Jeff's 100g tank upgrade
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So, all of these were taking in a few minutes last night when i got home, before I fed the tank (i've swapped to daily squirt of 5ml of the Acropower, day 8 of usage now)
my question - does longer sweeper / polyp extension mean better? i thought that the polyps are only out if the coral is hungry and needs to stretch out to filter stuff? given the heavy bioload of my tank, and Ashley's crazy feeding, nutrients should be abundant in the water?
I get some really crazy polyp extensions in my tank from everything. the screaming birdsnest that I got from Mike is so full, that you literally can't see the skeleton.
all the sweepers in the photos are actually SHORTER than they normally are, since i turned off the pumps to take the photos
the rainbow birdsnest i got from crystal is so far out, that with the pumps running and the polyps swinging around, i can't see any of the green.
the spongodes in the previous pics had pretty long extension too compared to the other spongodes i've seen.
so, question is, why are the polyps way out in my tank? is that a good or bad thing?
my question - does longer sweeper / polyp extension mean better? i thought that the polyps are only out if the coral is hungry and needs to stretch out to filter stuff? given the heavy bioload of my tank, and Ashley's crazy feeding, nutrients should be abundant in the water?
I get some really crazy polyp extensions in my tank from everything. the screaming birdsnest that I got from Mike is so full, that you literally can't see the skeleton.
all the sweepers in the photos are actually SHORTER than they normally are, since i turned off the pumps to take the photos
the rainbow birdsnest i got from crystal is so far out, that with the pumps running and the polyps swinging around, i can't see any of the green.
the spongodes in the previous pics had pretty long extension too compared to the other spongodes i've seen.
so, question is, why are the polyps way out in my tank? is that a good or bad thing?
So, all of these were taking in a few minutes last night when i got home, before I fed the tank (i've swapped to daily squirt of 5ml of the Acropower, day 8 of usage now)
my question - does longer sweeper / polyp extension mean better? i thought that the polyps are only out if the coral is hungry and needs to stretch out to filter stuff? given the heavy bioload of my tank, and Ashley's crazy feeding, nutrients should be abundant in the water?
I get some really crazy polyp extensions in my tank from everything. the screaming birdsnest that I got from Mike is so full, that you literally can't see the skeleton.
all the sweepers in the photos are actually SHORTER than they normally are, since i turned off the pumps to take the photos
the rainbow birdsnest i got from crystal is so far out, that with the pumps running and the polyps swinging around, i can't see any of the green.
the spongodes in the previous pics had pretty long extension too compared to the other spongodes i've seen.
so, question is, why are the polyps way out in my tank? is that a good or bad thing?
my question - does longer sweeper / polyp extension mean better? i thought that the polyps are only out if the coral is hungry and needs to stretch out to filter stuff? given the heavy bioload of my tank, and Ashley's crazy feeding, nutrients should be abundant in the water?
I get some really crazy polyp extensions in my tank from everything. the screaming birdsnest that I got from Mike is so full, that you literally can't see the skeleton.
all the sweepers in the photos are actually SHORTER than they normally are, since i turned off the pumps to take the photos
the rainbow birdsnest i got from crystal is so far out, that with the pumps running and the polyps swinging around, i can't see any of the green.
the spongodes in the previous pics had pretty long extension too compared to the other spongodes i've seen.
so, question is, why are the polyps way out in my tank? is that a good or bad thing?
I don't have a doser - so when I started out a week ago, i followed the instruction, which told me to calc out the amount per week, and dose it all at once.
then i figured that it'd probably be better if i did the dose daily instead, so i started squirting in the 5ml per day as of sunday.
so, i didn't actually back it down, i just broke it out per day instead of weekly.
i wanted to try it out with the entire bottle with manual dosing, before i decide if i want to get a dosing pump for it for the future.
then i figured that it'd probably be better if i did the dose daily instead, so i started squirting in the 5ml per day as of sunday.
so, i didn't actually back it down, i just broke it out per day instead of weekly.
i wanted to try it out with the entire bottle with manual dosing, before i decide if i want to get a dosing pump for it for the future.
