sps feed

[roons]

reef nutritions' roti-feast


reef chili


rods' (price is out of site tho)

which would you use?

 

[MCary]

None of the above. I feed my SPS fish poop, light, and money.

 

[roons]

how small do you have to blend the money?

 

[hgbarwick]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8016796#post8016796 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by roons
how small do you have to blend the money?

That was sarcasm. You don't really feed sps corals.

 

[roons]

huh, here i thought ya did

 

[xtm]

Light. TONS of light.

 

[roons]

well this should be an interesting debate, so feeding corals rotifers is a waste of time and money?

 

[kzoo]

Corals get 98% of there food from light, read that in several books. I think that most of the food that they sell for corals are a waste of money, but maybe if you are feeding there getting 2% more than people that are not.

 

[roons]

well i guess you didnt read this book then huh?

 

[GreshamH]

There's countless papers showing otherwise. can you live on 98% sugar?

 

[roons]

id like to get back on topic tho, for those that dont feed their corals ,great, for those that do , can you give me your opinions on the products i listed?

 

[demonsp]

Lots of good lighting, they will also consume some marine snow but most comes from good light. Just be sure they wont be shaded anytime by other coral. always think ahead. a newbies 2 cents Oh nice pics of that book hehe

 

[roons]

i have found that to be a pain, if you have them bunched together, the shaded limbs fade, hard to have every sps in your tank with direct shot straight up to light

 

[MCary]

I run a predominantly SPS tank and read as much as I can in the SPS forum. I don't see the products you list mentioned very often. SPS mostly eat very small food. Those that feed seem to like oyster eggs the best. Some cultivate their own phytoplakton, some use liquid life and marine snow.

I personally don't feed my SPS except incidently when feeding other things. If they catch it they can eat it. I don't want lots of junk in my water and I have and have seen very successful tanks that do not feed.

Sorry I could not give more recommendations on those products. Its just not stuff commonly used by SPS tanks.

Mike

 

[roons]

i dose phyto, sps dont eat it tho...............it feeds zooplankton,pods and the like .....................i have used liquid life coral plankton which is dead rotifers, just doesnt seem to last long..............i see roti-feast is dead rotifers as well so thats why i was eyeballing it.................i did some searching , alot seem to like rods but its rather expensive....................just wanted more input from those that use these...........