i have a 75 gallon saltwater set up that is about 4 months old. i recently started adding corals a few feather duster and some other soft corals the guys at the store sold me a bottle of marine snow he said its the stuff to feed the new corals after using it a couple of times as directed on the bottle i decided to look up the stuff and get a few opinions on it and EVERYthing i found was pretty negative. in fact most people called it unsafe (raises nitrates) others called it worthless and a waste of time any opinions
marine snow yes or no
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No, waste of money. What kind of corals do you have? If you have LPS like torch, frogspawn, bubble, or hammer than you can feed finely shredded mysis/meaty foods.
hello and thanks for the reply i have some green goniopora, green ricordea, alveopora, a few different polyps and a few different "trees" kenya type i believe and also i feed mysis to my fish on a regular bases so is that an acceptable food source for the corals or does it need to be ground smaller
Oh man yeah you don't need marine snow to feed those. Unless some of the "polyps" do. The featherdusters are what really eats that stuff, but the cheap and easy way to get it to them is just to stir-up your gravel/sand from time to time. It doesn't add more organics to your tank and it allows your filter to remove more detritus from the tank!
As for the corals I would feed a coral food supplement (e.g. rods coral food, dt's coral products), or a frozen cube food such as mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, bloodworms, marine cuisine, etc... for the LPS and maybe some frozen baby brine or cyclops for the others.
As for the corals I would feed a coral food supplement (e.g. rods coral food, dt's coral products), or a frozen cube food such as mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, bloodworms, marine cuisine, etc... for the LPS and maybe some frozen baby brine or cyclops for the others.
Gonioporia needs ammonia in the system to survive but otherwise I've heard ppl swear by marine snow and ppl say its useless (i work at a fish store and this is the feedback I get) I've never used it personally as Corals like previous ppl said will eat minced up mysis and other stuff. There's a food called bio plankton by liquid life I believe that is basically a drop supplement that can bed fed right into the coral that a lot of my customers use
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went to a store about an hour away my son told me about that is owned by an elderly gentleman that has been in the business for many years he seemed to be extremely knowlegable i explained i was fairly new to the hobby and told him my concerns mainly about marine snow he didnt have a lot a bad things to say about it but i noticed he didnt use it or sell it so i took it as he didnt think to highly of it after a lengthy conversation he showed me his corals both for sell and his display tanks they all looked great he then showed what he fed it all and how often so i guess its hard to argue with such success i bought some reef accelerator all in one supplement and some feed called phyto feast hope it works as well for me as it does him and as he said
as i walked out the door HAPPY REEFING thoughts?
as i walked out the door HAPPY REEFING thoughts?
DT's phyto feast is good stuff! As are all of their products. There's a chart somewhere that says which of their products to use for different corals. I used to work at a really big, high-end fish store that's been in business for decades and that's the primary coral food they sold. It's expensive stuff, but people swear by it. I'm glad you found a good store.