kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[lastlight]

Damn 2.5. I may as well just dose P04 directly into the damn tank.

So if it gets entirely eaten and pooped out...is the P04 still P04? There's no magic anywhere in it's journey I'm guessing.

[kien]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Damn 2.5. I may as well just dose P04 directly into the damn tank.

So if it gets entirely eaten and pooped out...is the P04 still P04? There's no magic anywhere in it's journey I'm guessing.

Actually, phosphorus is an essential element to organisms. We need it, fish need it, but the problem is most prepared foods contain more phosphorus than is needed. What that means in the end, I don't know. I'm not a biologist

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by kien

I'm not a biologist

Well I feel cheated now.

[kien]

thought I'd throw this pic up. I hardly ever see this guy.

[MitchM]

Originally Posted by kien

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So there we have it. Again, I can not emphasize enough, take these results with a grain of sea salt! They are not scientific. ...

I did a similar test back in 2004 and came up with similar results as yours, so I think your results are quite valid!
I wonder why your rinsed mysis came back with a higher P04 though?

Originally Posted by MitchM

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I took a single 7 1/2 x 8" , 2.8 gram piece of nori and placed it in 1 liter of RO/DI for 24 hours at room temperature and tested the water before and after.

Before P04 was 0.0 ppm.
After P04 was 1.0 ppm.

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18 grams (about a tablespoon) of Piscine mysis, unrinsed, showed about 2.0 ppm in the same test.

edit:
18 grams of frozen mysis, thawed then rinsed briefly in R/O brought the weight down to 14 grams. P04 was a little over 1.0 ppm.

Mitch

Here's that thread:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=12625

Mitch

[kien]

Originally Posted by MitchM

I did a similar test back in 2004 and came up with similar results as yours, so I think your results are quite valid!
I wonder why your rinsed mysis came back with a higher P04 though?



Here's that thread:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=12625

Mitch

Cool! ya, looks like we got similar results. Again, it sucks about the nori because that tends to sit out all day as the tangs graze As for the Mysis, I'm wondering if it was because I left them out all night and let all the fluids in their bodies leech out phosphates.

[kien]

Baby blue is back!

When we last left the twin baby blue Linckias they were just nubbins.



I had not seen or noticed them for quite a while. They mostly cruise the rocks and hide in crevasses. Well, now they are back and cruising the glass.







I would assume they are thriving since they have both grown quite a bit since April of this year when I first noticed them.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by kien

sucks about the nori because that tends to sit out all day as the tangs graze

How much nori are we talking about here? When I feed nori it's usually GONE after 30-45 seconds! But I cut up the nori into pieces about 2.5"x4". So one "sheet" of nori for me works out to about a week's worth, give or take.

That really is a remarkable thing that the linckia's regenerated and failed to die still. I had the same thing happen to me with a purple linckia (not a Linckia sp. but everyone just calls them that since they look like linckia) but no such luck with the legs regenerating new bodies.

Do yours eat anything that you notice?

[lastlight]

That's one well-endowed Linckia. Congrats Dad You seem to have success with your stars but I'm still scared to try one.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

How much nori are we talking about here? When I feed nori it's usually GONE after 30-45 seconds! But I cut up the nori into pieces about 2.5"x4". So one "sheet" of nori for me works out to about a week's worth, give or take.

That really is a remarkable thing that the linckia's regenerated and failed to die still. I had the same thing happen to me with a purple linckia (not a Linckia sp. but everyone just calls them that since they look like linckia) but no such luck with the legs regenerating new bodies.

Do yours eat anything that you notice?

okay, well, "all day" might be exaggerating it a bit, but the nori does last a few minutes as opposed to 30 seconds! Maybe 30 minutes? I rip off a sheet that is probably 4" by 3" and roll that around the nori stick.

I don't notice them eat anything. They must just graze whatever they can find off the rocks.