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bluenassarius

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i bought a bottle yesterday and tried it around midnight. boy it made all my corals go crazzzzzzyyyyyyyyy!!! i left the pumps off for a hour and target fed my zoas/palys, cyphastreas and other smaller polyp corals. my dendro's tentacles were all grasping and pulling stuff towards it's mouth. it looked like it was grasping air imo. so far i'm lovin this product!!!
 
I bought some too and like it, although I think I need to up the doseage, I've just put in a few squirts in 200 gal. How much did you use for target feeding?
 
I do couple "good" squirts for my 12G. Never target feed. If you have shrimp, it's kinda funny seeing them holding it and eat. I don't turn off the pump though. Everytime I feed the tank turns white for about 30-45 minutes. I feed everyday too.
 
I thought I read somewhere that in the wild, coral (lps/sps/softies etc) predominately eats tiny food (like roto/oyster feast) and rarely gets chunky food (like mysis/artipods) and as far as aquaria is concerned, just because we don't see a big LPS poly retracting with a chunk of food, doesnt mean it isn't consuming little microscopic food like oyster feast.

Does my memory serve me right and is the information valid?
 
phong seriously? how long have you been feeding this? i bought this to feed my zoas. i feed PE mysis to my armageddons and AOGs. they can swallow the bottom half of one.
 
anybody feed their LPS PE mysis? mines seem to regurgitate the food within 4-8 hrs. some hold it in longer like 12 but they spit it back out after a while.
 
I just feed my lps pellets now. No mysis. Its just too tedious to feed mysis to my lps. With the pellets I just cut the flow and sprinkle the pellets over the lps.
 
[quote author=iani link=topic=5394.msg66949#msg66949 date=1228338694]
I thought oyster feast was mainly to feed sps.
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My bubbles coral like it.. it send out feeding tentacles when I add the stuff to the tank. I'm not sure macroalge eats or not but the dragontongue macro grows crazy since I add the stuff. It could be because of all the extra nutrition since I feed too much ;D ...

[quote author=bluenassarius link=topic=5394.msg66953#msg66953 date=1228339077]
phong seriously? how long have you been feeding this? i bought this to feed my zoas. i feed PE mysis to my armageddons and AOGs. they can swallow the bottom half of one.
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Yeah.. several weeks now..
 
I must say, my corals love it too. I feed a good healthy squirt every day along with other foods, it seems to me though I'm getting a better feeding response from my LPS than I did before, the polyps open super fast and really expand.
 
Can't say if my corals love it, but I do think I notice a bit more in the way of polyp extension, I could be imagining things, my wrasse goes after it after squirting in the tank which looks like someone did an unnatural thing in the tank.
 
it's encouraging to hear this. i wasn't sure if my lps would respond well to this food but seem to be happy.

i decided to cloud my tank with this again.
 
Oyster-Feast is meant for SPS, LPS, Softies, NPS, and filter feeders :)

[quote author=Gomer link=topic=5394.msg66952#msg66952 date=1228338890]
I thought I read somewhere that in the wild, coral (lps/sps/softies etc) predominately eats tiny food (like roto/oyster feast) and rarely gets chunky food (like mysis/artipods) and as far as aquaria is concerned, just because we don't see a big LPS poly retracting with a chunk of food, doesnt mean it isn't consuming little microscopic food like oyster feast.

Does my memory serve me right and is the information valid?
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Spot on, except they do get stuff around mysid & Arcti-Pod size as well.

[quote author=bluenassarius link=topic=5394.msg66954#msg66954 date=1228339128]
anybody feed their LPS PE mysis? mines seem to regurgitate the food within 4-8 hrs. some hold it in longer like 12 but they spit it back out after a while.
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That equates to a net loss on their energy budget, not a good thing. You are doing more harm then good by giving them stuff they can't digest
 
[quote author=sfsuphysics link=topic=5394.msg66980#msg66980 date=1228340624]
Can't say if my corals love it, but I do think I notice a bit more in the way of polyp extension, I could be imagining things, my wrasse goes after it after squirting in the tank which looks like someone did an unnatural thing in the tank.


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ROFL, dirty minds think alike. First time I put some in my tank I thought the same thing... :p
 
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