Basile
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I feed twice and i dose 3 times.
I feed for the fist time around 10;00 and dose the first time ; i stop my return i don't need my food to go in my filter sock or be picked up by the skimmer. I restart in about 45 min the return pump.
The skimmer is ON from 04;00 to 16;00
I feed at 18;00 and dose the second time; skimmer closed, return stopped no need to feed my socks again.
I dose the last around 21;00 for the night crawlers , NPS, crinoides and such. all pump running this time the refugium getting some as well.
My parameter are ok, nitrates are good at 10ppm i can go 25, the macro loves that i have to fertilise sometimes, i almost lost the macro tank 4 months ago. Not enough food for them.
Same with the phosphates. 0.3 to 0.7 is fine, no ill effect on corals or inverts or the rest of the tank. I stoppe my GFO 4 month ago , 2 month completely.
My tank has some wonderfull microbidiversity in the sand principally. It moves at night. I don't touche it other than moving thing around sometimes, lol. For that i get a huge amount of little clams, and these
A Cirratulid worm, the tank is full of them. Detritus eaters they also provide food for some fish and other inverts. I'm glad to have a picture of this guy, i guess their was no more room lol .
In fact the sand is so alive with bacteria and critters that i almost lost a gorgonian to it, because i let it lay on its back too long and they ate its skin off to the core. Thats how efficient the substrate has become. So i can imagine that any poo or debris in there don't last very long lol. I red in a few article to leave some decay to feed the bacterian population or they'll diminish and their action will be reduced, it was interesting to read.
Decay bacteria are according to the magazine are not the same as are tank one we go for ordinairely, they're part of another group. I'm no expert and the article was too advance for me lol but it was talking about big system like seaworlds and other aquariums where they had all these mysterious deaths at one point, and the article was very interesting.
I write big for my iphone friends.
I feed for the fist time around 10;00 and dose the first time ; i stop my return i don't need my food to go in my filter sock or be picked up by the skimmer. I restart in about 45 min the return pump.
The skimmer is ON from 04;00 to 16;00
I feed at 18;00 and dose the second time; skimmer closed, return stopped no need to feed my socks again.
I dose the last around 21;00 for the night crawlers , NPS, crinoides and such. all pump running this time the refugium getting some as well.
My parameter are ok, nitrates are good at 10ppm i can go 25, the macro loves that i have to fertilise sometimes, i almost lost the macro tank 4 months ago. Not enough food for them.
Same with the phosphates. 0.3 to 0.7 is fine, no ill effect on corals or inverts or the rest of the tank. I stoppe my GFO 4 month ago , 2 month completely.
My tank has some wonderfull microbidiversity in the sand principally. It moves at night. I don't touche it other than moving thing around sometimes, lol. For that i get a huge amount of little clams, and these
A Cirratulid worm, the tank is full of them. Detritus eaters they also provide food for some fish and other inverts. I'm glad to have a picture of this guy, i guess their was no more room lol .
In fact the sand is so alive with bacteria and critters that i almost lost a gorgonian to it, because i let it lay on its back too long and they ate its skin off to the core. Thats how efficient the substrate has become. So i can imagine that any poo or debris in there don't last very long lol. I red in a few article to leave some decay to feed the bacterian population or they'll diminish and their action will be reduced, it was interesting to read.
Decay bacteria are according to the magazine are not the same as are tank one we go for ordinairely, they're part of another group. I'm no expert and the article was too advance for me lol but it was talking about big system like seaworlds and other aquariums where they had all these mysterious deaths at one point, and the article was very interesting.
I write big for my iphone friends.