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Old 04-08-2005, 05:36 AM
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My staple is PE mysis. I chop up a little block (say, 1cmx2cm on average) with a razor blade so nobody has a problem with it, then thaw with tank water and feed via turkey baster every time.
On occasion I feed rotifers to keep all the corals happy - those days I don't feed the fish though most of them are definitely getting some rotifers too. I do this maybe 2x/month.
About the same regularity, 2x/month, I feed freeze dried Cyclopeeze and only that. It's a little harder for the fish to grab (and no amount of soaking seems to make it sink) but I feed it since I hear so much good about it.
On very rare occasions I'll feed something like bloodworms or finely minced krill, but mysis are 95% of what goes in.
[Edit: And occasionally I drop in a pellet or two of Formula 1 pellets. That's as far as I will go with prepared crap]

I overfeed my overstocked tank and I underskim. I have a battle with hair algae that I'm finally winning (Willow, if I get that sea hare from you it'll be over in short order), but the corals are showing great expansion and growing like.. well.. like hair algae! :S

To answer your question a little more to what you're looking for, one mysis feeding for me usually consists of probably 15-20 shrimps, but minced. I don't rinse because it's too difficult to rinse it after being chopped, and too hard to chop after being rinsed. That's being distributed to:
1 yellow watchman goby
3 magnifica firefish
1 bicolor blenny
2 ocellaris clowns
1 mandarin dragonet (haven't seen him touch frozen to date)
1 pearly jawfish (he's still new, haven't seen him do anything yet)
2 pistol shrimps
3 blood/fire cleaner shrimps
2 scarlet cleaner shrimps
and 5 or 6 torch Euphyllia polyps.
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