Aquabacs' Cadlights Artisan 50 Azooxanthellae Tank build

[Aquabacs]

Marty what foods do you have access to?

Please keep in mind that feeding is only one component in keeping them alive.

Mike

 

[martinphillip03]

Just about anything. I saw them, thought of you, toyed with the idea. Probably wont do it. And too lazy yesterday to research. So I thought I would ask you. I have a 120 gal tank, 60 gal fuge, 45 gal sump.

Marty

Marty what foods do you have access to?

Please keep in mind that feeding is only one component in keeping them alive.

Mike

 

[Aquabacs]

Latest feeding regime is:

Daily
Using a fish mate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, Fauna Marin Ultra Sea fan, Fauna Marin Ultra Clam, Fauna Marin Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is fed 4x a day, each time over a 2 hour period, continuously 24/7.

Daily at 7am
Fauna Marin UltraMin D and Fauna Marin UltraMin S dosed manually to the aquarium

Daily
Reef Nutrition Rotifeast 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 Piscine Energetics or Hakari mysis shrimp defrosted in aquarium water and fed manually

Daily at 8pm
frozen Argent Cyclop-eeze defrosted in aquarium and fed manually

Feather stars seem to love Ultra min F! I mix in 1/2 a cup of aquarium water: a 1/8th of a teaspoon of Ultra Min F, frozen Argent Cyclop-eeze, 1ml of Reef Nutrition OysterFeast. Then I dose the feather stars directly using a Kent Sea Squirt.

Lightly stir sections of the gravel in my aquarium daily allowing detritus into the water column

A bag of Fauna Marin Ultralith stones in located in the last chamber of the sump. The bag is shaken and I let the detritus flow into the main display.

As I continue with making my automated liquid feeder the dosing of the Reef Nutrition foods will be more distributed through out the day.


Mike

 

[martinphillip03]

Mike, thanks, no feather stars for me

Marty

 

[Aquabacs]

Marty, no problem, sorry to hear you didn't join the club.

Mike

 

[martinphillip03]

It is a nice club

 

[Aquabacs]

So what colors did they have?

 

[martinphillip03]

Its a large fish store named Aqua Hut. Black only, I believe. But I am going there now and I will check. Plus I copied how you take care of the starfish and I am going to give it to them

Marty

So what colors did they have?

 

[Aquabacs]

Marty, my article on crinoids should be out next week (first week of June). I will post up the link when it is ready. Randy is working his magic on MR. I can wait to see the final product.



Mike

 

[martinphillip03]

Mike thanks. All the feather stars were sold

 

[Aquabacs]

It wasn't me, I swear

 

[oldreefer76]

It wasn't me, I swear

:lol2::dance:

 

[martinphillip03]

How is your deepwater Hawaii fish consignment doing?

Marty

 

[Aquabacs]

Still searching. I am not sure if I want to spend that much coin to bring in the fish I want. I did come across a certain angel that Austin has, in beautiful shape, available locally and also from Hawaii

Mike

 

[stunreefer]

I did come across a certain angel that Austin has, in beautiful shape, available locally and also from Hawaii

They're a horrbile animal, decimate coral and are awfully mean!

Now... send me all the info of the store, the price and some pics if you would be so kind

 

[Aquabacs]

PM sent Austin

Running into issues with obtaining the refrigerator I wanted to pick up. It is back-ordered again, this time from a different vendor (still on back order from the original vendor I ordered it from too). I am going after work to pick up a 1.7 cu.ft. freezerless refrigerator. This will be more than adequate for what I need it for maybe even large enough to run a second BM 4 pump slave doser as well.

 

[Aquabacs]

Back in with the refrigerator. Picked up a black Avanti 1.7 cu.ft. refrigerator. Plugged it in and seeing how low it will hold the temperature down to. If everthing goes well, I can work on the plumbing and drill it out.

Mike

 

[GreshamH]

Glass front or solid door?

 

[Aquabacs]

Solid.

It is holding at 32 degrees on medium.

Mike

 

[Aquabacs]

Here is the basic refrigerator and doser to see how much room I am working with. Plenty of room to add the second doser if I need to. Also enough room to add magnetic stirrers if needed The water pass through would be set up like Steve's.


Mike