Why don't you occasionally feed the Turbos directly. Hikari Seaweed Extreme Medium Fish Food Wafers provide a pretty good feast and your tank may enjoy them as well.
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Good point, and thanks! This is my next try. I tried to push some nori and hakari s pellets in front of them, but they’re so suction cupped and wouldn’t entertain it or another fish zoomed in. I’ll get some snips and try to target feed them some wafers. My clown get G’d up with Hakari pellets, it’s like crack, way more than brine actually.
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I feed hakari mysis pellets mixed with veggie extreme in auto feeder and put out a veggie clip with julian sprungs sea veggies maybe once or twice a week. Works great for me and don't any changes in my nitrates or phosphates very steady consistently.
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How big is the tank?(I have a 90 gallon display and a 30 gallon sump, only run a skimmer for nutrient export, 10% water change every 2 weeks)
I know this may be an unpopular take, or a dumb question, but I have 4 mexican turbo snails (large), a few other snails and crabs, 6 clowns, a diamond goby, and a tang now. I want more algae growth in the display, without a crash. Curious of what can be implemented.
I’m feeding more than I’m comfortable with, yet phosphates and nitrates aren’t skyrocketing. They system is “working”, but I’m concerned that the snails are starving and will die. I did have a hair algae bomb, but now it’s practically bone dry. I can see the little spurs of hair algae wanting to growth, but they don’t stand a chance. I want the tang to be able to graze.
These turbos are absolute beasts, I want to keep them, but maybe the 90 is too small for 4. These things cleaned my gyre 4k off to be brand new (it was flooded with GHA), going out of the water and on top of my return nozzles. Goby keeps the sand spotless, but I’d like to see more life in the sand.
Literal tennis balls on top of each other looking for food.. I use to clean the glass every day, but nothing. I bought a 25W UV for clarity, but figure that’ll be the last nail in the coffin.
It sounds understocked to me and my first thought would be to add in another fish of some sort.
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Just start feeding the snails dry seaweed everyday.(I have a 90 gallon display and a 30 gallon sump, only run a skimmer for nutrient export, 10% water change every 2 weeks)
I know this may be an unpopular take, or a dumb question, but I have 4 mexican turbo snails (large), a few other snails and crabs, 6 clowns, a diamond goby, and a tang now. I want more algae growth in the display, without a crash. Curious of what can be implemented.
I’m feeding more than I’m comfortable with, yet phosphates and nitrates aren’t skyrocketing. They system is “working”, but I’m concerned that the snails are starving and will die. I did have a hair algae bomb, but now it’s practically bone dry. I can see the little spurs of hair algae wanting to growth, but they don’t stand a chance. I want the tang to be able to graze.
These turbos are absolute beasts, I want to keep them, but maybe the 90 is too small for 4. These things cleaned my gyre 4k off to be brand new (it was flooded with GHA), going out of the water and on top of my return nozzles. Goby keeps the sand spotless, but I’d like to see more life in the sand.
Literal tennis balls on top of each other looking for food.. I use to clean the glass every day, but nothing. I bought a 25W UV for clarity, but figure that’ll be the last nail in the coffin.
I have 16 huge Mexican turbos that eat one 8x8 inch sheet of dried seaweed per day. In terms of live seaweed that is a large amount and not likely to be met by growing some algae in the aquarium.
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Do you have any recommendations on techniques to target feed them while they’re suction cupped to the glass, or how you go about it? The seaweed that I have, it breaks apart rather quickly and flows everywhere.
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Sheets of seaweed can be wrapped over a rock and held in place with several narrow rubber bands. Wrap the bands criss-cross to form a mesh over the seaweed to it keep in place. You will find that the snails can get at the seaweed under the rubber bands. This would be a daily ritual of removing the rock and wrapping seaweed around it.
For my pack of snails, I use a 4x6 inch piece of window glass, place a double layer of seaweed on it and complete the sandwich with piece of plastic mesh that I cut large openings for access to the seaweed. This sandwich is held together with rubber bands. Three of these go in every night and are stripped bare in an hour or two. I determined the amount of food they needed by increasing the amount of seaweed by 25% every day until they started leaving uneaten seaweed overnight. Then I backed off a little. With this feeding regime, the snails have become large and occasionally spawn (a sure sign of proper feeding), but because they are broadcast spawners, this snail does not reproduce in an aquarium.
How do you keep the 4x6 piece of glass from floating
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This sounds like the Innovative Marine Gourmet Gadget Grazer - I use it to feed my tangs, but my turbos and urchins have no problem grazing on it too. Magnetic, put it anywhere.
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You can always put nori on a clip for the snails. I have a bare bottom tank, and when there’s a lack of plague I’ll put nori at the bottom of the tank and all the turbos will show up and huddle around it to eat very quickly.
And as someone else said, new rock can be munching your phosphate.
And as someone else said, new rock can be munching your phosphate.
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