Anyone use DT's phytoplankton?

[K9coral]

Does this stuff work? How do you feed it to your fish/corals? I just saw an add and I was thinking about buying and trying some.

 

[Unarce]

I haven't heard of it being used to feed fish. Perhaps indirectly by supporting a pod population. Softies and LPS definitely benefit from DT's directly. I use DT's to indirectly feed my SPS. It maintains the meiofauna that produce the larvae that my SPS feed on.

 

[reefNewbie]

I wouldnt use it. Just make your own phytoplankton. Thats what I do, its cheaper, better and a little fun as well.

 

[K9coral]

And how would one go about doing that?

 

[Unarce]

Just make your own phytoplankton. Thats what I do, its cheaper, better and a little fun as well.

I definitely gotta try that. I just wish I had the time.

 

[K9coral]

Any idea on how to make that stuff on your own?

 

[hdtran]

Try the following links:

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... reeder.htm

http://www.sjwilson.net/reef/

Good luck!

(I do use DT's. Too lazy to grow my own).

 

[bhanson]

I'm with you on that!

 

[melanotaenia1]

I love DT amazing stuff, Here are my clams who just love the stuff, the night after I feed them they are so huge and open and beautiful, and my corals just love the stuff. Make sure you keep refrigerated and shake the bottle every day or two in the fridge or it will stick to the bottom of the bottle and die, and when you open the bottle it will smell like funk and you will have to dump it; I have had some trials with this stuff. I tried the DIY DT but found that it is worth the 13 bucks for a bottle of it from my LFS.

I would not feed as often as they say on the bottle, I use more sparingly, or better yet, it really depends on your coral volume. Clams love it the most, as do LPS and SPS species.

:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting reading:
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/r_ ... 02500.html

 

[Brandon1]

Yeah its good. I use it every two days... I have heard that it reproduces in the tank to some extent. It seems to me that it would get filtered out by everything that eats it faster than it could reproduce though. Anyone have an info on this? What about getting skimmed out?