My setup.

[SantaMonica]

I'm sure any seafood blend would work. I like oysters because they have a sort of sticky glue that keeps them suspended longer, although the Sodium Alginate is what really does it.

[Vannpytt]

Maximum picture allowed is 256KiB. My camera does 2-5 MB. Any chance of compromise?

Full tank. Lost some of the SPS. They witherd and died due too underfeeding (Really underfeeding). If SM is feeding his 100g 48ml soup every day, I'm doing 10-15, and I have about 180g of habitated water. There are virtually no phosphates or nitrates available in the system. The glass still gets algae growth (due to very much light), but there is nothing nuisance on the rocks, except for mass detrius, wich i also assume is some kind of food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yocz_Ur3O60

My Scrubber after 7 days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAFDha41bw

Clean scren:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaEOAdEyecY

[SantaMonica]

Good growth and cleaning. With that growth you should be able to feed at least 30 ml/day. Don't forget I also throw in a whole dead fish each week (silverside), and feed some cubes just for fun too, on top of the noori.

Use PicResize.com to reduce pic size.

[Vannpytt]

Yeah, I'll increase to 10-20-25-30 next few days. I also feed a seastar for my harleqiunn shrimps once a week and Nori every day. The SPS seen has witherd, not enought Zooxanthelle due to low iron and low nutrition I believe. Started liquid feeding 10ml yesterday, and the polyps extend almost imediatly. The more I feed the more they extend. Fun!

[Vannpytt]

Probably not new to you SM, but here it is and it is detailing what I'm experiencing quite perfectly.

http://blog.fragd.it/2009/11/10/stn-and ... es-part-1/

My only Softie is withdrawn 24/7, my tubastrea sun coral is almost dying, and the dustfeeders are not happy campers anymore (except for the insane amounts of sponges growing under my scrubber )

I have 480W LED and 8*39w T5HO. I need to feed WAST amounts more if I read this right.

[SantaMonica]

Like the articles says, RTN starts from the base/inside of the coral. This is because the inside gets less food particles than the outside branches which are sticking out into the flow/food. The bigger the coral and the more branches it has, the more this is true. So it's time to get some zooplankton into the water 24/7... as much as your scrubber can handle.

[Vannpytt]

Well, I was thinking of an agressive approach to this, but I think my scrubber will catch up relativly fast. Like I mentioned, I'm currently setting up my own Phyto breeder DIY (Will post piccys), but for now it's an emergency, so I'm feeding rather heavy (20ml soup of artemia, brine, mysis, amino, flakes wich seems heavy for us not used to really feed).

How many ml should my scrubber be able to handle?

[SantaMonica]

Depends how thick it is, and if it's continous or all at once. Mine is like a milk shake, and currently is one dose every 3 hours.

[Vannpytt]

Everything looking good. Acros recovering after some color loss, no algae growth in dt, although I get some brown film on the sand. Probably needs to adapt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Pcaj6K6kw

After adding iron at a schedule, I get 35cm long gha strains into the water below the scrubber. Amazing growth latly.

[Vannpytt]

My girlfriend lost 5 table spoons worth of pellets into the aquarium almost a week ago. Now I have algae in the aquarium, but nothing died, and I could not measure ammonia at any time.

I learnt 2 things.

Don't let girlfriend feed.
A scrubber saved my tank.