What do you feed your SPS

Darbna · May 6, 2017

So I have been on the SPS tank for about 7 months. Getting some growth and color. Running 2 AI Hydra 52HD and 2 Prime HD on 125 Gallon. My Calc runs 450, Alk 9.5 and Mag I been keeping high at 1500. I do small water changes at least every other week, mainly cause I have been feeding aprox every other day. Mainly target feeding Reef Roids, with a cap of Fuel. Or Reef Bugs with fuel and I might add some Pods to the mix now and again. I also use Rods Food coral blend on occasion. I had some algae and Cyno a few weeks back but have since cleared up. Turbos and crabs did their job, and I cut back to feeding once or twice a week. My phosphate is reading .01-.03 depending when I test. All my tests are done on Red Sea kits, except Nitrates. I have an API and it always looks Yellow so as unreliable as API are, and the amount a I feed, I know there are some nitrates present. Figured I would throw it out there cause most of what I have learned in the last year and half has been on this forum, and super helpful. What are you guys feeding for target feed and broadcast feeding? and if you broadcast feed, do you turn the pumps off?

Darbna · May 7, 2017

Anyone?

AcroNem · May 7, 2017

Here's my nightly slurry that goes into my display, my propagation systems are a little different.

-Phytoplankton paste, brine shrimp direct blend. Enough to make it super murky.
-Reed mariculture diatoms.
-5-50 micron GP (not as often with this size)
-50-100 micron GP
-100-200 micron GP

And throughout the week I rotate adding one of the following.

-Brine shrimp nauplii
-oyster eggs
-cyclops/arctic copepods
-rotifers

It's quite a bit of food that everything gets. In the prop systems I try to target everything with a specific food (rotated every night) with phytoplankton being broadcast fed. I do weekly 25% water changes all while vaccing the sand so they all stay fairly clean, barely any detectable nitrate or phosphate.

AdamNC · May 7, 2017

Reef Roids and Polyp Booster twice a week.
Area 51 Live Phytoplankton daily.

Both dosed about an hour after lights out.

Flippers4pups · May 7, 2017

Acropower and trace elements once a week and LRS reef frenzy broadcast when feeding fish, powerheads off for 15 mins.

Color, polyp extension and growth is very good!