How to feed pellets?

ptomoson · 01/18/2009, 05:26 PM

I normally feed flakes and brine shrimp. Recently I bought some Formula One Marine Pellets but the problem is they sink right to the bottom. My fish are used to the food floating in the water column so they never search the sandbed. Crabs are having a hey-day. Is there some other wy to administer the incredible sinking pellet?

shuguley · 01/18/2009, 05:38 PM

When I feed pellets, I just drop a couple in at a time right above the fish, they will usually grab some on the way down, the few the fish miss, become crab food. The trick is just to feed a very small amount and very slowly.

NirvanaFan · 01/18/2009, 05:44 PM

I turn off all my powerheads when I feed. This way the food doesn't get blown all around the tank and they are more concentrated for the fish.

phish guy · 01/18/2009, 06:00 PM

i also use the formula 1 pellets, yeah they can sink fast. i throw them in a few at a time through out the day.

01/18/2009, 05:26 PM	#1
ptomoson Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NW Iowa Posts: 274	How to feed pellets? I normally feed flakes and brine shrimp. Recently I bought some Formula One Marine Pellets but the problem is they sink right to the bottom. My fish are used to the food floating in the water column so they never search the sandbed. Crabs are having a hey-day. Is there some other wy to administer the incredible sinking pellet?

01/18/2009, 05:38 PM	#2
shuguley Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Smiths Station, AL Posts: 536	When I feed pellets, I just drop a couple in at a time right above the fish, they will usually grab some on the way down, the few the fish miss, become crab food. The trick is just to feed a very small amount and very slowly. __________________ 2 Ocellaris Clowns, Midas Blenny, Spotted Mandarin, Pistol Shrimp, 2 Cleaner Shrimp, Large CUC Corals: Xenia, Candy Cane, Zoas, Frogspawn, Brain, Bubble, Shrooms, Sun Current Tank Info: 55G Reef w/ 15G sump/fuge w/chaeto, Phosban Reactor w/GFO, AquaC Remora Protein Skimmer, 2 Koralia 3s, Nova Extreme T5HO 216W, 85lbs LR, 60lbs LS

01/18/2009, 06:00 PM	#4
phish guy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South NJ Posts: 1,003	i also use the formula 1 pellets, yeah they can sink fast. i throw them in a few at a time through out the day. __________________ Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Current Tank Info: 150 Gallon Reef, Reeftech LEDs ( on their way out for reefbreeder Photons), Reef Octoput NWB250, Custom made Sump/Refufium, Mp40wES, Koralia's. SPS, LPS, Zoas/Palys

01/18/2009, 05:44 PM	#3
NirvanaFan Reef Ninja Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 4,280	I turn off all my powerheads when I feed. This way the food doesn't get blown all around the tank and they are more concentrated for the fish.