Sulfer Biological Filter

So, what do Pods eat? I've been dosing them twice/day with a plankton
mix. Sounds like I should blend up some shrimp/krill as well.

--Kurt



swarvegorilla wrote:
"KurtG" wrote in message
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Add Homonym wrote
right now my 20 gal has:
1 yellow tang (yep - yellow tang in a twenty - doing well at that!)
How is he doing? I'd consider my 48" 110 gallon barely adequate for my 7"
yellow tang.

--Kurt

I have moved from retail for the moment and my smallest marine is now more
than 100gal.
The sand bed in me mates new tank is prob 40cm, which is a LOT of sand in
this tank
A lot of sand!!!!!
As to understocking
I'm enjoying having tons of life on the liverock..... the fish can have the
other tanks!
have been burying chunks prawn for the worms to eat
and the pod population has exploded
at night there are SWARMS of the things!
So considering trying something tricky fish wise
and yes I mean trickier than a dragonette
perhaps a local red cheek 3 fin.....
would like to try breed
and they really need a tank to themselves for the males to display
could be interesting anyway

KurtG wrote:

Add Homonym wrote

right now my 20 gal has:
1 yellow tang (yep - yellow tang in a twenty - doing well at that!)


How is he doing? I'd consider my 48" 110 gallon barely adequate for my
7" yellow tang.

--Kurt

Doing well enough. He's still small, tho. He's the third we have had in
there. When they hit about 4-5 inches, they go back to the LFS and get
traded in for a new 2-3 inch yellow tang.

Pods are not that fussy.
In the past I just used an aquaculture protien pellet
but the chunks of prawn seem to work well
just don't overdo it!

Pods seem to bloom better in tanks that are fed lots.
I suspect my bloom is more the result of them having the tank to themselves
than too heavy feeding but in combo tis workin good

A trap would be nice to transport them to other tanks
will put a bottle with shrimp inside in tonite 'n see how it goes



"KurtG" wrote in message
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So, what do Pods eat? I've been dosing them twice/day with a plankton
mix. Sounds like I should blend up some shrimp/krill as well.

--Kurt



swarvegorilla wrote:
"KurtG" wrote in message
.. .
Add Homonym wrote
right now my 20 gal has:
1 yellow tang (yep - yellow tang in a twenty - doing well at that!)
How is he doing? I'd consider my 48" 110 gallon barely adequate for my
7" yellow tang.

--Kurt

I have moved from retail for the moment and my smallest marine is now
more than 100gal.
The sand bed in me mates new tank is prob 40cm, which is a LOT of sand in
this tank
A lot of sand!!!!!
As to understocking
I'm enjoying having tons of life on the liverock..... the fish can have
the other tanks!
have been burying chunks prawn for the worms to eat
and the pod population has exploded
at night there are SWARMS of the things!
So considering trying something tricky fish wise
and yes I mean trickier than a dragonette
perhaps a local red cheek 3 fin.....
would like to try breed
and they really need a tank to themselves for the males to display
could be interesting anyway

swarvegorilla wrote:
Pods are not that fussy.
In the past I just used an aquaculture protien pellet
but the chunks of prawn seem to work well
just don't overdo it!

I blended some krill and shrimp. It may have been too fine as I don't
want it returned to the sump. Maybe I'll just chop some up and throw it
in (in a few days).

My last batch of pods died out. I'm making some adjustments this time.
The fug is better established with temp control, mud, macro algae,
and, now, better food.

Not sure about that 40 cm sand bed. That's impressive.

--Kurt

"KurtG" wrote in message
news
swarvegorilla wrote:
Pods are not that fussy.
In the past I just used an aquaculture protien pellet
but the chunks of prawn seem to work well
just don't overdo it!

I blended some krill and shrimp. It may have been too fine as I don't
want it returned to the sump. Maybe I'll just chop some up and throw it
in (in a few days).

My last batch of pods died out. I'm making some adjustments this time.
The fug is better established with temp control, mud, macro algae, and,
now, better food.

Not sure about that 40 cm sand bed. That's impressive.

--Kurt


impressive.... hmmmm....
it's definitely bloody heavy!!!
kinda rainbow with layers of sand dug up from beach
have been thinking about putting some burrowing snails in there
In one corner is a pile of snail shells
a couple of pistol shrimp live in there
but their tunnles don't seem to go very deep
really not sure if I can add pipi sorta cockle things in there
but they are in the plan

my attempt to catch pods failed using the trap
but I swept the brineshrimp net around and managed to get enuf to seed other
tanks