No fish = copepods

[mogurnda]

The Box of Slugs is set up for plants and herbivorous slugs.  No feeding, no fish, not much current.  As a result, the isopods and copepods are going crazy.  For some reason (probably a power outage) all the amphipods died a few weeks ago, but are slowly recovering.

 

Isopods

 

Copepods (having trouble embedding, so here's the link)

 

http://youtu.be/gbtsZNEmKwY

 

I expect we would all have copepods buzzing around if our fish didn't like them so much.

Edited September 24, 2014 by mogurnda

[YHSublime]

One of our members, Jason Rhodes, has a 55 gallon fuge that he slowly, and I mean slowly, runs water through and then back into his system. Pretty sure it's a remote DSB as well, and it's crawling with all sorts of this stuff of the like.

 

Last I saw, his system was looking phenomenal, and he contributes a lot of his success to it. That an exceptional husbandry I'm sure as well! I wish I had the room to play around with stuff like that, but I need to keep everything neat and tidy in our living room... one day.

 

Thanks for the share!

[gmerek2]

My frag tank doesn't have any fish. It's loaded also with pods. The mysis shrimp outnumber them though. Pretty neat stuff. I don't even know what they are feeding on since I don't feed that section of tank. I'm sure poop and some food go in the over flow and down there but it's just amazing the population that can thrive

[TrueTricia]

One of our members, Jason Rhodes, has a 55 gallon fuge that he slowly, and I mean slowly, runs water through and then back into his system. Pretty sure it's a remote DSB as well, and it's crawling with all sorts of this stuff of the like.

 

Last I saw, his system was looking phenomenal, and he contributes a lot of his success to it. That an exceptional husbandry I'm sure as well! I wish I had the room to play around with stuff like that, but I need to keep everything neat and tidy in our living room... one day.

 

Thanks for the share!

 

I thought you kept everything neat and tidy in a coat closet!

[YHSublime]

I thought you kept everything neat and tidy in a coat closet!

Can't plumb to the coat closet.

[mogurnda]

Can't plumb to the coat closet.

Sounds like your next challenge.

[YHSublime]

Sounds like your next challenge.

 

That's not a challenge. The challenge will be explaining it to my wife, who is already upset about me trying to figure out how I'm going to plumb my RO/DI in our new condo, that I'm going to also plumb a fuge in my coat closet. Which there in itself would present the bigger problem of explaining to her what a "fuge" was, and why I absolutely had to have one. My eyes are blue, but as far as she can tell, they're brown, if you know what I mean.

[Jason Rhoads]

One of our members, Jason Rhodes, has a 55 gallon fuge that he slowly, and I mean slowly, runs water through and then back into his system. Pretty sure it's a remote DSB as well, and it's crawling with all sorts of this stuff of the like.

 

Last I saw, his system was looking phenomenal, and he contributes a lot of his success to it. That an exceptional husbandry I'm sure as well! I wish I had the room to play around with stuff like that, but I need to keep everything neat and tidy in our living room... one day.

 

Thanks for the share!

Thanks for the props!

 

Yep, the slow-flow fuge is amazing for growing pods and mysis. I recently added LEDs over it, and the algae growth is starting to take off (a good thing in this case), which i think will support even more life in the refugium.

 

You are also correct in that it is a remote DSB as well.

 

Something is working, because i have more polyp extension with the fuge online than before, and that is the only change (well, I did change my haircut, but the fish don't seem to notice so I doubt the corals do).

 

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[Jason Rhoads]

OP, your fuge looks awesome!

 

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[dave w]

My wife is the same way.  She rolled her eyes at the idea of putting a big tank in the basement, but when I suggested putting the tank outside in a greenhouse she was all for it.  Little did she know what that would eventually grow into.

[gmerek2]

Oh cool fuge! I didn't get to see the video earlier! If you find a way to harvest the mysis for feeding let me know. The lack of fish is why they populate for sure. I have a 30g nem tank also with only one large slow maroon. He eats the ones in the open. The only place I can find the mysis in there under every rock, shell and they even figured out that they were safe in the nem basket.

 

 

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