SPS ppl, what are you feeding?
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waverz
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8767923#post8767923 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slovan
Pretty simple for me, fish poo and kalk.
Yeah....seeee i tried that and stuff hardly grew.....maybe i dont feed my fish enough? I seem to feed alot but i dont feed on a regular basis.
Covey
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Re: SPS ppl, what are you feeding?
Phyto does nothing for SPS. It is too small for them to eat. Some can argue that it supports the microinfuana that the SPS can feed on but that didn't happen in a week.
In my book the best and free SPS food is fish poop and detritus.
After that oyster eggs, rotifers, golden pearls, and cyclopeeze debris(the cyclops themselves are too large too).
Phyto does nothing for SPS. It is too small for them to eat. Some can argue that it supports the microinfuana that the SPS can feed on but that didn't happen in a week.
In my book the best and free SPS food is fish poop and detritus.
After that oyster eggs, rotifers, golden pearls, and cyclopeeze debris(the cyclops themselves are too large too).
dascharisma
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Re: Re: SPS ppl, what are you feeding?
Re: Re: SPS ppl, what are you feeding?
I have read this claim a number of times before. It seems like the gerneral argument is that all the food we have is too large for the sps to consume. On the other hand, I have seen sps capture a single cyclopeeze in the web they create.
My technique is to feed a variety of small food designed primarily to feed my fish. If the smallest particles end up being consumed by the sps, great. If the coral don't consume the small particles, then my skimmer, which is fed by the overflow, will take care of it. I feed cyclopeeze, reef plankton, rotifers, zooplankton, and daphnia. My anthias love these foods, and I hope they also benefit the sps. I also feed some bine shrimp, flake and freeze dried foods that I believe have no chance of being consumed by the sps. I would not feed a food designed only to feed the corals, however.
Brad
Re: Re: SPS ppl, what are you feeding?
I have read this claim a number of times before. It seems like the gerneral argument is that all the food we have is too large for the sps to consume. On the other hand, I have seen sps capture a single cyclopeeze in the web they create.
My technique is to feed a variety of small food designed primarily to feed my fish. If the smallest particles end up being consumed by the sps, great. If the coral don't consume the small particles, then my skimmer, which is fed by the overflow, will take care of it. I feed cyclopeeze, reef plankton, rotifers, zooplankton, and daphnia. My anthias love these foods, and I hope they also benefit the sps. I also feed some bine shrimp, flake and freeze dried foods that I believe have no chance of being consumed by the sps. I would not feed a food designed only to feed the corals, however.
Brad
