Best thing to help torch's,frogspawns and hammers grow?
- Thread starter bigdog1428
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Excellent choices, I love corals that bring movement to the tank!
Because these corals have a hard skeleton it is important to keep your Ca/Alk & Mg (Mg is more important than many people think as it is what supports your Ca & Alk) at the proper parameters.
It's a good idea to test your freshly made up SW for these 3 parameters as some salt mixes have more or less of each ingredient than other salt mixes. Whichever of the 3 is not at the parameter you want is what you would need to dose to be sure you at always at your target.
Also keep in mind that if you have a tank with a lot of coralline algae, you will use more Ca in a tank like that, so testing is important too
All of these corals should be visibly gently moving in your flow but not whipping around too much. Mid level to lower placement is fine.
What type of lighting do you have on the tank?
The other thing that important is each of these have very powerful stinging capabilities!!So don't keep anything too close!! When they send out their feeder tentacles at night they can easily murder other corals nearby!!
Hope that helps
Because these corals have a hard skeleton it is important to keep your Ca/Alk & Mg (Mg is more important than many people think as it is what supports your Ca & Alk) at the proper parameters.
It's a good idea to test your freshly made up SW for these 3 parameters as some salt mixes have more or less of each ingredient than other salt mixes. Whichever of the 3 is not at the parameter you want is what you would need to dose to be sure you at always at your target.
Also keep in mind that if you have a tank with a lot of coralline algae, you will use more Ca in a tank like that, so testing is important too
All of these corals should be visibly gently moving in your flow but not whipping around too much. Mid level to lower placement is fine.
What type of lighting do you have on the tank?
The other thing that important is each of these have very powerful stinging capabilities!!
So don't keep anything too close!! When they send out their feeder tentacles at night they can easily murder other corals nearby!!Hope that helps
- Location
- poughquag, ny
mysis, brine ect they can be spot fed but grow pretty quick as long as parms are in check
Totally agree with the chems.
For food, I recommend you start growing and (heavy) dosing phytoplankton. The DT bottles I would buy started getting expensive so I started growing my own and dosing 2xday, 1- 1/2 cups per dose. My frogspawns, hammer and filter feeders exploded in growth after this (I don't have a torch-yet).
And I mean exploded. My 5 pieces grew from 2 heads each to 5-7 heads each, and big. It is awesome. This growth didn't happen until I started dosing the fresh/live phytoplankton daily.
I grow 2 - 2 liter bottles while I keep 2 in the fridge for feeding, and go through them in about 1 week - 10 days.
That's what I recommend for growth.
Oh, and this is controversial, but I also got rid of my skimmer and put in an algae turf scrubber, so that the phyto didn't just get skimmed out right away but existed in the tank. Many would argue with this choice, but I didn't see major growth in the Frogspawns and hammers until I made these changes.
Good luck!
For food, I recommend you start growing and (heavy) dosing phytoplankton. The DT bottles I would buy started getting expensive so I started growing my own and dosing 2xday, 1- 1/2 cups per dose. My frogspawns, hammer and filter feeders exploded in growth after this (I don't have a torch-yet).
And I mean exploded. My 5 pieces grew from 2 heads each to 5-7 heads each, and big. It is awesome. This growth didn't happen until I started dosing the fresh/live phytoplankton daily.
I grow 2 - 2 liter bottles while I keep 2 in the fridge for feeding, and go through them in about 1 week - 10 days.
That's what I recommend for growth.
Oh, and this is controversial, but I also got rid of my skimmer and put in an algae turf scrubber, so that the phyto didn't just get skimmed out right away but existed in the tank. Many would argue with this choice, but I didn't see major growth in the Frogspawns and hammers until I made these changes.
Good luck!
- Location
- Staten Island, NY
So do hammers eat? Because I squirt mysis shrimp at it and it just floats away. I can see that hammers have mouths, but do they eat?
Yes they do eat mysis, best way to feed them is to shut down the flow in the tank for like 30min so they have time to take the food in
- Location
- Staten Island, NY
I do turn off the powerheads. The shrimp doesn't stick to their tentacles and they don't try to close up either..
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