mastic, frozen, flakes, pellets, all nothing, the fish was putting on weight though. live brine, black worms, white worms, tubifex, nothing at all, one curious nip maybe before spitting it out. The aculeatus was misery to acclimate, recovered from shipping stress quickly enough, but was the worst fish I have ever dealt with to get eating. As is typical the burgess bounced back quickly and was eating dry and frozen within a day. I ordered the butterflies early November and they came in looking dead in the bag, both bags had leaked and lost most of the water in them.
Reef safe recordia trial#
I have gotten away with some fleshy lps, like blastos, chalices, lepastrea, one acan echinata, so there is a bit of trial and error in what can be kept.Īfter allowing the tank time to recover I got another burgess and the aculeatus butterfly. While I have gotten away with a good mix of SPS, LPS and some softies I have avoided large fleshy LPS like lobos, trachy, scholy ect, and I don't keep gorgonians cause the blenny eats them. In general this type of stocking requires some special attention to the corals and fish. I have an auto-feeder setup with a mix of food sizes, to feed at the tanks "midnight" to feed any corals which wont come out during the day. I do get very little day time polyp extension on my SPS. Right now the starry, roa and burgess have learned that I spot feed the nps each time I feed the tank, after grabbing some easy to get food from the water column they go to the nps and steal food. The frequency of closing slowly caused the zoa frags to slowly wither however the established colonies survived because they were large enough to sustain small patches closing. Then there is food associated nipping, like the first burgess who killed several small zoa frags, there was never any sign of damage to the zoapolyps, no tissue damage at all, but the burgess would frequently pick at pods between the heads, and that would cause them to close. The nipping stops when the issue is solved. I really only see the nibbling directly on the corals when one is unhappy usually some rogue mushroom is growing into the coral or a colony is getting too much or too little flow. Helps young fish develop in a safe environment as they grow, while at the same time keeping them accustomed to the water and conditions of the main aquarium.Click to expand.So the nibbling doesn't regularly damage the corals. Some owners even place new fish in a refugium to help them acclimate to a quiet environment (away from the inhabitants of the main aquarium). The more sensitive fish and corals will certainly benefit from this.Ī refugium can serve as a refuge for fish that are vulnerable or prone to bullying (e.g. For example, a 60 liter aquarium with a 20 liter refugium is actually an 80 liter system the extra volume makes the aquarium water less sensitive to temperature fluctuations and other disturbances, making it easier to care for an aquarium. The copepods can enter the main aquarium, providing a regular and healthy source of food for the animals in your tank.Ī refugium increases the total water volume of the aquarium, making the water more stable. In an aquarium, a large enough refugium can provide a safe haven for copepods (where they don’t have to worry about being eaten and can reproduce so that you create a stable population).
Popular organisms that can develop into a stable population in your refugium are amphipods and copepods. If you don’t have a refugium there is a chance that the entire population will be eaten and your population of small organisms will disappear. Protect small animal organisms from being eaten by fish and coral to develop a stable population in your aquarium. These corals can optionally be fed and also like medium to a lot of light. Ricordea florida also often has more and larger vesicles. Ricordea florida has blisters up to the mouth and Ricordea yuma has no blisters on the mouth. The difference is not only seen in price, but you can also see the difference in appearance. Ricordea florida corals are relatively inexpensive compared to Ricordea yuma. Ricordea florida often grows no larger than 5 inches in diameter. The Ricordea yuma is often larger and therefore more visible than the Ricordea florida and can grow up to 20 centimeters in diameter. One species is found in the Pacific Ocean, called Ricordea yuma, the other from the Caribbean, Ricordea florida. These disc anemones are covered with round blisters which makes for a very attractive appearance for most hobbyists.
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