How much can fish eat?
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pledosophy
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I feed about 2 cubes of food a day to my 120g and I only have 5 fish. Plus the phyto, reef roids, ammino's etc for the corals. And Nori for the fish.
I would think you need to feed much more meaty foods.
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karimwassef
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I don't measure since my kits don't register anything.
I have an ATS that grows very quickly so the phosphates and nitrates are getting bound up in their tissues. I export 123g of squeezed out turf a month. I'm feeding about 120-150g of nori in the same period. It looks like the nori I feed, but reconstituted...
I also export chaeto and the effluent from my skimmer is about 2 quarts a day of liquid. I haven't weighed the solid waste from the skimmer. Looks like I should... To get a complete measure of ins/outs. It is ... hard ... to get myself to remove it for weighing. Usually I just blast it with scorching hot water to get the job done ASAP.
I have an ATS that grows very quickly so the phosphates and nitrates are getting bound up in their tissues. I export 123g of squeezed out turf a month. I'm feeding about 120-150g of nori in the same period. It looks like the nori I feed, but reconstituted...
I also export chaeto and the effluent from my skimmer is about 2 quarts a day of liquid. I haven't weighed the solid waste from the skimmer. Looks like I should... To get a complete measure of ins/outs. It is ... hard ... to get myself to remove it for weighing. Usually I just blast it with scorching hot water to get the job done ASAP.
karimwassef
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I thought of that, but they prefer the Nori. They'll only eat the hair algae if I let them go for a day without Nori.
I think I'll try it since the hair comes out in sheets that I can put in the Nori holder... just hairier.
I think I'll try it since the hair comes out in sheets that I can put in the Nori holder... just hairier.
karimwassef
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In theory, it can be a closed system, but controlled so the algae doesn't bother my coral.
BigBlueTang
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It's not really removing the nutrients then is it if he's adding the hair algae back to the fish?
ATS is supposed to be a nutrient exporter, much like a protein skimmer. You don't see too many people dumping their skimmate back into their tanks.. And I doubt his tangs would eat it.
karimwassef
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It's like a closed formula
Protein Food + Nori = Import
Algae + Chaeto + wet skimmate + dry skimmate = Export
There's also
Evaporation Out + ATO in for water
Coral Skeleton "Out" and Ca+Alk+Mg in for mineral buid
Along with the various gas loops.
I'm going to weigh all my food and waste. In theory, Food > Waste for growth.
It's like any pet.. it eats and poops. In this case, the algae is part of the "out". The point is to use the food for energy and for material to build new tissue as the old wears out and needs to be replaced.
I think the Nori has better nutrient content than the algae. But the algae is fresh and full of pods... I really don't know.
Protein Food + Nori = Import
Algae + Chaeto + wet skimmate + dry skimmate = Export
There's also
Evaporation Out + ATO in for water
Coral Skeleton "Out" and Ca+Alk+Mg in for mineral buid
Along with the various gas loops.
I'm going to weigh all my food and waste. In theory, Food > Waste for growth.
It's like any pet.. it eats and poops. In this case, the algae is part of the "out". The point is to use the food for energy and for material to build new tissue as the old wears out and needs to be replaced.
I think the Nori has better nutrient content than the algae. But the algae is fresh and full of pods... I really don't know.
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