What do you feed your tank?

aiko670 · 10-05-2007, 04:49 PM

I feed Rod's food exclusively and have had tremendous success with it...My fish look great and my PE couldn't be better...

What are you guys using?

**Deepwater** · 10-05-2007, 04:55 PM

Ive used Rods food and love it ,well my fish and corals did. I now use frozen blood worms and mysis and sushi eggs from the store

I need to get more of rods food , I here a GB in the works

Deep

fluidimagery · 10-05-2007, 05:17 PM

I need to find somewhere to buy some more! I wish I didn't live in bumble F

Reefer4life · 10-05-2007, 05:49 PM

My fish get; Rod's, Frozen mysis,cyclopeeze,formula 1 & 2,silversides,prawns,squid,angel food, Algea sheets & flakes, formula 1pellets all of which is soaked in garlic & vitamins. Freeze dried phytoplankton. And I will be adding DT's Phytoplankton &
Oyster eggs.
Ro, yes we do need a GB for Rod's Food. I'm almost out.

aiko670 · 10-13-2007, 03:34 PM

Rod has a new website...
Rod's Food - The Complete Reef Food

It has a map of all the stores that sell his food. If you can't get it near you have your LFS start ordering it....

For the record I am in no way affiliated with Rod, just a loyal customer.

Charlesr1958 · 10-31-2007, 05:47 AM

Being that I do not have access to any ready made foods or any equipment for that matter, I have been using finely chopped and/or blendered "mysis" shrimp to feed my corals as the vast majority of the food available within plankton are copepods, and being shrimp like, I figured that shrimp would be a good alternative. I also culture copepods in an outdoor phytoplankton vat as well as netting swarms of pods out in the shallows as well for a once a week treat of actual live plankton. I also on occassion, siphon out the detritus that collects in the sump's baffles and squirt that back onto the corals as well.

Chuck

**Deepwater** · 10-31-2007, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlesr1958

Being that I do not have access to any ready made foods or any equipment for that matter, I have been using finely chopped and/or blendered "mysis" shrimp to feed my corals as the vast majority of the food available within plankton are copepods, and being shrimp like, I figured that shrimp would be a good alternative. I also culture copepods in an outdoor phytoplankton vat as well as netting swarms of pods out in the shallows as well for a once a week treat of actual live plankton. I also on occassion, siphon out the detritus that collects in the sump's baffles and squirt that back onto the corals as well.

Chuck

haha i do that as well. seems like the corals love that the most

Charlesr1958 · 10-31-2007, 10:55 AM

Yeah, after seeing what must amount to tons of it drifting about on the reefs here, I had asked Eric Borneman about its use within my system and having been told what it actualy is made up of, it seemed a waste to not put it back into use once in awhile. That and there are a good many other critters that benefit as well.

Chuck