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10/11/2007, 02:08 AM | #101 |
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Hello xfragmanx!
If I can I feed them everyday in small portions. I use to feed them with a large variety of pellet foods, dry flake foods and frozen foods. In the pics above I'm feeding them with brine shrimp (Artemia) but i give them all kind of frozen foods like mysis, daphnia, bloodwormes, blackworms and mosquito larvae. Anthias and Cromis feed on coral foods like cyclop-eeze, zooplankton, etc. but i supplementary feed them once a week with newly hatched Artemia nauplii (and corals thanks too ...). About plastic tubes, the covers have a hole where i fix my small babies. I Fill the tubes with aragonite and reverse osmosis water. Jessp gave me a good and practical idea: to fill with aragocret... Cheers, |
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so thats it? you feed your corals once a week? and fill the water tubes with regular RO/DI water and you corals are growing that good? thats amazing. are you target feeding all the corals or do you just add your newly hatched nauplii and pour it in the tank?
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hi, i am just wondering if there is a difference between cyclops and cyclop-eeze???thanks
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May be I didn't explain correctly the way i nourish corals and fishes. By the other words: I feed corals daily with frozen zooplankton like red plankton, bosmiden, cyclops, oyster egs and rotifers (I remembered these last two now) or lyophilised food like pro-coral zooton and cyclop-eeze. I alternate all foods. Anthias and Cromis take the oportunity of feed on corals foods and vice-versa (When I give newly hatched Artemia nauplii to the Anthias and Cromis corals thanks too ...). Cheers, |
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do you target feed all of your corals? if you dont understand what i mean by this, is i take a tube with a ball at the end, suck up my mixture of baby crab, coral frenzy, kents chromamax, and rotifers, and squirt the food directly onto the coral.
if it seems like im typeing dumb, its that im trying to explain stuff and i dont know if you call it something different over there then here in the states. thanks |
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WOW. Whatever it is you do, you do right. Perfect chemistry and lighting.
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do you feed your corals after lights out? do you use any HGH?
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10/12/2007, 11:09 AM | #111 |
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Hello Machado,
As I already said to you personally, it is a marvel to my eyes. So much color, simply a work of art! Perhaps one day, all that world of color and beautiful species that you show to us, can demonstrate the work and love that you have for the hobby (if that is possible!) Congratulations Machado, always on top! Tiago Garcia |
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Machado, thank you so much for sharring your incredible work with RC and its readers. Congratulations on a phenomenal job. Whether "experimental" or eventually "commercial", you are contributing to the hobby and helping to save the reefs from being stripped.
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A truly stunning tank by standards of a prop tank or display tank.
A few questions: You said you use salt mix currently, what is your frequency of water changes as a % of total volume? I understand that SPS have less chemical warfare issues, but given your stunning variety of species an morphologies, surely you have some problems? Is skimming generally able to remove chemical warfare compounds? Do you run Ozone or Carbon? Both? Neither? Do you try to generate chaotic random flow in your tanks? Or just keep the water circulating through the whole system? Any idea of your rate of water exchange from the sump to the main tanks? Thanks for sharing. The pictures are inspirational. |
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This is a simply amazing setup, you have done wonderful things. However I must point out when you are hand feeding your fish you really must be careful with the foxface. I'm surprised you haven't been stung. I'd hate to hear an allergic reaction caused you to neglect your beautiful system.
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10/14/2007, 12:33 AM | #116 |
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Hi Andrewkw!
Thanks for your concern. What you say is true about the danger that this fish represents. The foxface is a very peaceful fish and idea I have is that never attacks. When it feels threatened and unable to escape it raises dorsal fins and awaits the striker stung himself. When is eating in my hand sometimes frightens himself and raises the fins, but since I have the hand motionless there is no danger to be stung. Up to today! All the care is little... |
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How do you attach the rubber tops from flower pipes to the plugs? any special technique?
thanks, Adrian
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10/14/2007, 04:48 PM | #119 |
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Machado,
Your setup is amazing, and an inspiration! A had a few questions about the eggcrate frag rack in your propagation tank - how are the various shelves supported and attached together? Do you have any detailed pictures you could share in terms of the propagation racks and their construction? I also sent you a PM. Thanks |
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Very soon, when I build the eggcreate racks for the new day care center, I will present here step by step photos of the construction.
I'm gonna see your PM. Thanks. |
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Daily : Water movement control, equipments operation control, automatic trace elements addition (GroTech ABC), topping off automatically evaporated water, fish and corals visual control, feed fish and corals. Time spent: 10 minutes weekly : Clean protein skimmers, cleaning algae off the viewing windows, clean salt spray on the edges of the tank, tests (calcium, magnesium and alkalinity), strontium addition, refill up kalk reactor, Spray Rizophoras with osmosis water. Time spent: 1 hour Every two weeks: water changes about 5%, siphoning detritus, harvest algae from algae filters. time spent: 1 hour Monthly: Test phosfates, clean and calibrate probes, refill up calcium reactor media, change activated carbon media, change resin anti-phos, clean kalk reactor, clean light reflectors and light protections from salt sprays. Time spent: 90 minutes Every six months : Lamp replacement, pump maintenance, coral harvest / pruning. Time spent: variable Quote:
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Hi Machado, your tanks are awesome!!! you know that!!
do you have glass covers on the tanks?? I don´t realize about by the way, you don´t want sell your frags, this is a good thought. your frags look awesome in Vitor´s tank. congratulations see ya Martin |
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Thanks for your words.
My tanks have no covers. Lamps have protections against spray salt. |
10/15/2007, 11:17 AM | #125 |
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Thanks for your words.
My tanks have no covers. Lamps have protections against spray salt. My frags in Vitor's sunpowered tank are fine.They like to be there! Let's see them one year after. |
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