Do you feed dry, and if so, what do you feed?

[.Chris.]

Currently, I feed 9 varieties of flake and pellet, as well as 5 different frozen.

The flake is all mixed together and fed twice daily. I use two frozen foods once daily, and rotate through them.

HBH Marine Flake Frenzy
Seachem Nutridiet Marine Flake
Ocean Nutrition Reef Flake
Tetra Color Granules
Hikari Seaweed Extreme Pellet
Hikari Marine A Pellet
New Life Spectrum Thera 1mm Pellet
Cobalt Aquatics Spirulina-Mysis Pellet
Cobalt Aquatics Marine Omni Pellet

Hikari Mysis
PE Mysis
Hikari Spirulina Mysis
Hikari Brine Shrimp
Cobalt Aquatics Mysis

[fishchef]

We like Formula 2.

[biomek]

Forumula 1 flake and NLS micro pellets

[cloak]

Ocean Nutrition Formula One & Two, Prime Reef, OSI Spirulina flakes & NLS pellets. I'm also feeding three or four different frozen foods, along with live black worms & live brine shrimp as well.

Dry foods are usually offered about 70% of the time btw. So far so good.

[.Chris.]

My issue with Formula 1/2 pellets is that they sink like rocks. A lot of fish can't get them in time before they hit the bottom.

[skey44]

I stick to new life spectrum products if they will eat dry.

[discocarp]

My dry foods:

Spectrum
Formula 2
Reef Chili
Goniopower (very sparingly)
Nori Sheets
Red Algae Sheets
Spirulina Flakes

I also feed a lot of frozen, both reef-intended stuff and grocery store seafood.

[AudiSportB5S4]

I do my frozen feedings in the morning mostly before I go to work, and then after work when I get home I throw some pellets in there. I use New Life Spectrum Thera+A and they seem to love it. I have a clown fish, 3 anthias, a firefish, and two pj cardinals that all go after it.

[formsix]

I cannot figure out a good way to feed the NLS pellets. My fish won't eat them unless they're soaked in other food (like thawed mysis or RODS), but they either don't absorb enough and float, absorb too much and disintegrate, or float on the top for a little and then sink like rocks. And all my fish like to grab food out of the water column.

Only other dry I feed is reef chili. Interested in this thread though because I might try some flakes next. I'd love to set up an auto-feeder to feed once a day when I'm out of town (with a person feeding frozen one other time).

[discocarp]

My fish love the Spectrum, except the Bangaii Cardinal. He'll only eat frozen PE mysis.

[AudiSportB5S4]

Originally Posted by formsix

Only other dry I feed is reef chili

Have you made the terrible mistake of not dispensing it all into the tank and keeping it in the bottle for a few days.. and then smelling it a few days later? It's probably the worst smell I've ever smelled! The corals do love that stuff though but now when I make it I make sure I target feed the ones I'm interested in and then dump the rest into the tank.

[formsix]

Originally Posted by AudiSportB5S4

Have you made the terrible mistake of not dispensing it all into the tank and keeping it in the bottle for a few days.. and then smelling it a few days later? It's probably the worst smell I've ever smelled! The corals do love that stuff though but now when I make it I make sure I target feed the ones I'm interested in and then dump the rest into the tank.

haha, no, I can only imagine!! Yuck! I usually just broadcast feed, or I squirt a little towards some specific corals and dump the rest in. I do sometimes keep extra thawed mysis in the fridge overnight, but that's the limit of my bravery!