Phosphate thread, and oldie but a goody

[Whatigot]

Jeez...
I feed my reef pellets (salifert energy plus) every second day and a mix of mysis, brine and bloodworms every third day.

I do put a lot of effort ino making sire there are some natural foods available as well and all my fish are pretty thick, though far from fat.

I am guilty of undefeeding if anything but have not seen any ill of it so far...

[phreezee]

Mysis, Flake and Nori for me everyday. To combat, I siphon detritus every 1-2 days.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Whatigot

Jeez...
I feed my reef pellets (salifert energy plus) every second day and a mix of mysis, brine and bloodworms every third day.

I do put a lot of effort ino making sire there are some natural foods available as well and all my fish are pretty thick, though far from fat.

I am guilty of undefeeding if anything but have not seen any ill of it so far...

If you ask me ... basically we're all underfeeding to some degree. Some species will adapt better than others. A few years ago there was a design floating around about this planktonic reactor that would do mini-surges all day and presumably dump live rotifers or similar over the course of a day. It looked like a neat DIY project - it was on reefkeeping.com - called it a "Geosapper".

Originally Posted by subman

What do you mean?

Ok, the only picture I have that sort of shows it is this one. To the left of the tank is a 3" piece of 1/2" PVC on a fishing line. I roll a 2x3 piece of cut nori onto this and hold it in place with an elastic. The advantage this offers over a nori clip is that to eat it, the fish have to rasp it off instead of cut it off .. which results in far less waste. It also has the benefit that urchins and other inverts can polish it off at night. I can count on my abalone finishing off whatever the others don't get.

There are several variations on this theme that people use for feeding nori.. the main trick is that a clip isn't the best way for delivering nori because nori flakes down too easily if left loose.

[subman]

Thats perfect thanks!