Fluffeh Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Hi, I am considering trying out Rod's food (original blend) as I've heard a lot of good things about it. My fear however is that it will dirty up my water too much because it seems messy when feeding. I have a 29g biocube with several lps and sps corals + 2 clownfish + 1 cleaner shrimp (as well as several crabs/snails). I want to try to encourage more growth from my corals, and I feel as though I do not feed them enough currently. I would only use the Rod's food maybe once a week. anyone use Rod's food and have any suggestions? Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I also have a 29 g biocube, two clowns, two cleaner shrimp, some SPS, LPS and two hybrid gobies. I feed Rod's about 3x per week, mysis on the other days. All the things in my tank seem to LOVE Rod's. It does make the water messy for a bit, but clears up once you turn the pumps back on. I think as long as you have good flow and good skimming/exporting, you'll be fine - especially only once a week. I've seen really good growth from LPS and SPS (so far). But, I feed heavily (a few NLS pellets in the AM, either Rod's or mysis at night - if I feed mysis, I add in reef roids or reef chili in the mix for the corals). I do have the chambers set up as follows: Chamber 1 - heater; Chamber 2 - InTank media basket with floss (changed out every other day), purigen and chemipure elite followed by Tunze 9001 skimmer; Chamber 3 return pump, ATO sensor, ATO tube. I do 4 gallon water changes about every 4 days. So, I haven't seen nitrate issues although if I don't keep up with the W/Cs, then they'll creep to about 10 ppm. With the water changes and skimming, they are now consistently around 3-4 ppm. Link to comment
AndyK47 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I've used rod's food for a few years now. It can be a bit messy. I've found i put a quarter sized piece of it in a cup, let it dissolve in the cup with water (i use tape because we have really pure water here, TDS on tap reads in the 10-20's. i pour off the top portion, trying not to lose any of the food... fill back up with water, stire, then pour off some more of that, tends to be a bit less messy this way but does waste food. Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I've used rod's food for a few years now. It can be a bit messy. I've found i put a quarter sized piece of it in a cup, let it dissolve in the cup with water (i use tape because we have really pure water here, TDS on tap reads in the 10-20's. i pour off the top portion, trying not to lose any of the food... fill back up with water, stire, then pour off some more of that, tends to be a bit less messy this way but does waste food. That's interesting. I would think you'd lose some of the small particles that the corals like. Link to comment
AndyK47 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 you lose some of the small stuff, but there's plenty in there to feed the corals. I use to try and direct/target feed corals, and was ending up with more work trying to clean up the water. So i cut out coral "feeding" and just used rods and let the light do the trick and they grew fine, but with kids and life, i just don't have the time i used to, to devote to the tank, so i try to keep it simple, and it has worked. But the food itself is great, it's the only thing i feed my tank, the plate coral, frogspawn, and duncan all easily grab the food out of the water column. Link to comment
Fluffeh Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 thanks, im going to pick some up this weekend stellablue - i have the EXACT same setup except with a tunze 9004 . i also have an mp10 for flow and ecotech xr15w for lighting. do you have any pics of your tank? Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 thanks, im going to pick some up this weekend stellablue - i have the EXACT same setup except with a tunze 9004 . i also have an mp10 for flow and ecotech xr15w for lighting. do you have any pics of your tank? I do! If you click the image in my signature, it will bring you to my tank thread and I've got photos there! I just installed one of Dave's NanoBox retro kits and I love it. Right now, I'm just using two Koralia nanos in the DT for flow. How do you like the MP10? I swapped the stock pump for an MJ1200 and like that. Link to comment
Fluffeh Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 I also use an mj1200 for return pump. I love the mp10. I also recently added a jebao RW-4 and it is great because I can have it magnetically attached to the back of the tank and have random flow just like the mp10 pointed toward the front of the tank. with those two pumps I have very chaotic flow that I can see my corals love. you have a beautiful tank btw Link to comment
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