sps feeding
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Topic: sps feeding
Posted By: hammerhead
Subject: sps feeding
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 10:40am
What do you use to feed your sps?And how often? I thought that sps just relied upon light to photosynthisis. I have been feeding my whole reef Kent marine ChromaMax and DT's photoplankton premium reef blend. I guess my question is this. Am I feeding my tank the right stuff? 
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Posted By: shaggydoo
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 11:25am
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I do not feed my SPS directly. Just my LPS. LPS definitely benefit greatly from being spot fed. I do add a little phyto to my LPS feeding mixture so I'm sure some of that gets kicked around the tank when I turn the pumps back on. But my SPS are growing the same now as they did before I started adding phyto. ------------- 60g LPS Cube |
Posted By: dkle
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 11:57am
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SPS are carnivores, not vegetarian. I don't think phyto does a whole lot to them. I use the first two smallest sizes of golden pearls as well as frozen rotifers. Both can be purchased at Brineshrimpdirect.com in Ogden. A lot of people use oyster eggs and have good result as well. ------------- If you can't bedazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs! Dinhkim Le - Procrastinator extra-ordinare |
Posted By: Cody Pearce
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 12:08pm
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Do you notice PE on your sps when you feed golden pearls Dinhkim? ------------- 90 gallon mixed reef My fish swim naked. |
Posted By: dkle
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 12:11pm
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PE is the same. Some acro will extend extra feeding tentacles though. However, I usually feed them when all lights are off, since that is when they naturally fed.
------------- If you can't bedazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs! Dinhkim Le - Procrastinator extra-ordinare |