feeding Cyclop-eeze

I have
Xeina
Sun Coral
Anemone
Star Polyps
Feather Duster

3 Clowns
Yellow Watchman Goby
2 Porcielin Crabs
Emerald Crab
snails
3 hermit crabs
 
how much r u feeding,if a small pinch then i would say no if your feeding more than that than yes.I feed cyclops 1x a week.
 
I mix cycloplese, reef roids, and a cube of mysis and feed that every saturday and then feed the fish twice a day formula 2
 
As far as i can tell cyclopeeze is good for gorgonians, yellow polyps, sun polyps, and those kinds of carnivorious corals that require a fine food particle size. Brine shrimp and mysis are a bit larger. good for stuff with larger mouths and tentacles.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8380896#post8380896 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Justin/TiV
I've heard brine shrimp has little to no nutrition
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My LFS told me the same thing and recomended mysis. They were the same price so thats what i have been getting and everything likes them.

Chris
 
I've heard brine shrimp has little to no nutrition
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They do. There only purpose in my opinion is volume. If you fed your tank a large quanitiy of highly nutritous food all the time, you could crash the tank. A lot of people feed small quantities of highly nutritous food which in my opinion leaves everything hungary.

I mix brine shrimp with other foods.

Also, if you hatch brine shrimp live, you can enrich them with phyto.

Chris
 
If you grow / buy live brine, you can feed them anything from phyto to Selcon or even V8 juice to make them more nutritional (I stick to Selcon). I don't use brine shrimp as a staple food, only every other week or so I'll buy some, feed them, then mix them with whatever I'm feeding that day (be it something frozen or dry). I use frozen mysis regularly and typically soak them in Selcon before feeding them to the tank.

I also added live mysis to our tank awhile back and they've taken off, providing a fairly constant food source between feedings. Our wrasse certainly appreciates it -- he's fat and round like a football.
 
I would say feeding cyclopeeze every day is entirely too often. Check your nitrate and phosphate frequently. I'm assuming that at least a little of the food goes un-eaten each day and after a while that will add up to a lot of food that is rotting in your tank.
 
I don't think anyone can say its too much or too little without seeing how much is being eaten. Yes, its a highly nutritious food, but if everyone in the tank is eating the majority of it, there's no reason that it can't become one of the staple foods for the tank. Most people who feed mysis will have just as much waste if not more when feeding. I do agree to keep up on nitrate and phosphate checks but thats just normal husbandry imo. Brine artemia are much more nutritious than adult brine shrimp because they still have extra nutrients from hatching for the first few days of growth. Like fsn77 said, enriching them is even better. :)
Aaron
 
I would say feeding cyclopeeze every day is entirely too often. Check your nitrate and phosphate frequently. I'm assuming that at least a little of the food goes un-eaten each day and after a while that will add up to a lot of food that is rotting in your tank.
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Your statement does not even attribute a volume. What about feeding half of the 'every other day' amount every day, would not it be the same?

It is a pretty generic statement and can not hold meritt in all tanks. I feed my tank 10ml DT's phyto daily, plus 1ml DT's Oyster Eggs daily plus a small tad of frozen baby brine shrimp daily. Is this too much?

Well how would you know?

The tank is a 90gallon, 5 months old, full of live grammus and mysid shrimp. I have been building the tank up over time for a more complete food chain. Nitrates and Phosphates are both 0. But then that is because they are bound up in algae. Skimate production is about 25ml per day. Minimal hair algae, some diatomic algae but the algae is mostly halimeda and coraline. I am actually going to dose some silicate regularly to increase my diatom algae, which is an excellent food source for micro-verts, which are an escellent food source for corals.

My point is you cant arbitrarly decide some regular interval of feeding or volume of food is 'too much' with out knowing the dynamics of the aquarium.

Chris
 
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