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I love your high level of success. Can you tell me about your walls? Are those dendros the result of spawning?
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Thanks!
Well, I only know that the polyps on the walls originated from the yellow tubastrea at the right-hand side of the tank, about 7-8 months ago(it was alone at that time). I'm not sure it spawned, as at the same time it lost a number of polyps. I've read somewhere that it may be possible for the polyps to leave the colony when under stress.Just my 2c... Other opinions? |
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Did you add somenthing to the walls or did you just let it grow out neturally?
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All natural, grown in a few months on bare glass.
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Cool. It's just going to get better and better looking with time.
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Taken from Advancedaquarist, sun corals are hermaphroditic and can also reproduce sexually and/or asexually by producing planulae larvae11/12, which they will also do in aquariums at times. These can drift around an aquarium until they eventually settle and develop into a new colony. So, don't be surprised if new colonies seem to spring up from nowhere in an aquarium containing a well cared for specimen. Like this.
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Keeping food in circulation/suspension is one reason why I prefer no sump. Once you can just keep food in the display, you can just circulate it non-stop until the food is eaten. With a sump however, it eventually settles out.
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@SantaMonica
I fully agree, when stopping the return pump the polyp extension extends longer after feeding. Strong current pumps are equally important, preferably alternating, to avoid deposits. However, such a system needs a lot of filtering. how can it be done with acceptable aesthetics using only the display? |
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That's the filtering challenge. Check the advanced section for the scrubber thread, and lots of ideas there.
BTW many NPS are uni-directional feeders, especially deeper ones, and they orient themselves to only one direction of flow. |
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Here's the sun-powered AS on duty on my system, working together with a greatly oversized skimmer, macroalgae refugium, ozone and carbon/GFO reactor.
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Sun power is great
![]() Just a little water pump power, and you have great filtering.
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Indeed
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True, contaminants are a real risk. Well, there's actually a detachable acryl panel covering the upper side of the scrubber(4mm thickness, similar to the fixed lower part). I have removed it for this picture because of the reflections.
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Photoperiod is probably not a concern. Worst case the pH get up a little high, but 8.5 is not going to hurt anything.
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