Reef Nutrition Oyster Feast

[thebanker]

Who uses this? I just bought some Oyster Feast to feed my SPS. Any positive results using this? Any good alternatives?

 

[ms123]

Oyster Feast is good, I liked it a lot, sps responded well. I think its a little expensive for my pockets, I use rods reef which feeds everything in the tank. oyster eggs are one of many good ingrediants in rods reef.

 

[ms123]

Oh, and a little of the oyster feast goes a long way...

 

[thebanker]

How much did you dose? I have about 45 gallons total system volume. About 40% of my coral is SPS.

 

[d0ughb0y]

thinking of getting oyster feast as well. isn't rod's food going to end up costing more? I tried a small pack of rod's and I don't notice it doing anything different. actually, since rod's contains many ingredients, not all of which are eaten, hence I end up with uneaten food in the tank.

 

[thebanker]

I have Rod's as well, i find it hard to control the food. I don't like uneaten food floating around and eventually getting stuck in my phosban reactor.

 

[ms123]

When I feed rods reef I turn down the powerheads (vortechs) and slowly add the food. It takes about 5 min for my fish to clear out any big pieces and the rest is taken up by the sps and lps. I feed pretty heavily daily and my water qulity is always good with great growth and color from sps and lps.

 

[d0ughb0y]

what is the dosage instructions for oyster feasts? I can't seem to find any info.

well, it's great if all your fish eats every single bit of rod's, but mine (and the op's) does not. I hate to see uneaten food specially when rod's cost so much.

 

[GreshamH]

You rang?

1 -2 teaspoons per 100 gallon tank per day. Add to high flow area or, for target feeding, premix in 4 parts tank water with 1 part product. Because different captive reef systems process nutrients at different rates we recommend new users start with half the recommended dose and slowly increase to the full dose over a 1 month span

 

[d0ughb0y]

thanks Gresh. What's the shelf life on a 6 oz bottle once I start using it and keep it properly refrigerated?

 

[GreshamH]

The Best Before date is set by when we bottle it. IIRC that is 5 months. Typically it's fine to use it for another month or so, just keep tabs on the smell and when it changes, it's done. It'll get "stringy" when you dose it once it is no longer OK. Freezing it can give you the same "stringy" effect so the smell test is the best.

The Best before date for it is on the white panel below the UPC on the "left" side panel of the label.

 

[thebanker]

How many drops from the built-in cap would equal a tsp? Roughly...

Trying to keep it simple.

 

[LifeAquatic]

I tried oyster feast for a month in my SPS tank. After 30 days of use every other night I noticed absolutely no difference. Also tried phyto feast with no noticeable results.

Best results I get using a supplementation product is Liquid Life BioPlankton Aquarium Fish Food. Use a little every other night and all corals love it! SPS polyps extend like crazy! Acans swell up to twice their size after feeding with this for a few days (Vs. not feeding at all). Based on first hand experience this stuff works great.

 

[wishntoboutside]

oyster feast has always been good to me. corals love it. rods food to me raise my po4 or it maybee was just being overfeed. oyster feast brought out polyp extension more in the long run. recently a freind told me to use the oyster feast first then the other food like rotifers and artic pods. the goal hear was to stimulate the feeding then feed. makes perfect sense to me. with a new job right now and existing another it has been hard to keep the tank consistant and it shows. soon my tank will be back on the game with great products like reef nutrition.
there are many snake oils out there in the hobby i have never used the bioplankton from liquid life so i can not compare, but i will say reef nutrition is not a snake oil by any means.

 

[gcarroll]

I have been using Oyster Feast for a couple years now. Of all the Reef Nutrition Foods, I like it the best. My chalices and other LPS go crazy over it. SPS always seem to have great polyp extension after feeding. I typically use it every other day but on my next tank I may move up to daily as I will have a much larger skimmer.

 

[FiReC]

4 quick squirts in my 34 solana daily of the oyster feast, sps love it.

Also doing 1 cube frozen and some reef chili daily.. trying to feed till I see some N03... I'm feeling too sterile lately.

Another note, I got an explosion of brown sponges when I first started oyster feast,,, they were ugly but easy to remove. They are all gone now after my first bottle ran out.. will be interesting to see if they come back now that I've resumed the oyster feast feeding.

 

[jimroth]

I am loving the Oyster Feast for my acros. I have never added anything to the tank that had a quick and visible a result. I thing you need to watch the amount--I quickly had a bubble algae problem. But I bought a foxface and now it's minimal. I have around 250G of system volume, I dose a little less than a tablespoon a day, and I skip a couple days each week.

 

[thebanker]

Do you guys leave the skimmer on while feeding? I keep everything going... the way I figure, there's enough nutrients in the water as-is, it can't hurt to start skimming right away - besides which my skimmer loses its foam head for about 15 minutes after Oyster Feasting.

 

[jimroth]

- besides which my skimmer loses its foam head for about 15 minutes after Oyster Feasting.

Bingo, it kills skimming right away, nothing gets skimmed out.

 

[LifeAquatic]

Bio Plankton

Bio Plankton

oyster feast has always been good to me. corals love it. rods food to me raise my po4 or it maybee was just being overfeed. oyster feast brought out polyp extension more in the long run. recently a freind told me to use the oyster feast first then the other food like rotifers and artic pods. the goal hear was to stimulate the feeding then feed. makes perfect sense to me. with a new job right now and existing another it has been hard to keep the tank consistant and it shows. soon my tank will be back on the game with great products like reef nutrition.
there are many snake oils out there in the hobby i have never used the bioplankton from liquid life so i can not compare, but i will say reef nutrition is not a snake oil by any means.

I assure you Bio Plankton from liquid life is not a snake oil either. Try it out. One bottle seems to last forever. Seems to be a lot of Oyster feast users that get good results. I didnt notice much reaction from corals when I used it previously but might give it another shot. Maybe increase the dose a little.