Seachem reef plus good or nah ?

[Jakef150]

Just wonder if it's good stuff for mix corals? More color? More healthy ?

Thanks
Jake

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I don't think it has been demonstrated that color or health has much to do with added trace elements. The amino acids may or may not be useful. I don't dose any for my tank.

 

[philipph]

Many hobbyists including myself noticed huge polyp extention with products like Fuel which is very similar to seachem plus.What substance in the mix might be responsible for this behaviour?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Organics like amino acids and vitamins may cause a feeding response. Perhaps that is what you are observing.

 

[philipph]

Yes,feeding response is a good way to describe what im seeing.Im wondering if corals would show a response like that to substances which are not beneficial to them.In other words if I notice this behaviour does it always mean im using a good product?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Well, I show a feeding response to many things that are not good for me.

That said, I do not know if corals do or not.

 

[fishflorist]

Randy , what to you feed to the tank ? can you give a list that we can learn . Thanks !

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I don't feed anything specifically for corals.

I feed freeze dried cyclo-peeze in the early AM before work.

Then a dosing pump delivers 7 doses of 1 mL each of Arcti Pods spread through the day.

Then I feed 1 cube of frozen Prime Reef when I get home from work.

Then a but later 1 feed 1 frozen cube of Ocean Nutrition Mysis, mostly for a chelmon marginalis which I deliver with a pipette so it gets about half the cube.

I also spot feed 2 gigantea anemones sometimes.