SPS Targeted Feeding Macro Video Experiment

trueblackpercula said:
hey guys i came across this video and this is the food I feed my SPS last night mixed with oysterfeast.

I think we are on to something BIG-Gles lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQFokwtyWI
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Nice find Michael :thumbsup: I have to say that those bloody fish need slapping about for stealing acro food.........:deadhorse1:

Thanks for the encouraging words guys, appreciate the feedback and the overweight acros said to say thanks :)


Right, tonight i fed a green acro some roids (waste of good food tbh). The polyps reacted positively again and if you watch the polyp circled in red you can clearly see the particle grabbed by the polyp. I think i need to use something gentler than the turkey baster as it's hard not to blast the acro and the polyps seem to react better when not sand blasted with food lol. I can honestly say that from numerous feeds the polyps grab and consume the roids, i have seen no rejection of particles after the polyp closes tightly and upon re opening i've seen the same polyp consume another particle.
I can't of course give any information as to how much nutritional value there is in the food as far as coral colors and growth - what we're all interested in i think. :)

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Going to try some pulverized frozen mysis now so i'll post a video of how the acros react to that in a couple of hours.
 
Hey Bello, nice to see you here buddy :)

I changed my mind and decided to try feeding detritus i sucked up from a corner of the sump just to check if the polyps close on anything that touches them. They don't show any positive reaction at all to the detritus constantly coming into contact with their polyps so i think that's pretty good evidence suggesting that the polyps can and do differentiate between potential food particles and those that are not beneficial to their nutritional requirements.

 
TankCla said:
Very educational!
Keep up the good work! :thumbsup:
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Thanks mate :)

martinphillip03 said:
Have you considered seeing how Aussie SPS enjoy vegemite?

Marty
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Hahaha that cracked me up Marty :lol2: I should point out that i just went to the kitchen and read the ingredients on my vegemite jar and it says concentrated yeast extract - that sounds a lot like food.........
Btw if vegemite turns out to make SPS glow in the dark with color you may not use it in your tank unless you also eat it on toast for breakfast regularly.......... especially you Marty......:p

Every time i feed the sump during these tests the acro crabs down there come out from the center of the acros and let me get decent pics, a little bonus.

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TankCla said:
Biggles, I think he was kidding! I hope he was kidding!

If not, I find it very offensive.
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Hey mate, Marty was kidding as was i when i was talking about feeding the acros vegemite lol. I doubt my SPS would go for something that looks like bearing grease and kinda tastes similar.........:p
 
Subscribed. Very informative. Thanks for sharing your experiments.

I would be very interested to find out if your corals will take and ingest frozen rotifers.

I think wonderful colouration exhibited by your sps corals are as a result of well fed bacteria and amino acids thanks to your heavy feeding. Since I subscribed to your tank thread, I have been feeding my fish heavily with frozen food. As a consequence, polyp expansion has definitely improved and corals' base colours started to darken a bit.

In my opinion, sps corals will need live food, such as rotifers. Even copepods and newly hatched brine shrimp are too big for most sps corals to ingest.
 
martinphillip03 said:
That was my question concerning newly hatched brine shrimp. Would they work?

Marty
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Artemia like copepods are generally a bit too large for most sps corals apart from some of the larger polyped acro's. Rotifers, on the other hand, being a quarter of the size of a newly hatched brine shrimp, are the best sized zooplankton for our corals and are not hard to culture.
 
Shortly after my post above, I dropped a cube of frozen red rotifers in my tank. The lights were off.There was no interest whatsoever from the sps brigade (no extra polyp expansion or mucus). :sad1:

All of my lps corals, on the other hand, showed interest to the food by extending their tentacles. :hmm2:
 
DiscusHeckel said:
Shortly after my post above, I dropped a cube of frozen red rotifers in my tank. The lights were off.There was no interest whatsoever from the sps brigade (no extra polyp expansion or mucus). :sad1:

All of my lps corals, on the other hand, showed interest to the food by extending their tentacles. :hmm2:
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CN you try again but this time try target feeding n let us no
 
Ok I did my best in capturing the feeding of Coral V Power in the HD Under 20K led lighting with all pumps and power heads off for the recording of this video.

Hope everyone likes it and next week I will Post a Video OF the feeding of Oyster feast to see if there is any difference.

I think target feeding is a much more affective way of adding food to the tank Vrs just dumping food in the tank and hopping that the tiny little polyp catches it. I also think that Sps like different types of food verse thinking they all eat the same food source. ( sure I know I will catch heat for that but its JMO)

Enjoy and let me know what you see

http://youtu.be/QgtzOdnAJq4
 
Very interesting videos! I'd be curious to see how they respond to some sort of small fish eggs. I've always wondered if the Rod's frozen fish eggs were actually small enough to be edible. My Hydniphora seems to like them, as do all my LPS.
 
This is truly fascinating - nice piece of work. I have a jar of reef roids I'm going to try a pinch tonight!

Kathy
 
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