SPS Food

[e.litvin]

Not sure if there is a thread for this topic yet, but I couldn't find one. With that being said what is everyone feeding their SPS? What products do you all like/dislike?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Coral Frenzy!
Have fun reefing!

 

[e.litvin]

Spot feed or just throw it in high flow area?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Spot feed once a week with turkey baster.

 

[Jimbo]

Spot feed with a syringe twice a week. Mixture of Oyster Feast and Reef Chili.

 

[Connie]

I feed a couple of times a week and mix it up between Oyster Feast, frozen Cyclopeez, ZoPlan. I target feed once and the other time I just let it broadcast feed.

 

[spspirate]

Reef Nutrition's Oyster Feast

 

[cultivatedcoral]

I was using frozen Rotifers and cyclopeeze mix but I just bought Dr. G's SPS max. We shall see how it works.

 

[Palting]

Remember, SPS prefer a low nutrient environment. If you feed your SPS separately and in addition to what you feed your other livestock, your nutrient level may get too high for SPS. I don't feed my SPS. They get their nutrition from light, and whatever else is left over from feeding the fish and the LPS. Click on my avatar and check out my homepage to see the SPS growth I get from NOT feeding them.

 

[ritter6788]

I do not feed any coral foods or attempt to feed any of my corals directly.

 

[180galreef]

I am amaized on how many different ways everyone does it. I was not feeding much and I didnt get very much growth or PE; i feed now and I have seen better growth and color. Others dont feed at all, I think there are a ton more things involved.

 

[cultivatedcoral]

If you have an ulns system you must feed and use amino acids in my opinion. The difference is who has what type of tank, fish load, barebottom, moderate nutrients or ultra low nutrients.

 

[Magicalmets]

Dr G's SPS Max Daily and Dr G's Amino acid every few days.

 

[e.litvin]

It's definitely hard to judge which way is best because so many things work for different people, and like mentioned before different tanks required different things.

With that being said for those that feed, has anyone used a certain food source for a long period of time? Me personally am always mixing things up so its also impossible to say what food really was the cause of the growth and what not

 

[cultivatedcoral]

When I fed frozen rotifers and cyclopeeze I was doing this for over a year. I would only feed it once a week or so and really could not tell if it made any difference in growth or coloration but as a whole with everything else I used like amino acids I believe it kept my SPS healthier and did not get that pale look some people get with an ULNS.

 

[jedimasterben]

For feeding SPS (and really all corals), the 'pappone' method is best. Fresh oyster, clam, shrimp, mussel, chopped up/blended and fed in small quantities once or twice per week. At lights out, put in an amino acid supplement to tell corals to extend their polyps (that's really what the added aminos do, I haven't seen any data that suggests they are able to uptake amino acids from the water column before they are broken down), and one hour later, add the pappone, 5mL of it per 20 gallons or so. Turn your skimmer off during that night, or else all that food will be skimmed up long before the corals can take advantage of it.

All the protein in those foods can be broken down into dozens of amino acids, notably some which corals need. I've seen tanks fed with pappone (Italian tanks, that's where it started) that have immense coral growth in a much shorter time frame than in tanks not being fed (up to 34cm per year growth for most Acropora).

 

[ifarmer]

Ever since my last fish jumped out (2-3 months ago), I do not feed my tank at all.
The sps are doing great as usual

 

[kes]

i like to feed my fish rod's food and inevitably corals will eat them too