Easy Reefing, Reef,fowlr. For The Beginners/minimalist

I got bored with mandarin Kitchen, now its copepod palm springs . View attachment 414984

It needs sand scattered over the table top... Palm Springs should have a beach!

 

I got bored with mandarin Kitchen, now its copepod palm springs . View attachment 414984

All it needs now is a cheesy pirate ship or 'no fishing' sign/ plastic crab in the tank

 

So we went to the lfs for a small heater, in short I came back with mandarin already, its tattered and I did not want it as I'm not ready yet, but my gf didn’t want to leave it as she knows that's what we are working up to getting.

a piece of its dorsal fin came off and when I got it home it sort of just lay still on the bottom, but 40 mins with no flow and getting squirted with baby brine and pods and its as active as my other fish. Il just put extra time in with the baby brine until my culture is strong, I bought some pods to just use as food too. I put a Video on my insta. Gs_reef.

 

I know you'll do amazing with her grant. She'll be fat and happy in no time!

 

So we went to the lfs for a small heater, in short I came back with mandarin already, its tattered and I did not want it as I'm not ready yet, but my gf didn’t want to leave it as she knows that's what we are working up to getting. View attachment 415616View attachment 415617 a piece of its dorsal fin came off and when I got it home it sort of just lay still on the bottom, but 40 mins with no flow and getting squirted with baby brine and pods and its as active as my other fish. Il just put extra time in with the baby brine until my culture is strong, I bought some pods to just use as food too. I put a Video on my insta. Gs_reef.

So pretty. I'm sure it has lots of coloring up to do still too. It'll be even better.

 

Can't wait to see how it progresses, is it just the one? It looked like 2 on the insta video.

Ethan

 

Xbox62 Just the one lol, this one will keep my pod kitchen busy, I just hope I can keep up, hopefully it will be productive and I can dump thousands in the tank and get them to colonize, think Il fashion a pod hotel in the tank like Nart has. You seen his interview with inappropriate reefer Ethan ?

Been watching this little fish since I got it, literally all its doing is raping my tank for pods

 

Xbox62 Just the one lol, this one will keep my pod kitchen busy, I just hope I can keep up, hopefully it will be productive and I can dump thousands in the tank and get them to colonize, think Il fashion a pod hotel in the tank like Nart has. You seen his interview with inappropriate reefer Ethan ?

Hi,
I haven't seen the interview .

I found this a while back when I was planning for my 250, it may help with keeping the pods in the tank and not getting eaten:


Ethan

 

Very interesting, I might actually get that and just throw it round the back of my scape in a nice quiet spot.

 

Even with part of its fin missing, what a beauty. So happy for you!!! Looking forward to more pics!

 

I actually just took a couple just before bed with the lights out.

 

I actually just took a couple just before bed with the lights out. View attachment 415717View attachment 415718

He looks awesome

 

grantm91 I have a culture going and I've got several thousand in 1 of my 2.5 gallon section, going to harvest tonight. I need to clean the tank,. So I planned on draining the entire tank, and getting them set up with clean water and a clean tank!

I've even harvested 2 times now last month. They multiply like crazy in cultures...I'm tempted to buy some bottles so that I can store them and use them later! Last night I checked with a light, and my glass was covered about 8 in long and 2 in wide in them, solid white!

 

@thespoulpatch the pods go that fast ? That feels good to know, got any tips for me lol ?

 

I mean I just toss in some phyofeast every couple days make sure it's a green tint, and spot light them every few days to see how they are coming along. I also bought some sieves so I can pour water into them and then harvest it. Though I feel I could have made them myself but for $50 it was worth just waiting 24 hours for them to ship.


That's what I bought to harvest, the 53 just collects the algae, and maybe some of the smaller ones but I haven't noticed any wiggles when I shine a light underneath.

Usually when I harvest them I only have around a gallon and then just dump the water back in there so I don't have to change the water as often. I'll post a picture of mine when I get home later.

 

Ive been shining a weak growlight on them all day as I put two balls of cheato in there lol, Those sieves look like a great bit of kit, I only have one for getting the pods.I'm the same salinity and temp as my display, are you the same ? Here is mine.

there are a few on the glass, I only set it up last Thursday night, I'm just desperate or it to do well as you know I already have the fish.

 

Ive been shining a weak growlight on them all day as I put two balls of cheato in there lol, Those sieves look like a great bit of kit, I only have one for getting the pods.I'm the same salinity and temp as my display, are you the same ? Here is mine. View attachment 415925View attachment 415926 there are a few on the glass, I only set it up last Thursday night, I'm just desperate or it to do well as you know I already have the fish.

Would this work?:

If you put a small return pump in the kitchen that leads to the tank, and the same in the tank leading into the kitchen, a steady supply of copopods would be sucked into the tank, and the kitchen would stay the same peramiters as the tank, like a minI sump?

Ethan

 

Ah see I don't have anything in mine, just the water and a bunch of gunk in the bottom of the tank, which is normal they will eat it.

My salinity is the same as my tank, but I don't have a heater in it at all. It's just whatever the room temp is. And man are they thriving!

 

Ah that's good to know, I ran out on Sunday to get a heater as its been so cold here. Think I'm just being paranoid as its my first time and I got a mandarin so early.

Ah that's good to know, I ran out on Sunday to get a heater as its been so cold here. Think I'm just being paranoid as its my first time and I got a mandarin so early.

 

I've read several people in the northern US just leave it in their basement on the concrete with no heater. Plus also depends on what pods you've got. I have tisbe and tigger pods, and they have been doing much better in the colder temperatures in my house recently.

Could also just read up on the temp req. on certain pods, there's a bunch of google scholar articles if you search for them. I got bored one day and read a couple.

 

The mandarin eating its first feed yesterday.

 

Looks great Grant, beautiful Mandarin.

 

Thanks @wildbill

 

Here's mine, I just cleaned and harvested a bunch, but forgot to take a picture of them. Was a bunch though!

 

You might need a large pod hotel in your display for it to work with the beasty spotted Mandy lol. Stuff it with chaeto in the middle and put some rocks to weigh it down.

Up that baby brine shrimp feeding Grant! You might want to try 3 times a day from what I can tell with the stomach

 

Definitely need a pod hotel, I been going feeding three times per day, hatching new shrimps everyday, I harvest in the morning, so its like a cup of pods and bbs to last the day, it looks so happy and loves foraging, need to look up white worms still ! Also instead of throwing all the juvenile brines out, I'm giving them spirulina and giving them to the fish.
DO NOT DRINK

 

Mmmm.... Looks refreshing, Grant. A nice tall cold glass of greenish liquid after working outside and working up a sweat...

 

Rich in protein mark

 

Mmmm.... Looks refreshing, Grant. A nice tall cold glass of greenish liquid after working outside and working up a sweat...

Looks like an energy drink, those ones with industrial waist and 1000000 calories per drop?

grantm91 ,
I have a funny cheato story, so I had it in the chamber with the return pump. Recently my return pump has been working really badly, I was trying to run tap water through to unblock it but with no result. Until I opened it. It was full of cheato.

I've moved the cheato and will not make the same mistake again .

Ethan

 

Haha, it happens to me Ethan in that jug of rocks I have, If you want it in that chamber just place a piece of filter sponge between the pump and cheato.

 

Haha, it happens to me Ethan in that jug of rocks I have, If you want it in that chamber just place a piece of filter sponge between the pump and cheato.

Ok,
It's now in the middle compartment, away from harm, thanks again, I've noticed phosphates have gone.

Ethan

 

Trying online buying, I ordered these zoas today.


Stuck more on the order as they go in the same order.


I'm away till Sunday though so the gf gets to unpack lol.

 

Awesome! More zoas for the King. Can't wait to see what those puppies do for ya

 

Ugh I almost bought zoas today and now I’m mad that I didn’t haha! Neat that your gf can unbox and acclimate live stock for you, that is definitely a plus.. I liked her for her photo skills and now I like her even more

 

New crab,
Any name suggestions?

 

Xbox62 how strange ! I got one yesterday !!! I named mine raphael after the ninja turtle. Lchi87 once you get the zoas you become a collector its all I mainly want now. Xbox62 how much did you pay ? Mine was £10.99

 

Xbox62 how strange ! I got one yesterday !!! I named mine raphael after the ninja turtle. Lchi87 once you get the zoas you become a collector its all I mainly want now. Xbox62 how much did you pay ? Mine was £10.99

, I named mine Bartholomew, don't ask why it just sort of stuck.
Mine was £16.99 but my mum got it for me as an early birthday present. I've always wanted a crab of some sort. I'll include some pics when he comes out of hiding.

Also cleaned the reef and got some neat pics...







How's the mandarin going?
Ethan

 

Nice Ethan, yeah the mandarin is doing ok too actually.

 

Nice Ethan, yeah the mandarin is doing ok too actually.

Cool

More pics of Bart, Bartholomew was getting too long so shortened it

 

The new zo’s.