I have a few small carnation corals. I have food for them, it's just that I don't know the exact flow required for them to open their polyps. they are in their own "non-phytosynthetic" tank and I keep a constant direction with the flow to imitate a reef wall. How fast, or slow do they have to have it (cm or in/sec.)?
Carnation coral flow requirements
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Dani Arnanz
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What food have you for them??
I´m very interesting on non-photosynthetic tanks, could you talk a little about it? Do you have pics?
Thanks
I´m very interesting on non-photosynthetic tanks, could you talk a little about it? Do you have pics?
Thanks
ahullsb
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I'm learning too, but I was told to feed phyto daily along with other types of food. Leena knows more than I do I'm sure.
Here's mine. It seems to like the area I have placed it in and has adjusted it's position a little bit over the past two days.
<img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j94/ahullsb/aquarium/IMG_7164.jpg">
Here's mine. It seems to like the area I have placed it in and has adjusted it's position a little bit over the past two days.
<img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j94/ahullsb/aquarium/IMG_7164.jpg">
Thats really pretty. I think my luck has just been that my coral was so small when I got it that it's not been so difficult to get enough food to it.
My ggalleryhas a picture of the tank before the carnation - skimmerless, liverock and sand for filtration. When the carnation came we broke down a lot of the rock so we could get better flow to and around that coral.
With live phyto fed daily the coral wasn't crashing, but I was seeing a reduction in size over time. I happened to move a coral that I was heavily feeding squid near it and saw the polyps expand, so I started feeding the tank and the coral with squid juice, enriched rotifers and just about blended anything.
I don't even want to go there with what happened to the water quality until this got (is still getting) stabilized, but the coral stopped dropping off fragments and started getting more girth to it.
If anyone finds more info or an article that isn't in the dendro thread I would love to know about it.
Thanks!
My ggalleryhas a picture of the tank before the carnation - skimmerless, liverock and sand for filtration. When the carnation came we broke down a lot of the rock so we could get better flow to and around that coral.
With live phyto fed daily the coral wasn't crashing, but I was seeing a reduction in size over time. I happened to move a coral that I was heavily feeding squid near it and saw the polyps expand, so I started feeding the tank and the coral with squid juice, enriched rotifers and just about blended anything.
I don't even want to go there with what happened to the water quality until this got (is still getting) stabilized, but the coral stopped dropping off fragments and started getting more girth to it.
If anyone finds more info or an article that isn't in the dendro thread I would love to know about it.
Thanks!
I get packages of sea food, let it thaw while soaking in selco, and blend it to have small enough chunks to feed fish, sun corals, anemones, etc. The "juice" is just the left over stuff that that usually gets strained out before dropping food into the tank...and thinking of dropping that into a tank is enough to send anyone not trying to keep a dendro run screaming. If I didn't have the pink guy, I wouldn't do it.
I also feed phyto and mysis
I also feed phyto and mysis
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