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I need to get some of that oyster feast it looks like your corals are enjoying it. What's your feeding schedule and dosage?
 

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I need to get some of that oyster feast it looks like your corals are enjoying it. What's your feeding schedule and dosage?
Yeah they really do seem to like it. My nutrients are bottomed out so I dose nightly along with phytoplankton. I would guess it’s a few ml. I just do a solid squirt in the top of my mp40 let it disperse and kill flow and return for 10 minutes. Skimmer for 30. I set a custom feed for it so it’s nice and easy.
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I picked up a Reef Nutrition Oyster Feast bottle today thanks for the idea.
Check this out Matt I might try this in the future if I can find it. Here's what Algagen puts in it wow!

9 species of microalgae
Artemia nauplii
Copepods
Rotifers
Clam larvae
Oyster larvae
Oyster eggs and tissue
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
Fish eggs
Decapsulated artemia cysts
Copepod eggs
Mussel and Squid

 

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I picked up a Reef Nutrition Oyster Feast bottle today thanks for the idea.
Check this out Matt I might try this in the future if I can find it. Here's what Algagen puts in it wow!

9 species of microalgae
Artemia nauplii
Copepods
Rotifers
Clam larvae
Oyster larvae
Oyster eggs and tissue
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
Fish eggs
Decapsulated artemia cysts
Copepod eggs
Mussel and Squid

Hot damn! That looks promising. I feel like I've seen that label somewhere before but can't remember, probably Tong's. I'll keep an eye out for it. Once I'm done with this bottle of oysterfeast and my brightwell blizzard maybe I'll give that a go and look for any difference.


I forgot to turn off my dang booster pump. It's been kicking on/off topping off the tank for the last 2 days. 7 TDS, must not be good for longevity? I'm gonna swap filters and drain my ATO container and start fresh so I don't start this algae issue all over.
 

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These guys are handling the flow and high light just fine but have a little warfare going on. They've been touching for months and it actually seemed like it forced that acro to stop encrusting and start shooting out.
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Hopefully a new addition. Probably going to need to do a antibiotic treatment. Was face down at the LFS, but the price was good and he threw in some antibiotics with the anemone. Has anyone used Enrofloxacin with anemones before? I've used ciprofloxacin on a blue gigantea 5-6 years ago with success.

During trip acclimation it started to right itself in the container, so I added a small piece of rock from my sump to the container. Well it grabbed on and righted itself.
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It does still have a slur look to its mouth. I know they can inflate and look great then deflate and repeat the cycle until they eventually just melt. If I notice that trend I'm setting up a QT for it.
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Yellow Gigantea (I think). Hopefully I can get the thing to survive. A gig and a pair of clowns are on the bucket list for the new build. Originally I was going to go with a blue gig and pink skunk clowns. Now I'm not sure on which type of clowns. If it recovers, I'll wait to see what it's full color will be so I can choose a nice contrasting type of clownfish for it. Probably a true perc or maybe still a skunk pending color.

Anyways, wish me luck. Rest of the tank is doing amazingly well right now.
 
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