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Tony,
I didn't know the sand bed was needed either. I never saw that mentioned in all my readings. But all the pictures of tanks I saw had a sand bed. And the LPS are starving. I had a little bit of this problem with Fauna Marin and it continues with vodka dosing. I am going to try the Fauna Marin LPS food and hope this helps my LPS. And like you, I thought my SPS would look bad. The only thing I can figure is I have made my tank really nutrient poor except for the carbon source (vodka) that I was dosing. And my sps seem to really like nutrient poor water. Now to get rid of the dinos.
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docwells, could you try spot feeding your LPS? I'm still in the "reading" phase of the ULNS/Carbon dosing idea so if that's not a good suggestion, I apologize in advance
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E.intheC,
I am going to spot feed with the Fauna Marin LPS food. Hope that does the trick.
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I back my dosing way down to sane levels (maintenance) and the strings shrunk a little, but persisted. Finally I stopped the dosing for a full week and at the end the strings dissolved. I started the VSV dising back up to maintenance levels and have not seen a return of the strings. So, my input is, you are adding too much carbon atm. Cut it down, or knock it off, and start back up and lower levels when it disappears. |
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Oh and btw I rotate between adding large amounts of rottifers, oyster eggs, and phyto every night or every other night and I still have to spot feed lps. (by large I mean 100 ml of Reef nutrition rot, 60 ml of eggs, 150-200 ml of DT's phyto.. not all each night, but rotating between the 3) In a low nutrient system there simply isn't enough large particulate matter floating around to feed your larger sps. Acon lords, maybe. but no way on Trachys, scolies, ect.
Bt my system is 1000 gallons, although I "trap" the above feedings in the 600 gallon display for 2 hours when I feed. The beauty of a ULNS is you can feed like a maniac and still keep things under control. My fish are pigs and I couldn't maintain control without it (Ie turn algae out of control) |
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Thanks for the replies.
I have halted the vodka dosing. I have cut my light length back . I plan on adding GFO this weekend. The strings have started to decrease. I am not sure I want to restart dosing after this resolves. I was only dosing 0.3 ml daily. I know there is room to decrease, but I don't want this problem again if possible. Glad to know that other people have problems with their LPS in ULNS. I guess I am going to have to feed more and spot feed. I will try it and see how it goes.
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Is vodka dosing recommended even on smaller systems? Plan to use on 25g shallow.
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