SPS food
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franklypre
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I like Elos pro skimmer and Omega personally, but Aquavitro fuel worked, DIY pappone worked very well for growth as well.
williewilliams
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I like to use Aquavitro fuel and Alagens Coral smoothie the oyster delight variety.
watchguy123
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Besides fish poo, I don't think anyone knows what really adds color.
Zeovit folks certainly have a cocktail of foods and I am sure they work well.
Assuming there are no deficiencies in your salt water, its challenging (for me, impossible) to differentiate what leads to the best coloring between good lighting, filtration, flow, stable parameters, to coral food. Perhaps its my feeding routine, but when I add "coral" food, my nitrates and phosphates start to elevate and then there goes some of the coloring. But then again, I run a pretty basic setup.
Zeovit folks certainly have a cocktail of foods and I am sure they work well.
Assuming there are no deficiencies in your salt water, its challenging (for me, impossible) to differentiate what leads to the best coloring between good lighting, filtration, flow, stable parameters, to coral food. Perhaps its my feeding routine, but when I add "coral" food, my nitrates and phosphates start to elevate and then there goes some of the coloring. But then again, I run a pretty basic setup.
Arkayology
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If the SPS actually need to be fed, Oyster Feast would be great for them.
I have used the DIY for many years and it works well when prepared for helping to feed SPS.
Peter Eichler
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Yeah, many of the foods mentioned here are probably not going to do much to feed SPS.
I suggest DT's oyster eggs, the smallest golden pearls (<50 miciron size), and rotifers.
xxvietxjustinxx
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How much and how often are you feeding? Did you use the 5/5/5/5 method sans GH?
My recipe is simple, a trip to Whole Foods and I buy as large of a variety of fresh seafood as I can. I also buy the large bulk bag of PE Mysis and Cyclop-eaze and a variety of frozen foods. I put about a fourth of the ingredients in the blender and enough ro/di water to help it blend. Blend it until it is very fine pureed. The rest of the mix is finely chopped into fish size bites, I sometimes use a coffee grinder or small food chopper to help with this. Once everything is ready I mix it in a large bowl, and this includes the frozen foods which are usually thawed by now and the rest of the PE.
Once a homogenous mix is achieved it gets put into large baggies and flattened out into sheets and into the freezer. I feed usually every other day, an equivalent amount to 4-6 frozen cubes. I only have 5 small fish and I thaw what I will be feeding with a little tank water. Every hour or so I spoon a little of the mix into the tank until it is gone. I should take a pic of the SPS reactions to the food, excellent extension and filaments. The key with the puree is to get it as finely pureed as you can.
This mix shuts my skimmer down for hours and turns the tank a little cloudy but I don't mind, it dissipates quickly enough. The recipe has evolved over the years and I will only use the fresh seafood from Whole Foods as they add no preservatives of any kind. A batch usually lasts more than a year and I have been doing it this way since around 2005. There may be better foods out there now, but I have not tried them.
Once a homogenous mix is achieved it gets put into large baggies and flattened out into sheets and into the freezer. I feed usually every other day, an equivalent amount to 4-6 frozen cubes. I only have 5 small fish and I thaw what I will be feeding with a little tank water. Every hour or so I spoon a little of the mix into the tank until it is gone. I should take a pic of the SPS reactions to the food, excellent extension and filaments. The key with the puree is to get it as finely pureed as you can.
This mix shuts my skimmer down for hours and turns the tank a little cloudy but I don't mind, it dissipates quickly enough. The recipe has evolved over the years and I will only use the fresh seafood from Whole Foods as they add no preservatives of any kind. A batch usually lasts more than a year and I have been doing it this way since around 2005. There may be better foods out there now, but I have not tried them.
Touring
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+2!!!!!!
LoJack
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I had thought about doing this as well, I just wasn't sure my blender or food processor would be able to get the particle size down enough for my SPS to actually benefit.
I wanted to make a medley of Clam, Scallop, Prawn, Shrimp, Squid, Mysis, and Cyclop eez that I could freeze into flat packs and feed easily.
Can anyone speak to whether or not the micron size is small enough for SPS polyps?
To help get the puree as small as possible, use a little ro/di water, if the mix is too thick it will not puree. Cyclop-eeze is not small enough to be ingested however it is small enough to be captured. I will feed again tomorrow and will try and snap a pic of the feeding response. My blender is capable of making particles so small they turn the water cloudy and individual particles cannot be seen.
that's why this is a good discussion. The feeding response will occur just by pouring the juice into the tank. I actually don't think anything that we puree in a blender will be small enough for SPS. Feeding response: yes, feeding: no? Keep in mind, I'm sure there are good nutrients in the juice that is useful for SPS.
That is always the fun part, knowing how much is actually taken in, or if nothing is taken in. I consider it feeding the tank more than just the sps, but I am not sure there is any science on the matter. Measuring in microns is not something easy to do at the hobby level nor is photography at the level needed to see actual consumption. The small particle food has benefits for most of the creatures in the tank.
I will say before anyone tries a seafood blend that they have a handle on nutrient levels in their tank and the ability to control nitrates and phosphates. You can elevate nutrient levels rapidly with a pureed blend.
I will say before anyone tries a seafood blend that they have a handle on nutrient levels in their tank and the ability to control nitrates and phosphates. You can elevate nutrient levels rapidly with a pureed blend.
Allmost
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Thank you for the good info.
can you list what you use ? some like oysters can be made to liquid, but other stuff like squid tenticles cant be schopped up that fine [or at least iin my case] so would appreciate the "ingredients" as well.
right now I use Oyster, Salmon, baby cuttlefish, and shrimp.
thanks.
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