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Old 03-28-2008, 05:34 PM
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Default SPS feeding- What are you using?

I am still wondering what to feed SPS's.I have had a chance to use marine snow,black powder, reefriods and coral frenzy. In all cases LPS's respond very well to those products. But I am not sure if SPS respond as well. My SPSs exhibit polyp extension most of the time food or no food. I have heard that oyster eggs work. I feel that most of the food mentioned above do not stay in the water column long enough. I tried to target feed though.My next try is Michika's food brew, I plan to use a liquid extract of the food. As i feel the smaller particles will stay suspended long in the water. Are there better products. Comments of what other people are using (eg. zeovit food)?
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Old 03-28-2008, 05:42 PM
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when you are feeding these small or liquid foods if you turn your skimmer off for a while that will help it stay in the water colom from what i have been told. i use cyclopeeze, and do a pumps off for feeding this allows all food to stay in the tank and not the sump therfore staying out of the skimmer.
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I feed reef chili, cyclopeeze and reef roids. I turn off the main pump and just leave the powerheads going in the tank. Add the food and let it do its thing for about an hour. To be honest, I haven't seen any whiz bang results, then again I'm not religious about using the stuff either
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I'm running the full zeo system and use PCV (Phols coral vitalizer) as an additional coral food source. You can use this even if you are not running full zeo.
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I feed mine fish poo.
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I feed mine fish poo.
same here.
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Third on the fish poop!

I also add in cyclop-eeze to my daily feedings, although I do it more so for my chromis then anything else. I've tried Reef-Roids, Reef-Chili, and Energy Elements. I do add Zeo's Sponge Power and Amino Acids into my system once a week, it seems to impact my GSP and clams positively.
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