My girlfriend bought a bar of that stuff a few days ago and fed her tank with it using a turkey baster. She cut off a small piece and it went a real long way. I didn't realize that when it breaks up and thaws in the water, that it turns into like "red snow" What corals or shrooms in particular love to eat that? It was kinda hard to see if the corals were enjoying that stuff or not. Some reacted but it was hard to say, as that stuff goes everywhere. Afterwards she fed with bio-plankton....and you see they love that, and I end up seeing pods come out to eat as well. Just curious, I wanted to know more about the product and what things in particular love that stuff. You guys dont feed them while it's frozen right? It's always suppose to be completely thawed out when they eat it? so it's all like a mini-sno-globe when they are fed directly?? Let me know....just want to make sure the feeding are done correctly.
Feeding with cyclopeeze
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As you discovered a little goes a L-O-N-G way. I usually feed it once a week, thawed and mixed with some DT's. Turn off all the pumps/skimmer/s HOB and add it to the tank. This way it stays in suspension longer and some of the corals that generally wouldn't have a chance to catch it as it whizzes by in the flow will be able to feed.
My fish/crabs and snails go ballistic when this stuff hits the water. The whole tank goes bezerk actually. Pretty cool. The zoos with the longer skirts and the butttons grab for it and my gorg and anthelia closes their polyps around it too.
My fish/crabs and snails go ballistic when this stuff hits the water. The whole tank goes bezerk actually. Pretty cool. The zoos with the longer skirts and the butttons grab for it and my gorg and anthelia closes their polyps around it too.
cool, thanks for the few responses, I tried to feed again last night with that stuff. (this time much smaller piece) I fed the long yellow polyps, and I see they will have their thin tentacles wrap around that stuff fast and close up. (it's cool you can see the food in their system) Also I actually saw the ocellaris eat up on that stuff too. I tried to give some to the regular green mushroom and they dont even react to it. Do they mostly just feed on light? I notice they react and close up a bit when flakes land on them but nothing else. I see how easy it is with hairy mushroom, they apparently eat everything, as I saw when admiring my friend Nemessis's 60 gallon tank.
so i guess that is suppose to be that way with the mushrooms I'm speaking off, right? They just lay there and do nothing. They suppose to eat regularily aren't they? Consume some bit of food or whatever? Or is it mostly light? I notice Sandra's are starting to look not as colorful, and has that "dry" "burn" look to them. Like they starving or whatever. I am trying to help with hers' but dont know enough to help. She feeds her tank with the cyclopeeze and bio-plankton. Also feeds with mysis and flake.incysor said:
The one green mushroom I have in my pico is doing fine. It seems to love to close around flake, and nothing else. just a little bit though, otherwise it'l let go of any excess flakes. Any advice?
Hmm....I generally don't target feed with flake. I do with cyclopeeze, krill, brine, mysis. I just squirt a little bit over all the corals with the turkey baster. None of my mushrooms that have a smooth surface ever close up around food. If you've got any shimp-pellets you might try it with one of those.dragon79 said:
If they're color is bleaching out, and they look burned, get them some shade. Too much light is the number one reason for this. Number two would be getting stung by something else around.
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Thank you very much B. It appears the mushroom is getting too much light and not enough shade. I was guessing that, and placed sandra's mushroom rock down to the sandbed. It should do better down there. I've made Sandra real sure not to place it near any tentacles that may sting the shroom and she's done a good job of that. Also we do have the smooth textured mushroom green, with a tad bit of texture, like bumps. (looks as small as tastebuds of a tongue) Her's doesn't react to anything, but mine does....how weird. Would be interesting to try with the shrimp pellet for kicks to see if my smooth textured mushroom will react to that as well, or to Sandra's As for now, I think it needs to recover from getting too much direct light from being too close to the top. Thanks again.