Feeding The Reef Aquarium

One of the difficulties in the maintenance of reef aquaria has been the ability to provide consistent, nutritious and usable food resources that help to reproduce the large amount of particulate food or zooplankton available on natural reefs. One of the solutions was the advent of the refugium with macro aglae, where micro crustaceans multiply, thereby adding a natural food source and biodiversity to the aquarium. Many LPS corals feed when the fish are fed with brine shrimp and mysid shrimp, but SPS corals and other filter feeders require a much smaller microplankton to survive.

Many products are now available to provide a nutritous food source for SPS corals and filter feeders like tube worms. DT's Oyster Eggs is one of these products that have a very good nutritional profile, and appear to maintain their nutritional value over long periods of frozen storage. These eggs are 40 to 50 microns in size. There are about 3,000,000 eggs per ml. Just one 1ml (1/5 tsp) will feed a heavily populated 50-75 gallon tank.

 

Liquid Life CoralPlankton provides an instant energy boost to improve the coral's growth rates and tissue repair. With a particle size of 20-200 microns and a concentration greater than 3,000 per mL, the nutrient-enriched rotifiers in CoralPlankton are easily ingested by SPS corals and other filter feeders. Not only does CoralPlankton consist of rotifiers, but also Pavlova algae especially suited to feed Tridacnid clams. Since CoralPlankton is a moist food, it has a positive acceptance rate and neutral buoyancy to remain suspended in the water column. CoralPlankton has a four month shelf life and should always be refrigerated.