All part of the eco food chain ..so I'm on it haI have read similar am I correct they act like a mini refuge in the tank absorbing pest nutrients
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All part of the eco food chain ..so I'm on it haI have read similar am I correct they act like a mini refuge in the tank absorbing pest nutrients
I too use turkey baster , I just got 2 small engineers that will not come up for food so I have to target their burrow ha , just looking at my red sea and it's alive with pods in the water column which surely can't be a bad thing esp as it's mainly softies in there and they are great crap eaters ...do you find any problems with algae in the tank since using phyto ?For myself, I feed phyto twice a day with fish fish feeding:
take 3 cubes, thaw in freshwater
Once thawed, rinse twice with freshwater, then dump food without water into a cup. Then add about 20ml saltwater to cup.
add 5ml of phyto to cup.
Feed tank with pipette as if you’re just trying to focus on feeding the food, naturally you will have to suck up the liquid to get the food in the pipette. Feed until the food is gone.
toss any leftover phyto or water down the drain.
No, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary since dosing the phyto, but I see film algae on the glass as a way of life with reef tanks, so clean the glass every other day and blow the rocks off with a small fountain pump every 2 weeks. Between that and my purple tang / bristle tooth tang, algae is well within control, no hair algae, just film algae that comes off easily.I too use turkey baster , I just got 2 small engineers that will not come up for food so I have to target their burrow ha , just looking at my red sea and it's alive with pods in the water column which surely can't be a bad thing esp as it's mainly softies in there and they are great crap eaters ...do you find any problems with algae in the tank since using phyto ?
No difference in what I see results wise, but typically most of my corals put out their feeder tentacles around a half hour before lights out, so I’m guessing that the possibility of digestion would be higher at night, at least with my corals.Does day or night for phyto dosing have an impact?
Yep I don't think anyone doesn't get film algae 2 mins with magnet job done ,I shall carry on with phyto ,makes perfect sense ,cheersNo, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary since dosing the phyto, but I see film algae on the glass as a way of life with reef tanks, so clean the glass every other day and blow the rocks off with a small fountain pump every 2 weeks. Between that and my purple tang / bristle tooth tang, algae is well within control, no hair algae, just film algae that comes off easily.
what I’ve been finding is small doses of anything frequently rather than a large dose infrequently is much more stable and manageable.