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MD’s 90 Gallon Shallow Reef

MarcosD said:
Got Avast Plank mounted onto tank. Going to keep CBB I got from @Darkxerox and other fish fat hopefully. Still need to program into Hydros.

Messed up and purchased an upgraded mixing assembly not knowing that the version I got already included it. If anyone wants it, I’ll PIF
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Maybe its just how it looks on the picture but I like to pull the pump power cord closer inwards so that food does not directly fall on it. Minor point and can be done tne next time you are cleaning it or not at all.

Regarding the feeding settings - 1:15 is a long time - I only do 35 secs. 4 times per day. Plus frozen plus seaweed. I know these CBBs like to eat frequently but that's a lot of food dumped into the tank each time. Also, I believe someone recommended this here, but I am using the maximum on time in the advanced settings. Just to be extra safe since a I had this feeder dumping in the entire drum due to a faulty setting at one point.

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Alexander1312 said:
Maybe its just how it looks on the picture but I like to pull the pump power cord closer inwards so that food does not directly fall on it. Minor point and can be done tne next time you are cleaning it or not at all.

Regarding the feeding settings - 1:15 is a long time - I only do 35 secs. 4 times per day. Plus frozen plus seaweed. I know these CBBs like to eat frequently but that's a lot of food dumped into the tank each time. Also, I believe someone recommended this here, but I am using the maximum on time in the advanced settings. Just to be extra safe since a I had this feeder dumping in the entire drum due to a faulty setting at one point.

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Good point on the pump power cord. Didn’t catch that.

I haven’t seen how much comes out when running but I think 35 sec would be a good starting point instead of 1:15. I’ll try that

Good tip on the maximum run time.

Thank you sir!
 
MarcosD said:
Just to make sure… @Alexander1312 and/or @Darkxerox does this look right?

If I want to feed 4 times, 45sec each feeding, starting at 11am, every 3hrs? Maximum on time set to 1min as failsafe
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Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.
 
Alexander1312 said:
Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.
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Thank you!

I don’t feed for my entire photo period. My lights don’t kick on until 3pm.

I set the pump on a normal power outlet, not on XP8 since I don’t have anymore outlets available. Already thinking of getting a second XP8…
 
Alexander1312 said:
Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.
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The room lights are on until we go to bed so the butterflies are still eating until the lights go out. Almost all the food gets eaten too, the rest gets wiped out by my monster amphipod population in my sump and huge skimmer.
 
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