Feeding suncorals O.N. Brand Formula foods

[Tennyson]

I think so, dendros are the biggest I think though, yellows would probably be the second biggest I think. Not sure.

Anyway, I bought the food. I fed it to my fish, none were interested except for m midas who eats it like a pig. And my clownfish actually grabbed huge chunks and fed it to their anemone, and they don't do that with any other food. Now, the anmeone is so fat, and its tentacles are so bloated.

I also fed it to my open brain twice, it can't get enough of the stuff, much better than what I have been feeding it, mysid or silversides. This stuff is so much better. I fed it to my new frogspawn, it ate it too and is also bloated. How often did you feed your suncoral to have it get darker in color and multiply like in your pics?

Thanks for the thread about this food SDguy, never would have known of such a good food!

 

[N-A-S-O]

This is what I'm using for my Dendros. They love it.
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewItem~idProduct~ON6155.html

 

[SDguy]

Tennyson - As I mentioned, I'm super lazy, so only feed about twice a week on average. But a lot in one feeding....

 

[Tennyson]

Oh yeah, sorry 'bout that. So I guess my corals should grow really quickly and get darker colors quicker since you feed not that often, and I will probably feed 3-5 times a week. Thanks!

 

[SDguy]

Cool! Keep me updated!

 

[Tennyson]

OK, I'll update around April first, around the same amount of time you did with your sun corals, or probably earlier, since I'm bound to get results quicker with feeding ever day or every 3 days.

Thanks

 

[Tennyson]

So Far So Good

So Far So Good

I know its not Apr 1st, but I just thought I'd update half way on the feeding.

Heres a picture from this afternoon of the frogspawn eating large chunks of the O.N food. This is when the bright lights are off, so I had to use the flash. All 5 heads hold onto this stuff so well, I've never tried other foods, but I can imagine them getting blown away by even the littlest current.

Sorry these images are so small, I have a 6 megapixel camera, so I have to crop so much and lower the megapixels to 0.3 so I can post them like this.

Heres another pic around 30 minutes after it finished swallowing the food. And surprisingly, it accepted more!

The food is so good, my coral banded shrimp and basically everything else is after it. They eat this stuff like pigs. I use up a whole cube each feeding.

OK, that was the frogspawn, heres the brain, these are all still during no light time, so I had to use the flash.

And this is after its done eating, I think about an hour later. This is with the lights on.

I don't have pics for the following, but when I feed this stuff, my clownfish pair will steal large chunks of food and feed it to their anemone. The anemone has such a strong grip on the food (maybe 3 time stronger than with silversides) it seems like its part of its tentacles. And it eats it very very very quickly. It will swallow the whole thing in maybe 3 minutes, whereas, silversides would take 5 minutes.
And about 6 minutes after it has swallowed it, its tentacles are so bubbly and large (its a bta). Usually my bta's tentacles are skinny because its under 96 watt, but this food makes it inflate alot more.

And I have also been spot feeding my yellow polyps. I only have maybe 12 little polyps and they have never been spreading or growing (I used to have maybe 40, until my decorator crab took them all, my lfs sold it to me, telling me it was reef safe. But I returned it) But since I have been feeding this stuff to it, there have been maybe 6 or 7 little babies coming out of thier bases. And they seem larger than normal size.

This food is excellent, better than anything else. I can't wait to try it on my sun corals once I get them.

 

[Tennyson]

Oh yeah, and as for color changes, I haven't noticed it that much in my frogspawn, but I think right after I feed my brain, it gets alot more green, I think I'm enhancing its color each time, but its hard to see a difference.

But with my anemone, there has been a slight change in coloration. Its bubbles are a flourescent green now, they have always been ,but now its all over the tentacles and very intense. Will try to post pics of it later.

 

[Tennyson]

Wow, this food is almost becoming too good. Todays feeding was I think my third feeding for the bubble anemone. I'm looking at it now, and it looks like its going to fall off the rock, literally! Its usually flat against the rock, but now its so fat and big, its poking out of its crevice and looks more like a toadstool leather than an anemone. I'm starting to wonder if this food is good or bad because I'm afraid it'll fall off and drift around stinging everything.

Will post comparison shots of the anemone tommorow morning.

 

[SDguy]

Glad it's working for you. Only problem I have is that my latest pack of cubes has virtually no gel binder this time. The stuff falls apart to dust in a matter of seconds afetr hitting the water

 

[oltemative]

My suns like all kinds of foods. They will eat both formula 1 and 2, prime reef, cyclops and mysis. They even go crazy over Kent Marine Phytoplex.

Mysis is easiest because of the size. Cyclops is nice because the shrimp can't steal it from the coral. Formula 1 is ok, but doesn't seem to be as digestible (noticeable, disgusting red discharge after several hours) and while they eat Formula 2, it just doesn't seem right to me.

As for the Phyto that is probably the most interesting to watch because as the powerheads blow it around the sun's individual tentacles catch it and twist around like an anemone to bring the food to the mouth. Unlike the larger foods that the whole polyp's tentacles wrap around one piece. Live shrimp larvae have a similar and even more dramatic effect.

Finally, they will even eat small pieces of table shrimp, but it must be cut into very small pieces.