Aquabacs' 50 Gallon Azooxanthellae Tank build

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A picture of Allogalathea elegans peaking out from one of my Crinoids.

Mike

 

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[spy_i]

awesome tank... I'm poisoned to get meself a feather star. What are you feeding them? and how often?

TIA

 

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Feeding regime goes as this:

Daily
Using a fishmate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, Fauna Marin Ultra Seafan, Fauna Marin Ultra Clam, Fauna Marin Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is fed 4x a day, each time over a 2 hour period, continuously 24/7.

Daily 7am
FM UltraMin D and FM UltraMin S

Daily
Reef Nutrition Rotifeast at 6:30am and 6pm dosed manually
Reef Nutrition OysterFeast at 7am dosed manually
Reef Nutrition Shellfish Diet at 7pm dosed manually

Daily at 6pm
frozen mysis shrimp

Daily at 8pm
frozen cyclop-eeze

Feather stars love Ultra min F! I mix in 1/2 a cup of tank water: an 1/8th of a teaspoon of Ultra Min F, frozen cyclop-eeze, 1ml of Reef Nutrition OysterFeast. Then I dose the feather stars directly using a Kent Sea Squirt.

Mike

 

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It might not be pretty but I finally got a "good" picture of the feeders on my Distichopora.

Mike

 

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[ming]

VERY nice tank! Diligent on the feedings!

 

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Thanks! Diligent is not even the word but I enjoy doing it It is not the type of tank or reefkeeping for everyone.

Mike

 

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[tomtoothdoc]

hi,

beautiful tank. i can't believe i didn't see this thread until now.

perhaps you can help me identify these. i received them in a trade as pink dendro's around aug. of 2009. they have not changed in size one bit ...they'll feed on almost any kind of food offered, marine snow/reef snow, mysis shrimp, chromamax, cyclop-eeze, even pellets that fell on top.
any tips/suggestions?

thanks, tom

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/identification/69917-pink-dendros.html


these pics. were taken around dec.'09???

below pic. taken 4-29-2010....after feeding.....no growth since aug./sept. 2009

 

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feeders on my blue Distichopora

 

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[scarf_ace1981]

that's quite the feeding regime. had to look up Allogalathea elegans to see what you were talking about. cool little creature

 

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I have been tossing the idea around of automating the liquid feeding. This would require the liquid foods to be refrigerated also. I saw an amazing set-up on how Steve Weast feeds his coldwater system. This made me really start to think.

So right now I am looking at controllers, either an APEX or RKE. Both could easily handle my needs.