Instant ocean gel foods

[Reefer5060]

Ok I thought I'd share my experience with this stuff. I bought it of fosters bc the were out of cyclopeeze freeze dried,and it was half off with bogo, I thought I would try some .... It seemed like a novel idea to replace frozen foods so I started using it to feed my newly set up biocube. 2 days later I started noticing crazy brown algae everywhere. I attribute most of this to new tank syndrome just getting a mini cycle after adding live stock, but I think the major cause is the gel that's used in the foods. Any ideas? I'm gonna take some of the food up to my aquatic ecology lab and see if I can figure out if it is indeed the food.

Morgan

 

[pickupman66]

I got some cause I was in a pinch... JUNK. I still have it leftover..

 

[Reefer5060]

Did u have the same problem?

 

[pickupman66]

I barely used 1/2 of a serving... just didnt like the texture..

 

[Come Monday]

By reading pickupman's comment about the texture, I had to laugh. Sounds like he ate it! LoL. Sry!

 

[pickupman66]

nope, I never tasted it.. the instructinos said to just put it in teh tank and the fish would eat off it. to me that sounded like a disaster waiting to happen so I dissolved some in some tank water. just felt like it had too much jellatin in it like some of the frozen foods I have bought... (cant remember which one). I had to mush it with my fingers to break it up and thats when I put it in the Dumbbutt bucket.

 

[commonstranger]

I havent heard one person so anything good about the gel foods.

 

[Reefer5060]

Avoid at all costs !!!!!!!!! Ok so I trashed the gel stuff after I noticed my corals all closed up after feeding. I decided to let it sit over night ...... Params were so out of wack I had to do an emergency water change in 15 min before I had to open the pharmacy........ LONG STORY SHORT IS THAT THIS STUFF HOWEVER YES IT DOES HAVE CYCLOPEEZE BUT THE FILLER IS LOADED WITH NITRATES , PHOSPHATES AND SILICATES. Maybe I just got a bad batch.... Needless to say I made the two hour drive to the nearest fish store that stocks frozen foods to find a suitable replacement...I hope my zoas can make it through this they aren't looking good....

 

[gmoney243]

Where do you live? Says nash but there's plenty of pet stores much closer than 2 hours from nash

 

[mobatic]

I saw some of that IO stuff in the LFS too, I was about to pick some up because it was a new item and wanted try some out.
There were a variety of gel foods and dry foods, any know how well those dry foods are?