Photomicrographs of Cyclopeeze!

[delbeek]

I have used this food for over a year, as have several other public aquariums. It is excellent for maintaining colours in fish, especially Pseudanthias spp. However, some fish with a lot of yellow pigment may take on an orange tinge so be careful how much you feed. I have also used it on Tubastraea, black corals and wire corals.

Butterflyfish, damsels, pseudochromids, gobies, anthias, pygmy angels, cardinalfish, you name it ... just about everything I have tried it on will eat it.

The company that orginated this product is: www.argent-labs.com

Aloha!
JCD

 

[wade1]

Chemically astaxanthine is also an antioxidant/preservative. Its the base of the orange color that shrimp naturally produce to protect their bodies from excessive badness. Its also a part of the diet used to feed some captive raised fish to enhance natural coloration.

Wade

 

[imow]

Its the base of the orange color that shrimp naturally produce to protect their bodies from excessive badness.
Wade

What exactly does this mean?? :roll:

 

[tonytooth]

Can soneone tell me how you are supposed to use this stuff. It doesn't tell you on there website http://www.cyclop-eeze.com how to use it. The bottle doesn't say much. How do you guys use this stuff. Is it for the corals or the fish or both. I have this stuff and I'm thinking I got ripped off.

 

[Louis Z]

Oh-no! someone quoted the FDA

 

[Greg Hiller]

I've used this as an alternative to baby brine shrimp when raising clownfish. Matt had some in his store a while back when he was first testing it out. The nice thing is that the pieces are very small, and it's hard to find nutritious food small enough to fit into the mouths of several week old clowns.

- Greg Hiller

 

[MattM]

Can soneone tell me how you are supposed to use this stuff.

For the frozen version, we just scrape a little off with a razor blade and add to whatever we are thawing out for feeding that day (mysis shrimp, brine, whatever). You can also thaw a little and mix with flake or pellet food. We also give it directly to Green Chromis who especailly seem to like it.

For corals, just thaw some and put it into an area of strong water flow.

If you have the freeze-dried version, same as above, just replace "thaw" with "re-hydrate" (i.e. add water ).

 

[wade1]

Its the base of the orange color that shrimp naturally produce to protect their bodies from excessive badness.
Wade

What exactly does this mean?? :roll:

I was trying to avoid getting too scientific. What I mean is that astaxanthine and many other chemicals are used in the body to prevent damage from things like UV radiation, oxygen damage, etc....

 

[tonytooth]

Thanks MattM. I will do this. Do you think this stuff is wothr the money?

 

[delbeek]

Can soneone tell me how you are supposed to use this stuff. It doesn't tell you on there website http://www.cyclop-eeze.com how to use it. The bottle doesn't say much. How do you guys use this stuff. Is it for the corals or the fish or both. I have this stuff and I'm thinking I got ripped off.

When you say you have a "bottle" do you mean a jar of the freeze-dried form or a bottle of the liquid extract?? The extract is a liquid, I have never used it but would guess you soak your food in it. The freeze-dried stuff tends to float even of you hydrate it. I have only used the frozen form and prefer it. I just break-off a chunk and thaw it in some seawater then pour into the tank ... the fish gobble it up pretty quickly.

Aloha!
JCD

 

[tonytooth]

Thank you. I have the freeze dried but I am going to order the frozen. Does anyone know the cheapest place to order the frozen kind from?

 

[monkeyboy]

I've used this as an alternative to baby brine shrimp when raising clownfish. Matt had some in his store a while back when he was first testing it out. The nice thing is that the pieces are very small, and it's hard to find nutritious food small enough to fit into the mouths of several week old clowns.

- Greg Hiller

Is it small enough for baby banggais?

 

[Spikehs]

i'd like to know if new born banggai's take to it as well.

EDIT: wow, bringing up an old post. any new info on how the babby banggai's take to it? will they eat it right away?

 

[Anonymous]

They are one-eyed decapods, I think.

Yep, cyclopoid copepods

We have been culturing jellyfish with them as well.

 

[Micah00]

I had read an article about this product several months back and it was enough to catch my eye. I was interested in this product and the only place I found it for sell at the time was http://www.jehmco.com .They have it in both freeze dried and frozen. In the artcle it stated the product was first employed to feed fry of clownfish and the survival rate greatly increased and the colors also seemed to be improved.