SPS Question????
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fishysteve
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rapid tissue necrosis
Frick-n-Frags
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they have been stressed to the point that it finally caves in like a house of cards and dies fast. actually, you can usually see it coming if you are used to looking at your acros very closely.
they look bad on a macro level, then next day: flesh all gone.
also, it takes some corals months to die because they hate their environment. but they are dying the whole time, then you just see the very visual final cash out.
It sort of sucks that the only way to gain certain insight is to go through losing corals in various ways. IMO, many starve.
they look bad on a macro level, then next day: flesh all gone.
also, it takes some corals months to die because they hate their environment. but they are dying the whole time, then you just see the very visual final cash out.
It sort of sucks that the only way to gain certain insight is to go through losing corals in various ways. IMO, many starve.
Frick-n-Frags
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'raises hand"............
walking that blinkety blink tightrope of corals starving vs algae blooming your tank.
walking that blinkety blink tightrope of corals starving vs algae blooming your tank.
arts007
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I have a 40 gallon long tank, with 3 fish...mated pair of pink skunks and a diamond goby of which I feed 4 times a week. But I heavily feed my "SPS" a mixture of rotifers, cyclopleeze, baby brine and a concoction of amino acids and bacteria everyday. Since doing this I have had great coloration, brown out colors that were introduced took on great color. In the past I was getting corals that would pale out or would get STN but havent had that for quite sometime, not to say that it cant or wont happen, just having better success with this method.
SPS polyps cannot capture larger(>50 microns) particles of food.
You are basically feeding bacteria and introducing organic biomolecules for the polyps to capture.
You should read the thread Italian Blue Coral Method-pappone.
Things like Golden Pearls, Reef Chili have particles <50 microns and will be directly captured by SPS polyps.
You should feed at night once a week with no algae bloom, and work your way up to twice a week if possible--but not necessary.
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c1/GP-Diets-c11.html
You are basically feeding bacteria and introducing organic biomolecules for the polyps to capture.
You should read the thread Italian Blue Coral Method-pappone.
Things like Golden Pearls, Reef Chili have particles <50 microns and will be directly captured by SPS polyps.
You should feed at night once a week with no algae bloom, and work your way up to twice a week if possible--but not necessary.
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c1/GP-Diets-c11.html
cd77
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I'm planning on going SPS with my 70G -- would 15-20 tangs be sufficient to generate the required amount of poop?
Seriously though.. if SPS tanks thrive in overstocked tanks, I would assume that people are using some heavy duty nutrient export, or does a tank packed full of SPS consume most of it? Just curious..
SPS don't thrive in overstocked tanks.
It's more like well filtered/skimmed tanks were SPS are not getting the nutrients they need can often benefit by the addition of more livestock that requires input of food. Still a really too oversimplified way of looking at it though, IMO.
Though I have to say I personally have not seen the correlation of light and/or starved corals and RTN.
Frick-n-Frags
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Who has tried oyster eggs ????? those sound perfect as coral food.
I'm thinking of adding some of those to the arsenal.
I'm thinking of adding some of those to the arsenal.
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