They assert that they are feeding a variety of prepared foods.
I think a better solution would be a live food culturing system as has been discussed by Dwayne Sapp on RC and in RK Mag. His ideas are also labour intensive but I think the potential benefits of a stable live food source would be worthwhile especially for particularly demanding livestock (mandarins, seahorses).
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-07/ds/index.htm
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-07/nftt/
It seems to me that if one were so inclined, it would be possible to culture all the necessary foodstuffs for your tank. I expect it would be quite easy to farm various types of algae (including but not limited to caulerpa), and maintain either a culturing system as discussed above or a large refugium for feeder microfauna. One would need excellent filtration systems, however, as well-fed fish tend to produce a lot of waste.
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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