This method shows what its like to run a reef for 80 months in the model of a fringing reef area that is high energy, high exposure. when the bowl is drained, it receives cleaning for algae on the walls with strong hydrogen peroxide as a paper towel application about once every three months. The bowl is fed roti feast, cyclopeeze, and reefcleaners filter feeder formula all at once in the dosage for a ~50 gallon aquarium. the bowl slurries in food, then its all drained out once a week. the bowl is not fed daily.
this saves me from having to feed every day as a chore, the animals prefer this method for sure it actually gives each organism a competitive chance at a full gut. notice the sps on the wall. it had sealed in the whole top area blocking out the light in tabular form I had to cut it out, this is the regrowth on the wall coming back to haunt. not the rarest montipora but still sps biomass nonetheless.
This full export method is easy to run on smaller pico reefs. It allows you to blast feed them, and instead of daily you can go out to 5-7 day intervals with no feeding in between and the corals actually grow better than sparse daily feeding. try it if your 3 gallon and below pico reef is lacking or needs a change. Certain fish inclusions can still work with the technique depending on foraging habits etc but being able to saturate a tank in protein and maintain perfect water params at the same time is great for packing on coral mass.
[video=youtube;8Fk8R3clElQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fk8R3clElQ[/video]
this saves me from having to feed every day as a chore, the animals prefer this method for sure it actually gives each organism a competitive chance at a full gut. notice the sps on the wall. it had sealed in the whole top area blocking out the light in tabular form I had to cut it out, this is the regrowth on the wall coming back to haunt. not the rarest montipora but still sps biomass nonetheless.
This full export method is easy to run on smaller pico reefs. It allows you to blast feed them, and instead of daily you can go out to 5-7 day intervals with no feeding in between and the corals actually grow better than sparse daily feeding. try it if your 3 gallon and below pico reef is lacking or needs a change. Certain fish inclusions can still work with the technique depending on foraging habits etc but being able to saturate a tank in protein and maintain perfect water params at the same time is great for packing on coral mass.
[video=youtube;8Fk8R3clElQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fk8R3clElQ[/video]
