What is your favorite/ best flake food

spscrackhead · Oct 17, 2020

I have an auto feeder that dispenses the food into the return section of my sump, return pumps it to the display. I have found flake to work best for this. Pellet doesn't all get sucked into the pump and some settles in the sump.

What is your favorite/ what do you view as the best flake food?
I also feed tdo daily and frozen a few times a week.

Sick_man · Oct 17, 2020

prime reef flake

MurphyJ · Oct 18, 2020

Omega One Marine. Even picky eaters love it.

Lib95 · Oct 19, 2020

I'd say either NLS flake or maybe even the newer Northfin flakes.

maleks.reef · Dec 3, 2020

Sick_man said:
prime reef flake

MurphyJ said:
Omega One Marine. Even picky eaters love it.

What about PE pellets or Ocean Nutrition pellets?

MurphyJ · Dec 4, 2020

Mindgames said:
What about PE pellets or Ocean Nutrition pellets?

Anthias and cardinals never seemed to like pellets.

Cambrian Reef · Dec 4, 2020

PE Flakes

maleks.reef · Dec 5, 2020

MurphyJ said:
Omega One Marine. Even picky eaters love it.

https://www.desertcart.ae/products/11303527-omega-one-garlic-marine-pellets-sinking?gclid=CjwKCAiA_Kz-BRAJEiwAhJNY75-lqJ20s7dBJNspT75jlnhVN9y-NXilmltoRM7TFLLkd_Nva7Q4qRoCbx4QAvD_BwE

Is this the one you're talking about?

Cell · Dec 5, 2020

Prime reef

Chayo · Dec 5, 2020

ocean nutrition formula 2 and prime reef everyone loves it

Garf · Dec 5, 2020

spscrackhead said:
I have an auto feeder that dispenses the food into the return section of my sump, return pumps it to the display. I have found flake to work best for this. Pellet doesn't all get sucked into the pump and some settles in the sump.

What is your favorite/ what do you view as the best flake food?
I also feed tdo daily and frozen a few times a week.

Have you tried turning the return pump off, to flush the pipes out. I was doing this return pump feeding also. It appears that it helps to feed a lot of bacteria in the pipes (may be good, may be bad). You May find a lot of white stuff floating around your tank when you turn the pump back on!

MurphyJ · Dec 6, 2020

Mindgames said:
https://www.desertcart.ae/products/11303527-omega-one-garlic-marine-pellets-sinking?gclid=CjwKCAiA_Kz-BRAJEiwAhJNY75-lqJ20s7dBJNspT75jlnhVN9y-NXilmltoRM7TFLLkd_Nva7Q4qRoCbx4QAvD_BwE

Is this the one you're talking about?

Yes, but I get the flakes, not the pellets.

maleks.reef · Dec 6, 2020

MurphyJ said:
Yes, but I get the flakes, not the pellets.

arent pellets supposed to be better and leak fewer nutrients into the water?

Crevalle · Dec 6, 2020

When I used flake I was partial to the different cold processed flake from brine shrimp direct.

MurphyJ · Dec 10, 2020

Mindgames said:
arent pellets supposed to be better and leak fewer nutrients into the water?

I have to dose PO4 to the tank as my level is so low. I feed 2x a day. My number of fish, I think, I proportionate to the size and volume of my tanks. Well, I have 4 large tangs in a 150 gal, blue tang may need to be removed to a large tank soon. Anyway, My fish are healthy and happy so why change?

IMHO, flake is great and people only get into trouble when their tanks are not balanced. They toss it in on the surface and it all goes down to the sump. I get a healthy pinch based on fish size and number and hold below the surface and release so the flake stays in the DT for the fish.
I’m an old time reefer so I have a lot of rock in the DTs and in the sump. I also run deep sand beds, run my skimmers more for CO2 exchange (run an outside line) than for export of nutrients. I got bubble algae from a frag in my big tank so I taught my tangs to eat it. Now I don’t have bubble algae.