Thomas898 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Heeey guys, so I usually feed all my LPS a mix of squid, clam, mysis, lobster eggs etc. Yesterday I tried feeding my euphyllias, chalice and acanthophyllia Reef Roids instead! Bad choice. Today the euphyllia are completely receded and angry looking, and my acanthophyllia has been ejecting a clear mucus periodically for a few hours. Chalice is really receded too. I used tank water to mix it also. Every coral I DIDN’T feed the Reed Roids to is completely fine and happily inflated, Is there anything I can do/how worried should I be? I’m going to do a water change today, just because, but I’m not entirely convinced on how helpful that’ll be given it's food related rather than water qulity.. Basic parameters are all 0.Calc – 400 – Alk – 8 Mag - 1340. Thank you!! Link to comment
Swing2Harmony Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 How much reef roids did you feed and how big is your tank? Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 How much reef roids did you feed and how big is your tank? It's 18 gallons, I fed 5 currently unhappy corals and two large gonipora around 1/8th of a teaspoon mixed with 12ml tank water. Link to comment
Swing2Harmony Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 That's way too much food, you shouldn't be feeding that much in a nano. This kind of powder food is mostly going to end up in the water column and it breaks down fast. Maybe this has something to do with you LPS not looking happy, or maybe it doesn't, I don't know! You should test for nitrate, you might have had a short amonia spike. I would need a lot more info about your tank. Age, bioload, filtaration etc... Link to comment
NorthGaHillbilly Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 That's way too much food, you shouldn't be feeding that much in a nano. This kind of powder food is mostly going to end up in the water column and it breaks down fast. Maybe this has something to do with you LPS not looking happy, or maybe it doesn't, I don't know! You should test for nitrate, you might have had a short amonia spike. I would need a lot more info about your tank. Age, bioload, filtaration etc... 1/8th of a teaspoon... I cant imagine that being an issue. I would just hold on for a while, i expect they will puke it all up and then bounce back. Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I use Reef-Roids in a 12g, but very sparingly. It is very concentrated so I only use around 1/20th of a tsp once a week or so for zoas and acros mixed with around 10 - 15ml of tank water. Your LPS will better appreciate meaty foods and they are much less polluting since most goes into the coral's digestive system instead of into the water column. Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 That's way too much food, you shouldn't be feeding that much in a nano. This kind of powder food is mostly going to end up in the water column and it breaks down fast. Maybe this has something to do with you LPS not looking happy, or maybe it doesn't, I don't know! You should test for nitrate, you might have had a short amonia spike. I would need a lot more info about your tank. Age, bioload, filtaration etc... 1/8th of a tea spoon is not that much I don't think, not for 18 gallons.. The directions do say 1/4 of a teaspoon per 20 gallons so if anything I'm being cautious!. It's mixed into a paste, target fed with a pipette while pumps are off. There is no waste to break down, it's all eaten. And basic parameters including ammonia and nitrate/nitrite are all 0, have been for the last 4 months. It's around 7 months old. No to bio balls, I run filter floss, chemo pure elite and purigen. Tank thread has all livestock info. 1/8th of a teaspoon... I cant imagine that being an issue. I would just hold on for a while, i expect they will puke it all up and then bounce back. Yeah I'm just thinking I need to be patient, the acanthophyllia has stopped spewing it back up and is looking a bit better. Just can't believe they had this reaction to it! I like my acanthophyllia the most, hope he pulls through. I use Reef-Roids in a 12g, but very sparingly. It is very concentrated so I only use around 1/20th of a tsp once a week or so for zoas and acros mixed with Your LPS will better appreciate meaty foods and they are much less polluting since most goes into the coral's digestive system instead of into the water column. I usually feed them meaty foods I mentioned in first post, just thought I'd give reef roids a go and see what happens. I do not approve of the results lol Link to comment
Swing2Harmony Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I have a euphyllia dominated tank and I've never seen bad effects from feeding Reef Roids. The directions over-state by a long shot. I have a 20G and I feed it very sparingly once a week. I know what happens when I over feed it and my over feeding is no where close to 1/8 of a tsp. I've never bought reef roids. I have the tiny sample bottle since a year ago and it's still 75% full. At the end it comes down to your nutrition export system and how good your filtration is, which I have no idea! But I'm not sure why you think most of the food was eaten. It's just powder food that you can't even see where it goes! There is no reason to think that most of it was eaten. That's wishful thinking! You still have to think if there is something else you have done to the tank! It might had nothing to do with the reef roids. Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 I have a euphyllia domnated tank and I've never seen bad effects from feeding Reef Roids. The directions over-state by a long shot. I have a 20G and I feed it very sparingly once a week. I know what happens when I over feed it and my over feeding is no where close to 1/8 of a tsp. I've never bought reef roids. I have the tiny sample bottle since a year ago and it's still 75% full. At the end it comes down to your nutrition export system and how good your filtration is, which I have no idea! But I'm not sure why you think most of the food was eaten. It's just powder food that you can't even see where it goes! There is no reason to think that most of it was eaten. That's wishful thinking! You still have to think if there is something else you have done to the tank! It might had nothing to do with the reef roids. Hmm I'm still not seeing how 1/8th of a teaspoon is a problem.. I usually feed the two goniopora and zoas this much every other day and have had absolutely no problems with it for months. If my readings are all coming back at 0 I'm going to assume the filtration is up to scratch. And I'm assuming it was eaten because I watched it get eaten..? As I said, it's mixed up in a small dish before hand WITH water from the tank, it turns into a thin paste, this is then sucked up through a pipette and I squirt it directly into the corals mouth with the pumps OFF, so it literally cannot go anywhere but on the corals.. Any that slips through the gonipora tentacles is quickly decimated by my nassarius snails. I don't just dump the dry powder in my tank and hope for the best.. The meat coral is bouncing back after several hours of spewing up mucus. And the only corals affected are the ones that I fed the roids to. Have yours always responded well to the feedings? Link to comment
Swing2Harmony Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I see. Well, they probably didn't like thier tasty meal! Let us know how those corals do in a few days. Hopefully they'll just bounce back. Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 I see. Well, they probably didn't like thier tasty meal! Let us know how those corals do in a few days. Hopefully they'll just bounce back. Who would have thought, corals being food snobs.. I think I'll be sticking to the meaty foods for the corals from now on. Lesson learned Thank you for the help! Link to comment
Azedenkae Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I tossed my reef roids out. >_> Was using Aquavitro Fuel and everything was great. Reef Roids and everything almost died. Sure I probably did overdose as well, though I used very, very little. Given that just one slight overdose was enough for a nano, and I was using very little anyways, well... yeah. >_> But hey, that's probably just me. And you. Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 I tossed my reef roids out. >_> Was using Aquavitro Fuel and everything was great. Reef Roids and everything almost died. Sure I probably did overdose as well, though I used very, very little. Given that just one slight overdose was enough for a nano, and I was using very little anyways, well... yeah. >_> But hey, that's probably just me. And you. Wow, thankfully all of yours survived. And was that from feeding it to them just the once!? I'm never feeding this stuff to anything other than goniopora and zoos again.. Fortunately (or not) all of them but 1 kept ejecting mucus similar to the acanth last night. This is the last of the corals to come right. Sad frogspawn is sad. The rest seemed to bounce back fine but this one is really not looking too pleased.. Ideas anyone? Link to comment
Nano sapiens Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Just a case of indigestion from too much rich food Just blow off any mucus and or food that you see it expelling and it *should* bounce back. I guess it is possible to kill a coral with too much food, but it would be hard to do. Kind of like stuffing a person until they popped (queue 'The Life of Brian' scene with Mr. Creosote). Link to comment
Azedenkae Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Wow, thankfully all of yours survived. And was that from feeding it to them just the once!? I'm never feeding this stuff to anything other than goniopora and zoos again.. Fortunately (or not) all of them but 1 kept ejecting mucus similar to the acanth last night. This is the last of the corals to come right. Sad frogspawn is sad. The rest seemed to bounce back fine but this one is really not looking too pleased.. Ideas anyone? Twice. The first time they reacted badly, but thought it was nothing. The second time they reacted badly again. Stopped Reef Roids, tried something else (both times). They bounced back. Link to comment
Thomas898 Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Just a case of indigestion from too much rich food Just blow off any mucus and or food that you see it expelling and it *should* bounce back. I guess it is possible to kill a coral with too much food, but it would be hard to do. Kind of like stuffing a person until they popped (queue 'The Life of Brian' scene with Mr. Creosote). No more expensive food for them I think. Ok, I'll start siphoning the mucus and see if it helps. Still hasn't improved too much since this morning. But doesn't look worse either, so that's a plus. Haha wouldn't that be a sight to see in a tank... Twice. The first time they reacted badly, but thought it was nothing. The second time they reacted badly again. Stopped Reef Roids, tried something else (both times). They bounced back. Such a weird reaction hey, given how other people seem to have no problems at all with the same corals. Bet we got a dodgy batch.. Link to comment
Azedenkae Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Could very well be the case. I mean it's not as if people don't have success with it in general after all. Link to comment
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