what are you guys feeding your SPS and where are you getting it locally?

[scarletknight06]

So I've read the feeding articles in the SPS forum and am still a little confused. If I feed some sort of phytoplankton (DT, marine snow, etc.), it does not directly feed the SPS, but it feeds microfauna in the tank (rotifiers, etc) that then reproduce at a greater rate and the SPS feed on them?

So what are you guys feeding your SPS and where are you getting it locally?

[grasshopper]

Only thing I feed my tank is: mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, nori and cyclopeze

I've seen the sps polyps actually grab the cyclopeze. I get it at TRI. The other foods don't directly get consumed by the sps, but I don't know about uptake of the matter it disintigrates into.

The nori is from Wegman's and the two shrimps are from Petco.

HTHs
GH

[scarletknight06]

so you would recommend cyclopeze

[Reeftreasures]

yes cyclopeze is the best i get it from aqua oceans or you can get the marine plankton with cyclopeze at tropiquarium

[concept3]

Live phytoplankton culture. I think FastFred started a new culture again.

[GROSSR]

I thought SPS eat rofiters and stuff that size. You feed the rotifer the phyto, the rotifers are feed to the SPS. The pods also eat the phyto.

rich

[DRZL-sauras]

SPS polyps may grab the cyclopeeze but its just a reaction to something being in its polyps. If you sit there like i have, for a whileeEEEEE, you'll see they'll just release it. They're polyps are made to consume rotifiers, that said the best way to feed them is to gut fill the rotifiers w/ phytoplankton, hence why im always bugging fast fred for rotifier production :D. Thats what you may have misunderstood.

[kabal2]

i tried to contact him but he dont answer, and scarletknight06 good question man, i was asking myself the same, that happend when you are new to the hobby

[scarletknight06]

ok, so I should feed phyto?

[maxpower39]

i just tried a new dt product...oyster eggs. pricey but interesting.
will now be doing some homework on rotifers. HIKURA frozen food
produces a rotifer product that i have been using...

[steve68]

Calcium & light
:)