210g reef in NJ

[lcstorc]

Beautiful fish and clam. Best of luck on both.

[Woodstock]

Wow! Awesome mystery wrasse! Your new avatar rocks The clam is awesome too... nice stuff Billy!

[mps9506]

Ditto on the mystery wrasse. One of the fish I'm planning on getting at some point in the future. Looks great in your avatar.

[boozeman]

great new look billy
it was worth the wait...I will miss that huge LTA though.

[billyr98]

you can visit the LTA @ In Living Color, he resides there

[Craig Manoukian]

Cool beans for sure, Billy!

[billyr98]

thanks everyone... My next project on this tank is adding a sand bed to my sump/fuge area.. That will happen ASAP... I am also close to starting to dose Prodibio...

[Gina]

Great job Billy!
I like the cave in the middle. Does it exit out the back?
Great new additions with the fish also.

[blue_eyes53813]

Hey Billy... Can you post that recipe you put up in Chat the other night?

[jhnrb]

Good luck on your new wrasse. great pic. very nice indeed.

[billyr98]

here is the coral food recipe I have been using for 2 weeks via a Reefcentral link on SPS forum...

“Pappone” Recipe – Italian Coral Food (Updated 12/20/2006)

Materials:
5 Oysters
5 Mussels
5 Clams
5 Shrimp (NOT cocktail shrimp, the big scampi type w/o the head and the shell)
1 Tablespoon of Sugar
200 mL of RO/DI water
10 g of Red Algae (Palmaria palmata; Bisck uses Julian Sprung's brand)
and/or 10 g of Spirulina, 10 g of Nori (spirulina is what Bisck prefers)

Methods: Make SURE that all ingredients are the freshest possible and DO NOT use frozen foods (unless it is impossible for you). Make sure everything "live" is rinsed and cleaned before putting it into the blender. Put all the ingredients into the blender and blend for 5 min, wait 2 min for it to cool, 5 more min blending, 2 min of waiting again, then finally another 5 min of blending (the pausing is so that the solution doesn't get too hot and "cook" from the heat of the blender/blades). Pour into cube forms (approx 10 mL each). Then freeze it all—you want to minimize how long everything is at room temperature.

Procedure: One hour prior to turning off your lights, you have the option of adding Amino acids to the tank*. (For example, 11pm Halides off, add AA’s, 12am, actinics off, then add pappone). Take off the cup of your skimmer, but leave the skimmer running (so you don’t have a massive drop in O2 levels overnight). After the lights are off, start with only a ¼ of a cube per WEEK for every 400 L of tank water (approx 100 gallons). Be sure to measure NO3 and PO4 the next morning so that these parameters don't spike after feeding. You can reduce the amount fed if you are having nutrient problems. Also don’t forget to put the skimmer cup back on the next morning before the lights go back on.

*If everything is going well. It is good to wait and see how the tank is doing for awhile before trying this. The whole point here is that you don't want to change anything too fast, because nothing good happens quickly in this hobby. (Another method to grind up amino acid pills in the next batch of food; however Bisck found that it sometimes causes diatom outbreaks in his tank).

THIS WAS POSTED ON REEF CENTRAL via DarkXerox

I haven't noticed anything crazy yet, but my tank is still settling a little since the reaquascape...

[Craig Manoukian]

Thanks Billy for reproducing that recipe here and giving the proper credit to the source of the information.

[lcstorc]

Well done. I may have to try that recepie in addition to my homemade mush for the fishies. For the algae are you adding live macro from your sump or the dried stuff from the LFS?

[Woodstock]

Thanks Billy!

[boozeman]

Billy.. it isn't mentioned in the RC thread but the reason Amino acids are added to the tank is that they stimulate a feeding response in the coral polyps, proding them to take immediate advantage of the papone mixture (this was said in the original thread @ReefItalia