Aquabacs' Cadlights Artisan 50 Azooxanthellae Tank build

[Matt_Wandell]

I can't seem to find H20 Life Reef Caviar online.

Me neither...anyone?

 

[GreshamH]

What kind of packages are you opening?

The ones in that picture look pretty damn ripe, the females with the hard eggs are usually pretty skinny. But yeah, when you get an unripe female they are basically useless unless you want to feed it out as one clump.

3 different "brands" one of which is the same one you pictured. I've done a lot of reading on the harvesting of them and have spoken to numerous "producers" in my quest. They all told me what I've found, actual egg mass & ripeness depend on when it was harvested. Some harvest too soon and then you get more of a roe sack then loose eggs.

 

[GreshamH]

Me neither...anyone?

I can't even find it on their webpage...

http://www.h2olifefoods.com/

 

[flying_dutchman]

I've done a lot of reading on the harvesting of them and have spoken to numerous "producers" in my quest.

Does that mean a new product is coming out soon?

 

[GreshamH]

Does that mean a new product is coming out soon?

Keep reading Glass Box Design to find out :lol:

Kidding aside, I can't comment on such things

 

[flying_dutchman]

What fish species's eggs are Rod's food's fish eggs? I picked up some recently and it simply says "fish eggs"

 

[flying_dutchman]

oops Double post. darn it

Does anyone know what kind of fish the eggs for Rod's Food fish eggs are from? I picked some up recently but the ingredients simply say "fish eggs"?
Maybe their capelin eggs too? I'll shoot them an email and update here.
BTW, sorry Mike we're getting thread is getting OT

 

[Matt_Wandell]

What fish species's eggs are Rod's food's fish eggs? I picked up some recently and it simply says "fish eggs"

So where are you purchasing them?

 

[flying_dutchman]

aquatic central

 

[Aquabacs]

For the H2O Life Reef Caviar I picked it up at Greenwich Aquaria. I believe Jason still has a few packages left. Now if I can harvest one tsp per fish and approximately five a package, time to see what they are going for over here at the market and how many cubes in a pack of Reef Caviar equal a tsp. Then include travel (gas) and prep time difference between the two products. Unfortunately this is one of my bad habits to over analyze things Also it is one of the many jobs I get paid to do daily for a living.

Mike

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[Aquabacs]

Don, this is for you...currently running 500 ml of the Warner pellets and nitrates have been holding between 2.5-5 on two separate Elos test kits prior to doing my bi-weekly water changes. I am sure it is most likely higher than that if they were tested on a more accurate method but they were maxing out the test kit before doing a water change.


Mike

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[slapshot]

Nice thanks Mike. I hope this will be the answer for the NO3 spikes. That has been my only challenge thus far. Seems like I have the Nitrates under control them they spike to 20/30. This sure dropped them fast. I have been out of town for the last 3 days so i will check them tonight.

 

[Aquabacs]

Keep us up to date on them The week of December 11, I plan to add an additional 250ml of pellets, bringing the pellet count up to 750ml on the 50, after that point a larger reactor will be needed. For phosphates is a different story, I have almost everything together to start dosing LC, just waiting on a shipment 5 micron filter socks.

Mike

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[slapshot]

I will you also. I must have missed that you were running them. I am going to add my last 1/4 tomorrow as my NO3 is steady at 7 and I really want it at 5 or below. I will then be at 1000.


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[Aquabacs]

No problem. The Warner version of pellets have been running since the beginning of September.

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[Aquabacs]

Picked up another 1000ml of the Warner Ecobak pellets today. Soaked 250ml in RO/DI water for two hours before adding it to the system. Total of 750ml of pellets is now running on the 50. After almost three hours the skimmer cup had been considerably more full than usual (2/3 of the way up on the cup) so I drained it and I will be staying up late this evening to keep an eye on it to make sure it does not over flow.

Now what is going to be interesting is how many ml's of pellets could be used/needed on a heavily fed azoox aquarium versus a minimally fed stick forest. Will there be a limit? Can they actually keep phosphates in check in this type of tank by themselves? Time will tell.


Mike

 

[flying_dutchman]

darn I think I need to get some more pellets for my azoox tank...
So that is 2L on 50 gallon?

 

[Aquabacs]

Joost there are 1000ml in a liter so right now, it is under a liter (750ml) that I have running on the 50. Potentially, I have an additional 750ml that I can use before buying more pellets. At that point a larger reactor will need to be purchased.

Mike

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[flying_dutchman]

I guess I meant, that will be 2L on a 50 gallon tank? but you pretty much answered my question anyways.

there are 1000ml in a liter

I'm European, so I know

 

[Aquabacs]

Well, I have no doubt that the Warner pellets can effectively control nitrates I normally do 2 water changes a week (wednesday and saturday), this week I held out to Sunday to do a water change. After 7 days the nitrates were less than 1 on two different test kits. So I can safely say for the last 7 days they were able to control nitrates by themselves in a heavily fed azoox tank. With water changes, the testing is not reading on my test kits. For phosphates, to keep them under 1, it is taking 1 cup of HC GFO from Bulk Reef Supply every 5 days.


Mike