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Tim, I think I may be getting ill. This stuff is beginning to make sense and I am enjoying immersion into it. Help a brother out. The beautiful Chilli Coral which I received three days ago is in shock. After the first day, I went to bed with Chilli flying all his feathers. When I woke in the morning, like a kid at Christmas, I peaked into tank with a red led flashlight. It was collateral damage. The complete rock wall with ledge for shade had fallen down on Chilli. With no external abrasions, I brushed off detritus on Chilli and remounted in a different place. After 24 hours he showed a few feathers, but not so this morning. He is covered in detritus that seems to stick to outer skin. Because of the aggressive sand bed maintenance that is ongoing, Detritus is getting stirred up more than normal. In the case of the Sea Apple, he worked overtime to capture detritus as food. Do the feeding requirements of Chilli and Sea Apple contradict each other? Surprisingly, with all the sand bed maintenances on Jaubert Plenum, the refugium is crystal clear with no carry over of detritus. I credit that to the first chamber on this eco-system mud/macro refugium. In looking at the rocks in refugium, there is no detritus to blow off. IMO, this might be the best hospital for Chilli.
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“Chili’s are still beyond our reach”. Does that mean it was better to die in a rock slid and not be prolonged to death by starvation?
The two NPS Gogorgions are looking good, particularly the Yelliw Tree Gorgonion. https://www.live-plants.com/yellowfinger.htm
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11/10/2017, 11:59 AM | #279 |
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Chilli Coral in hospital
Chilli is looking better after 6 hours in cryptic zone refugium
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Cryptic Zone Hospital
After 16 hours in the unlit mud / cryptic zone refugium, Chilli is looking good under old macro refugium bulbs.
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Chilli update
After nearly 48hour in cryptic zone refugium, Chilli’s color has gone from maroon to a vibrant red, as he was in shipping bag. Due to continued sand bed maintenance, detritus continues to be stirred up. Not good for Chilli. Chilli stays down under for another week.
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Just started on a cryptic zone sump design.
Have built a permeable dividing wall - semi cryptic/cryptic zones Made from coral rock, coral gravel, white cement & rocksalt. |
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Maybe for a short time of < 3 months. By then my algae feeding platform will have filled in providing the shade that Chilli requires. Also, my sand bed maintenance should be completed eliminating particulates clogging up Chilli’s feathers.
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My problem is I have no access to dedicated cryptic sponge rock. The best I can do is to use some rock from within my display that has sponge life on it to seed the cryptic zone. These sponges get zero direct light, but some indirect illumination. Will these sponges be ok or not? I don't want tp place them in a cryptic zone only for them to die & possible pollute the system. Should I perhaps just make the sump fully semi cryptic?? cheers |
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I feel that my mud cryptic refugium is semi-cryptic because the whole back of stand is open to air flow and ambient light. I have also included a 3G chaeto refugium in display tank overflow box. I figure the production of DOC and micro algae, a type of phytoplankton. “Marine phytoplankton are mainly composed of micro algae known as dinoflagellates and diatoms, though other algae and cynobacteria can be present”.
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Day one of taking down the cryptic... its composed of three layers and sits in the middle of my sump.
The topmost layer is the algae zone. It's made of eggcrate and nylon mesh (like used for ATS). The water mostly flows over this zone from end to end The second layer creates a baffle zone between the algae zone and the deep zone. Again- eggcrate and mesh. This channels any remaining medium flow to the other end but allows some exchange into the lowest zone. The last layer is made up of 2quart buckets of sand/mud. Two layers of these buckets separated by eggcrate and mesh. In this lowest zone, water trickles through the surface layers but does so slowly. Today, I removed the first two zones... Here's what I found.. fast zones have feather dusters... thousands clumped together to make "rock"... In the top eggcrate squares, sand collected forming tiny sand beds protected from flow. These had.... tiny sea cucumbers! Less than 3/4" long! They we so small I thought they were sponges. Lower down ... three kinds of sponges... first white, then yellow, then on the bottom pinkish purple?. These aren't "attractive" sponges. They look like wet napkin paper with holes and striations. Inside and around them are tiny serpent stars.. I haven't gotten to the buckets but here are the pics:
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Thanks for going to the trouble of posting that info karim.
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+1 Cool grungy stuff.
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Ok. Last layer.. the very low flow sand/mud buckets. Here's the view before removing anything
There's a layer of muddy silt covering the bucket tops and the feather duster clusters are solid chunks here
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The eggcrate between layers had some impressive sponge growth
I'm inclined to believe that eggcrate is an ideal sponge habitat That was about 6" long
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And more sponges
I wonder if these can be cultivated and shared... maybe a beehive like eggcrate structure...
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what exactly was the sand & mud used?
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I used different substrates in each of the different 18 buckets... basically a shotgun approach.
3 had miracle mud 3 had fine sand 4 had sugar size sand 4 had coarse sand 4 had gravel I didn't correct better data than that
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