What's in my fuge? Lots...and lots...

Sk8r · 01/15/2015, 12:46 PM

Some fishfoods like frozen mysis seem to contain eggs as well as mysis shrimp. A colony is going great guns down there. I have a 20 g rock/sand fuge with a massive cheato ball---flow is pretty fierce, but the cheato stuffing the fuge slows it down a bit.
Other life:
aiptasia. Yes. Not a big deal. They're a pretty good performer in the fuge. I have a pep shrimp upstairs that sees to it there is not a colony of them in the DT.
asterinas --- same deal. They're happy down there.
hermits, snails---yep. I don't know how they get down here. I put a few in, but I swear they're coming in from the overflow.
copepods. I think the mysis may predate upon the pods, but there are still pods.
Amphipods....at times I've had more, but they're down here. They look like roly-polys, but not as big. Occasionally one makes it up topside, right through the Iwaki pump.
sponges, yellow, blue, etc.
featherdusters---these thing apparently live for centuries. I have a few that are the size of a quarter (fan) and they're all over, great little water-cleaners.
bristleworms---all through the cheato and under rocks.
coralline---yep. Patchy but it loves the sump walls.
one sand-sifting star---somewhere in here. Haven't seen it in two weeks, but there's a lot of the sump that's hard to spot things.
Together it does a good job catching and using spare food, and producing little crustaceans that get up to the DT. You know when an amphipod has come through the pipes recently: the fish start watching the outflow obsessively, hoping for another one...

01/15/2015, 12:46 PM	#1
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	What's in my fuge? Lots...and lots... Some fishfoods like frozen mysis seem to contain eggs as well as mysis shrimp. A colony is going great guns down there. I have a 20 g rock/sand fuge with a massive cheato ball---flow is pretty fierce, but the cheato stuffing the fuge slows it down a bit. Other life: aiptasia. Yes. Not a big deal. They're a pretty good performer in the fuge. I have a pep shrimp upstairs that sees to it there is not a colony of them in the DT. asterinas --- same deal. They're happy down there. hermits, snails---yep. I don't know how they get down here. I put a few in, but I swear they're coming in from the overflow. copepods. I think the mysis may predate upon the pods, but there are still pods. Amphipods....at times I've had more, but they're down here. They look like roly-polys, but not as big. Occasionally one makes it up topside, right through the Iwaki pump. sponges, yellow, blue, etc. featherdusters---these thing apparently live for centuries. I have a few that are the size of a quarter (fan) and they're all over, great little water-cleaners. bristleworms---all through the cheato and under rocks. coralline---yep. Patchy but it loves the sump walls. one sand-sifting star---somewhere in here. Haven't seen it in two weeks, but there's a lot of the sump that's hard to spot things. Together it does a good job catching and using spare food, and producing little crustaceans that get up to the DT. You know when an amphipod has come through the pipes recently: the fish start watching the outflow obsessively, hoping for another one... __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.