Hi Carl:
I say rearrange with a bit of tongue in cheek for there is not massive rearrangement very often, and if you look at my tanks, its obvious they are pretty much set in place simply by the growth of the corals. I'll email you a recent photo. But, there are maybe once a year or so big rearrangements. simply due the size the corals become with resultant brakage. I think your way is probably better, but I can never bear to get rid of any of my live rock because it is too pretty and has too much life on it.
Another thing - although my tanks have changed and many others have been set up over the years and also disappeared, and I have experimented a lot, my main system is more or less a result of your teachings. It was successful in 1992 and continues to be so today and I try not to mess with the basic success, just tweaking, modifying, and expounding bit by bit, as I am sure you have done, too. I almost never fragment out of my big tank unless theintegrity of other corals is being compromised, mainly because I likebig sexual mture colonies...now I want regular spawning and that is the next major goal for me.
By the way, I was cleaning out a drawer this morning and found an old folder that is directly relevant to this thread. IT was written on an old dot matrix printer, so I know is is old. But, check this out...I quote
"Eric,
Dick Perring offered this recipe, saying some corals absolutely need to be fed - i.e. Favia spp., which go into recession if they aren't fed in his tanks. This seems to be a great thing to add to the feeding chapter.
Would you call Dick and confirm this recipe and see if we can provide a bit more guidance on quantities, types of fish roe, etc.?
Dick Perrin, prioneer coral farmer and founder of Tropicorium in Romulus Michigan uses and recommends this formula as an all-purpose food for corals
Table shrimp
Fish roe
Egg yolk, boiled and mashed
Liquid Multi-Vitamins
Vitamin B12 (crushed tablet)
Reef Plus (SeaChem)
Perrin recommends blending or shredding with the shrimp, then mixing in the other ingredinets with a small amount of clean artifical seawater. The coral chow can then be fed immediaely, using apoultry baster to direct the mixture to the individual corals. It can also be frozen in cubes in plastic ice cube trays for future use. Perrin believes the Reef Plus supplement (vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids) makes the food more palatable to corals, triggering a feeding response.
This is, of course, a version of my coral food with the addition in my food of a more diverse group of foods, including newer and better products, and the Selcon being the better substitute of Reef Plus. I will repost this part in the coral feeding thread, too.
Interesting, isn't it?
I say rearrange with a bit of tongue in cheek for there is not massive rearrangement very often, and if you look at my tanks, its obvious they are pretty much set in place simply by the growth of the corals. I'll email you a recent photo. But, there are maybe once a year or so big rearrangements. simply due the size the corals become with resultant brakage. I think your way is probably better, but I can never bear to get rid of any of my live rock because it is too pretty and has too much life on it.
Another thing - although my tanks have changed and many others have been set up over the years and also disappeared, and I have experimented a lot, my main system is more or less a result of your teachings. It was successful in 1992 and continues to be so today and I try not to mess with the basic success, just tweaking, modifying, and expounding bit by bit, as I am sure you have done, too. I almost never fragment out of my big tank unless theintegrity of other corals is being compromised, mainly because I likebig sexual mture colonies...now I want regular spawning and that is the next major goal for me.
By the way, I was cleaning out a drawer this morning and found an old folder that is directly relevant to this thread. IT was written on an old dot matrix printer, so I know is is old. But, check this out...I quote
"Eric,
Dick Perring offered this recipe, saying some corals absolutely need to be fed - i.e. Favia spp., which go into recession if they aren't fed in his tanks. This seems to be a great thing to add to the feeding chapter.
Would you call Dick and confirm this recipe and see if we can provide a bit more guidance on quantities, types of fish roe, etc.?
Dick Perrin, prioneer coral farmer and founder of Tropicorium in Romulus Michigan uses and recommends this formula as an all-purpose food for corals
Table shrimp
Fish roe
Egg yolk, boiled and mashed
Liquid Multi-Vitamins
Vitamin B12 (crushed tablet)
Reef Plus (SeaChem)
Perrin recommends blending or shredding with the shrimp, then mixing in the other ingredinets with a small amount of clean artifical seawater. The coral chow can then be fed immediaely, using apoultry baster to direct the mixture to the individual corals. It can also be frozen in cubes in plastic ice cube trays for future use. Perrin believes the Reef Plus supplement (vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids) makes the food more palatable to corals, triggering a feeding response.
This is, of course, a version of my coral food with the addition in my food of a more diverse group of foods, including newer and better products, and the Selcon being the better substitute of Reef Plus. I will repost this part in the coral feeding thread, too.
Interesting, isn't it?
