Rich Ross tank tour photos

[tribbitt]

 

[tribbitt]

 

[tribbitt]

@psidriven i can send you the NPS pic separately w/o compression if you would like

 

[tribbitt]

These pictures are from Oakland and Alameda tank tours, at Rich Ross @Thales house. Thank you so much @MichaelB for organizing this and Rich for showing us your tanks!

I couldn't make it to the house before so don't have any pictures from their tank.

 

[Thales]

These pictures are from Oakland and Alameda tank tours, at Rich Ross @Thales house. Thank you so much @MichaelB for organizing this and Rich for showing us your tanks!

I couldn't make it to the house before so don't have any pictures from their tank.

Thanks so much! What did you take those with and were you using a filter?

 

[tribbitt]

Thanks so much! What did you take those with and were you using a filter?

I used my phone (base model iphone 13) and a clip-on filter/lens from Aliexpress

The tour was awesome, really fun to see your various projects, really established tanks and the Reef Beef set!

 

[Alexander1312]

I am embarrassed that I would not be able to take half as good pictures with a 16 as you @tribbitt with the 13.

Those are my favorite.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

@tribbitt
I nominate young master Tribbit for club photographer!

 

[Patio]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[wfong]

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Any one knows what food type and additives is Richard Ross using to maintain his live stocks thriving?

 

[H2OPlayar]

Any one knows what food type and additives is Richard Ross using to maintain his live stocks thriving?

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.

 

[wfong]

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.

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.

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]

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.

I use to feed my sun corals live California black worms and the sun corals really thrive and open up nicely.

 

[H2OPlayar]

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.

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.

 

[Coral reefer]

food is good live or not if they eat it. I would focus on marine ecosystem based foods and call it good if they eat it.

 

[BAYMAC]

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.

dry feeds tend to deliver more nutrients, in coral tests, they showed far more growth then that of live feeds.

 

[tribbitt]

dry feeds tend to deliver more nutrients, in coral tests, they showed far more growth then that of live feeds.

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

 

[derek_SR]

Any one knows what food type and additives is Richard Ross using to maintain his live stocks thriving?

Food type: a shitload
Additives: none

white chunky meaty stuff

This is the way

 

[BAYMAC]

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

Guess who shipped all that, and initiated the HI study

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

 

[Thales]

@Thales is this a Rhizotrochus typus?

Yes it is!