Reviews on Cyclop Eeze

[FishAreFriends2]

So hows this product, been hearing alot about it around the forum mind filling me in?

 

[BLockamon]

It's great stuff if you have smaller plankton-eating fish. It stays in the water column for a while letting them hunt at will. I also use it to target feed some of smaller LPS (trumpet, sun, goni) and gorgonians.

I like the Liquid Life version (Marine Plankton) because it is easy to dose the right amount. Still mix it in a cup of water though or it will clump when adding to the tank.

Reef Nutrition also has a similar product (Arcti-Pods) that are a large arctic copepod, sloser to the size of a small mysis. That's probably worth a look for larger fish and larger LPS. My bicolor pseudochromis never liked it, but all my other fish (except mardarin) loved it. Although RN claims 80% success rate with mandarins, mine won't eat any prepared foods.

 

[ccoons43]

I Think its a great product. IMO Things have looked better since I started using it.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

Do you think this product can help my tang recover from HLLE?

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Too small for any decent sized tang.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

I use waffers not the freeze dried or the bars.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

does anyone know?

 

[gh0st]

Good for corals and small fish, not so great for Tangs.

To cure HLLE in a tang, feed herbivore foods (Emerald Entree, Formula 2, Seaweed Selects, etc after soaking in a Vitamin supplement like Selcon, etc. Natural occuring algea in the tank will help as well.

Rumor has it that a 'fuge with Miracle Mud will speed things along as well.

 

[Justin James]

Great stuff. Corals and small fish love it.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10200962#post10200962 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FishAreFriends2
Do you think this product can help my tang recover from HLLE?

Cyclopeeze is an outstanding product but to help reverse HILLE you need to feed other (larger) foods.
Try nori and HUFA enriched mysids. I also like feeding Tangs and Angelfish HBH soft spirulina pellets and the Spectrum pellets. (Avoid pellets that float.) I've also used frozen broccoli florets and orange sections to help reverse HILLE in tangs.

 

[bitis316]

Great for manderines with the glass jelly jar trick.....They love it....I have 3 in my 240....They eat 2-4 times weekly with this jar trick..Not to mention that the rics, yumas, and every other coral loves it to....

 

[Damsel13]

what's the glass jelly jar trick?
I never heard of that.

 

[DaveG99]

You put the food in the jar and lay it on its side in the tank. This allows the smal fish (mandarin) to enter the jar and eat without other fish geting at the food. the otehr fish cant fit in the jar so only the small fish will be able to eat the food inside it.

 

[happyface888]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10201660#post10201660 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
Cyclopeeze is an outstanding product but to help reverse HILLE you need to feed other (larger) foods.
Try nori and HUFA enriched mysids. I also like feeding Tangs and Angelfish HBH soft spirulina pellets and the Spectrum pellets. (Avoid pellets that float.) I've also used frozen broccoli florets and orange sections to help reverse HILLE in tangs.

Im also having the same problem, would any spirulina foods work like flakes or it has to be pellets? Yeah dumb question

 

[Ralph ATL]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10200962#post10200962 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FishAreFriends2
Do you think this product can help my tang recover from HLLE?

Get some Nori from your LFS or from the Sushi section of your local supermarket (dried Nori for wraps) and soak in Selcon. It worked for me! That was almost 2 years ago, and I continue to feed him the same way. He's fat now!

 

[IvanD]

For those of you with the wafers, add some of them with about 1.5 cups of tank water (or distilled, your pick) and put it in the blender. Blend it real good and add to the tank. Not sure if the same nutrients are in the wafers compared to the block or the cubes, but it works for me.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10202017#post10202017 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Im also having the same problem, would any spirulina foods work like flakes or it has to be pellets? Yeah dumb question

not a dumb question.
Personally, I've seen results with pellets that I've never seen with flakes. It might be due to the fact that the pellets contain a greater volume of food. Compare the weight of similar size cans of pellets vs. flake foods. There's a big difference.
Additionally- it's much easier to deliver sinking pellets via an autofeeder than flake foods.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10202098#post10202098 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mysterybox
Get some Nori from your LFS or from the Sushi section of your local supermarket (dried Nori for wraps) and soak in Selcon. It worked for me! That was almost 2 years ago, and I continue to feed him the same way. He's fat now!

this is a very good suggestion.
Sailfin Tangs are eating machines. Make sure to run a skimmer and/or keep up with water changes so the water quality stays up to par. Some Tangs won't eat right in the presence of high nitrates.

 

[happyface888]

Hmm pallets, which one should I get from DrsFosterSmith? I looked into HUFA, and HPH and couldnt find it. oranges and brocalli?? mind explaining. currently I am soaking some sushi nori w/ vitachem,garlic guard,zoe,garlic xtreme. Yeah its alot of stuff.

 

[Bebo77]

great stuff.. everything eats it.. try and get the frozen stuff.. not the freeze dried...

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10202140#post10202140 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Hmm pallets, which one should I get from DrsFosterSmith? I looked into HUFA, and HPH and couldnt find it. oranges and brocalli?? mind explaining. currently I am soaking some sushi nori w/ vitachem,garlic guard,zoe,garlic xtreme. Yeah its alot of stuff.

HBH... not HPH

there's not much to explain about feeding frozen broccoli florets and/or orange sections.....
some fishes take to them immediately and some need to warm up to them.

Closeup of my 'adopted' Sailfin Tang. Feedings of frozen broccoli florets {coupled with other healthy foods} have cleared up his hole-in-the-head/lateral line. Note that a scar from HILLE still remains above the fish's eye inside the white stripe.