SPS feeding question

[nickxx4360]

I am working on a food schedule for the few SPS corals I have. This is the first time I will be feeding corals.

Monday: Kent ZooPlankton, Wednesday: Kent Phyto, Saturday: Live DT's Phyto.

The system will be a 40 breeder with a 26 gal sump. Any advice/reccomendations on schedule? or food?

Should i use Brightwell? food I have all the stuff listed above now.

Thanks

 

[advaquatics]

I personally like oyster eggs(small microns) for feeding my sps tanks...

 

[jimroth]

I have been told (Eric Bornemann and others) that SPS don't eat phytoplankton. I am currently feeding Oysterfeast from reed Mariculture.

 

[Shadowramy]

I have also heard that, and have seen no benefits to adding phyto in my SPS dominate tank (I figure if phyto is needed my tank gets enought when I scrape my glass).

I havent tried the Oysterfeast but am real interested in trying.

I tend to make those 'homebrew' fish foods where you add shrimp, muscles, some golden pearls, nori, squid, krill, mystis, cyclopeze, flake food and whatever else. Blend it real good and freeze it. Snap a chunk off each day and feed the tank.

 

[nickxx4360]

so why do they have such products?? zoo plankton and such. i have seen sps poylps react to live Phyto

 

[advaquatics]

phyto is a larger micron and its harder for a sps to catch the phyto to eat it......Thats why I like oyster eggs.....

 

[jimroth]

SPS polyps will react to a lot of tiny things, even ingest them, without neccesarily eating them. They just eject them later.

Eric Borneman has used a seafood assortment liquified in a blender. That is cheaper than commerical products by far. I really need to make up a batch, haven't in a long time.

 

[nickxx4360]

ok thanks.

 

[Shadowramy]

They sell it because people will buy it. I may work, just not for me. The only thing I get is greener glass the next morning.