Although the grow out tank is sharing the same water as the display tank thought I would create a new thread a different thread. Hope you enjoy.
The original purpose of the tank was to have a place to put broken coral fragments or purposeful grooming. An additional goal while planning the build was to have a place that was comfortable to test, log and dose chemicals.
Now that it has been up and running for the past couple of months I found it to be much more gratifying than expected.... aquaculture is really fun. It is neat to take small cuttings and watch them grow, experiment with placement (lighting and flow) and see how corals respond to different conditions such as color and polyp extension.
One experiment I did is take one single polyp from a few SPS corals to see if they would survive which is tuff to cut on some species. Having some interesting results that I will write about later.
Some of the things that I have planned for the future:
- See what different species of SPS corals respond to feeding. For example take a couple of cloned corals and target feed one but not the other by placing an empty water bottle over the coral and pouring in foods such as oyster eggs or coral frenzy.
- Glue some SPS corals from same family together to see if they grow together or kill each other. Seen some pretty neat stuff on RC with caps
Tank Parameters- Protien Skimmer in tank for additional flow and keeping it out of sump for easy access.
Live Stock - Fork Tail Blenny (to reduce pods)
- About 75 snails and 50 crabs
Some of you have probably already seen the pictures but there are a couple of newer ones as well.
Some Red Acans
ORA Pearlbeery frags
Moon Coral
Have had the Zoanthids in the back for about 4 years. Got from Fishdoody when they were in biz on 5street
Some sort of brain coral
My favorite Zoanthids. (orange ones in the front)
SuperMan
Some Singular frags
Dosing Jugs….Calcium, Mag and Alk