Success with non-photosynthetics

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by Myka

Here's one of the nicest non-photo tanks I've ever seen: http://www.zeovit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16186

Wow is that ever fantastic. I see a coral in those pictures I have! I thought it was random leather I picked up scavenging an LFS display tank but I see now it is clearly a Dendronephthea / Carnation coral. I'm going to have a closer look tonight.

[danny zubot]

Your sea fan should be open and feeding constantly, ideally. Hopefully this works out for you... can't wait to see pics!

It opens up a few times a day, which is when I feed it. I have tried feeding it before it opens up, and sometimes it follows suit promptly while other times it doesn't. So far there are of signs of decay on the sea fan except where it was touching my candy coral for a while.

Snaz - How long have you had your Carnation coral? I would say they are much harder to keep than my sea fan.

Sharuq1 - I'll post pics shortly.

naesco - I've started to shut off the skimmer while feeding, just so that the planktons stay suspended longer. I've also begun stirring up the detritus in my sump at the same times as feeding to add a little variety to my coral's diet. So far, I've noticed an increase in skimmate. I haven't noticed any difference in the growth of my refugium macros yet, but I'll assume that I'll notice that soon enough. I also run GFO and NO3 spong in a reactor so I'm not yet worried about fouling up the tank.

So far I think all of the corals are loving the additional food I've been putting in the tank.