Bring aiptasia to April meeting

[zeroinverse]

I am serious. Since I am growing berghias, I want to stock up on aiptasia now. My juveniles are still very juvenile, but I want to stock up as much as possible so when they get to adults, I will have more than enough.

So preferably just aiptasia without rock is easiest.

On that note, I will try to bring some berghia babies to show people what they look like.

 

[thysrof]

I will bring some. I've got quite a few that aren't attached to rocks and I assume they will survive being pulled off the sand and sides.

 

[zeroinverse]

In case people are curious about my "aiptasia growing setup"

Glass jars with a RED LED array on bottom to provide light source. An air hole for oxygen/CO2 passive exchange and I feed it freeze-dried cyclopeze.

Two 10 gallon aiptasia growout tanks (with eggcrate) to give them more surface area to attach to.

 

[Reef Bass]

Very creative Ron, nice job. I like the eggcrate substrate surface area thing. I'd be tempted to punch another hole in each lid for a bit more ventilation.

What was your reasoning for choosing red leds?

 

[zeroinverse]

Red LEDs because I bought it relatively cheap from fellow reefer and I figured maybe experiment to see if more or less growth with red light.

 

[Reef Bass]

Just as an fyi, in the talk Dana Riddle gave about light and coral color, he mentioned that the one led color under which his test acros didn't do well was red. He felt that red supplementation was at least unnecessary if not possibly possibly detrimental. He felt there was enough red in white light to satisfy any possible demand for red, and showed pictures of test subject corals not doing well under predominantely red led light.

Now that was with coral and not anemones, but they do both have zooxanthellae. So if you see reduced growth, maybe that is what could be at work.

 

[zeroinverse]

True, I was thinking since red light does not penetrate very deep into water... I thought it might be good for an ATS which is shallow water algae...

Since I don't have a ATS built yet... I thought I'd use the light for aiptasia as an excitement.

But you are right about the red will hinder "plant" growth.

 

[zeroinverse]

For those that bring me some aiptasia, I will have a mini-raffle to bring a 4-6 baby berghias for "hobby enjoyment"

Entry fee: at least 10 decent sized aiptasia.

Please be willing to care for them to enter raffle - you can still bring me your aiptasia though.

CARE
You will need to keep them in a separate container and feed it aiptasia (preferably not damaged or the aiptasia may die and foul the water). Use scraper to scrape aiptasia off glass. Keep it intact.

Please post here so I know who plan to enter. . Hopefully by next meeting after April, I will have juveniles for actual sale.

 

[INOKEA]

I'll get you some off my sand, not sure how many but a few for sure

 

[thysrof]

Im in