Feeding Blasto's

[stocker]

Just curious? What does everyone feed their Blasto's, and do they grow fast, or slow.

[stocker]

Anyone?

[davejnz]

B.merletti grows faster than B.wellsi,neither are what i would call a fast growers.I usually just broadcast feed the tank at night a mixture of mysis,CE,GP's.I also have observed them eating flake food that fell on them after feeding the fish so i dont think they're too picky.

[mothra]

I'm actually curious too. I just blow the rocks with a turkey baster before lights out and hope they get some 'marine snow'.

The other day I noticed my wellsi's are laying down some baby polyps! Whoo hoo!

[davejnz]

mine have been doing that as well,at first i thought the big polyp was receding because i could see the skeleton at times,but after observing it over the past 2 wks,3 baby polyps have budded at the margins off of it.

[Pyrrhus]

i would say that my merleti will eat anything that goes into the tank, brine, mysis, prime reef, flake, pellet, anything really. in my experiences the merleti is a pretty fast grower, then again my colony has somewhere between 100-150 polyps and gets fed alot of light and food for growth.

[stocker]

When does everyone feed them? During the day with the lights on, or at night with the lights off.

[yoshiod9]

i feed mine during the day. mysis, cyclopeeze, brine, squid...whatever is handy.

[witche42]

i also feed mine during the day, i feed same thing as yoshi but i mix it up with a little bit of tiny pellets of formula 1. they love the pellets.