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Kahuna 
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 12:12pm |
Hey Mountain Corals used to have a page on how to make our own Velvet Green & Rotifers. Does anyone have a good recipe and experience.
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 12:22pm |
I'm doing it right now and am pretty much duplicating what this reefer did. http://www.sjwilson.net/reef/ It is a very easy and clean setup!
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 2:38pm |
I think this would be a good class to give if we do a DIY workshop. Is that something you (rfoote) would be interested in doing?
John Fletcher "ReefAquarist"
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 2:57pm |
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Sure - I by no means am an expert though! It really isn't hard and once you get it going it isn't horribly time consuming.
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 3:04pm |
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Thanks. Now the question is, "When will the DIY meeting be?"
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 3:13pm |
How about a mini meeting after the mtg tonight?
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 4:27pm |
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I don't really have time to get everything together by tonight. I could print some stuff off real quick and bring that.
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Posted: April 03 2003 at 4:35pm |
I looked at the link you referred to. What a great site. That really gives most of the info.
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Posted: April 23 2003 at 5:10pm |
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Ok, Kirk got me excited to start a culture. I ordered some fertilizer from the florida site, but I couldn't wait to get started. I got a bottle of green fron the LPS, got the set up going w/o the fertilizer. Has anybody heard about using miracle grow? Some one mentioned that to me......How much would I use? Anybody tried it? Suzy
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Posted: April 23 2003 at 6:36pm |
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I've heard about it - but only drawbacks from what I understand are not really knowing the concentration of phosphates and nitrates in the Miracle Grow. Just from what I remember. Anybody else? I'll do a search on Reefcentral.com - I'm sure that's where I saw it.
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Posted: April 23 2003 at 8:41pm |
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Suzy I have the fertilizer, I'm on a trip but I'll be back friday night. You only need a tsp. per gallon. I happy to share.
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Posted: April 29 2003 at 6:46pm |
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Hi, Guys! This is so cool! Our cyanobacteria is completely replaced with hair algae, thanks to our wonderful culture of green stuff in the basement! Does anyone have some spare rotifers to start our culture? And ,in case anyone is wondering, even though Kent says its product is nanno something phytoplanton, it doesn't grow. You get some floaties....Must have some sort of preservative or something....
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Posted: August 08 2003 at 9:02am |
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Suzy - Sorry I know old post, but are you saying you think your phyto is causing your hair algae? Just wondering.
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Posted: August 08 2003 at 12:36pm |
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No, I don't think so. I think the phyto must eat what nuisance algaes eat, 'cause since we've been using it , all the cyano.hairy and slimey stuff is so gone! I gotta feed our hermits!
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