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Okay,

It has been over 7 months. A new baby girl keeps daddy busy.

Anyways I had a "Triops" kit. the triops food ran out so I got the (Tetra and the Wardley Shrimp Pellets) bottom feeder pellets and crushed them up to feed them. Well they died after their expected lifespan. No worries.

I found ...

Darn, I can't find the article but I think a study done by auburn university where it was remarking the iron rich content of the lava pools and the bacteria mats that they typically feed on.

Oh well, I will stay away from iron, I am doing an experiment with gracileria in a 5 gal tank where I am ...

BadFlash,

I am thinking that the feeding has illicited a feeding response for me. I use green water, or prepared phytoplankton (DTs), Sea Veggies (I got some from Julian Sprung some time ago and still have bottles left that I freeze), nori sheets, and my coral mix.

I use very minute amounts and ...

I do have some, how many are you looking for. I don't really sell them. I use them in my nano tanks and nano reef tanks. I need the extra for my seahorses. I am just trying to come up with a scenerio to breed them.

Lessons Learned
Sorry ran out of room on the last one.

Lesson 2

2. Bring Temperature up. My rubra never seemed active. I acidently brought temperature up to about 78-80 degrees during a water change. Boy their activity really increased. They stayed out a lot more now. And I noticed teeny ones ...

Well, once a couple of years ago I replied with a tank I had set up and I am quite proud of it actually.
I started with about 500 Rubra. I would take about 6-8 out a week to feed my horses and stopped after probably about a 100 since it seemed they declined rather rapidly. About 100-200 went to ...

I had to comment....it is so sad....I have endeavored so much of my time and resources to NOT Having algaes in my Reef tanks, I can't grow it when I actually want some.......

Sorry it looks good.

Ray

BTW has anyone else figured out how much more active the rubra are. I added a heater to my 20 gal ...

I am not sure but aren't most of those predators and will probably eat them.

Ray

I was thinking of starting a thread and forgot I was in your thread...Sorry didn't mean to hijack.

Ray

I should post my own thread. I have kept these for about a month. I kept my salinity at 1.0145 per Ocean Rider's Directions. Their red gracileria that comes with the shrimp sure disappears fast.

I have probably lost about 50-100 from this tank this month. This was due to some from shipping (20 give ...

I hope mustafa has the answer, but I bought a half dozen cherry shrimp from a bunch of planted tank enthusaists here in atlanta. One of my shrimp looks like a cherry shrimp but its coloration is browning ( Still kinda red like a cherry though) in my tank. It looks like it has filter feeder claws ...

I used to use aobut 1/4 dosage on my Hawaiian tank, but stopped. It seems that the water changes with salt provides enough iodide if the food does not.

Ray

I have been using Chaeto with great success. I am using turtle grass because I am using it a dwarf seahorse tank. It seems to work but becareful of the rizones. I am using a 4.5 inch sandbed. Razor Calurpa which is probably from the same family as the feather stuff seems to grow as well, a bit slow ...

Lava Rocks....Mine seem to thrive with them. I paid 4.07 with tax to buy 100 percent lava rock for decorating gardens. It was a 50 pound bag. You do have to rinse it somewhat, but they seem to like it.

I use a spongefilter but I have it buried in the lava rock. It is my attempt to force water ...

What is your Salinity? I have been aiming at 1.015 but i am thinking that I need to drop it a bit more. I have larva but they seem to disappear into the mound of lava rock i have in my tank.

I top off with RO/DI water but as I keep reef tanks it is not an issue. But I do water changes with old ...