Anyone running a mixed tank with Non-photos?

[Tony Romano]

Anyone keeping Nons in standard mix reef?

I feed very heavy now, skim aggressivly, ozone, dose vodka.

With all of the newer foods on market and German products I am thinking it could be done with some non-photosynthetic.

 

[SKremk]

I have non-photosynthetic corals and inverts mixed in with LPS, SPS and other softies. I've started keeping some more difficult nons, like dendronephythas and scleronephthyas for about 3-4 months (the tank is a year old), and so far, they seem to be doing ok. At least they aren't receding. I dose a mix of planktonic foods throughout the day, dose vodka, and have a good skimmer. The other corals seem to be doing well, also. Everything is growing and have kept their colors.

 

[Tony Romano]

Thanks- What brands of planktonic foods? Is Kent or Brightwell on list? I love this hobby now that we have ability to feed and have good water!

Interesting occupation - I am not sure if it real or a joke.

 

[tatuvaaj]

I too have just started to mix azooxanthellae animals with SPS and LPS.

I feed Fauna Marin (Ultramin-D, Ultramin-F and Ultra-Seafan), Preis (Coral V-power, Coral-Energizer) and Aquaconnect (PICOfood and NanoFood) foods.

So far everything is going well, I have a powerful skimmer (1st gen. ATI BubbleMaster) and I dose Vodka+sugar. This combination seems to be able to handle the heavy feeding.

 

[Tony Romano]

Great - Just the verification i was looking for!

 

[SKremk]

I feed reef 30ml daily of Shellfish diet and Rotifeast from Reefnutrition. It's administered via a dosing pump so there is a constant supply of food in the water. I have a ASM G1x skimmer, and dose vodka, as well.

And no, it's not my real occupation . I'm actually an archaeologist.

 

[Tony Romano]

I would believe darn near anything any more! There was a small chance your occupation was something new! I assume you are doing studies as often as possible?

How do you get around keeping Reefnutrition stuff refrigerated?

Is dosing true constant or x times a day at x? Mine is only adjustable ml per dose and times per day.

 

[SKremk]

I have an extra phosban reactor that I put the reef nutrition food in. I add it twice a day, mixed with some salt water, so it's 15ml of each per 12 hours. So far, I haven't noticed a problem with the food degrading. I have an aquamedic doser that is adjustable by time. It's not quite a true constant drip, but the doser goes on for a few seconds every five minutes, so it's pretty constant.

 

[stunreefer]

Assuming you can keep nutrients at bay with the additional food there is no problem...

Check out Daniella Stettlers awesome reef: http://www.korallenriff.de/Sindelfingen2005/daniela_torsten_2005.pdf

 

[Trichome]

my 120g display tank is a true mixed reef if there ever was one. I try my best to add as much diversity to my tank as i can, including non-photosynthetic coral. I keep softies, SPS, LPS....., but the non-photosynthetic coral i keep includes:

1) 3 different types of sun coral
2) 2 different types of dendro
3) Caribbean white cup coral
4) chili coral (1 year and going strong)

I feed them several different foods. My favorite it the 5-50 micron Golden Pearls. It is great for spot feeding my chili, SPS and any filter feeders in the tank. I also use my homemade food and cyclopeze flake food. With good spot feeding yo can keep your tank a little bit cleaner than trying to use broadcast foods. \

Also i don't know why but my new kick is to have a bunch of small clean-up crew snails and such to clean up any foods left behind.

 

[Trichome]

Non-photo in mixed tank

Non-photo in mixed tank

I have been thinking about this thread a bit and i also feel you should have really good flow in your tank. I have a 120g tank with a Reeflow Barracuda and a mag 9.5 on it, which combined equals about 5000gph. There is about i guess 100g of water which makes my water turnover 50 times per hour. There really are not many dead spots with this much flow which helps me keep my food suspended in the water column longer.

 

[Tony Romano]

I have new Chili, going on 9 days. Opened a little on 3 night, seems to be closed tighter now. Time to move it? I suspect the flow is passing just in front of it.