Phytoplanton

[bcdope]

What do you guys do to administer your phyto? Just wondering if there was any effective methods of delivery that you guys have found to be successful?

Plus, what do you normally feed it to and how much in terms of mL?

Cheers

[Doug]

I fed my 170 about a capful/week. Always had nice sponge growth, but have some wierd ones now. :D

Except for that, I dont know how it effects the tank, good or bad. One must watch close for algae, {esp. red slime}, caused by excessive use.

I have read that clams like a feeding of it. As I dont have any, cant comment on that observation.

So, I would say, depending on your filtration and amount of filter feeders, be careful when using it.

[Mares77]

Dont use Kent Phytoplex if you are thinking of feeding cause its dead crap and high in sugar causes algae bloom....Use live Phytoplan called DT available at J&L...good luck...how are the pipe doing?

[bcdope]

the pipes were doing awesome... ive moved them to a new location in my tank, and since then they've been getting used to their surroundings... Ive dosed my tank with 1/2 cap full of coral vital, and hopefully it'll kick in....

Yeah I hear Dt's is great stuff, but I have a full bottle of Kent phytoplex which I decided to purchase a few months back... I think my LR and water quality are quite high, so Im hoping the phyto doesn't whack things off the chart....

If you want some phyto there mares77, you're more than welcome to take some... I have a bottle of seachem calcium + strontium (wink wink) that you can use to if the need ever arises....

right now Im super dosing my tank with coral vital, to see if the stated claims are really true?

The iodine seems to be helping huge with my green and brown mushies....

also IO salt is some good cheap stuff, and has proven to do wonders in my tank

just wondering, any one out there.... when using supplements and you decide to cut back on the additives, I hear that the inhabitants of the tank can actually "starve," since the levels they were used to, are now being cut back.... just wondering if any of you have heard the same hypothesis that's floating in my brain....
Im suspecting that if you did decide to cut back on the supplements to do this in a slow and patient manner....

cheers

[Mak]

I had almost a full bottle of the kent ( J&L didn't carry DT's then )and decided to wait til i was finished with this bottle as well. I caved in last week. I saw results the very NEXT day :D ... do not wait!!!

[ 27 June 2002, 21:38: Message edited by: MAK ]