What is the best store bought coral food?

[stresco]

I recieved the NanoPack2 from SeaCrop.com yesterday (pics soon to come), and now that i know what it is i'm caring for, i need to buy some food, trace elements, iodine etc. to ensure their growth. If you are caring for these species, let me know what you do for suppliments or food.

3 Shrooms (1 Polyp Anemone, 2 need ID), 1 Fox Coral, 1 Frogspawn, 1 Carpet Leather, 1 Zooanthid Polyp, 1 Candy Coral, 1 Yellow Polyp, 1 Capnella, 1 Red Chili, 1 Red Gorgonian

 

[HoopsGuru]

Water changes should pretty much handle everything your corals will need. On a small tank it is especially easy. If you must dose though, I can't recommend any as I don't use any, but I will recommend that you not dose anything you don't test for.

 

[stresco]

Thanks for answering my HoopsGuru. I was concerned that my Bi-Monthly water changes will not be enough. I do dose Ca and Alk, which i test for weekly.

 

[HoopsGuru]

By Bi-monthly are you doing them every two months or twice a month? Twice a month would probably suffice to keep trace elements where they should be. As for food, I don't do much direct feeding (most of my corals are more photosynthetic than active feeders) but I do feed my frogspawn and other LPS corals finely chopped seafood once or twice a week. Sweetwater Zooplankton also works well for this.

 

[stresco]

sorry, i meant bi-weekly water changes

 

[loganj]

I was wondering if the Sweetwater Zooplankton would be good coral food. I'll try some too.

 

[HoopsGuru]

sorry, i meant bi-weekly water changes

Now by this do you mean twice a week or........ J/K

I only feed the SZ to my LPS corals, it is often two big for other corals unless they feed in the same manner.

 

[stresco]

AAAAaaaaaccckkkkk!

I change the water about every 2 weeks, 14 days, 336 hours, 20160 minutes, 1209600 seconds, 120960000 nanosecs....



I thank you again, i will look into the SZ for those hungry little non-photosynth critters

 

[stresco]

I decided to use DT's Live Phytoplankton as the primary food source for my little guys. I got a 15oz bottle at the LFS for $23.00. The best i could find it on line is $21.00 then i would have to pay for shipping, which is really expensive. They have to ship it priority overnight because this stuff is live and need to be refrigerated.

 

[d9hp]

I use DTs and Zooplex, everything is happy. Except my cleaner shrimp who is MIA

 

[stresco]

I use DTs and Zooplex, everything is happy. Except my cleaner shrimp who is MIA

How often do you feed?

 

[d9hp]

Weekly with water changes for the zooplex, and then normally mondays and wed. The water changes are on sat. I have forgotten DTs and dont know how I should feed them. I only put like a little squirt of zooplex in though, so I dont think it does anything

 

[stresco]

Tell me if this sounds right. I remove the 50micron filter pad from the sump, then I take about a cup of tank water, add 3tsp of DT's and stir. Then I use a 60ml syringe, with no needle, and direct feed the corals with it.

 

[d9hp]

Turn off the pumps, and that would be great

 

[stresco]

Turn off the pumps, and that would be great

For how long? The bottle of DT's says that the Phytoplankton will live for 2 days, i think?

 

[d9hp]

well, I just meant turn the pump off so you can better target feed, although DTs isnt a target food