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11-11-2009, 02:40 AM
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How do you deal with the cleaner shrimp when feeding your sun coral? I almost had to beat mine off with a stick while I tried feeding my sun. Got to the point that I said the hell with it and sold it (the coral not the shrimps).
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#2
11-11-2009, 03:37 PM
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lol, yah. I usually give the cleaner shrimp a large piece of flake food to keep it busy while I feed the sun coral. Otherwise it will climb on it and pick all the food off. It's funny because the cleaner seems to know that its not allowed on the sun coral. When my hand is no longer in the tank the cleaner will sneak over towards the sun coral, but if I point then it will go back to its spot.
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#3
11-12-2009, 02:27 PM
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Well I have moved over the rest of my livestock to the new tank. I put the K1 from the 10g into the new tank but it seems to beat the crap out of the bubble coral. I don't understand how it could have no problems in the 10g but be too powerful in a much larger tank. I have tried pointing it in all sorts of directions but can't find one that doesn't push the bubble coral right over. The stock pumps are only 260gph which roughly gives me only 10X turnover.
Any suggestions? Should I just stick to the stock pumps? 10X turnover seems a little low.
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11-15-2009, 03:21 AM
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I tried moving it around a bit but I am trying to keep it low until it adjusts the the new light. I ran the K1 for a couple days now but the coral hasn't really expanded like I know it can, so I am going to run without it and see if it opens up.
I have also discovered that if the wavemaker is unplugged then plugged back in it leaves both pumps on full time until you adjust the controll knob. The problem is with both pumps on the water level in the sump goes way down. So if there isn't enough water in the sump for both pumps on then they will suck air and fill the tank with bubbles. So I had to spend a bit of time trying to find the exact right amount of water were the pumps didn't suck air when both on and the sump didn't fill up past the baffles with only one pump on. I'm not really impressed with that design.
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#7
11-24-2009, 11:05 PM
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Here are some updated photos. I managed to get the K1 pointed so that it doesn't cause too much issue for the bubble coral. The bubble cora hasn't opened up as big with it on but I think it will once it adjusts. I'm not sure what the green plant growing next to it is. It spring up out of the rock. I appear to be down to one hermit crab also. Not sure what happened to the others. They just vanished.
   
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