teddy
03/18/2009, 06:23 AM
Hi, grateful for any advise on the following:
My tank has been set up now for about 1 month. I used live rock that had been cured and then held for me by my LFS for a further 4 weeks. I also used live aragonite reef sand.
I have tested constantly and have never detected any amonia, nitite or nitrate. Ph has been around 8 - 8.2.
The tank looks healthy, I had diatoms for about a week but they have now disappeared and I have some GHA but that is being gobbled up by turbo snails.
I have a refugium going with macroalgae which is flourishing and I have pods everywhere.
I added, about 5 days ago, three corals and a small rock full of mushrooms. the corals are two types of finger leathers some mat polyps. The mushrooms look very happy as does the mat polyps but the finger leathers look a bit droopy sometimes. I have them near the bottom of the tank in medium flow but I don't know if they would want some more light near the top.
Anyway, the question is, I want to add some more corals over the course of the next few months but I also want to refrain from adding any fish for at least the next three or even four months.
As I am not adding any food for the tank, should I be feeding the corals with anything? maybe a few drops of phytoplankton or something. I also want to grow the macroalgae in the refugium and want to keep up with the proliferation of pods but I am worried that by not adding anything to the tank there will be nothing for stuff to feed on.
Any advise would be welcome. Thanks.
My tank has been set up now for about 1 month. I used live rock that had been cured and then held for me by my LFS for a further 4 weeks. I also used live aragonite reef sand.
I have tested constantly and have never detected any amonia, nitite or nitrate. Ph has been around 8 - 8.2.
The tank looks healthy, I had diatoms for about a week but they have now disappeared and I have some GHA but that is being gobbled up by turbo snails.
I have a refugium going with macroalgae which is flourishing and I have pods everywhere.
I added, about 5 days ago, three corals and a small rock full of mushrooms. the corals are two types of finger leathers some mat polyps. The mushrooms look very happy as does the mat polyps but the finger leathers look a bit droopy sometimes. I have them near the bottom of the tank in medium flow but I don't know if they would want some more light near the top.
Anyway, the question is, I want to add some more corals over the course of the next few months but I also want to refrain from adding any fish for at least the next three or even four months.
As I am not adding any food for the tank, should I be feeding the corals with anything? maybe a few drops of phytoplankton or something. I also want to grow the macroalgae in the refugium and want to keep up with the proliferation of pods but I am worried that by not adding anything to the tank there will be nothing for stuff to feed on.
Any advise would be welcome. Thanks.