Reef Roids- Feeding Corals

[BigReefer]

Hey guys ...

I usally use oyster feast to feed my corals , but i am almost out ... I have some reef roids ... sitter then i think i used it once ... I was wondering how everyone use's it ... and how much should i mix ... with the oyster feast ... i just shake the container and i put a table spoon full in from of my gryo and it moved the food around and corals caught it that way kinda like the ocean feeding effect ... I have heard some ppl over feed with reef roids so that got me concerned ...

please help

 

[BigReefer]

oh and the best time ... i am assuming as my lights turn blue ... as they start dieing down ??? do i have to target feed or can i do flow feeding ??

 

[SamB]

Copied from manufacturer of Reef Roids website

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Ingredients:
Unlike many other "coral foods" on the market, Reef-roids is NOT made with processed fish meals or other ingredients that can rapidly degrade water quality. Reef-roids is a mixture of naturally occurring marine planktons including a specific species of zooplankton that is unique to our product.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein 60% min, Crude Lipid 20% min, Ash 6% max, Crude Fiber 8% max, Moisture 6% max, Astaxanthin 150-200 ppm.

Directions:
For every 100G of your system volume, mix one teaspoon of Reef-roids with some water from your tank. Briefly stir this mixture to create an even paste. We highly recommend target feeding the paste to your corals using a syringe or turkey baster while circulation pumps are turned off. Otherwise, pour the paste in an area of high flow before turning off the in-tank circulation pumps.

 

[Pistol]

One teaspoon for 100gal seems like a lot to me, I would do 1/4 at most, most corals get most of their food from light and fish poop. unless you have a lot of non-photosynthetic corals.

 

[BigReefer]

a bunch of sps .. some mushrooms ducan ... one open brain and a hammer ... is what i gots

oh and a big toadstool

 

[yveterinarian]

I have a 75 gallon tank with a 30 gallon sump and a 20 gallon tank piggybacked onto it (Approx 110 gallons). I feed 1/2 tsp of Reef Roids twice a week. I feed in the morning with the main pump off. Not sure if this is the best time but it is the time I remember to do it because I also feed the Sea Apple every day at this time.

 

[reef keeper]

Yup. Like Yvette said. I leave my return & skimmer off for an hour

 

[Quartapound]

lol, I remember using reef roids the first time and reading the mixing instructions...
"Briefly stir this mixture to create an even paste"

...I kept thinking "this is not a paste" ...lol.

sometimes I broadcast feed (turning off skimmer and return) and sometimes I'll spot-feed with my ghetto 'julians thing' lol

it's just a dollar store turkey baster that's had a piece of 3/4 inch vinyl tubing stuck between the bulb and the tube = direct target feeding with dry hands. good for blasting off the rocks too

 

[Sewerat]

I mixed a teaspoon into my homemade fish food mixture so there is always a very small amount floating around in when I feed fish. But I also feed occasionally direct to corals. I take 1/8 teaspoon and mix into a small palm sized dish with tank water, then suck into turkey blaster and aim at corals. I then rinse the small dish in the tank to get any amount I missed or could not pick up with the Baster

 

[Themaddhatter]

I mix half a teaspoon in to a 1/4 cuo of tank water. Mix it up good and use a syringe to target feed all my corals. I do this up to 2x per week. Sometimes I'll mix it in with my mysis and broadcast it near the corals but in a cloud so the fish and inverts can eat without nipping polyps

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[BigReefer]

such good idea's

do all sps corals get food from light

 

[scubasteve]

such good idea's

do all sps corals get food from light

sps needs more than just light unless you have alot of fish. they use the light with their symbiotic internal algae to process foods. its also that same algae that causes colour. bleaching and browning are also related to that same algae.

For the most part corals that require only light almost always have brown polyps if they got colour to the polyps they need food too or lots of fish poop to act like food.

As for the feeding of reef roids start with a 1/4 dose and increase slowly the recommendation is for a heavily stocked mature reef. It takes a bit for your system to adjust to the new added bio load. People that jump to the full dose always get infested with algae. Watch your levels and increase acordingly.

 

[BigReefer]

Thanks steve ... i was using oyster feast ..... and putting in a hugh flow area ... plus i dose with alk mag and cal ... and i got about 13 fish in there to i just wanna make sure i am doing everything right ...

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