the Michael's sowing discs on both ends of the reactor, monitor them atleast 2x daily to make sure reactor is not channeling, and keep an eye out for bacteria blooms. I have greater interest in the feeding aspect of them then secondary; the reduction of nitrates and phosphates. The pellets ability to pull down nitrate and phosphates to acceptable levels in our type of systems may be up for discussion or the actual volume of pellets required for them to do so, also including volume of bacterioplankton produced in the process.

 

[uhuru]

Just a couple of hitchhikers I had in the darkness for over a year.

 

[flying_dutchman]

Cool to know shrooms are able to survive without light in a tank with sufficient feeding, this is something I'll definitely experiment with once I get my azoox tank setup. Just to see what corals are and arent able to survive without light but with food availible. But I'm getting way ahead of myself.

 

[Fishfreak218]

I dont think that is a mushroom flying dutchman,
to me it looks more like a rock anemone (Epicystis Crucifer)

 

[uhuru]

For those of you that don't check reef builders everyday, there is a food coming to the US from Europe called Reef Pearls. I'm thinking of trying it as soon as it becomes available. This should work great in my mixing flask. I am modifying my fridge feeder setup a bit I will probably have it ready this weekend.

Check out the new food:
http://www.reefpearls.eu/

 

[slapshot]

Sounds really cool. The protein content is great. I would like to try it out. Rods Food has come out with a fish egg product. They looked a little big for what I want, but interesting for those who keep difficult fish. Thanks Mike for letting us know .


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[flying_dutchman]

For those of you that don't check reef builders everyday, there is a food coming to the US from Europe called Reef Pearls. I'm thinking of trying it as soon as it becomes available. This should work great in my mixing flask. I am modifying my fridge feeder setup a bit I will probably have it ready this weekend.

Check out the new food:
http://www.reefpearls.eu/

-Joost

 

[Trichome]

I wonder if they are the same thing as Golden Pearls. Golden Pearls has been out for a long time and i have used them with really good success in the past.

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

I thought the same thing when I saw them for the first time, but the website explicitly states that they are not the same as "Golden Pearls." It still seems like a similar idea; we'll have to see how non-photo corals take them.

 

[uhuru]

The ingredients are different as are the nutritional profiles.

 

[uhuru]

This is a fast growing gorg that I fragged about 3 weeks ago. Check out the base - its already growing over the epoxy.

It is INCREDIBLY difficult to photograph fish!

 

[uhuru]

Well tonight I had to say goodbye to my painted angler. A couple days ago he ate a peppermint shrimp that had managed to stay out of his way for several months. This shrimp had grown quite large and was too big for him to digest.

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

Sorry to hear that man. It's incredible to think that anglers will go so far as to eat prey that are so large that it'll kill them.

 

[uhuru]

Yeah it sucks because they're the kind of fish you get pretty attached to.

I don't know how they survive in the wild being so indiscriminate. He almost died before because he ate a feeder fish that managed to survive in the tank for a long time and almost doubled in size due to all the feeding. By the time he ate the fish it was the same size as him.

I thought that he might catch the shrimp some day but I mistakenly thought the shrimp would be easier to digest.

 

[uhuru]

I don't think I've shared a pic of my Apogon/Zoramia leptacanthus. I've had them for a year or so, but I recently lost one that freaked out and got sucked up by the vortech: