cyclop-eeze

Am i missing something real easy here? I just got home from a trip to the FS and have been trying to figure out how to feed this freeze dried cyclop-eeze. It is a powder from of course and I tried coating a pice of shrimp for my bta and as i suspected it all comes off when it hits the water. I didnt ask how to use it at the store becaues i didnt expect it to be a powder form. I know duh. I'm sure it is a smiple step because i read on here so many people use it. The only thing i can come up with is to feed it desolved it water as a filter feeding food. If so, I bought the wrong thing. Ok, thanks in advance.

 

I have soaked it over night and it always floats. It is meant from corals with smaller food needs than a BTA. I tend to suck it up in a pippet then squirt it into the water in front of a power head. Filter feeders will find it.

J

 

Thanks Jason, Kinda what i figured. Was just one of those questions you dont wanna throw out there for all to see. So you float some for your fish to feed on also? Just mix into a paste, roll in a ball and let sit overnight? If so, i will give that a try also. Thanks again.

 

Naw no matter how long you soak it, it won't sink. I usually use fill a shot glass with tank water put some flake, mysis, and cyclop-eeze in and when the mysis is melted I squirt it in the tank. everybody gets fed at once.

J

 

well i suppose the floating characteristic of the food could make overfeeding less devastating...since you can just scoop it up off the top

 

I put them in a small cup with some tank water then quickily dump that into the tank into one of my SEIO that seem to keep them submerged and the fish go NUTS!

 

Now you know why I buy the frozen cyclop-eeze. No problem with it floating.
I would never try to coat anything with it, but it can be directly fed to an anemone on it's own, but only as a PART of a multiple food program for the anemone.

 

Never tried cyclop-eeze, but have you guys tried the frozen cyclops or coral nutrition packs? Nice!

 

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Not sure what you are talking about. Do you have a website with the description of both of the products you are talking about? I currently use Mark Weiss's Spectra Vital/ Black Powder combo and then also Kent's bottled food. I am leaning more and more toward stuff that does not need to be kept in the refridgerator--that way I can keep it all in one place (underneath the tank). I still buy Mysid and Brine shrimp frozen for my tube corals (hitchhikers on a clam that hitchhiked on a live rock from Florida Live Rock) and once in a while I will break down and buy a container of oyster eggs to mix in with it. Since I now have pods and some sort of very small shrimp running around the tank I have tried to stretch out feeding those to once every two weeks. I figure that gives them a chance to imitate what they would do in the ocean---catch their own food. Just one problem, though, I have noticed that toward the bottom of the tubes they are bleaching out. Could that be due to lack of food?

Sorry for the ramble.

Anne