Best bottled phytoplankton?

conch

Member
1st question to ask yourself...Why feed carnivorious coral plants?? I fed my corals Phytoplan, DTs and other Plant based Foods and I only ended up with larg amounts of Cynobacteria, and didn't get that much reation from my Coral. I started feeding my tank Zooplan (two little fishies) and I no longer have a cynobacteria issue, and my coral is the prettiest and largest it has ever been. I've had a tank for 3 years and I wish I had know to feed the corals zooplankton and not Phyto plankton back when I started. It would have saved my a lot of headaches :). I've see that DT's is now selling Oyster eggs and I think that would be a great food if it weren't so damn expensive ($20/30 ml 1 ml feeds 50-70 gal tank). I use Zooplan and Cyclopeze, and my Coral is happy :)


 

catawaba

Active Member
Fair enough.
But I'm looking for balanced nutrition for LPS, softies, feather dusters, etc.
The Kent products seem complete/reasonable.
What does everyone else feed their filtering friends?
 

paulcoates

Member
I started usng PhytoFeast. 1 drop per day per 10 gallons. It's super concentrated and would recommend buying the smallest bottle. You'll go through it very slowly. My LFS used to use DT and switched because they say it is better than DT
 

conch

Member
Clams eat phytoplankton
Coral eats Zooplankton .
Try phyto feast for a week or two, then try Zooplan or that little glass bottle of zooplankton and see if you can notice a differance, I know I did.
 
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jrthomas40

Guest
i have a bottle of marine snow...which i believe includes both phyto and zoo in it...so i will see how that works out cuz i didnt see anything with the kent phyto
 
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qn5

Guest
how do you feed the corals with zooplankton? spot feed or just put some in the tank?
 

conch

Member
Both. I spot feed my Sun Coral by placing half a soda bottle on top and filling it with Zooplan. I also feed the whole tank with Zooplan and Cyclopeeze by just adding it too the tank, all of my corals have responded well to this, the best it's looked in 3 years
 
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