Cyclopeeze
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Once a week, I feed frozen food to everything. I use about a nickel sized slice of cyclopeze, 2 cubes of prime reef and some frozen mysis, disolve it in some tank water and add it into the current. This feeds the entire 150G tank, and the 90. BUT, I have a sum total of 6 fish in both thanks. Only two of them are large enough to require a lot of food.
I feed flake only the rest of the time (except once a week when I dose/feed 1/2 oz of phyto to the system)
I feed flake only the rest of the time (except once a week when I dose/feed 1/2 oz of phyto to the system)
I turn off the circulation and target feed all my corals. I use the frozen bars and feed 3-4 "shavings' per day.
FWIW IMHO this is second only to nitrates/phosphate reaching 0 for many of my corals. Green stars, fuzzy mushroom, zoos, buttons, gorgonia, leathers all immediately close down only in the immediate area of the cylopeez. And all started growing/spreading after feeding cylopeez.
FWIW IMHO this is second only to nitrates/phosphate reaching 0 for many of my corals. Green stars, fuzzy mushroom, zoos, buttons, gorgonia, leathers all immediately close down only in the immediate area of the cylopeez. And all started growing/spreading after feeding cylopeez.
I add some to my homemade frozen food occasionally.
I feed it about once or twice a week to the tank. I take one pinch, really just a wee bit, and mix it with water, (this is the dry cyclopeeze) then dump in the tank. About 250 gallons total volume for all tanks plumbed together, but I only have 4 fish, and only two that eat any (the cardinals).
One reason I feed it is to make sure the cardinals get food, and another is that it gets my lps in the mood for some target feeding, really gets those feeder tentacles out.
I feed it about once or twice a week to the tank. I take one pinch, really just a wee bit, and mix it with water, (this is the dry cyclopeeze) then dump in the tank. About 250 gallons total volume for all tanks plumbed together, but I only have 4 fish, and only two that eat any (the cardinals).
One reason I feed it is to make sure the cardinals get food, and another is that it gets my lps in the mood for some target feeding, really gets those feeder tentacles out.
I break off the smallest piece I can from the bar and thaw it in a little cup of RO water.
The fish seem to tire of trying to get full on it. I think to them, it's like you or I trying to fill up on peel and eat shrimp. You get sick of eating before you get full.
I still like feeding it too them because I am sure it is good for them and the corals too.
Louey
The fish seem to tire of trying to get full on it. I think to them, it's like you or I trying to fill up on peel and eat shrimp. You get sick of eating before you get full.
I still like feeding it too them because I am sure it is good for them and the corals too.
Louey
first, what is cyclopeeze?
alright, now i need to learn more about what to feed who...
as of right now here is what i have live in the tank:
HUGE toadstool leather
tons of green button polyps
big clump of red mushrooms
nice size piece of white star polyps
christmas tree coral
cabbage leather (about 9 pieces on one rock)
medium sized clam
3 green mushrooms
1. damsel
2. convict blennies (1 about a foot, 1 about four/five inches)
1. lawnmower/algae blenny
----on sunday i will be getting a large sailfin tang
===and a flowerpot coral (stokesi strand)
55 gallon; 50 some pounds of live rock; 3 402 powerheads; euro reef skimmer; 20 gallon sump; total water volume of about 45 gallons
this is the way i feed the tank:
every two/three days a medium piece of seaweed selects green marine algae; the inbetween days one cube of mysis shrimp; and every three to four days either a squirt of "Kent Micro Vert" or "Two Fishes Marine Snow".
i only use RO/DI water, with a 5-10 gallon change every week to ten days, and if i have to go longer i will dose the tank with iodine, and calcium.
am i good? everything looks happy... i know in the beginning i was "numbers chasing", but now that everything is stable and i am adding, i don't want to screw it up....
in your most humble opinion, and don't hesitate to give it as it will not be used without investigation, a good routine or no?
alright, now i need to learn more about what to feed who...
as of right now here is what i have live in the tank:
HUGE toadstool leather
tons of green button polyps
big clump of red mushrooms
nice size piece of white star polyps
christmas tree coral
cabbage leather (about 9 pieces on one rock)
medium sized clam
3 green mushrooms
1. damsel
2. convict blennies (1 about a foot, 1 about four/five inches)
1. lawnmower/algae blenny
----on sunday i will be getting a large sailfin tang
===and a flowerpot coral (stokesi strand)
55 gallon; 50 some pounds of live rock; 3 402 powerheads; euro reef skimmer; 20 gallon sump; total water volume of about 45 gallons
this is the way i feed the tank:
every two/three days a medium piece of seaweed selects green marine algae; the inbetween days one cube of mysis shrimp; and every three to four days either a squirt of "Kent Micro Vert" or "Two Fishes Marine Snow".
i only use RO/DI water, with a 5-10 gallon change every week to ten days, and if i have to go longer i will dose the tank with iodine, and calcium.
am i good? everything looks happy... i know in the beginning i was "numbers chasing", but now that everything is stable and i am adding, i don't want to screw it up....
in your most humble opinion, and don't hesitate to give it as it will not be used without investigation, a good routine or no?
Len, I spotfeed my corals with it. Turn the flow down or off totaly if you can. Hammers, Torch's, Hairy shrooms, Pavona's,Cupcorals, Tubastrea's,
larger polyped gorgonians, Ricordea, brain coral, candy cane's, all love the stuff. Just use a pippet with a long section of riggid airline tubing for spot feeding. Release it VERY slowly sothat it lays on the mouth, or near it.
WHat amount to use is realy irrelivent as it totaly depends on how big your corals are and how many of them can actualy take atvantage of it.
Basicly the less the better.
Criss is probably talking about the red poopy fish and inverts put off after they eat it. LOL!
larger polyped gorgonians, Ricordea, brain coral, candy cane's, all love the stuff. Just use a pippet with a long section of riggid airline tubing for spot feeding. Release it VERY slowly sothat it lays on the mouth, or near it.
WHat amount to use is realy irrelivent as it totaly depends on how big your corals are and how many of them can actualy take atvantage of it.
Basicly the less the better.
Criss is probably talking about the red poopy fish and inverts put off after they eat it. LOL!
I feed it once a day in my 46 G BF . I put a cube of myasis or a cube of prime reef in a cup of tank water and add a tiny crumb of cyclopeeze frozen (I have both but use the frozen most often). Once it is all thawed I target feed my corals that accept it with a turkey baster and the fish eat the floaters. The only corals that seems to really take alot of it is my sun coral, and my blastos. The rest get some but don't seem to react as much to it as the other 2. I have 4 fish and they all seem to enjoy it, although the tang eats more of the myasis than the smaller cyclop. Tang also gets a 1/8 sheet of algae a day.
although i haven't had any problem my self, i've talked to some local hobbyists that have had problems with feeding cyclopeeze to fish. (one of them was a huge clownfish breeder fan)
there's a coral food from canada called reefroids from a company called polyp labs. i've been using it for a month with absolutely stunning results. their website is at polyplab.com
i don't have sun corals but on their testimonial page, apparently you can always induce an instant feeding reponse with the food even in broad daylight.
oh another thing .. when i used to feed cyclopeeze, most of the it would end up in the skimmer or stuck against the side of the tank glass =) i hated that
there's a coral food from canada called reefroids from a company called polyp labs. i've been using it for a month with absolutely stunning results. their website is at polyplab.com
i don't have sun corals but on their testimonial page, apparently you can always induce an instant feeding reponse with the food even in broad daylight.
oh another thing .. when i used to feed cyclopeeze, most of the it would end up in the skimmer or stuck against the side of the tank glass =) i hated that
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