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Reef Nutrition has a dealer locator on their website: http://reefnutrition.com/shopfinderusa/rnsearch.php
Live Copepods.com is the only place to get the Livecopepod brand but several of the other brands are sold in stores, like Reef Pods.
What corals and what fish are you looking to feed?
Live Copepods.com is the only place to get the Livecopepod brand but several of the other brands are sold in stores, like Reef Pods.
What corals and what fish are you looking to feed?
Haha, since Gresham is about to give some advice, I will jump in as if it were ME who had asked the ?.
I was trying to find a particle size of palatable food for a Montipora Digitata and a Stylophora Pistillata.
I have decent polyp extension but have not been able to properly feed them. All I can do for now is to
take a mortar and pestle and grind dried cyclopeeze down to dust. Pi$$es the fish off, they sense the
food but can't really find any particles they can eat, except the chromis. Any reccomendations? I am
anticipating a different answer for the corals the OP mentioned.
I was trying to find a particle size of palatable food for a Montipora Digitata and a Stylophora Pistillata.
I have decent polyp extension but have not been able to properly feed them. All I can do for now is to
take a mortar and pestle and grind dried cyclopeeze down to dust. Pi$$es the fish off, they sense the
food but can't really find any particles they can eat, except the chromis. Any reccomendations? I am
anticipating a different answer for the corals the OP mentioned.
Soft corals will do fine with no direct feeding. They will get the minute scraps from the fish feedings. They also like consuming detrius. I blow it out of the rocks with a turkey baster and in less than a minute the polyps expand open and full.snagster":3kd3plrd said:I am looking for foods to feed my corals, and im looking for the best food any suggestions its a soft coral tank, i was looking into reef nutrition and livecopepods can people tell me where to get these products
Mysis shrimp, blood worms, brine shrimp, plankton, formula foods, and dried seaweed for the herbivores/omnivores(tangs and angels). I occasionally feed live foods like, brine shrimp, black worms and tubiflex worms.snagster":23omtzcl said:i am also loking for good foods to feed not just corals but fish and htere seems to be aso mnay choices out there can anyone tell me what they use wna whats works best
ANEMONEBUFF":1qotwjs1 said:Sna Francisco Bay Frozen Rotifers work well IME. Very fine and good for SPS corals and LPS alike.
Rotifers don't hold up well to freezing, put them under a scope and you'll see most have burst. Another thing about frozen rotifers is most, if not all, are sourced from China and are a freshwater species with no eggs (highest nutritional value on a non gut packed rotifer) and no gut packing. Roti-Feast, Reef Nutrition's rotifer product are marine rotifers gut packed with Phyto-Feast LIVE and have a ton of eggs.
We just got a bunch of live food cultures in a cold pack the other day. All kinds of stuff. Our buyer asked me what I thought, and I told him I would love it if we would pick it up for our site to sell. We'll see what he thinks. I know a bunch of people are interested in getting that sort of thing, and these samples really looked like great quality stuff.
PSLive":2xs85ou8 said:We just got a bunch of live food cultures in a cold pack the other day. All kinds of stuff. Our buyer asked me what I thought, and I told him I would love it if we would pick it up for our site to sell. We'll see what he thinks. I know a bunch of people are interested in getting that sort of thing, and these samples really looked like great quality stuff.
What manufacturer?
You guys have both B&M LFS and the website, right?
Yup Gresham, our parent company has about 27 stores and has been in business for 50 some odd years. We're the online branch. I'm almost positive it was Reef Nutrition brand, but I was more interested in the things inside the jars than the labeling.
I also use oyster feast with great results.Ben":3gswatre said:FWIW I use the oyster feast for my goni and its never looked better.
Well I got home last night with my "reef chili" and my "2LF Zoplan" and mixed me up a small batch,
and happened to pour the stuff right near the two small polyps I was trying to feed, and in seconds
nearly every polyp was closed as they all managed to get a little something. Was happy about that.
I know they like to have light, but I was not fully prepared for their nutrition and was embarassed
by that. When I saw them feed finally, I was relieved. I had originally bought phytoplakton for them
but after reading only a little, learned that this was small enough and inviting to their senses but
impossible for them to break down. I have a few filter feeders that would eat it, and growing more
all the time, but it hurt not having the right food for these two corals. So finally all is well.
and happened to pour the stuff right near the two small polyps I was trying to feed, and in seconds
nearly every polyp was closed as they all managed to get a little something. Was happy about that.
I know they like to have light, but I was not fully prepared for their nutrition and was embarassed
by that. When I saw them feed finally, I was relieved. I had originally bought phytoplakton for them
but after reading only a little, learned that this was small enough and inviting to their senses but
impossible for them to break down. I have a few filter feeders that would eat it, and growing more
all the time, but it hurt not having the right food for these two corals. So finally all is well.
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