I suspect you are feeding way too much then with your power heads on - any that gets into rocks, the shrimps and other inverts will soon clear up. I will upload two videos shortly.

This stuff has a flake version? Nuts, I'll have to go look for that, I missed it. I picked up the two versions of pellets and it has been a hit, although I too noticed that my non-vegetarian butterflies and trigger didn't care hugely for the algae based ones when I fed them that one by accident a night or two ago. But man the tangs and angels love both kinds.

I still prefer to use some flakes as I have a number of smaller fish that the pellets are too large for. Agree that pellets in autofeeders work best but once a day I like to add a small pinch of flake for the smaller guys.

the two vids I am about to upload to youtube will change the unconverted ;)

Here is part 1 of the New Era Aquaculture Video showing the feeding frenzy in my system when introducing Flake following the Aegis system diet.

The system involves

4 weeks regular feeding of
Marine Flake (plus Herbivore flake if you have herb fish)
2 weeks after of Aeis I
2 weeks after of Aegis II

Of course you dont have to follow this feeding plan and can just feed any of the feed range as you wish but UK research at a leading university proved that the fish became stronger, more immune tolerant and had a faster growth rate with improved colouration, notably in Tangs.

Here is part I, Part II to fiollow this evening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhOS1DzhDeo

I just watched this video of the New Era Foods process. Very interesting and informative. Have a look. Cheers Ronnie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGfytnx7-Sw&NR=1

Any chance pellets .5mm or smaller will be developed? I have a bunch of plantivors that I would like to feed several times a day and would love to be able to stuff my auto feeder with pellets this size. I am currently using NLS grow formula (.5mm) which is a perfect size, but would like to test out New Era Marine formula.

Hi

1.5mm is the standard but the pellet is really soft as it is not baked hard, so the pellet crumbles in your fingers, so you can easily get to any size you choose to suit your needs.

Pick up a sample from progressive Reef.

So here is part 2 of the feeding frenzy video.

What I would like to highlight here is the way flake acts in a lot of ways to fish like live food, they chase it around very actively and this creates a huge frenzy, just look at my tang he acts as if it was his first meal for weeks, but this was a second feed within 2 minutes of the first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_2u3vWGgYo