theyammieguy
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Ahh, ok.
Aquabacs' Cadlights Artisan 50 Azooxanthellae Tank build
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Aquabacs
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A picture of one of my feather starfish with his squat lobster. I love Azoo corals but I want to focus on my collection of feather starfish. I would like to see the aquarium evolve into a feather starfish biotope. I have seen beautiful dive photos with non-photosynthetic gorgonians covered in groups feather starfish and would like to create that vision.
Mike
I have been keeping a feather star for a couple of weeks now.
Aquabacs
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Thanks. The black one is 2 years old and I have a smaller green one for about a year. I found that the black, green or yellow crinoids do best in captivity. I had a red one for about 6 month's and I found it dead when I came home for work, I have no idea why.
Great article on crinoids
http://www.coralscience.org/main/articles/development-5/feather-stars
Mike
Great article on crinoids
http://www.coralscience.org/main/articles/development-5/feather-stars
Mike
Aquabacs
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I feed same food mix as my gorgs.
Daily
Using a fishmate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, Ultra Seafan, Ultra Clam, Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is feed 4x a day, over a 2 hour period of time.
Daily 7am
FM UltraMin D and FM UltraMin S
Daily
Reef Nutrition ArticPods at 6:30am and 6pm dosed manually
Reef Nutrition OysterFeast at 7am dosed manually
Reef Nutrition Shellfish Diet at 7pm dosed manually
Daily at 6pm
frozen mysis shrimp
Daily at 8pm
frozen cyclops
Feather stars love Ultra min F! I mix in 1/2 a cup of tank water: an 1/8th of a teaspoon of Ultra Min F, one cube of red cyclops, 1ml of Reef Nutrition OysterFeast. Then I dose the feather stars directly using a Kent Sea Squirt.
Mike
Daily
Using a fishmate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, Ultra Seafan, Ultra Clam, Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is feed 4x a day, over a 2 hour period of time.
Daily 7am
FM UltraMin D and FM UltraMin S
Daily
Reef Nutrition ArticPods at 6:30am and 6pm dosed manually
Reef Nutrition OysterFeast at 7am dosed manually
Reef Nutrition Shellfish Diet at 7pm dosed manually
Daily at 6pm
frozen mysis shrimp
Daily at 8pm
frozen cyclops
Feather stars love Ultra min F! I mix in 1/2 a cup of tank water: an 1/8th of a teaspoon of Ultra Min F, one cube of red cyclops, 1ml of Reef Nutrition OysterFeast. Then I dose the feather stars directly using a Kent Sea Squirt.
Mike
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Awesome upgrade Mike congrats! :thumbsup:
Aquabacs
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Most of the plumbing is complete (minus the clamps on the return pump line) on the sump & waiting 24 hours before I run water through the system.
Additional items to be added to the sump: mj powerhead to help detritus from settling in the sump and mesh bag to run carbon passively in the center chamber in sump.
Mike
SawdustInTank
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Nice scaping............
es1887
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Today just working on soaking my Aquaroche sculpture in R.O. water and changed out my filters in my RO system.
Took two quick pictures of two of my gorgonians that will be transferred to the 50 Artisan.
Mike
tanks looks awesome, and i cannot wait to see more pics of the corals. i cannot help this though. that looks like a neon tetra in background.:worried: what kind of fish is it?
Aquabacs
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Thank you. The fish is an Apogon parvulus. I have a few of them in my 24 and they will be transferred over to this tank. I guess they do sort of look like a neon tetra, never thought of them that way.
@SawdustInTank Thanks. For the aquascaping, there will be a few gorgonians hung upside down from the overhang. Lighting in the tank will remain how it is currently set up. I believe lighting is often overlooked when scaping a aquarium. With limiting the lights used you can create visual drama in the aquarium by creating focal points and shadows.
Mike
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Well done sir, very well done :thumbsup:
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