refugium setting up.

[Robin Gordon]

i have a sump full of live rock and skimmer. i've ditched the sponges,
ceramic media and bio-balls and have three chambers full of live rock.
My tank is a 40G tank lit by florescent tubes (MH only caused heartbreak and
algae, lots of algae). Now i want to add some calerpa to keep the nitrates
under control. i tried this a while back and the calerpa just roted away
even with 24/7 lighting in the sump.
What can i do to ensure that the same wont happen again. I'm tempted to put
the MH in the sump chambre to ensure enough light gets to it but is this a
good idea, would 14000K be unsuitable for calerpa.
the flow in the sump is controlled by a RIO 1700 return pump so too much
flow sholud not be a problem.
some calerpa flourished until my yellow tang finally sussed out what it was
and made short work of it.
any suggestion of a method of keeping it in the main tank but some sort of
barrier to keep the tang away.

TIA

Robin

[Wayne Sallee]

Aiptasis do a good job at that :-)
hehehe

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Robin Gordon wrote on 1/3/2006 4:05 PM:
> i have a sump full of live rock and skimmer. i've ditched the sponges,
> ceramic media and bio-balls and have three chambers full of live rock.
> My tank is a 40G tank lit by florescent tubes (MH only caused heartbreak and
> algae, lots of algae). Now i want to add some calerpa to keep the nitrates
> under control. i tried this a while back and the calerpa just roted away
> even with 24/7 lighting in the sump.
> What can i do to ensure that the same wont happen again. I'm tempted to put
> the MH in the sump chambre to ensure enough light gets to it but is this a
> good idea, would 14000K be unsuitable for calerpa.
> the flow in the sump is controlled by a RIO 1700 return pump so too much
> flow sholud not be a problem.
> some calerpa flourished until my yellow tang finally sussed out what it was
> and made short work of it.
> any suggestion of a method of keeping it in the main tank but some sort of
> barrier to keep the tang away.
>
> TIA
>
> Robin
>
>

[Michael Lawford]

I might be being stupid but why do the Aiptasia's do that?

~m


"Wayne Sallee" > wrote in message
...
> Aiptasis do a good job at that :-)
> hehehe
>
> Wayne Sallee
> Wayne's Pets
>
>
>
> Robin Gordon wrote on 1/3/2006 4:05 PM:
>> i have a sump full of live rock and skimmer. i've ditched the sponges,
>> ceramic media and bio-balls and have three chambers full of live rock.
>> My tank is a 40G tank lit by florescent tubes (MH only caused heartbreak
>> and algae, lots of algae). Now i want to add some calerpa to keep the
>> nitrates under control. i tried this a while back and the calerpa just
>> roted away even with 24/7 lighting in the sump.
>> What can i do to ensure that the same wont happen again. I'm tempted to
>> put the MH in the sump chambre to ensure enough light gets to it but is
>> this a good idea, would 14000K be unsuitable for calerpa.
>> the flow in the sump is controlled by a RIO 1700 return pump so too much
>> flow sholud not be a problem.
>> some calerpa flourished until my yellow tang finally sussed out what it
>> was and made short work of it.
>> any suggestion of a method of keeping it in the main tank but some sort
>> of barrier to keep the tang away.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Robin

[Wayne Sallee]

Well if you have them growing in the calerpa, the tangs
will tend to ignor the calerpa because they realy don't
like sticking their noses in the aiptasia's stinging
tentecles, but of course you don't want aiptasia in your
tank either :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Michael Lawford wrote on 1/4/2006 4:02 AM:
> I might be being stupid but why do the Aiptasia's do that?
>
> ~m
>
>
> "Wayne Sallee" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Aiptasis do a good job at that :-)
>>hehehe
>>
>>Wayne Sallee
>>Wayne's Pets

>>
>>
>>Robin Gordon wrote on 1/3/2006 4:05 PM:
>>
>>>i have a sump full of live rock and skimmer. i've ditched the sponges,
>>>ceramic media and bio-balls and have three chambers full of live rock.
>>>My tank is a 40G tank lit by florescent tubes (MH only caused heartbreak
>>>and algae, lots of algae). Now i want to add some calerpa to keep the
>>>nitrates under control. i tried this a while back and the calerpa just
>>>roted away even with 24/7 lighting in the sump.
>>>What can i do to ensure that the same wont happen again. I'm tempted to
>>>put the MH in the sump chambre to ensure enough light gets to it but is
>>>this a good idea, would 14000K be unsuitable for calerpa.
>>>the flow in the sump is controlled by a RIO 1700 return pump so too much
>>>flow sholud not be a problem.
>>>some calerpa flourished until my yellow tang finally sussed out what it
>>>was and made short work of it.
>>>any suggestion of a method of keeping it in the main tank but some sort
>>>of barrier to keep the tang away.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Robin
>
>
>

[Robin Gordon]

i had enough bother getting rid of the last few aiptasia that i had. a few
specimens return but joes juice gets them quickly.

Robin