Electric Monk
07-30-2008, 01:58 PM
I've rescued a Dendronephthya from a LFS that was looking very sorry for itself (it was in a tank in a bright spot with next to no flow). I've got him in a nice shady spot with heavy flow and seems to be perking up well at the moment.
I need to think about feeding now, i've been looking at the Cleartides auto-feeder 500 to drip feed phytoplankton and zooplankton into the flow, Marine show seems to fit the bill quite well.
Any thoughts on any other plankton mix that may be better or indeed the whole idea?
Blurb on the Cleartides autofeeder
"Corals benefit from a constant supply of both zooplankton and phytoplankton to the aquarium but until now there has not been a device that can continually drip feed zooplankton and phytoplankton to your tank. Now you can.
The Automatic Plankton Feeder hangs on the side of your aquarium or sump and draws water from your aquarium, mixes it with a solution of zooplankton and phytoplankton and drip feeds it back into your aquarium or sump. The plankton is kept in suspended solution by means of an air inlet at the base of the reactor. The reactor can be run continuously and food is simply added via an easily removably cap at the top each day. The Automatic Plankton Feeder can also be used as a Brine shrimp hatcher which can then be automatically dosed to your aquarium. We have been trialling this type of automatic feeding method on our coral farming facillity with cyclopeze, rotifers, artemia, copepods, phytoplankton and many other small foodstuffs, the results have been amazing."
I need to think about feeding now, i've been looking at the Cleartides auto-feeder 500 to drip feed phytoplankton and zooplankton into the flow, Marine show seems to fit the bill quite well.
Any thoughts on any other plankton mix that may be better or indeed the whole idea?
Blurb on the Cleartides autofeeder
"Corals benefit from a constant supply of both zooplankton and phytoplankton to the aquarium but until now there has not been a device that can continually drip feed zooplankton and phytoplankton to your tank. Now you can.
The Automatic Plankton Feeder hangs on the side of your aquarium or sump and draws water from your aquarium, mixes it with a solution of zooplankton and phytoplankton and drip feeds it back into your aquarium or sump. The plankton is kept in suspended solution by means of an air inlet at the base of the reactor. The reactor can be run continuously and food is simply added via an easily removably cap at the top each day. The Automatic Plankton Feeder can also be used as a Brine shrimp hatcher which can then be automatically dosed to your aquarium. We have been trialling this type of automatic feeding method on our coral farming facillity with cyclopeze, rotifers, artemia, copepods, phytoplankton and many other small foodstuffs, the results have been amazing."