Fave coral/fish food of choice

[Krazykarl]

As te title says, curious to see people's feeding regimens. And what you feed.

 

[Blob-79]

i used to feed omega one flakes with garlic. fish loved it. Couldnt get my hands on more so i had to find something new. Im using the newlife spectrum flakes and pellets. Fish seem to really like both. I usually feed twice thru the night. when i get home from work, and again around 10ish.

 

[Duke]

I feed Omega One w/ garlic pellets daily, grocery store nori 2 times a week , frozen emerald feast and brine shrimp once a week, and seafood mix(shrimp, mussels, squid, clam, scallops) with some pellets and frozen brine i blended into mush and froze in ziplocks once a week spot fed to corals. and i just started feeding live bbs 2 times a week to suppliment for my mandarins. seems to be working good for me, all my fish and corals seem to love it.

 

[Krazykarl]

Petsmart carries omega one flakes with garlic. I use it. I'm really interested in coral food for sps. Rey go nuts with the cyclopeeze and phytoplankton I feed but I've heard of this frozen "coral food" that's suppose to be the cats ass. Curious if anyone else used it

 

[Gietz]

I feed a mix of new life spectrum flakes and pellets. But once a day my fish get frozen food brine, mysis or enrich brine.  All I do I spot feed my LPS.  But i don't add marine snow or anything like that. Maybe I should?

 

[Gietz]

A pets tore out in belleriver has frozen coral food.  Not sure if that's what your talking about

 

[Zakk]

LPS gets a mix of mysis and these little tiny pellets I found at Big Al's maybe 3 times a week.  SPS gets reef roids, maybe once a week, I have to turn off the returns and let it just move around the tank for an hour ago, then what's left gunks up my filter socks.  I tried spot feeding reef roids, but I don't think anything liked being fed that way. 

Fish get fed just whatever I have kicking around, flakes, shrimp pellets...maybe 3 times a week.  I'd rather have a clean tank than fat fish, and they seem to still have good longevity.  When I fed more often, I couldn't keep the glass or substrate clean, so screw that.  Even now the 'roids bath seems to feed whatever takes hold on the sand, and I get brown batches for a day or two after feeding.  Fish food must just be 100% phosphate, because since I cut back on feedings, the tank has been a whole lot easier to care for. 

 

[Krazykarl]

I agree with you there. I'm guilty of heavy feeding. I run gfo and carbon 24/7 to help battle this. But I too every other day or so have to clean te glass. That damn brown dust loves my nice clean glass. But way I see it is the glass doesn't cost me money to replace lol the fish do so I make sure they are fed!

 

[Zakk]

I hear you.  I don't really spend big $$$ on the fish, but the corals are worth a small fortune, so even with the GFO and carbon AND skimmer AND filter socks, I try to keep the feedings down.  Very likely why I don't think I could put a trigger in there.  Why starve when you're locked in a tank with a smorgasbord!

 

[MDGraves]

I too am guilty of over feeding. The LPS get spot fed mysis once a week. Fish get mysis and grocery store sea weed daily

 

[El concistador]

29G

new life spectrum optimum flakes, drained 1/2 cube frozen mysis and drained 1/2 frozen cyclops's 2 x a week.

I soak the frozen food in tank water and stir, wait a few moment's, what ever float's to the top goes down the drain, rest that is barely in water goes in the tank.

 

[phi delt reefer]

Sps gets fish poop and lots of it. 10 fish in a 40 gallon 


I feed pellets twice daily and blend of my  own frozen daily. I feed my lps and anenome frozen twice a week.