cyclopeeze
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ooooooh that's a loaded question.
Like: "How much food should I give my dog"
It depends on what you're feeding and how much of them you have. I have an SPS tank and many a planktivore that love it. I feed a spitball sized piece with half as much spray dried phyto plankton every other day alternating a day then night feeding. Some animals feed during the day and some feed at night. Cyclopeeze only remains suspended for 10 minutes or so, at least in my tank.
When my reef was younger I used to just target feed cyclopeeze to certain animals with one of those things you use to get "boogies" out of a babies nose.
Like: "How much food should I give my dog"
It depends on what you're feeding and how much of them you have. I have an SPS tank and many a planktivore that love it. I feed a spitball sized piece with half as much spray dried phyto plankton every other day alternating a day then night feeding. Some animals feed during the day and some feed at night. Cyclopeeze only remains suspended for 10 minutes or so, at least in my tank.
When my reef was younger I used to just target feed cyclopeeze to certain animals with one of those things you use to get "boogies" out of a babies nose.
A little goes a long way, my local fish guy says use a pinky nail size chunk for a 20 to 30 gallon tank, that stuff can pollute a tank fast! Oh, and I feed it no more then 3 times a week, but I alternate with PE mysis, my fish eat it like crazy! The Hikari they don't touch, the PE mysis causes a food fight!
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Ah! An aspirator! I should get another (non fish) one since my wife will is due soon with our first. I didn't know they were so handy.
nyreef,
i dont even put that much, im going to take it slow and up it a little at a time because it floats around for awhile.
i also use the hikari brand but i want to try the PE, some of my fish arnt crazy for the hikari.
Fritz, congrats man. babies are a bundle of joy. first time i didnt get grossed out cleaning somebody else's boogers. (not that i have cleaned anybody's boogers before...well.. you know what i mean... babies are fun.
i dont even put that much, im going to take it slow and up it a little at a time because it floats around for awhile.
i also use the hikari brand but i want to try the PE, some of my fish arnt crazy for the hikari.
Fritz, congrats man. babies are a bundle of joy. first time i didnt get grossed out cleaning somebody else's boogers. (not that i have cleaned anybody's boogers before...well.. you know what i mean... babies are fun.
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- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
make sure you wash the aspirator after your done feeding the fish. Imagine the feeling of salt up your kids nose :kidding: Bacteria is bad... don't use the same one for your kids.
I feed my 24g nano about every two to 3 days with cyclo just to give the fish and coral a variety with mysis mixed in between the days not feeding cyclo, about a pea size worth. I also use a syringe i got with joes juice i never used to feed my sun polyps and to lay some mysis/cyclo mix in a low current area for my scooter blenny every two days. You can buy in a rite aid or genovese plastic syringes also, my mom got one to feed her dogs maple syrup when they were sick.
I feed my 24g nano about every two to 3 days with cyclo just to give the fish and coral a variety with mysis mixed in between the days not feeding cyclo, about a pea size worth. I also use a syringe i got with joes juice i never used to feed my sun polyps and to lay some mysis/cyclo mix in a low current area for my scooter blenny every two days. You can buy in a rite aid or genovese plastic syringes also, my mom got one to feed her dogs maple syrup when they were sick.
yeah, thats why im taking it slow with small amounts.
man, thanks guys! i've had a stick of the frozen cyclopeeze in my freezer for three weeks, with no idea how much to feed. I have some hair algae on my closed loop, and a little cyano in the fuge section of my sump, so i thought i might be overfeeding my other stuff (Form. I and II, frozen mysis, frozen plankton) I pick little bits from this variety, but was putting an entire cube of the frozen mysis/plankton in the tank. I heard the CE was really concentrated, so I've been holding off.
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