Who's using Pappone (blended seafood) in 2020?

[NeveroddoreveN]

I'm trying to increase N&P and I'm looking into trying something similar to the famous diy Pappone coral food, only minus sugar.

(For those unfamiliar, it was a puree of shrimp, oysters and other seafood used in the stereotypical 400MH sps packed Italian tank. It uses amino acids to get the polyps attention and sometimes sugar or even human growth hormone HGH.)

All the info I can find is anecdotal and 10 years old.

Any experience or comments? How does it work for sps compared to modern foods?

 

[Big G]

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[Big E]

Modern Commercial-- Rods Food, Larrys Reef Frenzy

Homemade- buy fresh seafood chop, puree mix and freeze. Some common mixtures include shrimp, scallops, clams, mussels. Then you can add some brands of mysis, krill, frozen plankton ect.

Add whatever you like, some people will mix in pellets and flake, nori

The execution is to just feed heavy and run higher alk/calc, though I believe the higher alk/calc isn't a necessity.

Be prepared to up you export system if nutrient levels get away from you.

I don't think there's any need to use hormones or the sugar as you mention.

 

[EMeyer]

Blended seafood is all I feed my display and frag tanks. No sugar. Very low nutrients in all tanks.

I think it's a superior food to anything dried, and have seen no nutrient problems from its use.

 

[andrewey]

I feed my corals a puree of muscles, clams, shrimp, tilapia, squid, and scallops mixed with some reef roids. I add a frozen cube of the mix to my regular fish food.