DT's, Golden Pearls etc

[fishnut]

What are "Golden Pearls" - what are they used for - where do you buy them?

Once I stopped using DT's, the cyano in my tank cleared up.

[EmilyB]

www.brineshrimpdirect.com

If you were closer, I would give you samples [img]smile.gif[/img]

[DJ88]

Fishnut,

How much were you feeding your tank to cause Cyano?

If anything in mine feeding DT's is causing a slowdown in growth of other algaes I don't want in my tank. ie bryopsis.

Thanks for the great info Rob. It is all very appreciated. :D

[fishnut]

Originally posted by DJ88:
Fishnut,

How much were you feeding your tank to cause Cyano? I was feeding 1/2 capful of the smallest size of DT's every 3 days or twice a week.

If anything in mine feeding DT's is causing a slowdown in growth of other algaes I don't want in my tank. ie bryopsis.

Thanks for the great info Rob. It is all very appreciated. :D

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[BCReefer]

I finally purchased some DT’s last week. I am in the understanding that I am to take out my clams and put them into a small container and feed them that way. Now I read that I can just put 3-5 ml per day and that could be just as good.

I would really like some opinions, as I prefer to keep my hand out of my tank as much as possible.

I have a 33G tank with a BakPak skimmer and several varieties of hard and soft corals.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Patrick

PS> Rob just ordered the book, looking forward to reading it.

[Aquattro]

Patrick, whoa on moving the clams!!! Who told you this?? Unless the clams are sitting on soft sand with nothing underneath, they're almost for sure attached to something. Removing them and breaking this attachment WILL kill them. They also just don't like being played with.
Just add the DT's to your tank and they'll do fine.
I've had three clams..I moved one..it's dead. I left the other two alone, they're alive. Pretty simple. :D

[BCReefer]

That is exactly what I thought. But I read on many occasions that people said to remove the clam so that it can get direct feeding.

Never liked the idea so I have not done it to date. I leave my clam to do what it wants. It moves where it wants and that’s that.

P

[Aquattro]

Originally posted by BCReefer:
But I read on many occasions that people said to remove the clam so that it can get direct feeding.
P

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">ALmost forgot. Never directly feed a clam!! It can "choke".

[Troy F]

I saw an interesting thread on feeding juvenille clams, at least I think it was clams but if not it would work great for them too. The person cut a 2l pop bottle in half(ish) so that it could be placed over the clam, the food is then squirted in and contained by the bottle.

[Aquattro]

Troy, not a good idea.

Here is a brief article by Dan Knop

http://www.reefs.org/library/article/d_knop2.html