Who uses planktonic food for their corals

[gka]

I have a variety of hard and soft corals. Can anyone share their experiences with regard to the use of a planktonic food (such as marine snow etc...). I currently do not use any but am wondering if they could be beneficial. I do not have a DSB (also no clams).

Thanks

 

[chris_h]

I just started using rotifers.

 

[slojmn1]

I used Marine Snow once, then the bottle went bad on me after I had used 1/3 of it. I then moved on to Dt's Phytoplankton and use that regularly. I supplement with Golden pearls from Brine shrimp direct, online, as well as Tahitian Blend cryopaste. I do keep clams along with sps and some lps corals. I have a lot of feather duster and wormy like creatures throuhout my system so I feel that the planktonic food types are important. I would think a use once a week could be beneficial for the creatures in your live rock. I would try Dt's and see what you think. Use it sparingly at first since you do not have a large population to use it up.

 

[gka]

slojmn1,
Thanks for the advice. Does anyone have experience with a product called spectra vital (I think it's from Mark Weiss) and it is a dry food?

 

[Snake Man]

anything that is made by weiss is a waste of money. never heard of any good results from any of his stuff.

 

[HARRISON]

I have tried the Coral-Vital...My corals are doing about the same. My algae didn't grow any faster and I didn't notice anything really different. I did notice a difference when I started adding Lugols though. My Xenia perked up and looks better...

 

[dmm32]

gka

Stay away from the weiss stuff, I use Marine
Snow or DT's, both do fine. I have seen the polyps expand much larger at night after dosing with either of them. The marine snow seem to not green up my glass as bad as DT's.

David

 

[yznhmr]

http://www.liquidlifeusa.com/ go here and check out the BioPlankton, this is what im using, i theink its good stuff, any one else using it?