SPS spot feeding??

Your picks are good in that they are covering a lot of your vitamins, hufa's, and antioxidants. These in turn will be usable by your corals. (For your fish and not your corals, you might want to consider adding a fish food high in Spirulina and include that in your mix)

PE Mysis.....very high in HUFA's and proteins (more than most other brands of mysis.
Cyclopeeze.....very high in HUFA's, Amino Acids and Astaxanthene (the Astanthene will be used in coloring up your fish as well as pigment in the corals)
I had to google the ingredients in Prime Reef. I was happy to see that they included STABILIZED Vitamin C. They also included Beta Carotene which is another carotenoid like Astaxanthin. It would have been nice if they also included Beta Glucan.
On the Brine Shrimp, a lot of it is going to depend on whether it's enriched or not and what they enriched it with.

Even though corals get a lot of vitamin C from their zooxanthellae, they could still use more. At least once per week (preferably more), soak your food in a quality Vitamin/Hufa Mix. (I like Selcon, Vita-Chem, GVH, etc)

All of the above assume you have good random flow that keeps the fish poo in suspension. If this is not the case, then target feeding with a quality coral food is a good idea. For instance, I just added some freeze dried cyclopeeze, coral frenzy, and Oyster-Feast to my tank because the lights have been off a while.

 

by that do you mean the food you feed?

 

Corals have a Carbon Budget. Each day, they must obtain enough Carbon to survive and grow. Some of that carbon is going to be produced by the zooxanthellae. The remainder of its required carbon is going to come from bacterioplankton, DOC/DOM (Dissolve Organic Carbon/Material), POC/POM (Particulate Organic Carbon/Material), and zooplankton. There are a few cnidarians that will ingest phytoplankton too but most of those are non-photosynthetic.

 

I like to take advantage of this thread to seek an opinion on the products I use

my list is
Cylopeze -FD
Zooton - Tropic marin FD Zooplankton
Zooplanktos M- Brightwell - zoo plankton liquid suspension
Vit C - Brightwell - which I add to frozen food and pellets for fish
Restor - Brightwell - amminos, protiens, Omega 3 helps with healing after fragging etc
Coral Accel - Kent -protiens and amminos
Chromoplex - Kent - phyto plankton

I use one and only 1 of these on any given day

Does the above sound like a good combination?

 

I think you're covered well nutritionally although some of your SPS with really small polyps might have some difficulty. Crushing the cyclopeeze until it's a very fine powder (think talcum powser) will help with that as will buying the rotifer-based Zooplanktos S.

 

The Zooplantos S - saw that and one other when I got the M (had no idea really which one of the 3, I needed in terms of the PU sizes listed on the bottles)
so thats a very easy addition for me to make
powdering the cyclopeze with a motar and pestle may also be worth trying

Thank you Curtis

 

Thanks Nismo!! My ORA birds of paradise does the some thing when the PH's are off. Gets really fuzzy! LOL

 

Thank you very much Curt, this help A LOT!! ;D