Nutrient Management by “Old School” Reefer

[Subsea]

I have 2 swallowtail angels in my 150. Hoping the larger one will turn male some day. So far a very peaceful system at 9 months.

Do the colors change when a female becomes male?

What do your angels eat?

 

[X-37B]

I feed a mix daily equal to about 7 frozen cubes.

Yes the male changes color.

Cubes:
Brine
Mysis
Marine algae
Cyclops

Larrys
Chopped prawns

Esv dried phyto is mixed like this once a day. 1 scoop. They recommend 10, lol

I do feed a 50 and a 35 nem.system with small amounts of the mix.


First mix today was
Brine
Mysis
Larrys

Second mix
Brine
Mysis
Larrys
Marine alge
Phyto

One more feed later similar to 1.

 

[Subsea]

It’s one form of nutrient recycling that I am not found off. A long time resident serpent starfish starting eating on an anemone that was damaged on pump suction screen.

I was treating a small tank for Cynobacteria infestation when I noted that a recent purchased purple anemone was sucked into pump suction screen. Turning pump off and removing screen allowed me to easily remove anemone. I decided to put this slightly damaged anemone in 75G display tank. A short time later, I no longer saw anemone. Earlier, Sailfin Tang had moved feather dusters around to his liking and as I got out a flashlight, I saw Serpent Starfish dragging anemone to its lair. It surprised me as to how much it took to pull anemone out of starfish mouth. Starfish was removed to 120G tank and purple anemone is recovering.

 

[Subsea]

A friend on RC has been doing Sea Grasses for some years, recently posted that Sea Grasses were more efficient at removing low nutrients from bulk water and would be a better match for low nutrient SPS than macro algae. Any thoughts @Lasse or @Sallstrom

Considering Mark Levin & @Paul B have nitrates > 50ppm, I see little concern with high nitrates.

Considering the culture of vendor induced products to take the place of an informed hobbiest, I say “Houston, we have a problem”.

Patience is a virtue to be embraced. Wisdom is discernment combined with an application of knowledge. For certain there are many methods to operating a reef tank successfully. I choose Laissez Faire and Microbial Overlords.

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[Subsea]

I have decided that the sponge cleaning tank is this 30G tank which was treated for flatworms 30 days ago. With no fish, it is loaded with pods & small blue leg hermits that eat diatoms from sponge follicles.