How to dose metroplex + focus without destroying my tank.

[Juka087]

Hey guys I have a nuvo 10. A orchid dotty back I bought recently has white poop. How do I feed my fish the food without destroying all my corals, and soon to be snails? When I mix the two with pellets or mysis. It's like a cloudy water. I highly doubt that the medicine is bound to the food. A haze of the liquid forms in the tank. I do not want all my soft coral to die.

 

[Big G]

Is the Metro that you are using a liquid form?

 

[Juka087]

Is the Metro that you are using a liquid form?

No its seachem metro the powder

 

[Zero1091]

Ive done it before without loss of any coral in a heavily stocked tank, euphyllias, softies, clams, sps, I had it all. What I did was after biding the food to mysis shrimp (metro+focus) I only added into the tank what I saw the fish could immediately eat.
in other words using a pipette near the water surface and adding one or two mysis shrimp pieces at a time. I only fed more once I saw the food was eaten. After some time watching it eat a few I would stop.
Pumps should be off too while feeding so they eat easily.

 

[Juka087]

Ive done it before without loss of any coral in a heavily stocked tank, euphyllias, softies, clams, sps, I had it all. What I did was after biding the food to mysis shrimp (metro+focus) I only added into the tank what I saw the fish could immediately eat.
in other words using a pipette near the water surface and adding one or two mysis shrimp pieces at a time. I only fed more once I saw the food was eaten. After some time watching it eat a few I would stop.
Pumps should be off too while feeding so they eat easily.

What about the cloudy water released into the tank

 

[Zero1091]

I added fish food vitamins (Selcon) and garlic guard aswell. That especially helped to get them to eat the food.

 

[Zero1091]

What about the cloudy water released into the tank

I noticed it also helped to allow the medications to soak in the mysis for a few hours in the fridge vs feeding immediately after mixing the meds.
Yea the water got slightly cloudy but thats a given since the meds are going in the water. Although, with the method I did it with I had no loss and my tank again was heavily stocked with coral and inverts.

 

[Big G]

When I use Focus, I always thaw and then strain the frozen food (cubes) to get rid of the excess water so it makes a thicker mix. Use a turkey baster to suck out the uneaten mix as possible.

 

[Juka087]

I noticed it also helped to allow the medications to soak in the mysis for a few hours in the fridge vs feeding immediately after mixing the meds.
Yea the water got slightly cloudy but thats a given since the meds are going in the water. Although, with the method I did it with I had no loss and my tank again was heavily stocked with coral and inverts.

Ok so I put into pellets sst for 10 min fed then sucked up everything they did not eat. I should be ok. God this is stressful

 

[Zero1091]

Give some garlic guard a try, again I also added vitamins aswell and let everything soak for about 4 hours

 

[Juka087]

Give some garlic guard a try, again I also added vitamins aswell and let everything soak for about 4 hours

Should I make 1 large batch let it soak the feed and throw it in the freezer between feedings.

 

[Zero1091]

Should I make 1 large batch let it soak the feed and throw it in the freezer between feedings.

I wouldnt do feezer. Put it in the fridge. I felt it soaked up a lot easier and the mysis got plump and saturated

 

[Juka087]

I wouldnt do feezer. Put it in the fridge. I felt it soaked up a lot easier and the mysis got plump and saturated

I mean.....how long before the shrimp goes bad in the fridge not frozen.

 

[Zero1091]

I only did what I planned to feed same day

 

[EakTheFreak]

I froze cut pieces of LRS Reef Frenzy. Let it soak in fridge for 2 hours then froze 10 feedings worth.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Make your mix with less liquid. You are battering mysis, not making chowder.

 

[Juka087]

Make your mix with less liquid. You are battering mysis, not making chowder.

Ok so make 1 large mix let it soak in fridge separate back into freezer. Do you think the feeding today will harm anything. I sucked out all the pellets they did not eat.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Running some carbon will remove any meds that make it into the water column.

 

[Gene Ashton]

I've used this a few times and I don't think it will hurt coral or inverts. I haven't lost anything.

 

[boboyo]

Anyone had experience with a shrimp eating some metroplex? My shrimp is eats a lot and im hesitant on using this now

I didnt find much info on this other than this 1 guy saying his shrimp died aftear eating metroplex medicated food