Update on my nano system for sun corals.
Photo when they are open:
1. Chopped seafood is out of question, only washed whole organisms, like mysis and Pacific plankton.
2. Daily feeds by 3 cubes are handled well, unlike 7 cubes twice a week (I also can imagine explanation, thanks).
3. Feeding larger amounts of food or larger share of large pieces, like Pacific plankton, results ammonia spike. Vacuuming regurgitated pieces in the middle of the night helps, but is inconvenient.
4. Even if rock and biomedia for this tank were taken from established NPS tank, and gradual increasing of the amount of food was used, adding additional bacterial cultures normalized situation with ammonia spikes within hours after feeding. Could be that some of these spikes killed significant part of bacterial population. I used Big Al's multi-purpose bacterial support an Seachem's Stability.
5. Large bag of phosphate remover is necessary. If small, then maybe weekly change.
6. Within 2 weeks NO3 rises to 40 ppm, massive water changes to reduce them is required. I'm using mostly 0 NO3, 0 PO4 water from another tank, with addition of new water, which has too high alkalinity.
Finally it works.
Post your results, I'm curious.
Photo when they are open:
1. Chopped seafood is out of question, only washed whole organisms, like mysis and Pacific plankton.
2. Daily feeds by 3 cubes are handled well, unlike 7 cubes twice a week (I also can imagine explanation, thanks).
3. Feeding larger amounts of food or larger share of large pieces, like Pacific plankton, results ammonia spike. Vacuuming regurgitated pieces in the middle of the night helps, but is inconvenient.
4. Even if rock and biomedia for this tank were taken from established NPS tank, and gradual increasing of the amount of food was used, adding additional bacterial cultures normalized situation with ammonia spikes within hours after feeding. Could be that some of these spikes killed significant part of bacterial population. I used Big Al's multi-purpose bacterial support an Seachem's Stability.
5. Large bag of phosphate remover is necessary. If small, then maybe weekly change.
6. Within 2 weeks NO3 rises to 40 ppm, massive water changes to reduce them is required. I'm using mostly 0 NO3, 0 PO4 water from another tank, with addition of new water, which has too high alkalinity.
Finally it works.
Post your results, I'm curious.