Plankton.

Hi all.
Just bought me some of this, for the numerous amounts of soft corals and filter feeders within my tank, what do you think any body else use it?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=220228939037

 

i use the pappone method for feeding

 

Pappone method, sorry can you elaborate, thanks.

 

I dont know if this is what Guru's talkin about b/c i just did a quick search on the net -

“Pappone” Recipe – Italian Coral Food

Materials:
5 Oysters
5 Mussels
5 Clams
5 Shrimp (NOT cocktail shrimp, the big scampi type w/o the head and the shell)
1 Tablespoon of Sugar (not corn syrup, etc.)
200 mL of RO/DI water
10 g of Red Algae (Palmaria palmata; Bisck uses Julian Sprung's brand)
and/or 10 g of Spirulina, 10 g of Nori (spirulina is what Bisck prefers)

Methods: Make SURE that all ingredients are the freshest possible and DO NOT use frozen foods (unless it is impossible for you). Make sure everything "live" is rinsed and cleaned before putting it into the blender. Put all the ingredients into the blender and blend for 5 min, wait 2 min for it to cool, 5 more min blending, 2 min of waiting again, then finally another 5 min of blending (the pausing is so that the solution doesn't get too hot and "cook" from the heat of the blender/blades). Pour into cube forms (approx 10 mL each). Then freeze it all—you want to minimize how long everything is at room temperature.

Procedure: One hour prior to turning off your lights, you have the option of adding Amino acids to the tank*. (For example, 11pm Halides off, add AA’s, 12am, actinics off, then add pappone). Take off the cup of your skimmer, but leave the skimmer running (so you don’t have a massive drop in O2 levels overnight). After the lights are off, start with only a ¼ of a cube per WEEK for every 400 L of tank water (approx 100 gallons). Be sure to measure NO3 and PO4 the next morning so that these parameters don't spike after feeding. You can reduce the amount fed if you are having nutrient problems. Also don’t forget to put the skimmer cup back on the next morning before the lights go back on.

*If everything is going well. It is good to wait and see how the tank is doing for awhile before trying this. The whole point here is that you don't want to change anything too fast, because nothing good happens quickly in this hobby. (Another method to grind up amino acid pills in the next batch of food; however Bisck found that it sometimes causes diatom outbreaks in his tank).

 

another quote from the net -

basic premise, is to use super-concentrated levels of Amino Acids (he recommended Elos over Seachem, because of it's concentration levels and better results), heavy feedings with a special recipe that includes, among other things, a little bit of sugar.

The other components to it are:
HEAVY skimming,
high light, high flow (nothing new here

 

Corals do not consume phyto from my reading, the pods in your tank do so there is an indirect benefit but there is probably plenty of stuff in the tank to feed them already. I would use that stuff if your making your own pod cultures outside the tank. Just adding it to your tank is more than likely just going to fowl the water faster. IMO

 

Very good info on useing a Blender.. Not heating the food up, etc..
Should work with anything you may mix..

Thanks, Larry