reef feeding

[mojojason]

I am looking for some new products to feed my reefs. Besides the usual additives I also use a freeze dried Phytoplankton. What other products does anyone recommend for feeding corals?

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Do you have a refugium? If not it would be a great addition, it provides bugs for your showpieces to eat without messy and potentially harmful additives.

 

[mojojason]

Nope. No refugium. As of now my space is very limited and that keeps me from adding one.

 

[Tackett]

You could plumb one from another room, would be just like having another tank...with weird critters.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Cyclop-eeze is a great product.

 

[mojojason]

You could plumb one from another room, would be just like having another tank...with weird critters.

I would love to. I just don't think the wife will to hip to it.

Cyclop-eeze is a great product. quote]

Thanks. I'll check my LFS and give it a try.

 

[danmhippo]

For larger corals, I feed pieces of oyster/shrimp/fish, for SPS or smaller feeding mouths, I sprinkle oyster juice over them. Oyster juice is simply the mashed up pieces of oyster leftover on the cutting board when you are dicing them. I also use frozen phyto paste in conjunction with seafood juice.

 

[SnowManSnow]

I feed photoplankton

 

[ChrisRD]

Unless I know for sure that a particular coral/invert requires or benefits from target feeding, I just feed the fish. That seems to work best for me.

I've tried some liquid/mush foods, phyto, additives, etc. in the past, but never noticed any benefit to my corals/inverts. Generally, adding that stuff just resulted in increased skimmate production and nuisance algae from excess nutrients IME.

That said, I do agree that cyclopeeze is good stuff - a lot of the fish and some corals gobble it up pretty greedily. I've only used the frozen version, but I think there's also a freeze-dried version too. Like any nutrient-rich food, I use it sparingly.

JMO/JME of course... ...YMMV.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm with ChrisRD on this one. Especially if you have a small tank, I think getting into the whole blender mush school of thought involves too much mess, too much risk that's you'll add to much mush and no obvious benefit. I don't add it on my 90G. I would consider it on a larger tank though (so maybe when I upgrade), as it's easier to add only a small amount (in proportion to tank size).