Ricky's 120 Sps donimated.

[SantaMonica]

How are you feeding the anthias?

[RkyRickstr]

I feed new life spectrum pellets three or four times a day.. one pinch every time.

I stopped the oyster feast feeding for a month now.. nothing seems to be affected and everything is still growing, im thinking of skipping the whole auto feed system.. i see no need in my tank for it.. fish food seems to be enough.

I tested today.

430 ca
9.9 alk
1410 mag

If something aint broke why fix it right?

[kerry]

Awesome growth!! I just had good LED 3D growth last Thursday on my 40G.

[SantaMonica]

Yes the fish feeding will be enough for frags. It's only when corals get bigger with more branches, that it becomes difficult getting enough food to all parts of all the corals. It's interesting to think that the amount of water in the ocean the same size as your tank is fed a pound of food every day.

[RkyRickstr]

Thats prety crazy.. i read somewhere tho that the coral diet is only 3% food from the water and 97% single cel algae inside if them.. forgot the name of the alga.. zoosomething.. lol

Anyway, that being the case it makes me wonder if we really need to worry so much about feeding the coral.. thoughts on this?...

[SantaMonica]

100% of the nitrogen that corals use for growth come from food. 0% comes from light.

[reeftanknewbie]

Ricky,

Great looking tank and ATS setup. How many hrs per day do you run the lights on the ATS?

[spideybry]

Ricky,

Great looking tank and ATS setup. How many hrs per day do you run the lights on the ATS?

+1 n how often you scraping?

[RkyRickstr]

Run 12 hrs a day scrape every two weeks. Thanks guys.. i picked up awsome acros this week

[spideybry]

I could have sworn you were another Rick lol. Where are you in PA?