Milk,honey, vinegar, vodka, bananas and o.j....?

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I wonder about injecting soft corals with simple syrup. Just a tiny amount, using a syringe, and observing if it boosts coral growth, color, activity, etc.

+1 for brewer's yeast! The poor man's broadcast coral food.

Interesting. I have used a hypodermic to inject air or vinegar into invasive sponges and ball hydroids. Are you planning to inject the syrup into the corals flesh or just around the polyp? Have you considered diluted corn syrup? Would really like to hear your results.

Honestly, I haven't directly fed Brewer's yeast to my DT... At least not on purpose. I also activate dry yeast with warm water and anything sweet to feed my rotifers, copepods, and adult brine shrimp. I'm sure a little yeast remains in solution when I feed those to the main tank.

H2Oculture, when you say "broadcast", are you feeding corals the Brewers dry or in solution? When I use it dry outside, the slightest breeze takes half before it hits the water:wildone:
In that application I have to use it dry so it doesn't sink too quickly and foul my cultures before the animals consume it.

 

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Im also curious as to how Le Chatelier's principle can be your CUC. (?)

 

[lashoskin]

I had no idea that you can give fish all of those options. Awesome!

 

[NotYoNano]

Before we get further, I need someone to make a list of every single fruit, vegetable, protein, chemical, solvent, and element, that comes in contact with the ocean from the shore.

Yup, the ocean is like that.

 

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Before we get further, I need someone to make a list of every single fruit, vegetable, protein, chemical, solvent, and element, that comes in contact with the ocean from the shore.

Yup, the ocean is like that.

Deep. :beer:

 

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I fed my fish (clownfish laid 1st clutch of the season) and corals a whole chicken heart 2 days ago. It was very well received. Im happy to report nothing has sprouted wings.

 

[Remmers]

This is the best thread Title i have ever come across LOL

On a serious Note, someone mentioned Black worms.

I know its huge thing in the freshwater hobby, is there any reports of using live black worms in a reef tank?

 

[karimwassef]

how are you determining if these foods are good for corals? are you testing two tanks, one with and one without?

 

[mikluha]

Would you tell us your diy selco recipe please?

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1656501

125ml pure cod liver - menhaden oil (or a mixture of omega 3 fatty acids such as DHA/EPA)

add 12 ml lecithin 2 grams Spirulina powder (20 microns)

100 ml RO water.

Blend all this until its like a pudding consistency

I got everything from Amazon. Plus, I added multivitamins (Vita-chem marine) and stabilized vitamin C powder.

3 weeks ago I got one scolymia damaged. I feed it amino-selco-soy-milk mix and it recovering very nicely http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24357137

Recently I bought large acanthophyllia is not so-happy condition (recessed almost all the time). Started to feed it same mix daily (take it in feeding container for couple of hours) - it's recovering well and stays more puffed

 

[stephenhall1987]

This is the best thread Title i have ever come across LOL

On a serious Note, someone mentioned Black worms.

I know its huge thing in the freshwater hobby, is there any reports of using live black worms in a reef tank?

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2285741

 

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how are you determining if these foods are good for corals? are you testing two tanks, one with and one without?

Lol It's easy to see coral response, growth or decline when feeding _ANYTHING of ANY origin ime.

Karimwassef, it would be really cool to compare effects/results with truly like, but separate, systems. My main DT filtration system was so much more efficient I attached my clownfish biocube to it. Any carbon (plant based) foods I could NEVER add to the biocube sans a great skimmer and chaeto-filled fuge! I'm sure it would crash.
Happily, I can now feed my spawning clownfish chicken hearts, fish roe I harvested, fresh crab,etc and leftovers go to the DT corals and fish before the skimmer picks up the rest. I removed the media in back so the chambers are now used for settling detritus. Like you, no filter socks either
I guess I'm saying, I wish I had the $ to run a comparative experiment" testing two tanks one with and one without". I would be sure to have all other factors equal.

 

[karimwassef]

Maybe it's possible to run spot feeding with two tanks on the same filtration?

They'd share nutrients and dissolved organics, but target feeding (or not) of comparable populations could be informative.

 

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http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1656501




I got everything from Amazon. Plus, I added multivitamins (Vita-chem marine) and stabilized vitamin C powder.

3 weeks ago I got one scolymia damaged. I feed it amino-selco-soy-milk mix and it recovering very nicely http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24357137

Recently I bought large acanthophyllia is not so-happy condition (recessed almost all the time). Started to feed it same mix daily (take it in feeding container for couple of hours) - it's recovering well and stays more puffed

Yay!!!:bounce2: Finally! While waiting, I developed my own concoction with stuff I got at Sprouts Health Market.
I use 2drops of this every other day in the NPS 2g pico. I have a Gorgonian frag (1/2 price cuz it was dying) that has quickly added flesh and polyps open all the time now.

Whole chicken egg ( lecithin, albumin), 4 Super Enzymes capsules ( ox bile extract, pancreatin, bromelain, papain, cellulase, pepsin), juice of one lime, in a blender, slowly drizzling 1 cup cod liver oil, then a dollop of karo corn syrup.

I put some in an empty VitaChem bottle to refrigerate and dispense drops, I froze the rest in a Ziploc.

Basically, I made a cod liver mayonnaise on steroids, lol.

There is only an air stone on my Pico, but in the DT, the skimmer is affected just like the commercial Selcon. Rinse the cup twice and good to go again.

Mikluha, what made you use 100ml RO water?!

 

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Maybe it's possible to run spot feeding with two tanks on the same filtration?

They'd share nutrients and dissolved organics, but target feeding (or not) of comparable populations could be informative.

Now THAT I can definitely do!
Ironically, another situation developed in the dual tank system that confirmed undeniably a different cause/effect. I have zoanthids and PEs in both tanks. In the biocube,with heavier feeding, zoas declined slowly. Then exponentially. Local chemistry? Unlikely. Couldn't figure why zoa's doing great in one tank and suddenly declining in the other if they share same water!
Looking for fish larvae 3 nights ago, I freaked when I saw the swarm of amphipods on every surface and polyp. Breaking news : Clownfish apparently don't eat grammarian amphipods.
Next day, with no natural predators around, I watched closely in full light, pods brazenly chomping on zoa's and one persistently picking at my carpet nem! I moved all corals to DT that has a diligent cleaner wrasse yesterday. No WC, same routine...zoa's already showing big improvement today... Now I got a FAT Wrasse! Pardon the pun.

OK ,I'm game karimwassef! What shall we test?

 

[karimwassef]

Now THAT I can definitely do!
Ironically, another situation developed in the dual tank system that confirmed undeniably a different cause/effect. I have zoanthids and PEs in both tanks. In the biocube,with heavier feeding, zoas declined slowly. Then exponentially. Local chemistry? Unlikely. Couldn't figure why zoa's doing great in one tank and suddenly declining in the other if they share same water!
Looking for fish larvae 3 nights ago, I freaked when I saw the swarm of amphipods on every surface and polyp. Breaking news : Clownfish apparently don't eat grammarian amphipods.
Next day, with no natural predators around, I watched closely in full light, pods brazenly chomping on zoa's and one persistently picking at my carpet nem! I moved all corals to DT that has a diligent cleaner wrasse yesterday. No WC, same routine...zoa's already showing big improvement today... Now I got a FAT Wrasse! Pardon the pun.

OK ,I'm game karimwassef! What shall we test?

wait! what?? gammaridean amphipods eat zoas?? And Clownfish don't eat them??

Is this common knowledge?? I'm shocked.

In terms of testing - pick your favorite first food candidate and deprive one group and indulge the other. Take pics!

 

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With so many choices, I don't know which good to test. Open to suggestions.

 

[Boom]

Just realised I forgot I put 3 vitamin D3 capsules 2000I.U., gel and all, in my selco concoction. Sunshine in a capsule!
Next batch I'll add vitamin E...

 

[Cincyreef]

This is the best thread Title i have ever come across LOL

On a serious Note, someone mentioned Black worms.

I know its huge thing in the freshwater hobby, is there any reports of using live black worms in a reef tank?

I feed blackworms almost daily to my mixed reef. My fish all love them!

 

[karimwassef]

I'm more vegetarian these days... Kale anyone?

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[bat21]

Another proponent of live blackworms here. Use them all the time. I can feel my fish angrily glaring at me when I run out of them for a few days.