gogo7
pico reefer
Gogo, I wish you luck. But....I'll have to pass on living close to you, Canada is too cold for me! You could move to the US, and have Algagen pods a plenty though...Kiz and I live relatively close together (Arkansas, and Tennesee, it's like a day's car drive at most). Come to the South, we have fried chicken .
I was rereading an old thread, and saw something about adding iodine daily to replicate sea concentrations of iodine. Perhaps something to consider? What's your salt mix by the way? Trace element levels?
Or...maybe the eggs aren't healthy in some way? Maybe try evaluating the nutrition you're giving the fish again to see if there is something you're missing?
Hmm...let's take this from the bottom, shall we? Starting with adult nutrition, moving to eggs, and finally larvae(since this is the end stage)?
Oh...and I'll have to decline on the larvae. As an incoming freshman in college, I won't have enough time to balance raising live foods and college life together. I'm going to try and get a pair before the end of this summer, leave for college, and start my own project the summer before junior or senior year probably...
hey congrats to you my friend. get a good education... lest you end up like me....no, just kidding... i live a good life here in southern ontario.... putting up with winter and the silly politicians is the price you pay for national healthcare. we're experiencing a bit of a heatwave at the moment... nothing like florida hot...i love florida... been quite a few times..but that's as far south as i went, volusia county.
i've paid for algagen pods at my lfs. tangerines. my wife gave me pocket money to spend at the store. two twentys... when i got to the cash, i laughed at myself. i can't remember exactly how much, but i definitely didn't have the cash...( one thing to remember ichy, save your cash, at your age, 10%. take it from a guy my age.)
i ended up getting the smallest pouch. twenty odd dollars. i'm still struggling to keep a couple of cultures alive. their calanoid pods are expensive here. i've got harps out the whazoo. i could sell em.
i'm feeding the adults mostly live food and the female eats salmon/shrimp pellets daily. i presoak the pellets in live phyto before hand. i hand feed my linckia starfish, and she eats most of what the star drops.
i culture and feed the display live brine cultured in live phytos, nanno, duna and tetra. rotis, ciliates and harp copepods. everything is air driven and i don't own a test kit yet......oh boy.
i also read about iodine supplementation. i've been using instant ocean 'reef accelerator to put in my fw top off. i think it has iodine in it.
i use instant ocean and do daily water changes on my display.
i recycle old tankwater, but carefully and filter it. i haven't had a hydroid outbreak in quite a while.
i've got the new gobie larvae in new setups i'll post the pics late of what i've got most of them in. the ciliate and rotifer counts are high. i cut back on the phyto.
i love fried chicken too....