Feeding cyclops????

[Shane Hoffman]

I recently purchased a can of dyclopseez...

The stuff is very fine almost powder like.

Is there anyone out there who uses it? If so, how do you feed it? It seems to just float on the surface....I have heard nothing but wonderful things about its affect on fish and corals...I can target feed corals but how do you feed the fishys????

 

[snorvich]

I feed it frozen and it works much better.

 

[Shane Hoffman]

meaning you mix it with water and freeze it???

Or you by the frozen version???

 

[saltjohnswharf]

Cyclops come in frozen cubes at the LFS.

The powder you have is a pain. I tried it but switched to frozen. You can add a little of the cyclops to a small tupperware that contains some water. At this point you can add garlic or whatever. Use a feeding syringe to slowly feed it where you want. Next time go to the freezer section in store and pick up the little cubes. They are fabulous and almost nothing won't eat it.

 

[Hal]

For the freeze dried I grab a pinch, stick the pinch under the water and release. If you don't do that, the surface tension of the water makes it difficult for the cyclop-eeze to do anything but float on the top.

The fish will swim around and eat it. I've trained my copperband and vlamingi tang to eat it out of my hand. Just hold the pinch stationary and they come get it.

 

[wschang812]

thats cool. eating out of your hand. almost everything will eat cyclops. you can mix the powder version in a separate water cup and pour it in the tank as well.

 

[Shane Hoffman]

If anyone is interested I tried something that worked very well.

I scooped out a 1/4 cup of aquarium water, stirred in a level teaspoon of cyclops, froze it over night, then broke off small pieces (about the size of cube) and through them in. Everything devoured it. Only a very small portion floated free.....this would be good anyhow for mandarins and CBBs....