Cali Kid Corals

Alex’s IM 150 EXT

Darkxerox said:
I switched to freeze dried whole foods (mysis and calanus) and small sized flakes (I smash them up a bit) instead of pellets and I've noticed less clumping on/in the plank. Large flakes had issues too. I think it has to do with how less dense foods distribute better in the drum given how the thin fins inside mix things. Others can chime in if they're seeing the same. The cannonball attachment does help with moisture and overall gunk (when I forget to use it there's an obvious difference).
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That is interesting. I do like the TDO pellets as I think these are of higher quality than only one or two types of individual food items, but not sure if true or not. I have the cannonball attachment, did not know it had an impact.

Darkxerox said:
What's your skimmate look like and how much are you pulling every day? I'm still shocked with how having a properly sized skimmer helps me out now.
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I love the skimmer topic, it is such an underrated tool. It really depends, but often not a lot. With some of the changes, it removes 1 cup per week or slightly more. I think it has something with the ozone and the fact I am using dual mechanical filtration, which I want to get rid off (3d print solution).

This is what I recorded a week ago:

P.S.: I showed this video to Claude S, who is obsessed with skimmer performance (prefers external skimmers though), and he thought it was looking pretty good, but suggested I turn it up further.

Darkxerox said:
But rock die off is probably a huge factor. Switching to live phyto (maybe a higher quality one like tisochrysis) might help slightly too, as it will continue to metabolize until it's eaten or skimmed out.
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Yes, the dry phyto seems very concentrated. I actually only try to use it up since I had so much of it and it was rather expensive, and then switch back to live phyto afterwards. This is what I have been using:
 
Shopping @under_water_ninja today:
  • One additional cleaner shrimp for the IM 150.
  • 10 additional BB snails for the IM 150.
  • A couple of peppermint for the nano tank
  • Mysis PE, and rods food until LRS is in stock again.
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I remember reading this on telegrahams channel, that if the Hydros temp probe is not working, all the heater connected to them will stop working too. I have been cleaning the probe for a few hours in sulfamic acid and only noticed this a bit later that it turned the heater off - audio signal though that the temp probe was removed.

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Alexander1312 said:
Shopping @under_water_ninja today:
  • One additional cleaner shrimp for the IM 150.
  • 10 additional BB snails for the IM 150.
  • A couple of peppermint for the nano tank
  • Mysis PE, and rods food until LRS is in stock again.
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Let me know if you have this issue with the PE mysis. My last batch was really annoying with how it peeled, even when only exposing one row at a time:

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MarcosD said:
Do you have a brand you like?
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I switched to this which seems to have made my miserable fragging life a bit easier:

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