Phyto plankton

[ecancienne1983]

I had a friend who sold their reef tank give me a bottle of phyto plankton and a small peice of coral and a few snails and an emerald crab and a few other chemicals and salt i was just wondering what the plankton is for??

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

It's like a supplement for corals and other things. It's stuff that they feed on.

 

[ecancienne1983]

Ok so it just goes in the tank than and the filter feed on it??

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

It's not really necessary

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

Don't dose what you can't test for is what people are going to tell you. Most corals will get enough of the plankton at night

 

[ecancienne1983]

This is the coral its small any idea what it is

 

[ecancienne1983]

Im not sure to much about coral this would be the first one in the tank so any help would be great

 

[ecancienne1983]

So should i even use it?

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

I can really tell what it is exactly, looks like a leather coral of some type, but I could be wrong!

 

[bribo12]

That's Kenya tree. Don't add the phyto, the corals don't need it. It will just turn into excess nutrients.

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

Not really. I mean you could buy I've never dosed anything for my corals and they are growing like crazy

 

[ecancienne1983]

So they will just filter whats already in the water

 

[bribo12]

So they will just filter whats already in the water

Yes they wil

 

[Mebbid]

The phytoplankton is really for very specific creatures. I keep a live culture of it myself for filter feeders and use it frequently but most people have no use for it.

 

[ecancienne1983]

Heres another pic if it helps its open here

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

Definitely a leather coral medium light/medium flow

 

[ecancienne1983]

It should be straight up though correct i work offshore and my friend came over and put it in there like that

 

[Dav3]

As bribo said its Kenya tree. It should be straight up. Just stick the shell it's on in the sand.

 

[mrvincent]

For low bioload coral tank, you don't need to feed. I would say you need to dose phyto if you had a tank covered by zoanthids or other filter feeders... But with only this in the tank I won't dose anything. You will end up resulting excess nutrients.