The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

[shilala]

Originally Posted by OLS

Some ideas since I saw it, if you feed all that stuff, just a blast in the water column of various stuff, it looks like everybody is gonna get fed, I would not worry about the excess food not getting trapped, looks like you have plenty of polyps open to pick up the tiny bits. ...It would seem that sometarget feeding with a baster would help some of your corals, I believe if you feed cyclopeeze when everything has polyp extension going on, you might do OK with your Goniapora.

Brad, I have two 36" long telescoping basters that I use to target feed.
I have no less than 10 different kinds of food here, 7 are frozen. Freeze dried cyclopeeze is in the mail. Plus I keep phyto in the fridge and will soon be growing my own.
I make soup for the kids. I feed every other day. I use phyto plus four or five frozen blocks. I try to rotate the frozen stuff.
I have a cannister filter to trap junk, plus two over-the-backs that I clean every couple days. I also have two oversize over-the-back skimmers. I change water like a madman. I think I've changed 90 gallons this month, but that was just to unscrewup my water. I'll ease off soon.

The critters are exploding with wellness. I want them at their peak so I can watch them and let them tell me how the water is doing. Then I can rest easy.
I just needed everything to be right so I could learn from it, ya know?
I've kept animals all my life, more stuff than anyone would ever believe, let alone imagine. I've always let them tell me when things are right or wrong. It's always worked real well. What's awesome about corals is that they're very telling and very forgiving. Everyone says they're so fragile, etc. They're tough as nails, man. Amazingly resilient, too.
I'm having huge fun now that things are going well. It sure beats worrying all day every day.

My new lamps came today and I changed them out. Went from 10K to 12K by mistake. Actinics are the same. Everything looks more yellow/green to me, but Lisa says she doesn't notice a difference.