Chaeto

acrylic51

acrylic51

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No.......What I was more or less getting at I have an opportunity to get a bit, but the system is no where near ready yet........
 
2quills

2quills

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So you're looking for a way to provide nutrient to keep it on hand until your tank is up and running. Perhaps someone here can recommend a good source for ammonia. Thinking there has to be something in a bottle that you can purchase to use as a food source until you get some live stock.
Although I can think of at least one source, and it's free.
 
acrylic51

acrylic51

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I've peed a lot of places, but hadn't thought about a holding tank.....I don't know if the wife would be to thrilled about coming into the fish room finding me peeing in a tank.......
Would eliminate the need to take bathroom breaks while working on the tank though!!!!!!
 
snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Use a pure ammonia source,... Go to the store!
Or you could empty your skimmer cup from your other tank into it.
Or you could better yet, buy some micro-algae grow from a dealer. That would have all the nutrients plus the trace to keep it alive and growing.
You could also just get a small school of chromis in the tank with it. Chromis are cheap, (and I have no emotional attachment to them)
You could even ghost feed, but chromis would be better.
My skimmer and phos reactor have almost killed back all my chaeto unfortunately. I think I'm goin to take my reactor offline for a while and see if I can get better algal growth.
 
2quills

2quills

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Could also probably just pick up a bag of urea. It's pure nitrogen (phosphate free) and water soluble. Used to spray it all the time for my lawn care customers. Grass and plants love it.
 
spanko

spanko

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This is used a lot in Phyto growth cultures. This or something like it should be good for a chaeto farm also. If it were me a tank, pump, heater, small aquarium corner filter and a chromis or two. natural fertilizer would be the best IMO. Then you have the fish poop thing, feeding the fish and what gets left over, and of course a light source. Also use prime on some tap water and use it for water changes and top offs. Good source of phosphates there. I would stay away from liquid ammonia and the like as it would be too likely to over dose it IMO.
 
2quills

2quills

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Agree that youd have to be carefull with a pure nitrogen source. You can fry some grass or plants with it real quick if youre not careful.
 
acrylic51

acrylic51

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Thanks for the ideas guys!!!!!! Still debating what I'm going to do.....I did find a very good source for macros, and will probably wait it out a bit longer, and purchase from them instead.....Who knows!!!!!!
 
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