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grandmarm

grandmarm

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We have a 90 gallon tank with
one blue hippo tang
one yellow tang
one clown
one starfish
one clam
one scallop
we have 14 different corals in tank now. The LFS i went into told me that I should only being adding ZooPlex and PhytoPlex plus Calcium Buffer part A&B.
We have been adding MicroVert, Iodine, Strontium Molybdenum, CoralAccel & Essentail Elements.
The corals and fish have all been doing great. What should we be adding? Need help.
thanks
Roberta
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by grandmarm
The LFS i went into told me that I should only being adding ZooPlex and PhytoPlex plus Calcium Buffer part A&B.
Yay for the LFS!!!! Not to often they stear you AWAY from putting more crap in your tank!! But... You should add what you need. Test your calcium and alk levels. When one is low add that one, which is that part A&B thing they are talking about. That is absolutely all I add to my tank. Except I target feed my corals, if that count's for anything.
Phytoplex and Zooplex are suspension foods, and I for one don't like the idea of dosing your entire tank by adding them to feed a few select corals.
But all that iodine, and essential elements and such, you get in your salt mix. :yes:
 
grandmarm

grandmarm

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you target feed the ZooPlex and PhytoPlex how often? What about the MicroVert?
how often should we been doing water changes and how much should we do? We use Instant Ocean for the salt mix with distilled water.
We have a Ro/Di installed that adds water when needed.
Once again thanks for your help.
forgot to add we have one clam and one scallop.
 
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tizzo

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What kinda corals do you keep?? I only target feed my LPS's. The softies and SPS's seem to do just fine with nothing extra. Not zooplex, but cyclopeeze. I fill a shot glass with tank water, put in a chunk of cyclop eeze and a squirt of phyto then such it up in a syringe and feed them. I don't even do it that often!! About every week or two.
Do you have stonies?
As far as water changes you should do "at least" an accumulated 1% a day. Which in reality is a 14% every two weeks. But that's "at least". Most people do 10% a week or 15% every 2.
 
grandmarm

grandmarm

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the only stone (I think) is bird nest - which we just moved from top of tank to bottom
we have colt coral, carnation, xenia, a couple of button polyps, yellow polyps and a orange coral we we told to feed Photoplex. Can't remember the name of it.
We go down to Florida quite often and bring back coral. They have great things there.
Our tank is doing so well, I hate to rock the boat.
We also have what looks like very small shrimp in tank they almost cannot see them they have a tail go in and out of some rocks - any idea what they are?
Oh what is LPS?
 
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tizzo

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LPS's are Large polyped stonies (or scleractinia, if you wanna get technical), like frogspawns, hammers, candy canes and such... Only thing I can figure for your shrimp like things would be amphipods...
 
grandmarm

grandmarm

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thanks going to see if i can find any pictures of amphipods.
are they ok in tank? or do i need to get rid of them? and if so how?
as you can see, we are learning but we love this hobby!!
thanks once again.
roberta
 
grandmarm

grandmarm

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just checked on internet - did not say that amphipods swim.
what we have swim. could it be some form of amphipods anyway?
 
grandmarm

grandmarm

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sort of looks like the mysis shrimp but much smaller. Looks like some type of shrimp very small.
Would these be harmful to tanK? The fish do not eat them.
 
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tizzo

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The mysis in the pic are very very small, I just happen to have a very "capable" macro setting... They are as thin as thread and about as long as l <<that line there...
Is there anyway to post a pic of your candy cane? If I can see it I can tell you if you need to feed it anything more or different...
 
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tizzo

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When I first got mine, the guy I got it from didn't feed it anything so it was starved and you can tell by the first pic, then some time later after feeding him he looked like the second pic, but that's a healthy candy cane.
If yours is healthy, I wouldn't put any more foods into your tank.

 
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