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Rich Ross tank tour photos

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wfong said:
Any one knows what food type and additives is Richard Ross using to maintain his live stocks thriving?
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Food type, everything and lots of it. Frozen, flake, pellet, powdered coral foods and no worries on phosphates, just have enough coral coverage and herbivores.

In his words "Feed everything with a mouth" which includes corals, pods and fish.

Don't worry about additives, but some amino acids won't hurt. Maintain dosing levels steady, have a solution for alk, ca mag and trace. That can be either dose or water changes, but with a densely populate tank, dosing is usually required. He runs a calcium reactor and I don't remember what he does for trace/mag. I am personally a big fan of the balling method with occasional water changes from the skimmer.
 
H2OPlayar said:
Food type, everything and lots of it. Frozen, flake, pellet, powdered coral foods and no worries on phosphates, just have enough coral coverage and herbivores.

In his words "Feed everything with a mouth" which includes corals, pods and fish.

Don't worry about additives, but some amino acids won't hurt. Maintain dosing levels steady, have a solution for alk, ca mag and trace. That can be either dose or water changes, but with a densely populate tank, dosing is usually required. He runs a calcium reactor and I don't remember what he does for trace/mag. I am personally a big fan of the balling method with occasional water changes from the skimmer.
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H2OPlayar said:
Food type, everything and lots of it. Frozen, flake, pellet, powdered coral foods and no worries on phosphates, just have enough coral coverage and herbivores.

In his words "Feed everything with a mouth" which includes corals, pods and fish.

Don't worry about additives, but some amino acids won't hurt. Maintain dosing levels steady, have a solution for alk, ca mag and trace. That can be either dose or water changes, but with a densely populate tank, dosing is usually required. He runs a calcium reactor and I don't remember what he does for trace/mag. I am personally a big fan of the balling method with occasional water changes from the skimmer.
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So Rich is not feeding any live food phytoplankton, copepod, rotifers to keep his NPS thriving? I feel live food is a requirement to keep NPS thriving.
 
wfong said:
So Rich is not feeding any live food phytoplankton, copepod, rotifers to keep his NPS thriving? I feel live food is a requirement to keep NPS thriving.
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I use to feed my sun corals live California black worms and the sun corals really thrive and open up nicely.
 
wfong said:
So Rich is not feeding any live food phytoplankton, copepod, rotifers to keep his NPS thriving? I feel live food is a requirement to keep NPS thriving.
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I never fed live foods in my old system and got my sun polyps to spawn, so no you don't need live foods. I would occasionally add phyto, but not regularly.
 
BAYMAC said:
dry feeds tend to deliver more nutrients, in coral tests, they showed far more growth then that of live feeds.
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There was a study from u of hawaii that said reef roids was best at increasing weight for m capitata, p damicornis and porites compressa. I think RB already did an article on this

another study from australian instutute of marine science used A millepora and pocillopora acuta, this one says rr didn’t do that much, so idk.

When we were there, Rich fed a cup of white chunky meaty stuff
 
tribbitt said:
There was a study from u of hawaii that said reef roids was best at increasing weight for m capitata, p damicornis and porites compressa. I think RB already did an article on this

another study from australian instutute of marine science used A millepora and pocillopora acuta, this one says rr didn’t do that much, so idk.

When we were there, Rich fed a cup of white chunky meaty stuff
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Guess who shipped all that, and initiated the HI study :)

There wasn't enough time, or budget, to really do that study properly.
 
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