Blastos grow nothing :-(

[Jakef150]

I have very beautiful red with lime 2 heads..it have NOT pop new head for like 5-6 months...

It opens huge I would say approx 2"

I have other blastos purple it's growing slowly and few new heads

Any tips?

Thanks
Jake

 

[rickytsui]

target feed them

 

[MIKE NY]

x2 ...but for me they are slow growers..check out my thread.. mine have about 8 heads now which started with two over a year and half ago.

 

[bonomo53]

i had a red and green blasto for over a year with no growth then it randomly just grew 4 heads

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

it's always good to supplement feeding with small particle stuff like rotifers and phyto..every now and then I just squirt some in the tank or add frozen rotifers to my mix when I defrost my mysis and whatnot to turkey baste..phytoplex and phyto feast are good products.

 

[Jakef150]

Where to buy rotifers and phytoplex?

What brand do you recommend ?

Thanks

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I wouldn't use any of the Kent feeds, they are loaded with garbage to keep the product from spoiling on the shelf. Whatever phyto you decide to go with should be refrigerated or at least freeze dried. No liquid phyto kept at room temperature on a shelf, it's just a waste of money. Phytofeast from Reef Nutrition is the best in my opinion. However, blastomussa isn't going to eat phyto, the particle size is way too small for them to capture. You want to feed them meaty foods such as mysis. You can soak the mysis in a little bit of phyto to act as a gut load but dumping it into the tank in the hopes it will consume it is counter productive.

 

[smoq]

I feed mine Fauna Marin LPS food and they love it. Acans, too

 

[ducati335i]

My blasts are pretty slow growers as well

 

[thirty5]

As are mine. I have red with green centers they swell up HUGE!! I try to spot feed each head , but have to make sure that they have time to close up on the food before something else steals it. Meaty foods mine seem to like!!!

 

[smoq]

As are mine. I have red with green centers they swell up HUGE!! I try to spot feed each head , but have to make sure that they have time to close up on the food before something else steals it. Meaty foods mine seem to like!!!

Oh yeah, I have to keep my hand in the tank and chase away all fish for good 5 minutes before the polyps close.

 

[tentacles]

My blastos didn't seem to grow at all for months (even with target feeding) then out of nowhere started sprouting heads like crazy! They loved the fauna Marin food and mysis. They also seemed to grow more when I started feeding coral frenzy ~ 1x per week.

 

[jerl77]

its got to be the leds buddy go with the t5 mine grow like crazy

 

[Jakef150]

Not LEDs..I started with PC for almost 9 month then add led with PC before changed to AI LEDs


Jake

 

[jerl77]

its the led buddy go to t5 ha ha ha

Not LEDs..I started with PC for almost 9 month then add led with PC before changed to AI LEDs


Jake