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#1
05-30-2007, 04:50 AM
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I thought I'd bring this thread back to life with my own experience with this product. I started using it in the first week of January 07. Here are some before & after shots. After having used it for 5 months I am not sure I'd want to stop.
Stylophora Dec 06  same coral May 07  A. Millepora early Jan 07  Same piece May 07 
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05-30-2007, 03:14 PM
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I started using it in March and can see better colour too. I didn't get any before pictures though.
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke. Ed _______________________________________ 50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump. 130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium. 10 gallon quarantine. 60 gallon winter tank for pond fish. 300 gallon pond with waterfall.
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#4
05-30-2007, 03:51 PM
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The Polyp Lab website says to feed your corals quality food. However, it looked like, from their description of this product line, that it provided the "foods" necessary for corals to thrive. Do those of you who use this supplement with phytoplankton or anything?
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#5
05-30-2007, 04:44 PM
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FWIW, most corals don't actually feed on phytoplankton, but instead on zooplankton (although technically it's mostly a particle size issue I think).
Clams and *some* corals do feed on phyto, but most corals don't. Instead, dosing phyto tends to feed the existing zooplankton population which then may hopefully proliferate more, and thus indirectly benefit the feeding of your corals that way. But you're not directly target-feeding your corals phyto. Zooplankton on the other hand will have a direct target feeding benefit. Stuff like rotifers, possibly even baby brine shrimp, and so on. Basically, little itty-bitty critters that move on their own, as opposed to free floating plant cells.  Just thought I'd share that little nugget of info. 
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#6
05-30-2007, 05:26 PM
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Good to know! My little jar of Reef Roids just says "marine plankton"....so that could be anything, I guess.
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~Drew 10G Nano * 10G Sump * Deltec MCE 600 Skimmer * JBL Viper 150w MH * Zeovit * Vortech MP40W Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~S. Ertz
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#7
05-30-2007, 06:20 PM
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I think the term "plankton" usually refers to "zooplankton". Basically "phyto"=plants "zoo"=animals.
Although now that I think of it, does that still work for "zooxanthellae"? Zooxanthellae are dinoflagellates, which I thought was more like a photosynthetic bacterium. Are they capable of motion? I'm not sure. I guess I'm taking the thread off track now. Whoops, sorry...
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