Reefroids? Benepets? Or what.

[Flyingreef]

What does everybody use to feed their corals? Or do you just have better luck letting the fish do it? Does anybody have any luck with broadcast feeding? Especially for bigger tanks. Or is it much better to target feed?

 

[Spare time]

Reef energy and vitachem marine. I also have some reef enhance.

 

[vetteguy53081]

What does everybody use to feed their corals? Or do you just have better luck letting the fish do it? Does anybody have any luck with broadcast feeding? Especially for bigger tanks. Or is it much better to target feed?

Reef roids but sparingly as it increases Phosphates and also Mysis shrimp

 

[christwendt]

Lots poop, reef roids, benepets. I use more reef roids when phosphates allow. Benepets are nice because it increases phosphate less. I also do live phyto plankton and Red Sea ab plus.

 

[twiatr2001]

I use mysis along with reefroids and benepets mixed in together.

 

[kevgib67]

Red Sea AB+, reef chili and I spot feed mysis.

 

[Troylee]

I like to make a milk! I use diy coral snow “calcium carbonate” with a cap of mb7, coral amino, zeobak, and tsp of reef roids! Let the mix sit for 5-10 min stir well and shut off my skimmer and return and pour the milk into my tank and just let it circulate for a hour or so.. kick the return and skimmer back on and enjoy! I do this twice a week!

 

[Midrats]

Benereef reduces phosphates in my tank. I feed it twice per week.

 

[ReefKeeperElite]

I like to make a milk! I use diy coral snow “calcium carbonate” with a cap of mb7, coral amino, zeobak, and tsp of reef roids! Let the mix sit for 5-10 min stir well and shut off my skimmer and return and pour the milk into my tank and just let it circulate for a hour or so.. kick the return and skimmer back on and enjoy! I do this twice a week!

What brand of calcium carbonate do you use with your coral snow?

 

[ChrisPPolys]

I have a 32 gallon Bio Cube. I feed one half teaspoon of reef roids weekly. Normally start with a small pipette target feedings my corals. Once I’ve successfully hit each of them I dump the remaining contents of the cup into the tank. I leave my filter and power heads off for about 15 minutes so everything can digest before starting them back up again.

Sometimes I add frozen misis to the reef roid mixture. This is in addition to daily fish feedings of prime reef flakes.

 

[Troylee]

What brand of calcium carbonate do you use with your coral snow?

Nothing special just what ever is cheap and food grade.

 

[JAS927]

AB+ and mysis here

 

[Seansea]

I have 17 fish in a 75g. Fish do-do is the reef roids

 

[shakacuz]

all of the above lol. i made my own DIY frozen mix

 

[ReefKeeperElite]

Nothing special just what ever is cheap and food grade.

Interesting thanks. Does your alk shoot up when dosing coral snow, or is the effect of the calcium carbonate on alk counter balanced with the activity of the bacteria?

 

[shakacuz]

Interesting thanks. Does your alk shoot up when dosing coral snow, or is the effect of the calcium carbonate on alk counter balanced with the activity of the bacteria?

the carbonate acts as a binder. doesn't do much or anything to your alk/cal. its meant for your skimmer to pull out the floating organics

 

[Mechano]

I use benepets , A pinch of reef roids, fauna Marin coral sprint, redsea AB+.
(Always cautious with reef roids if you don’t have an ULN system as that stuff packs a lot of phosphate)
I also spot feed my larger LPS like acanthos, trachys, elegance and cynarina etc with anemone pellets when lights are out, I believe the food manufacturer is called vitalis

 

[Troylee]

Interesting thanks. Does your alk shoot up when dosing coral snow, or is the effect of the calcium carbonate on alk counter balanced with the activity of the bacteria?

Doesn’t change anything in the tank.. it’s basically chalk lol.. no chemistry to it.

 

[Pistondog]

What does everybody use to feed their corals? Or do you just have better luck letting the fish do it? Does anybody have any luck with broadcast feeding? Especially for bigger tanks. Or is it much better to target feed?

Let the fish do it, additionally, the corals get the remnants of the fish food.

 

[crabgrass]

I just started, don’t have a great reference.

- reef Ab+ every day but Wednesday (no evidence this helps, but only used it a week so far) @ 1/4 - 1/2 dose

- reef roids/ benepets slurry every Wednesday (target and/or broadcast) - Euphyllia and Blastos definetly like it a LOT. Definite growth. Torches and hammers all split heads in 5 weeks. Obviously I have no point of reference if I wasn’t (would they split). But certainly the are fluffier after I feed them than before