10g frag tank - what to supplement, what to feed

[Cheezefrog]

Basically as the title states, just setup a 10g propagation tank, a little new to the whole frag tank propagation. I have only egg-crate in it, no sand, no rock other than some fragments in the filtration.

I've got SPS/LPS/Softies going so I need a range of food and recommended dosing supplements or if its unnecessary.

On this small of scale it makes me a little nervous that I will start over feeding. In my 29g display I use the following twice a week:

Coral Frenzy
Reef-Roids
mysis
zooplankton
some phytoplankton - planning on cultivating it eventually same with the zoo..
oyster feast.

Any recommendations on what I should be throwing in this tank and how often?

Also I dose my DT with ESV 2 part. I've been doing my WC on my 10g frag tank with the 'waste' water coming from my display tank(2g weekly) is this enough and all I should be doing without needing to add trace elements directly in?

Tips, secrets and recommendations for accelerated frag growth would be nice to hear. I use a Aquamana 165W full spec. light on it, totally overkill but heavily dimmed back.


I also dose the following Kent products in my DT:
Coral Vite
Essential Elements
Strontium/Molybdenum
Occasional Iodine although I don't use it as much since switching to reef crystals and ESV.

 

[organism]

The only thing I'd feed is new saltwater for water changes instead of used water that probably won't have the right element ratios. In a 10 gallon tank you've got a small margin of error with food, chances are you'll get the best growth from just changing the water and feeding very sporadically if at all.

On a side note you may wanna try an experiment with your other tank and stop dosing phyto, most (all) of the time the only difference it really makes is lightening your wallet

 

[Cheezefrog]

Thanks for the info, everything you said sounds very practical and logical.

I was starting to dose Phyto and zoo because I'm trying to get my pod count up to suffice my mandarin in my DT. Is this practical or not? I'm not going to go the route of trying/attempting to get a mandarin to eat frozen or other various foods other than pods.

I was also considering the cheap alt. to phytoplankton cultivating using a feed such as miracle grow and trying to neutralize that with chemi-pure elite or even a phosban reactor due to the explosion of phosphates that could be introduced. Simply put is this practical?