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Poker Star Montipora : first pic is of the mother colony.(not for sale sorry) I just replaced the 2 square ceramic plates under it and have 2 small frags .Fresh cut but healthy. $5 blue base and green polyps encrusting species.
Is the bag of carib reef sand, very fine? I'm in the process of upgrading my 29 gal. Biocube to a 40 breeder. I plan on having med. To high current And was looking for a little bigger grain of sand. I wish I known about the stand earlier! Lol I bought one about 2 months ago. Lol
Causes for phyto crashes usually :
1) contamination. (Not properly cleaning. out vessel, not cleaning off tools before. use. Dirty hands. Etc.
2) dilute your culture to much. More then. 50/50
3) Improper salinity.( 1.018 - 1.020 is the range I try to keep mine in.)
4) not enough F2...
I culture phyto. Every 7-10 days. You shouldn't split the culture more then 50%. That is one of the mistakes people make when culturing phyto. I try to wait till the 10th day so the culture uses most of the F2 fertilizer, and it doesn't end up mostly in your tank.The left over fertilizer has...
Sometimes ACC (AQUARIUM CARE CENTER) has them for $5 a bag but lately I haven't seen them. I got mine from The Petco in Brick. They have them hidden and you have to ask for them. Call before you go to check if they are in. Lately I been keeping phyto and pod cultures at .018 to .021. I have a...
Thanks! I'm sorry to say I didn't do a video on phytoplankton culturing, there are a lot of videos you can find on YouTube though. I couldn't find many on culturing pods with the information I was looking for so I read some articals and tested it out for awhile then made the video on culturing pods.
Hello @diana a , i do culture phyto. And pods for my personal tank. I have a small amount of tisbe pods, which I feed my Mandarin. They are small and reproduce every 10 days. Which size pod were you looking for? I also have plenty of phyto if you need some. On YouTube: EZreefin I have a video...