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Old 01/06/2008, 02:40 PM
Aadler Aadler is offline
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Originally posted by Brad Black
Same here. Do you think they can just be bred/fed in a fuge to supply the main tank automatically over time? That would be my goal if possible. Thanks. Would like to see at a Csea meeting too.
Well, that is the reason for a fuge, however, you keep this water slightly green at all times with phyto, so i would not think you would want that hooked up to your DT ;c). They other thing is I try to build up a fairly dense population before putting a water bottle into my tank (be it fuge or directly into the DT), and unless you have super SLOW flow through the fuge you would not see the number of pods you do in a separate setup. Also, with the excess food in the separate setup you get MUCH faster population expansion than you would if there is any type of predation (IE falling over the overflow into the DT).
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