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Selcon and Zoecon

It's been a week, so I sucked out 50% and put in freshly made water yesterday. I put it in gradually over 45 minutes. They seem fine and are eating well. :)

I was going to use water from my nano, but I just did a water change in that tank and didn't want to stress the corals out anymore, so I thought, lets go with freshly made. I also run a poly filter in their tank to help catch any waste products (ammonia, etc.)

Now I know why tank raised fish cost a little more than wild caught fish...all this work and worry...like having kids! ;D On the positive side, they're fun too. :D
 
I can see why they cost a little more as well. After you figure in food, accommodation, electricity, time, and labor ... and of course profit. I really enjoy rearing these guys so far though. They almost look bigger already! =)
I have about 5 lbs. of live rock, and an Aqua Clear 30 HOB filter with two mature sponges from my old sponge filter -this is my means of biological filtration ... pretty basic, nothing fancy.
So it sounds like you're performing weekly 50% water changes?
Do you run the poly filter in a canister? Or a HOB filter?
 
Anthony, does your bottle of Selcon have an expiration date on it? I have one for about a year now and was wondering if it expires. I have kept it in the fridge all the time and am not even sure if it should be kept cold or not.
 
Lyn said:
I had to shave the cyclopeeze frozen bar. I didn't know they had a squirt bottle...wish I had gotten that!
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They, meaning Argent (CyclopEeze) don't. Liquid Life makes a product with CE in it though :)
 
A_Lee said:
Lyn -

Just thought you might want to know that I just tried some Nutramar Ova, and got mixed results. They went after it, but they weren't crazy for it. I ended up just feeding them a little of the Ova, and gave them some artemia.
FWIW, I also spoke briefly with Rich today, and he said he was feeding the babies nauplii before he distributed them.
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Watch out feeding too much prawn eggs or Nutramar Ova. Fatty liver disease is all too common with high fat feeds like that.
 
alve said:
Anthony, does your bottle of Selcon have an expiration date on it? I have one for about a year now and was wondering if it expires. I have kept it in the fridge all the time and am not even sure if it should be kept cold or not.
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Refrigerate at all times and it does go bad (does it smell awful?). Too bad the homepage utterly SUCKS for that product... http://www.americanmarineusa.com/
 
I didn't know I had to refrigerate it :( What if you don't?
It does smell funky :~

Also, I only feed the Ova once or twice a week ... think that's too often?
 
A_Lee said:
I didn't know I had to refrigerate it :( What if you don't?
It does smell funky :~

Also, I only feed the Ova once or twice a week ... think that's too often?
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Ya... it's probably bad then... shouldn't smell funky IME... Refridgerate always.
 
zambavi said:
A_Lee said:
I didn't know I had to refrigerate it :( What if you don't?
It does smell funky :~

Also, I only feed the Ova once or twice a week ... think that's too often?
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Ya... it's probably bad then... shouldn't smell funky IME... Refridgerate always.
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Yes, and be careful not to touch the tip of the dropper onto anything. I ruined a bottle by doing that and introduced bacteria into it. The selcon got these white strands in the bottle. Yuck. :(
 
GreshamH said:
Lyn said:
I had to shave the cyclopeeze frozen bar. I didn't know they had a squirt bottle...wish I had gotten that!
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They, meaning Argent (CyclopEeze) don't. Liquid Life makes a product with CE in it though :)
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Thanks, I didn't know that, but now I do. :)
 
Thanks Jeff! I have had mine for almost a year now and it still doesn't look or smell any different then when I bought it so I will still use it.
 
No, it got a smell to it. I can't compare it with anything I can think of but it doesn't smell very good. The smell is less strong then Oyster Feast, almost as strong as Roti Feast.
 
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