What do you feed your tank?

[ajremington68]

Went to my LFS for black Friday and got some good deals and got my first bottle of phyto! I have reef roids I'll do once maybe twice a week (spot/broadcast) and then I feed fish a mix of Mysis/ Rods fish food/ Pellets twice a day. Question for you guys and gals, what do you feed your tanks, and what was the food that you started feeding and noticed the big change? Also any cool find on Black Friday as well? Happy reefing to you all!

 

[shakacuz]

i feed my fish my own DIY fish food. i think i made enough to last me the year, or more with roughly 70-80$ worth of materials(more or less depending what you want to include). i freeze it and feed 1 small cube daily to my 40g

before this i fed LRS reef frenzy nano, benepets/reef roids/reef chili, and tds chroma pellets

overall my fish seem to enjoy the food the same well, because the ingredients used were mostly the same with the addition of liquid additives and nori/red algae

 

[ajremington68]

i feed my fish my own DIY fish food. i think i made enough to last me the year, or more with roughly 70-80$ worth of materials(more or less depending what you want to include). i freeze it and feed 1 small cube daily to my 40g

before this i fed LRS reef frenzy nano, benepets/reef roids/reef chili, and tds chroma pellets

overall my fish seem to enjoy the food the same well, because the ingredients used were mostly the same with the addition of liquid additives and nori/red algae

How about corals? Was there anything that you fed that they responded to better than other foods?

 

[ajremington68]

I've heard of stuff like phyto feast, oyster feast, and stuff like that in YouTube videos. Not too sure what it all is, but lots swear by it. Getting my tank to stabilize quite a lot moving into month 5 of it being up, and thinking about investing in some of these foods to supplement them. Just wondering what some of you guys love and why so I can get a better idea on what to look into as there is lots and lots of foods if you just generic search "coral foods" on google

 

[shakacuz]

How about corals? Was there anything that you fed that they responded to better than other foods?

i do see a bit more polyp extension but nothing greatly different from before i fed DIY food. i noticed a bigger difference increasing flow.

i am battling low ALK and nutrient deficiency (hence why i made my own food), so it could just be that things haven’t leveled out yet

 

[ajremington68]

i do see a bit more polyp extension but nothing greatly different from before i fed DIY food. i noticed a bigger difference increasing flow.

i am battling low ALK and nutrient deficiency (hence why i made my own food), so it could just be that things haven’t leveled out yet

What is 'low' ALK for you? And by deficiency do you mean nitrates and phosphates? How old is your tank also?

 

[TokenReefer]

I alternate the main cube so to speak but I accompany every cube with a whole cube of calanus or other frozen pod/planktonic which makes a flurry of bits for fish and the corals too

 

[shakacuz]

What is 'low' ALK for you? And by deficiency do you mean nitrates and phosphates? How old is your tank also?

low ALK to me is anything below 8 in my SPS dominated tank. i do have aggressive filtration(2 clams, filter socks/polyfilter, skimmer, CUC, chaeto, and the corals in a 40B). i do feed heavy. tank is about 3yrs? but it’s been through a lot of ups and downs. at one point i had 7 fish in there and still low nutrients!

the DIY food was to aid in the low nutrients, and the skimmer/socks were offline for nearly a year. nutrients are slowly going back up which led me to bring the skimmer back online(with the addition of a recirculating co2 scrubber to help with PH as i am in a small apartment with a dog and GF). ALK is slowly getting to where i need it, but manually dosing does cause things to be unstable. battling bryopsis currently with fluc while tending to lower ALK and no3/po4