I have 3 big LPS corals - scolymia, cynarina, multimouthed welsophyllia, and the new small - 2 probably favites and 2 trachyphillia. In the same tank is LR (the smooth kind), blood shrimp and a few astrea snails.
What I'm doing not right?:
All, except cynarina, are not using feeding tentacles to keep the food. I have to turn off flow, place food onto the mouthes (a lot of them, some on vertical surfaces - mysis slides off), and wait until mouthes will keep them secure enough to turn on flow again.
Not all is eaten, some mysis floats in the tank and, I suspect, accumulates between the LR, plus dissolved particles, that can't be caught by filter. Water quality is dropping quickly - in a few days. Film on the surface, red slime. No ammonia or nitrites - so bioload is bearable. Filtration is power filter with carbon and daily changed filter floss.
What kind of clean-up crew could help?
Skimmer should definitely help with dissolved matter and a fine particles. I have a Lee's CC skimmer somewhere, can add to this setup, but this tank is in sleeping area and a skimmer is noisy.
Are there any other practices of feeding, less polluting?
Generally speaking, what can I do better?
Thanks.
What I'm doing not right?:
All, except cynarina, are not using feeding tentacles to keep the food. I have to turn off flow, place food onto the mouthes (a lot of them, some on vertical surfaces - mysis slides off), and wait until mouthes will keep them secure enough to turn on flow again.
Not all is eaten, some mysis floats in the tank and, I suspect, accumulates between the LR, plus dissolved particles, that can't be caught by filter. Water quality is dropping quickly - in a few days. Film on the surface, red slime. No ammonia or nitrites - so bioload is bearable. Filtration is power filter with carbon and daily changed filter floss.
What kind of clean-up crew could help?
Skimmer should definitely help with dissolved matter and a fine particles. I have a Lee's CC skimmer somewhere, can add to this setup, but this tank is in sleeping area and a skimmer is noisy.
Are there any other practices of feeding, less polluting?
Generally speaking, what can I do better?
Thanks.
