What's your favorite sps food?

[karimwassef]

I use Phytoplex, Cyclopes and reef frenzy. Used marine snow for a while and phytoplankton too.

I'm new to sps.

 

[tmantaylor18]

Oyster feast
Reef chili

 

[Mael]

I have reef chilli and Oyster feast mixed in with my home made frozen food. And then I will also add either of those to Hikari cubes when I use those.

Lastly 1-2 times a month I cloud the sps with just the oyster feast diluted in a little tank water. Got the oyster feast for free so might as well use it.

 

[MarlinHooker]

rotifeast
oysterfeast
phytophankton

3x/week

 

[karimwassef]

So I hear oyster feast a lot. Is that a common base?

 

[AdamNC]

BRS Reef Chili- twice weekly
Seachem AquaVitro fuel- once weekly
Red Sea Reef Energy- 4 times weekly
Area 51 Phytoplankton- daily

 

[plyle02]

Fish Poo.... Lol....

 

[nashorn]

Reef roid
Reef chilli
Daily or every other day

 

[karimwassef]

If you could only feed one - which would you stick with?

 

[plyle02]

What are you feeding your fish? Really, that is the question, are you mixing it up, providing a variety of foods to satisfy your fish? Down the line, sps feed off of the fish poo, if the food for the fish is rich with nutrition, likely the same will apply to your corals. I have found out the hard way to simply have many fish, feed them well, and let nature take it's course.

 

[msaba]

yes limited edition fish poo is the ticket for me as well!

mark

 

[karimwassef]

I have very very few fish. And the poo looks like sausage that sinks to my cucumber and worms.

 

[Myka]

Fish poop. Fish get a homemade mash, some Mysis, some Reef Nutrition R.O.E.

For me I've found the single, best color enhancer for SPS to be Prodibio Bioptim and Biodigest. They are advertised to lower nutrients, which I have not experienced them to do, but really seem to improve SPS coloring significantly. LPS and Zoas don't seem to care about it.

 

[Reefvet]

They are advertised to lower nutrients, which I have not experienced them to do, but really seem to improve SPS coloring significantly.

Adding good bacteria supports more nutrients being broken down to a state that your skimmer and carbon can remove them.

It also inhibits cyano and other competing bacteria.

I think you have seen the effect of lower nutrients.

 

[karimwassef]

You use bacteria to improve the coloration of your sps?

 

[shaggss]

What are you feeding your fish? Really, that is the question, are you mixing it up, providing a variety of foods to satisfy your fish? Down the line, sps feed off of the fish poo, if the food for the fish is rich with nutrition, likely the same will apply to your corals. I have found out the hard way to simply have many fish, feed them well, and let nature take it's course.

This. Plus I feed muscles and oysters chopped up for my fish. Plenty of extras floating in the water for the coral.

 

[ryanrid]

Fish Poo.... Lol....

same here

 

[SeargentSlice]

Selcon
Reefpearls
Fish poo

 

[Myka]

Adding good bacteria supports more nutrients being broken down to a state that your skimmer and carbon can remove them.

It also inhibits cyano and other competing bacteria.

I think you have seen the effect of lower nutrients.

Not in the sense of nitrate and phosphate like advertised. I'm sure it changes the bacteria balance, but I haven't seen it lower nutrients in the way we normally think of nutrients (N and P). Maybe to a micro extent, but not like biopellets, VSV, Zeovit, or other daily carbon sources. I keep my SPS tanks in the range of NO3 2-3 ppm and PO4 0.03-0.08 ppm. Prodibio never affected those numbers, and my comment above was in direct relation to those numbers.

 

[powder_blue]

KZ Coral Vitalizer and fish poop