do u dose oyster eggs or plankton to the sps ?
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chercm
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zooplankton sources ?
divewsharks
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zooplankton: Plankton that consists of tiny animals, such as rotifers, copepods, and krill, and of microorganisms once classified as animals, such as dinoflagellates and other protozoans.
so any of these would a 'source'. you can buy them or culture them.
hth
so any of these would a 'source'. you can buy them or culture them.
hth
29reef
It's all about the flow
Yes and no. Feeding can help with growth and color of your sps corals; but you still must maintain proper water quality. Sense it's near impossible to spot feed you must feed a lot of food into the water to feed the corals. This can cause poor water quality if the proper methods and filtration are not used.
sjfishguy
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Do you have a source for this information?
klepto
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Surely, maintaining water quality is key for success with SPS. With some baster skills I don't see why one can't just target the corals locally, rather than having to broadcast feed at a higher amounts. This will reduce the bioload and keep your skimmer cranking more consistently. I would consider it anything but impossible to target/spot feed SPS effectively.
chercm
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feed the sps with oyster eggs ?
klepto
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Sure! You can feed them all sorts of plankton. Usually the smaller stuff works best for SPS. Live, phytoplankton enriched rotifers would probably be the ideal SPS feed. Artemia nauplii (brine shrimp eggs), and golden pearls are regularly used as well. In my opinion, if you aren't using a live food, you have to be much more cautious about polluting your water. With both live and frozen it's not hard to go overboard. Starting gradually is a good way to avoid any issues.
Cyclop-eeze as mentioned above is a great option for those of us not culturing live plankton. Go with the frozen, it goes a long way and has a great nutritional content.
Most SPS that I have come into contact with seem to do very well without any direct feeding. If water chemistry is stable, the coral is in a good PAR zone (most Acropora preferring high light of course), and is receiving sufficient flow- then it's only a matter of time before the colors happen.
I doubt Chercm can get RN products in Singapore.. But maybe??
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chadfarmer
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nope only fish poop
Can anyone point me toward research that evidences SPS consume cyclopeze? I have been told by many people that Cyclopeze are to large for SPS. I also read that acros love it.
Some information please.....
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Some information please.....
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I have seen Pocci's eat them but no other SPS.
sportzfish
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Really? I see them catch stuff but never bring it within their polyps like an acan or sun coral does.
SMOOTHIE
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Great to "feed" after you have feed the fish and polyps are out or sometimes polyp extension is at it's max at night with some people. If you can turn your skimmer off for an hour while you do this once or twice a week. Many people make their own reef food by incorporating the coral's food in with their fish food. They get it a little a day as if in the wild
joshrules123456
josh dimichele
In my observations, I would say sps feed just as heavily as lps. I have even observed sps eating tiny pieces of flakes! Zoo plankton is what they eat in nature, so Id say its the best thing to feed them, however if it is small enough to fit in their mouth and it is derived from a carbon based life form, they eat it, weather it be bacteria, phyto or zoo plankton, poop, broken up pieces of mysis/brine shrimp, etc. I personally look at feeding my coral like I feed my fish, a healthy balanced diet of many things, just like I feed myself, or any animal ive ever taken care of, just dont go overboard and pollute your water.
klepto
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Thats awesome.. how much is shipping though? :hmm3:Singapore, sure can
It's funny this was brought up. I was feeding some cyclopeeze yesterday and got a few of my acros' polyps to not only snare, but retract back into their holes and ingest the plankton.
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